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President Donald Trump greets Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy at a campaign rally at the Shoemaker Center at Ohio University Chillicothe in Chillicothe, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026.

White House report card: Ohio poll shows Acton gained 10 points in wake of Ramaswamy ad debacle

Rob Crilly · October 30, 2026 11:36 am

Butterworth's facade (main image Scott Suchman for The Washington Post via Getty Images); inset images from the Foie Grass night

Butterworth’s thumbs its nose at DC’s proposed foie gras ban

President Donald Trump dances at a campaign rally at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Lubbock, Texas.

Trump can’t resist roasting his affordability pitch with $5,000 burger joke

MAGA broadcaster John Fredericks holds a press conference with the D.C. Republican Party.

Yes, there are Republicans in DC. And they’re mad about taxes

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic Ohio Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, in Cleveland.

Obama’s Cheesecake Factory zinger misses the point again

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Justice Breyer: Laws don’t stop bad people

Paul Bedard June 27, 2016 5:04 pm

President Barack Obama speak at the Global Entrepreneur Summit at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., where he gave opening remarks on Britain voting to leave the 28-nation European Union. For the first 7 ½ years of his presidency, Barack Obama could rely on the United Kingdom to back him up at nearly every turn, knowing British leaders had both the global clout and shared perspective to be powerful U.S. partners. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pew: 88% blacks say whites need to do more to give equal rights

Paul Bedard June 27, 2016 4:22 pm

The Quicken Loans Arena will host the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

GOP at record-breaking pace to ready Trump’s convention

Paul Bedard June 27, 2016 2:35 pm

Gun salesman-in-chief: 52,600 a day under Obama, more seen under Hillary

Paul Bedard June 27, 2016 11:46 am

Manafort: We can do it too, time to take ‘our country back’

Paul Bedard June 26, 2016 11:26 pm

Border sheriff: It’s like Afghanistan

Paul Bedard June 26, 2016 4:02 pm

President Barack Obama speak at the Global Entrepreneur Summit at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., where he gave opening remarks on Britain voting to leave the 28-nation European Union. For the first 7 ½ years of his presidency, Barack Obama could rely on the United Kingdom to back him up at nearly every turn, knowing British leaders had both the global clout and shared perspective to be powerful U.S. partners. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama report card: Supreme Court, Britain give Obama a drubbing

Paul Bedard June 25, 2016 10:10 am

A store closing sale banner stating "Everything Must Go" on a window next to the colors of the Union flag in the City of London, Friday, June 24, 2016. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday that he will quit as Prime Minister following a defeat in the referendum which ended with a vote for Britain to leave the European Union. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Sessions: Now it’s our turn to Brexit

Paul Bedard June 24, 2016 5:18 pm

A "Sold" sign rests in front of a house under construction, in Walpole, Mass. Harvard found home ownership at a 48-year low. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

American nightmare: Home ownership at 48-year low

Paul Bedard June 24, 2016 3:50 pm

FAA OKs ‘drone journalism’ starting in August

Paul Bedard June 24, 2016 3:00 pm

A new book by Fox host Eric Bolling predicts a return of Al Gore and a ban on SUVs. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)

Trump-endorsed book says Hillary will Europeanize U.S. with taxes, censorship, gun ban

Paul Bedard June 24, 2016 1:48 pm

** FILE ** In this file photo from Nov. 1, 1992, former President Bill Clinton and current Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., dance on stage during a "Get-Out-The-Vote" rally at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, N.J. Sunday night, Nov. 1, 1992. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan, File)

New D’Souza movie hits Bill and Hillary as ‘two depraved crooks’

Paul Bedard June 23, 2016 5:40 pm