Pence, Peerless Trump Defender, Confronts His Limits  —  During an orderly debate, the vice president deflected criticism of the Trump administration's pandemic response, something Kamala Harris said “clearly” hasn't worked.  —  Vice President Mike Pence approached his task on Wednesday …

Trump asked Walter Reed doctors to sign non-disclosure agreements in 2019  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump required personnel at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to sign non-disclosure agreements last year before they could be involved with treating him, according to four people familiar with the process.

Second Trump-Biden debate will be remote  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Thursday that President Trump and Joe Biden will appear at next week's second presidential debate from “separate remote locations.”  —  The state of play: The decision comes as Trump continues …

Top White House aide hosted lavish Atlanta wedding in May despite virus restrictions  —  At time, state banned gatherings of more than 10 people  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows hosted a lavish wedding for his daughter in Atlanta this May, despite a statewide order and city …

Dying in a Leadership Vacuum  —  Article  —  Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world.  This crisis has produced a test of leadership.  With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond.  Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test.

Greenfield Shatters Fundraising Records With $28.7M Haul  —  Theresa Greenfield raised more money in the last three months than any Iowan running for U.S. Senate had raised in an entire election cycle.  —  In the third fundraising quarter of 2020, spanning July through September …

Trump's antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion  —  The Trump administration has looked to curtail research with fetal cells.  But when it was life or death for the president, no one objected.  —  hide  —  This week, President Donald Trump extolled …

White House Security Official Contracted Covid-19 in September  —  A top White House security official, Crede Bailey, is gravely ill with Covid-19 and has been hospitalized since September, according to four people familiar with his condition.  —  The White House has not publicly disclosed Bailey's illness.

‘A Republican Party unraveling’: GOP plunged into crisis as Trump abruptly ends economic relief talks, dismisses virus  —  Vulnerable Republicans are beginning to distance themselves from President Trump's dismissive response to the coronavirus pandemic and his dramatic termination of negotiations …

As Washington fumbled relief talks, economy's cracks deepened in recent months  —  Loss of momentum raises danger of protracted, disappointing recovery  —  Katie Button has put her bar stools into storage, laid off about half of her 130 employees and learned how to run a half-empty restaurant.

Donald Trump Is Canceling TV Ads In Midwest States That Made Him President  —  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is slashing television spending in the Midwest, canceling millions of dollars in advertising in states that carried him to victory in 2016.  —  He's been off the local airwaves completely in Iowa and Ohio.

‘Where are all of the arrests?’:  Trump demands Barr lock up his foes  —  Donald Trump mounted an overnight Twitter blitz demanding to jail his political enemies and call out allies he says are failing to arrest his rivals swiftly enough.  —  Trump twice amplified supporters' criticisms …

Eric Trump says his dad ‘literally saved Christianity’ in a ‘full-out war on faith’ … - Eric Trump said in an interview with the North Dakota radio station WZFG-AM last week that his father, President Donald Trump, “literally saved Christianity.”  — He claimed Democrats have launched a …