Ashley Parker
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The aide who stayed: Walt Nauta, key witness in Trump documents case
How a Navy veteran and valet went from the White House to working at Trump's Mar-a-Lago, reaching the center of the special counsel's classified documents probe. → Read More
Trump’s grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans
Interviews in pivotal electoral states show Donald Trump maintains a bond with his GOP voters but faces rising interest in a new standard-bearer. → Read More
Republicans rally around conservatives who lost their elections
The GOP base lionizes some defeated candidates as wronged warriors and avatars of legitimate grievances. → Read More
How Trump jettisoned restraints at Mar-a-Lago and prompted legal peril
The inside story of how Trump transplanted the chaos and norm flouting of his White House into his post-presidential life, leading to a criminal investigation. → Read More
Inside the successes, missteps and failures of Biden’s early presidency
The story of Biden’s first term so far is a roller coaster — complicated and contradictory, with remarkable achievements and enormous disappointment. → Read More
New Woodward audiobook shows Trump knew Kim letters were classified
'Oh, those are so top secret,' Trump said at one point, undermining his frequent claims that none of the material he took after leaving office was sensitive. → Read More
Jan. 6 hearing shows Trump knew he lost — even while claiming otherwise
The evidence portrays an American president who embarked on a premeditated plan to refuse to cede power regardless of the election results. → Read More
Jared Kushner alleges chief of staff shoved Ivanka Trump at White House
In a forthcoming memoir, the former presidential son-in-law and adviser portrays John F. Kelly as having a bullying, “Jekyll-and-Hyde” demeanor. Kelly denies the allegations. → Read More
Jill Biden causes minor flap by comparing Latino diversity to tacos
Jill Biden said the Latino community is "as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio." After Latino groups complained, she quickly apologized. → Read More
In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump
Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to Donald Trump, addresses the media in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) In 2015, Kellyanne Conway found herself en route to pick up her kids at elementary school, simultaneously pushing back against an attempt by Michael Cohen — then Donald Trump’s personal attorney and fixer —… → Read More
Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’
Biden asserted the Russian president’s war guilt seemingly off the cuff, on day whose emotions and drama were driven by a forceful speech to Congress from Volodymyr Zelensky. → Read More
White House wrestles with whether Russia has ‘invaded’ Ukraine
As Putin closes off diplomatic paths, White House weights its options--and tries to figure out if Russia has "invaded" Ukraine → Read More
Biden defends his Bull Connor analogy after Republicans charge him with crossing a line
"Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?" Biden asked last week. Republicans accuse him of divisiveness. He maintains it was a fair question. → Read More
On Tonight Show, Biden talks of cross-party friendship and making breakfast
Biden’s chat with Jimmy Fallon marked his first appearance on late-night TV since becoming president; despite quips about his falling polls, it was a staid event. → Read More
Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts
Following a presidency that rejected civil discourse, Trump supporters regularly use four-letter words to attack Biden — in signs, chants and elsewhere. → Read More
As Trump hints at 2024 comeback, democracy advocates fear a ‘worst-case scenario’ for the country
Scholars grapple with what would happen if the former president runs again — and wins. → Read More
Amid political storms, Biden turns to natural disasters to project competence, compassion: ‘Thank God you’re safe’
He has seen how the mishandling of natural disasters can prove politically damaging, as with George W. Bush’s initial inattention to Hurricane Katrina or Donald Trump’s callous disregard for Puerto Ricans hit by Hurricane Maria. → Read More
Biden to visit New Orleans as area reels from Hurricane Ida
“We know that there’s much to be done in this response on our part,” Biden said Thursday. “We need to get power restored, we need to get more food, fuel and water deployed.” → Read More
For Biden, ‘forever war’ isn’t over, just entering a new, perilous phase
The departure of forces kicks off a new phase of the United States’s entanglement that could prove no less challenging for American leadership than the previous two decades. → Read More
Close encounters: Democrats and Republicans unified in taking UFOs seriously
The sightings — also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, in official parlance — are having their moment in politics, and a bipartisan one at that. → Read More