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WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Kamala Harris dismissed the prospect of a rematch against President Donald Trump, who's been signaling he could run again in 2024 if he can't reverse the results of this month's vote.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is aware his fight to overturn the election is winding down, according to people familiar with the matter, but he isn't ready to end the effort as he fundraises off the furor, ...Read more

Sometimes it feels like democracy is just too dysfunctional.

Voters are disengaged and uninformed. Congress is hyperpartisan — and so self-serving it can't govern effectively.

Between our increasingly politicized ...Read more

U.S. presidential elections have always attracted a global audience, and in general, that's been a good thing.

Our quadrennial balloting, despite the obscene spending by campaigns and the often rancorous exchanges between...Read more

How far will the Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority go?

With President-elect Joe Biden's victory and the potential for Democrats to control the Senate, it's the question on the mind of everyone who cares about...Read more

With the Nov. 17 swearing-in of Francisco Sagasti as interim president, Peru has its third head of state in a little more than a week. Sagasti's charge will be to run the country through new presidential elections next ...Read more

NEW YORK — Whether or not President Donald Trump runs in 2024 is anyone's guess, but the website DonaldJTrump2024.com is up and running, thanks to a pair of jokers who snatched up the domain name to taunt the lame-duck ...Read more

"Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a 2018 press conference about Iran's nuclear program. At the time, the head of the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program was unknown...Read more

Like many Americans, I didn't fly to a family gathering at Thanksgiving this year – the first time I'd missed it in decades.

That got me thinking about the origins of the holiday — beyond the set piece of Mayflower ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an appeal of President Donald Trump's last significant legal challenge to Pennsylvania's election results, setting the stage for his campaign to potentially ...Read more

In Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener," we meet a mid-level bureaucrat who, for reasons unknown, decides to stop doing his work. "I'd prefer not to" is Bartleby's signature line. He delivers it whenever...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders can be thankful for one surprise holiday gift: a huge windfall of tax dollars.

But this is a one-time present. Sacramento Democrats should resist the temptation to quickly spend ...Read more

Political circles have been buzzing with speculation about Sen. Dianne Feinstein ever since she announced on Nov. 23 that she won't seek to remain the leading Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

At the time, she said she...Read more

The unsigned opinion by the nation's highest court got it wrong, insisting that restrictions placed on religious gatherings imposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's COVID hot spots must be nullified, for they violate the...Read more

The unsigned opinion by the nation's highest court got it wrong, insisting that restrictions placed on religious gatherings imposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's COVID hot spots must be nullified, for they violate the...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump's decision to visit Georgia next week was celebrated as a "Thanksgiving miracle" by the Republican U.S. Senate runoff candidates. But his trip will test how they balance his ...Read more

In three separate announcements in recent weeks, three scientific teams at different pharmaceutical companies have given a weary, frightened world what it needs: a verifiable path to defeat the coronavirus pandemic, end ...Read more

You wouldn't know it from the lack of headlines, but the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency recently made history with something that should help make all Americans safer.

Specifically, they successfully shot down an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Despite outlining a detailed agenda on his website, President-elect Joe Biden's campaign often focused less on policies than his temperament and character, seeking to make the election a referendum on ...Read more

SEATTLE — From reintroduction of the grizzly bear to its wild North Cascades redoubt to attacking climate change, a wide range of environmental policies could see a new direction in the Pacific Northwest under a Biden ...Read more