Former President Barack Obama on Monday urged those outraged by racial inequity in the justice system to make their voices heard at the ballot box, outlining the steps he said would “make this moment the turning point for real change.” In a post on Medium, Obama acknowledged that the protests over the past week, some…
NEW YORK — During three days of unrest in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has sided with the NYPD over protesters — a move many, including longtime supporters, see as cementing the mayor’s transformation from police reformer to police defender. Faced with a series of videotaped incidents of aggressive police behavior toward protesters…
Former Vice President Joe Biden has an unlikely new adviser as the sexual assault allegations against the presumptive Democratic nominee shift to the forefront of the 2020 campaign: President Donald Trump. In a podcast interview that aired on Friday, Trump teetered between labeling Tara Reade and her mother’s accounts as "credible" to expressing sympathy for…
The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill was just the beginning of a Washington lobbying bonanza — but lobbyists are rushing to get a piece of the action in case it evaporates with a cratering economy. Lobbyists are hustling to influence the rules dictating how the first bundle of stimulus money will be spent, and looking…
Earlier this week, a group of officials with USAID, an agency on the front lines of the rapidly escalating global battle against the coronavirus, found themselves in an increasingly bizarre conversation with some of their colleagues inside the Trump administration. The officials wanted to know if they could tell America’s longtime global health partners, like…