Politics

An independent panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on whether to recommend to the agency that very young children be allowed to receive...

The potential for far-right Republicans to reshape the election systems of major battleground states is growing much closer to reality.As the halfway point nears of a midterm year that is vastly friendlier...

Republican voters in Nevada on Tuesday elevated conservative candidates who have ardently embraced Donald J. Trump’s false claims of election fraud, turning a key swing state into a contest this fall between...

Adam Laxalt, a former Nevada attorney general, has won the state’s Republican primary for Senate and will face Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat, in what is likely to be a highly...

Jim Marchant, one of the organizers of a Trump-inspired “America First” slate of candidates who continue to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election, easily won the Republican nomination for secretary of...

A U.S. House district in South Texas will send a Republican to Congress for the first time in its 10-year history. Mayra Flores, a Republican and respiratory-care health aide, scored a significant...

The letter was lavish.When William P. Barr stepped down as attorney general in December 2020, he showered President Donald J. Trump with praise for his “unprecedented achievements” and vowed that the Justice...

An independent panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on whether to recommend to the agency that Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine be authorized for children...

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has postponed a hearing that was scheduled for Wednesday to lay out its findings about President Donald J. Trump’s...

Federal Reserve officials are meeting this week with one major goal in mind: Cooling the economy enough to slow rapid inflation.The odds of pulling that off without plunging the nation into a...