Robert Costa

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks about the 2016 GOP primary race on March 3 during a speech in Salt Lake City.

Mitt Romney makes it official: He’s running for Senate in Utah

February 17, 2018 at 9:05 p.m.

Mitt Romney on Friday announced his long-expected Senate bid in his adopted state of Utah with a low-key rollout intended to duck roiling Republican divisions and avoid signaling that he...

Trump slams Democrats as third day of government shutdown begins

January 22, 2018 at 8:32 a.m.

The government shutdown headed into the workweek Monday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would consider allowing a floor debate on immigration issues in mid- to late...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Trump Tower in New York on Aug. 15, 2017.

Trump says his border wall views have “never changed,” contradicting Kelly

January 18, 2018 at 9:56 p.m.

President Donald Trump publicly pushed back Thursday against a characterization by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that the president's views on a southern border wall had "evolved" and...

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Trump advisers vent frustrations about 2018 strategy as president listens

December 22, 2017 at 12:17 a.m.

Political consultant and confidant Corey Lewandowski presses Trump to make changes and fights with political director.

Bitter Senate race tests Alabama’s image in the country — and at home

December 9, 2017 at 10:33 p.m.

For many Alabama voters, unaccustomed to a competitive election and the national attention that has come with it, the bitter showdown between Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones has...

Republicans fear Democratic wins mean more losses to come

November 9, 2017 at 6:24 a.m.

A wave of Democratic victories ignited a ferocious debate across the Republican Party Wednesday over whether President Donald Trump's unorthodox behavior and polarizing agenda is jeopardizing the GOP's firm grip...

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Trump’s Fed chair choice largely down to Powell or Taylor

October 26, 2017 at 9:44 p.m.

President Donald Trump has largely settled on nominating either former investment banker Jerome "Jay" Powell or Stanford University economist John Taylor to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, three people...

With or without Trump, GOP insurgency plans for a civil war in 2018 midterms

November 3, 2017 at 5:07 p.m.

The next Republican revolution began last week on a bright blue bus parked at a nighttime rally in Montgomery, Ala., days before a firebrand GOP candidate won the state's Senate...

Hillary Clinton: “I am done with being a candidate”

September 11, 2017 at 8:06 a.m.

Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that she will not pursue the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

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Hillary Clinton: Trump’s inaugural address was “a cry from the white-nationalist gut”

September 10, 2017 at 4:24 p.m.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Sunday that racial grievances had a significant influence on the 2016 presidential election and continue to be stoked by President Donald Trump.

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