Nikki Haley Calls Senate A ‘Privileged Nursing Home’ After McConnell Freezes  —  “We need to know they're at the top of their game,” Haley told Fox News.  “You can't say that right now looking at Congress.”  —  LOADING  —  Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley urged aging lawmakers to accept …

'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills  —  Some of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills - yet the costs …

DeSantis Super PAC's Urgent Plea to Donors: ‘We Need 50 Million Bucks’  —  In an audio recording made just before the first G.O.P. debate, the super PAC's chief strategist disparaged rivals and described an expensive attempt to thwart Donald Trump in Iowa.  —  Hours before the Republican Party's …

Trump Aide Outed as Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Cops  —  SHOWING HIS TRUE COLORS  —  A powerful campaign official with former President Donald Trump's New Hampshire operation was outed Thursday as one of the rioters who confronted police outside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, telling one officer: “go hang yourself.”

Highways are the next antiabortion target.  One Texas town is resisting.  —  A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion  —  LLANO, Tex. — No one could remember …

Vivek Ramaswamy's “cold, cultural civil war”  —  His embrace of right-wing extremism is transparently phony.  But it's working. … Events are proceeding according to plan for Vivek Ramaswamy.  He's using a destined-to-fail run for the presidency as a vehicle for becoming …

California's Democratic leaders escalate fights with conservative school boards  —  Top Democratic officials have intervened in school board politics more than in any other blue state.  Conservatives hope it'll drive more support to their side.  —  Democratic state officials in California …

Matt Schlapp Held an Exorcism at CPAC Offices After Junior Employees Resigned  —  Matt Schlapp wanted to rid the CPAC offices of evil spirits, so he got a Catholic priest to sprinkle holy water on the office furniture and employees, multiple sources said.

Trump rambled so much in a NY fraud case deposition that a lawyer griped, 'we're going to be here until midnight'  — Trump gave long-winded answers while being deposed in NY AG Letitia James' financial-fraud lawsuit.  — He went on and on about his “beautiful” and “tremendous” golf courses, a new transcript shows.

Pennsylvania is key for Biden.  Democrats there say the party is in shambles.  —  It's not just the presidential race at stake.  A major state Supreme Court race is this year.  —  PHILADELPHIA — In anticipation of a major gathering of rural activists a few weeks ago …

Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched, the US government says  —  More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote.

Biden's bad gift to Big Pot  —  The Biden administration ignored “the science” this week and exacerbated a growing national health problem, all to win young people's votes and give massive tax breaks to friends in the marijuana industry.  —  The federal Drug Enforcement Agency …

White House ramps up war room to battle expected GOP impeachment inquiry  —  President Biden's aides studied the Clinton White House's 1998 response to impeachment as a model for a vigorous defense and making Republicans pay a political price.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has stood …

New Jersey governor says state can't handle NYC migrants  —  The Democratic governor's comments come as the Biden administration considers Atlantic City airport for housing.  —  Gov. Phil Murphy suggested Thursday that New Jersey does not have the resources to take an influx of migrants …

Proud Boy leader Joseph Biggs sentenced to 17 years for Jan. 6 crimes  —  A former leader in the far-right Proud Boys group was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison, just shy of the longest punishment imposed on a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.