Trump Allies Plot Candidate Intervention After Disastrous 48 Hours  —  Key Republicans close to Donald Trump's orbit are plotting an intervention with the candidate after a disastrous 48 hours led some influential voices in the party to question whether Trump can stay at the top …

Trump denies asking why nukes aren't used  —  's presidential campaign denied a report on Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee had three times asked a foreign policy adviser why the U.S. could not use its vast nuclear arsenal.  —  “There is no truth to this,” …

Obama Commutes Sentences Of More Than 200 People Serving Federal Sentences  —  Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 people serving federal sentences on Wednesday — the most commutations issued by a president in a single …

Georgia Republican says he might withhold electoral college vote from Donald Trump  —  I just finished a highly unusual telephone conversation with Baoky Vu, a naturalized U.S. citizen and longtime GOP activist in Georgia.  —  Vu will be on the November ballot as an elector …

George W. Bush Delivers Critique of Donald Trump's Policies  —  Former president stops short of putting his remarks in the context of the 2016 presidential campaign  —  Without naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, former President George W. Bush delivered an incisive critique …

Voices From Donald Trump's Rallies, Uncensored  —  “Trump that bitch!”  —  “Build a wall — kill them all.”  —  New York Times reporters have spent over a year covering Donald J. Trump's rallies, witnessing so many provocations and heated confrontations at them that the cumulative effect can be numbing …

A Tea Party Defeat in Kansas  —  A year ago, in the innocent days before Donald Trump had wholly taken over American politics, the Republican establishment had other things on its mind: those pesky Tea Party congressmen who were preventing anything from getting done in the House of Representatives.

U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed  —  Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom  —  WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release …

A Trump Victory Is a Scary Thought.  A Disputed Loss Might Be Scarier.  —  Why his “rigged” comments are so corrosive and dangerous.  —  We have a tradition in the United States.  When you lose an election, you take the L, and you move on.  It's what John Adams did after he lost …

Trump Tells Virginia Town It's Failing, Cites the Wrong Place  —  Whoever prepped Trump for his visit to Ashburn apparently has never been there before.  —  ASHBURN, Virginia — When Fawad Rahimyar learned Donald Trump was coming to his neck of the woods, he hopped on Facebook.

Democrats, Looking Past Mere Victory, Hope to End the Trump Movement  —  Democrats had hoped the party's convention last week in Philadelphia would win over skeptical voters and ease concerns about Hillary Clinton's trustworthiness, giving her a slight advantage in an unpredictable election year.

How Clinton Could Knock Trump Out  —  Maybe I just missed it.  But in all the testimonials at the Democratic convention about what Hillary Clinton has done for other people, I don't recall anyone saying, “I started a business because of Hillary Clinton.”  Or, “I hired someone because of Hillary Clinton.”