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Iowa House candidate Joe Mitchell greets President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Sioux Gateway Airport, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, in Sioux City, Iowa.

White House report card: Rallies, grievances and rising oil prices

Rob Crilly · October 23, 2026 11:45 am

Vice President JD Vance speaks as Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, listens during a news conference on the Fraud Task Force inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Washington.

Why you will be hearing a lot more about fraud before Election Day

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, speaks during a news conference with Abdul el Sayed, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Detroit.

Polling’s dirty little secret

Vice President JD Vance arrives to speak at a midterm campaign rally at Hyder Warehouse in Hendersonville, N.C., Monday, Oct. 19, 2026.

2028 shadow dance is finally coming to an end. But does anybody actually want to tango?

White House staff members from left, White House aide Natalie Harp, Walt Nauta, personal aide to President Trump, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, right, walk to board Air Force One, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.

Trump aides fire back at press over Zacharia firing as they seek to limit damage

In this Jan. 11, 2012, file photo, a man waits to be processed at a Border Patrol detention center in Imperial Beach, Calif. AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Citing abuse, Civil Rights Commission demands release of illegal immigrants

Paul Bedard September 17, 2015 4:26 pm

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser used the shocking phrase in describing her bid to build a facility to be used by the NBA's Wizards and Mystics.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Mayor of nation’s capital shocks: ‘This is a BFD’

Paul Bedard September 17, 2015 1:58 am

World leaders obsessed with GOP debates, credited with share of TV ‘spike’

Paul Bedard September 17, 2015 12:52 am

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2014 file photo, a greater sage grouse awaits examination after being captured at night outside Saratoga in south-central Wyoming. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is calling for a new wildfire-fighting strategy that protects sagebrush country in the intermountain West that supports cattle ranching as well as a struggling bird species. Looming just over the horizon like the orange glow of a mega-fire, a Sept. 30 court deadline will require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to list the bird as a threatened or endangered species. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

Interior chief sees no endangered species listing for sage grouse

Paul Bedard September 16, 2015 4:02 pm

The good old days when reporters had time to hang out before typing out their stories. Dustin Hoffman, left, and Robert Redford star as Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in 1975, the two Washington Post reporters who uncovered the Watergate Scandal. (AP Photo)

WaPo editor: Internet killing newsroom culture of gossiping, reading ‘The New Yorker’

Paul Bedard September 16, 2015 3:20 pm

To fail to be able to simply say that dismemberment of a living child is brutal and inhumane is to disconnect from one's own humanity, from one's own soul. (AP Photo)

Pro-Planned Parenthood Dems face fire from nation’s top family group

Paul Bedard September 16, 2015 2:02 pm

Report: Illegals from China up 307% to 285,000

Paul Bedard September 15, 2015 7:23 pm

FILE - This Thursday, April 14, 2011 file photo shows a brown marmorated stink bug at a Penn State research station in Biglerville, Pa. The bug is causing millions of dollars in damages to crops in the mid-Atlantic region and may be just getting started. It's now been spotted in 33 states, including every one east of the Mississippi River and as far west as California. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Finally: Stink bug killer discovered, and it’s from Asia, too

Paul Bedard September 15, 2015 6:40 pm

Debate throat prep: Olive oil, fancy pillows, wild cherry drops

Paul Bedard September 15, 2015 6:02 pm

Allegations come as Bill Clinton joins Hillary on the campaign trail this week in both Iowa and N.H. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Hillary considered Bill for VP, calls Kim Kardashian ‘inspirational’

Paul Bedard September 14, 2015 7:50 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, greets Pink as Ellen DeGeneres watches during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, at Rockefeller Center in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Mainstream Media Scream: Ellen tells Clinton, ‘You are the smartest, most-qualified’

Paul Bedard September 14, 2015 7:08 pm

FEC hits campaign finance reform champion

Paul Bedard September 14, 2015 6:55 pm