SEATTLE — U.S. Rep. Adam Smith called for President Joe Biden to stand down from his reelection bid, becoming the first member of Congress from Washington to do so.

In a statement and interview on CNN on Monday, Smith, D-Bellevue, said Biden’s status as the prospective Democratic nominee has become untenable.

“President Biden should end ...Read more

DETROIT — An Indiana man should spend more time in federal prison for threatening to kill the Rochester Hills, Michigan, clerk after the 2020 election, prosecutors argued, saying he "terrorized" the election official amid an increase of threats aimed at politicians.

Andrew Nickels, 38, of Carmel, Indiana, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. ...Read more

Philadelphia radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders resigned her position on Black-owned station WURD after interviewing President Biden with questions provided by his campaign.

“The interview featured pre-determined questions provided by the White House, which violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers are setting a high bar for what President Joe Biden needs to show voters as the party splinters over his cognitive abilities and candidacy.

But can the 81-year-old commander in chief clear it?

“Biden’s candidacy, today, does not feel sustainable,” former Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., said in a Monday phone...Read more

Top-selling horror author and outspoken progressive Stephen King called for President Joe Biden to step aside Monday.

“Joe Biden has been a fine president, but it’s time for him—in the interests of the America he so clearly loves—to announce he will not run for re-election,” the 76-year-old writer posted on X.

King joins liberal ...Read more

A doctor who is an expert on Parkinson’s disease reportedly visited the White House on a fairly regular basis in the past year, including at least once for a meeting with President Joe Biden’s personal physician.

Dr. Kevin Cannard, a neurologist who recently published a paper on Parkinson’s, made eight White House visits in an eight-month...Read more

When Washington, D.C., last hosted a NATO summit in 1999, the alliance was celebrating a milestone. It was also facing a war in Europe and welcoming new members to the alliance.

So there will be a certain feeling of déjà vu in the American capital when leaders from 32 nations meet starting July 9, 2024, to discuss the state of the ...Read more

Chief Justice John Roberts declared emphatically that “the President is not above the law” in his majority opinion for last week’s sweeping presidential immunity decision. And yet the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling does place the nation’s chief executive above the law and protect the office from criminal prosecution in certain ...Read more

On Friday, a bit over a week after his poor debate performance against Donald Trump, President Joe Biden sat down with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos for a conversation widely seen as meant to reassure allies and the American electorate that he’s up to the job.

The president did not dispel questions over his acuity and fitness, largely...Read more

The presidential interview the American public needs to hear isn’t with George Stephanopoulos. It’s with Robert Hur.

Last Monday, the House Judiciary Committee sued Attorney General Merrick Garland. Republicans want him to release audio of the interview President Joe Biden conducted last October with Hur, the special counsel who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As President Joe Biden tries to cling onto the Democratic Party nomination in the aftermath of his lackluster debate performance, prominent Californians — notably Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom — have been trying to buttress the embattled incumbent on the campaign trail .

Newsom will stump for the ...Read more

The Labour Party’s demolition of the chaotic Conservative Party in Britain’s July 4 general election is another marker of the reassertion of sensible, fiscally sound centrism and, above all, the rejection of leaders who bring either revolt or chaos.

The new customer service-oriented prime minister, Keir Starmer, a fiscally shrewd moderate ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Biden defiantly sought to stop the political bleeding Monday, saying he is “not going anywhere” even as support from Democratic lawmakers wavered over his debate debacle.

As Congress returned to Washington, D.C., Biden wrote a letter to House Democrats vowing to stay in the race against former President Donald Trump �...Read more

WASHINGTON — There’s no whirlwind overseas trip for President Joe Biden ahead of his scheduled Thursday news conference. But that’s because the world is coming to him.

Still facing criticism for his poor performance in the June 27 debate against former President Donald Trump, and with Democrats still pondering whether or not the incumbent...Read more

The Queen Who Never Was is no more.

In Sunday’s episode of “ House of the Dragon,” “The Red Dragon and the Gold,” Princess Rhaenys Targaryen (Eve Best) volunteers to take her dragon, Meleys, into battle at Rook’s Rest, which is besieged by the Greens’ army, led by Ser Criston Cole.

She encounters two other dragon-riding ...Read more

France is heading into an extended period of political gridlock after a shock defeat for Marine Le Pen’s far right in Sunday’s elections produced a divided parliament with no clear majority.

A left-wing alliance including the far-left group France Unbowed will be the biggest group with 178 out of 577 seats in the lower house, but still way...Read more

Over the course of Nevada history, no one party has dominated the state’s politics, and its electorate has remained surprisingly balanced in its political leanings. Since becoming a state in 1864, Nevada has had equal representation with its federal delegation: 14 U.S. senators from each of the major parties and 20 U.S. House members from ...Read more

The presidential nominating conventions every four years are political events, but they are also media events. Since the advent of television, Democratic and Republican national convention organizers have sought to tightly stage-manage their gatherings for home viewers, and they’ve often succeeded.

But not always.

One of the...Read more

Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund to cover expenses, and doubts about the propriety of his conduct intensified as the 1952 presidential election campaign unfolded.

Nixon was able to preserve what became a ...Read more