Caesar Sanchez looks out at the same sign all day, every day from his electronics shop in downtown Los Angeles: “Billionaire made here.” The B on that sign is pasted over an old M to update the word “millionaire,” because in July the small convenience store sold a winning Powerball lottery ticket worth more than…
More than nine months before the Iowa caucuses, eight declared and potential presidential candidates came to a gathering of Christian conservatives on Saturday evening to test a question: Can flesh-and-blood politicians eyeing the highest office in the land be upstaged by a canned, prerecorded video? The answer was almost certainly yes. The audio did not…
INDIANAPOLIS — In 2018, prominent Republicans affirmed their strong support for gun owners’ rights at the annual gathering of the National Rifle Association, three months after a gunman had murdered 17 people in Parkland, Fla. In 2022, they descended on the N.R.A.’s event a few days after a gunman had killed 21 in Uvalde, Texas.…