Newsom Told the White House He Won't Challenge Biden  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom has won three elections in five years in America's largest state, is apoplectic about his party's messaging defects and follows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the right-wing media ecosystem with a zeal …

Trump's Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist  —  The former president's table for four at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday also included Kanye West, whose antisemitic statements have made him an entertainment-industry outcast.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night …

One Worrying Sign for Democrats in the Midterm Results  —  This month's midterm results gave Democrats plenty of reasons for optimism about their prospects for keeping the White House in 2024.  —  Despite presiding over 8 percent inflation, the party managed to muster one of the best midterm performances …

A Rising Star in the Biden Administration Faces a $100 Billion Test  —  Gina Raimondo, the commerce secretary, has made a career of tackling increasingly larger challenges.  Could the next one be too big?  —  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Gina Raimondo, the commerce secretary …

Western sanctions catch up with Russia's wartime economy  —  When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched last month a new council for coordinating supplies for the Russian army, he seemed to recognize the scale of the economic problems facing the country, and his sense of urgency was palpable.

Kevin McCarthy could face a floor fight for speaker.  That hasn't happened in a century.  —  The last time a vote for speaker went to multiple ballots on the House floor was in 1923.  The longest was 133 ballots over two months.  —  Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is struggling to secure …

The Week's Best Cartoons 11/26  —  As a heavy Twitter user for the past 6+ years, forgive me for all the cartoons about Twitter.  It has been an important place to share news and opinions, and it's hard to watch it overrun with trolls, especially its CEO.  But there was other political news, which you'll find covered below.

At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking  —  Armed Americans, often pushing a right-wing agenda, are increasingly using open-carry laws to intimidate opponents and shut down debate.  —  Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense …

‘Is Washington still our ally?’:  EU accuses US of PROFITEERING from Ukraine war through sales of guns and gas and threatens trade war - as top diplomats moan Biden's green subsidies mean European businesses are relocating to US  — European Union officials are accusing the United States …

Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over, report says  —  Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website.  A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion …

GOP voter turnout at presidential levels, outpaces Democrats in N.Y. governor's race  —  But Zeldin needed substantially more support from unaffiliated voters to defeat Hochul, and didn't find it  —  ALBANY — A last-minute push by top national Democrats to turn out the vote in New York City …

Bipartisan band of brothers: The West Point grads coming to Congress  —  When John James and Pat Ryan reconnected on the sidelines of an Army football game in 2019, they were two old West Point classmates with night-and-day political identities in a similar predicament: Both had just lost congressional bids.