Philip Rucker

Convention organizers say the president and his surrogate speakers will showcase optimism and inspire hope in a time of worldwide despair.

As the inquiry hurtles toward impeachment and a Senate trial, Republicans on Capitol Hill are solidly behind the president, even if they offer scattershot and at times contradictory defenses of him.

Trump supremacy is being challenged inside his own realm. With his administration engulfed by crisis, Trump can no longer control the forces once solidly arrayed behind him.

Part strategy, part therapy, Trump puts his feelings of persecution and self-pity on hourly display, claiming a vast conspiracy to undo his 2016 election.

The president, who will address the nation this evening, increasingly views a national emergency declaration as a viable, if risky, way to build a portion of his long-promised barrier, according to senior officials.

The move brings fresh instability to the Pentagon as it manages Trump’s sudden decisions to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan.

The president’s latest attack on his attorney general underscores his lack of trust in many of his subordinates and appointees.

A band of exasperated Republicans - including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a handful of veteran consultants and members of the conservative intelligentsia - is actively plotting to draft an independent presidential candidate who could keep Donald Trump from the White House.

Republican stalwarts opposed to the controversial mogul remain fearful of the damage he might inflict on the party’s down-ballot candidates, but many believe the billionaire cannot be stopped and are exhausted by the prospect of a contested July convention.

As the Republican presidential race heads toward a possible contested convention, the three remaining candidates have begun considering vice-presidential picks -- with a much different set of calculations than in a normal political year.

Campaigns identify and cajole swing delegates who can nominate whomever they choose.

In a mathematical squeeze to make up ground in the Democratic presidential race, Bernie Sanders is preparing to ratchet up his attacks on Hillary Clinton ahead of a New York showdown that could establish how easily the party can pull itself back together for the general election.

An angry Nevada GOP electorate hungry for a political outsider in the White House handed Trump his third straight win in the primary race as the billionaire mogul used visceral rhetoric to tap into anxieties about the economy, terrorism and immigration.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas rallied a broad coalition of conservatives around his anti-Washington message to win Iowa's presidential caucuses Monday night, edging out Donald Trump in their battle to claim the Republican Party's outsider mantle.

As the presidential primary race moves into a more urgent and combative phase, there is growing acceptance among Republicans, including the Washington and financial elite, that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are the two candidates most likely to become the party's nominee.