JD Vance’s career has followed a classic American rags-to-riches trajectory: After growing up in poverty in rural Ohio, he was accepted at an Ivy League university, finished a law degree, and leveraged his new connections into wealth and a seat in the U.S. Senate.  While that part of Vance’s biography may be familiar to voters,

President Biden’s reelection team and his party are resuming campaigning and counterprogramming to the GOP convention this week, after a brief pause in advertising and “outbound communications” in light of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.  While Mr. Biden postponed a planned speech Monday in Austin, Texas, he is keeping a scheduled campaign

Sen. Bob Menendez, a powerful New Jersey Democrat, was convicted Tuesday in a sprawling bribery scheme in which he was accused of selling out his office for lucrative bribes, including cash and gold bars.  A federal jury convicted Menendez on all 16 felony counts after prosecutors portrayed him as the puppet-master of a complex bribery

Former President Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate shows one thing remains constant, even in a presidential race upended by an attempt to assassinate one candidate and doubts about whether the other is fit to run: money in presidential politics is still king.  Vance, a relative newcomer to