Politics

Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation’s largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032, will avoid up to 1 billion tons of greenhouse …

Two weeks after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis survived a bid by defense lawyers to have her disqualified from the Georgia election interference case, she has all but taken over the case personally, focusing intensely on legal strategy and getting her team in fighting form for trial. In a significant move along these lines, according to a source close …

Former President Donald Trump and eight other defendants accused of illegally trying to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia on Friday submitted a formal application to appeal a judge’s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case. Trump and other defendants had tried to get Willis and her office tossed off the case, saying …

Washington — President Biden said Friday he plans to visit Baltimore this week following the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Mr. Biden confirmed the trip to reporters after arriving at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after attending a star-studded fundraiser in New York City with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The Biden administration said Thursday …

As former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies seek to narrow President Biden’s cash advantage, wealthy GOP donors hope to raise more than $40 million at a fundraiser next week for their presumptive nominee and the Republican National Committee, a figure that would eclipse the eye-popping $26 million Mr. Biden raised in New York on Thursday. The fundraiser, set …

President Biden participated in a star-studded fundraiser with former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday in New York City in an event expected to raise more than $25 million for the president’s re-election campaign. Thursday’s New York City fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall was hosted by actress Mindy Kaling and featured performances by several musical guests …

Earlier this week, Rev. Greg Lewis, an assistant pastor at St. Gabriel’s Church of God In Christ in Milwaukee, physically carried one of his parishioners to the polls inside the city’s Midtown early voting center to cast a ballot in Wisconsin’s upcoming Democratic primary. Supported by crutches and the pastor himself, the disabled man was one of many residents Lewis …

The judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in New York imposed a gag order on Tuesday restricting what Trump can say about those involved in the upcoming trial, which revolves around a “hush money” payment made to an adult film star in 2016. Judge Juan Merchan issued the order limiting Trump’s public statements in response to …

Oakland, California — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that he is picking Nicole Shanahan, a donor and California-based attorney and entrepreneur, as his running mate in his long-shot independent bid for the White House. At an event in Oakland, Kennedy introduced Shanahan as someone who “who will speak for millennials and Gen Z. Someone who cares about healing our …

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared inclined to side with the Food and Drug Administration in acase involving a commonly used abortion pill and recent agency actions that made the medication easier to obtain, as the justices raised questions about whether a group of doctors challenging the moves demonstrated they had the proper basis to sue in federal …