Helen Comperatore has heard the conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pa., that killed her husband. She has watched them migrate from the political left to the political right, elements in both holding that her husband, Corey Comperatore, was a human sacrifice to lend credibility to a plot to…
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A new government report accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of fomenting “anti-Christian bias” is being met with mixed reactions from Christian leaders, with some conservatives celebrating the study and others arguing it appears narrowly focused on the concerns of evangelical Christians and obscures President Donald Trump’s own conflicts with faith groups. The…
Federal disaster declarations, which unlock millions of dollars in aid for communities hit by catastrophes, have been delayed significantly in President Trump’s second term, and money is flowing especially slowly to states that Mr. Trump lost in the 2024 election, according to a New York Times analysis. The review of Federal Emergency Management Agency data…
As the Trump administration prepared to remove protections from deportation for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States, a government researcher privately complained that she was being ordered to manipulate evidence to support the move, internal emails show. Ashley Holland, who worked at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, wrote in a September 2025…
I remember when, as a presidential candidate, Donald Trump lambasted Barack Obama for bailing out automakers after the financial crisis, an effort President Obama asked me to lead. The auto industry should have gone bankrupt and “rebuilt itself, through the free enterprise system,” Mr. Trump said then. So I couldn’t help being struck by the…
Saganaga Lake was so calm that I could see boulders 10 feet below the surface. The water reflected a mirror image of the clouds above as my partner, Brian, and I paddled between earth and sky. On the horizon, a forest of white pine, spruce and cedar delineated the northern shoreline, in Canada. The border…
Electric vehicle sales have been slumping since September, when federal tax credits of up to $7,500 ended under a law championed by President Trump. But the business of selling battery-powered cars is about to get something of a boost from waves of slightly used models that will be rolling onto dealer lots over the next…
Donald Trump casts himself as a champion of American business. In many ways, he is. He has slashed corporate taxes. He is rolling back regulations and embracing industries like artificial intelligence. Yet the payoff is far smaller than many business leaders expected, and our economy is losing momentum. The reason is simple. Mr. Trump’s constant…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email California Governor Gavin Newsom declared it is no longer “the Democratic Party of old” as he and party leadership react to this week’s…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email During a Wednesday night appearance on NewsNation, MAGA congressman Tim Burchett floated a wild conspiracy theory that the reason the Trump administration won’t…
