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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

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Expert: Cars not safe from hackers taking control, crashing them

Paul Bedard May 18, 2016 1:49 pm

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Priebus goes Trump, rips Hillary as ‘pathological, reckless, corrupt’

Paul Bedard May 18, 2016 12:56 pm

Attacks on the Koch brothers included death threats, said a company lawyer. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

Kochs blame FEC’s Ravel for ‘horrific’ death, firebombing threats

Paul Bedard May 17, 2016 10:02 pm

First lady Michelle Obama sits next to her brother Craig Robinson, an ESPN college basketball analyst, as they participate in a discussion at the Aspen Institute's 2016 Project Play Summit at the Newseum in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Michelle O: Bored kids get guns and ‘just go off on society’

Paul Bedard May 17, 2016 9:18 pm

In this photo made Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015, Ailu Xu, a graduate student from China, posts a sign directing Chinese students to a new student orientation meeting at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. The U.S. Census Bureau research shows immigrants from China and India, many with student or work visas, have overtaken Mexicans as the largest groups coming into the U.S. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

31% of all foreign students are Chinese, record 304,000

Paul Bedard May 17, 2016 5:41 pm

Woodward envisions ‘Bill, Hillary, Chelsea’ on Mount Rushmore

Paul Bedard May 17, 2016 12:00 pm

Jim Carrey, left, and Jeff Daniels arrive at the LA Premiere Of "Dumb And Dumber To" on Monday, Nov 03, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Mainstream Scream: ‘Dumb & Dumber’ actor paints Trump a racist

Paul Bedard May 16, 2016 6:02 pm

Cuban immigrant surge on pace to more than triple 2015, 156,000 vs 43,000

Paul Bedard May 16, 2016 2:01 pm

Iraq War ‘most wanted’ cards, signed by 37 ‘terrorists,’ auctioned

Paul Bedard May 16, 2016 12:29 pm

President Barack Obama signs the three-month highway funding bill in 2015. Regulations related to big bills signed into law are being rushed through to prevent Congress or the next president from changing them. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama rushes through $85 billion in new regs, most in over 20 years

Paul Bedard May 16, 2016 11:50 am

Glenn Beck loses again, this time against NRA

Paul Bedard May 15, 2016 4:51 pm

‘Preppers’ say Obama ‘has divided us on a course for civil war’

Paul Bedard May 15, 2016 12:10 pm