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Justice Clarence Thomas faces mounting ethical questions after reports of his wife's aggressive effort to help overturn former President Trump's electoral defeat have intensified scrutiny over the justice's refusal to step aside from related cases before the Supreme Court. In the weeks following the 2020 election, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the justice's wife, reportedly exchanged dozens of text messages with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that appeared to show her strategizing over how to bypass the will of American voters to install Trump for a second White House term despite his loss to President Biden, an outcome she described as an "obvious fraud" and "the greatest heist of our history." |
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The dust is beginning to settle on the most contentious part of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court — and Democrats are hoping Republicans overplayed their hand in their opposition to her. |
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COVID-19 is hitting Washington hard again — at least when it comes to boldfaced names. |
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — House Republicans wrapped up their annual retreat in this coastal Florida resort town on Friday, capping off a three-day event in which they sought to project unity ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. |
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The Women's March is calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after the release of text messages showing his wife, Ginni Thomas, pushed for then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to stick to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. |
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President Biden on Friday visited with U.S. troops on his first stop in Poland, commenting on the importance of their work for maintaining democracy amid the Russian invasion into Ukraine. |
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Russian troops reportedly attacked their own commanding officer by running him over with a tank after many in their brigade were killed amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. |
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is spearheading an effort to investigate 2020 censorship and suppression of news coverage about the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, previewing the kind of oversight House Republicans plan to engage in if they win back the House. |
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A Maryland judge has struck down new U.S. House district maps drawn by the state General Assembly, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander that unfairly favors Democrats.
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A massive ice shelf in eastern Antartica collapsed, scientists said on Friday, marking the first time an ice shelf has done so in the region. |
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OPINION | If Biden is outraged by Putin's human rights abuses and war crimes, why is he willing to accommodate the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism? Are we saying that we have a double standard — that we expect more decent behavior from Russia than we do from Iran? |
OPINION | We don't yet know whether Putin will light the match that starts a cyber conflagration in the United States. But with kindling lying everywhere, why wait for a spark? It's time to clear the forest, to build a safer cyberspace. |
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| Janet Semenova-Hornstein remembers the moment in early March when, watching the images of war in Ukraine, she knew she had to do something. |
BY LUKE BROADWATER, JO BECKER, MAGGIE HABERMAN AND ALAN FEUER |
WASHINGTON — Buried in the thousands of documents that Mark Meadows, former President Donald J. Trump's final White House chief of staff, turned over late last year to the House committee examining the Jan. 6 attack were text messages that presented the panel with a political land mine: what to do about Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. |
BY BRITTANY SHAMAS, DAN KEATING, SALVADOR RIZZO AND LENNY BERNSTEIN |
With another pandemic surge possibly on the way, vaccination for the coronavirus in the United States has all but ground to a halt, with initial doses and boosters plummeting to the lowest levels since the program began in late December 2020. |
BY WILL WEISSERT AND JEFF AMY |
ATLANTA (AP) — In Donald Trump's push to fundamentally reshape the Republican Party, few places are a higher priority than Georgia. |
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