Frustrated Baltimore officials pleaded on Sunday with residents to come forward with information about a shooting at a crowded neighborhood block party that left two people dead and 28 others wounded, many of them teenagers. A motive for the shooting, which was reported at 12:30 a.m. in Baltimore’s southern neighborhood of Brooklyn, was unclear, but…
It was just after Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, had fired off a blunt text to the No. 3 House G.O.P. leader — featuring two f-bombs and four demands that needed to be met to gain her vote for the party’s debt limit plan — that she experienced a momentary flash of dread. “Now…
The News South Carolina Democrats elected Christale Spain, the former executive director of the state Democratic Party, as state party chair at their convention on Saturday. She ran with the backing of the party’s top brass, including Representative James E. Clyburn, and will be the first Black woman to lead the state party. Why It…
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, two days after announcing an exploratory committee for president, brought his message to friendly territory. After greeting supporters on Friday at Alex’s Restaurant, a Charleston-area eatery, the senator made the case for his candidacy to a group of donors at a private retreat that took place over two days…
President Biden and his party have selected Chicago to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention, according to the Democratic National Committee, elevating a large liberal city in the heart of the Midwest, a critical battleground region. The convention will be held Aug. 19-22 of next year at the United Center, the committee announced. Republicans plan…
The startling defection of a longtime Democratic lawmaker upended the balance of power in North Carolina on Wednesday, giving Republicans narrow veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of the battleground state’s legislature. The Democratic lawmaker, State Representative Tricia Cotham, announced in a news conference on Wednesday morning that she was becoming a Republican, saying she had…
When I was 15, I worked for a caterer, answering phones and making vinaigrette by the gallon. I wanted nothing so desperately as to join the ranks of the cater-waiters, the older kids whose driver’s licenses allowed them to pilot a van full of chafing dishes to glamorous fetes at large, forbidding houses where they…
The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party has always come from the ranks of his own supporters, rather than those who disliked him all along. So it’s significant that one of his earliest backers is coming out swinging against him. In February 2016, when Representative Tom Marino became one of the…
For a different kind of royal family, there’s the fifth season of “Yellowstone,” which starts tomorrow on the Paramount Network. James Poniewozik says the show’s creators, Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, “have crossbred a throwback Western with a modern antihero drama.” Sheridan also has a new series starting tomorrow on Paramount+: “Tulsa King,” which stars…