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Byline: Liz Goodwin Over 35 seasons working as a ranger in Glacier National Park, Kim Peach, 67, recalls only two incidents in which he responded to a report of a [...]

Byline: Trisha Thadani; Adriana Navarro SAN FRANCISCO -- Democrats are massively outspending Republicans on internet campaign ads but one social network is a notable exception: X, owned by Elon Musk, [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey; Isaac Arnsdorf; Ellen Nakashima; Shane Harris Donald Trump's presidential campaign said on Saturday that it has been the victim of a foreign hack, after the campaign received [...]

Byline: Erin Cox A flurry of new political advertising in Maryland's Senate race represents the first wave of an onslaught coming to voters accustomed to sleepy Senate contests. Combined, Republican [...]

Byline: Abbie Cheeseman; Praveena Somasundaram Wesley Bell is projected to win the Democratic primary in Missouri's 1st Congressional District, according to the Associated Press. In an upset, he defeated incumbent [...]

Byline: Katie Shepherd; Nicole Asbury; Jenna Portnoy April McClain Delaney, a former Biden administration official and lawyer who far outraised her opponents in fundraising, was projected to win the Democratic [...]

Byline: Scott Clement Democrats are heading into the general-election campaign without the party identification advantage that they enjoyed four years ago, according to a study released Tuesday, driven partly by [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Theodoric Meyer; Tobi Raji Good morning, Early Birds. The shortest day of the year is this week. Maybe that means we'll have a short working day, [...]

Byline: Dan Balz In a polarized United States, what divides Democrats and Republicans the most isn't gender or education or income or religion. It is the issue of race, whether [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Theodoric Meyer; Tobi Raji Good morning, Early Birds. Start your week off right by watching (or re-watching) Ke Huy Quan's Oscar acceptance speech. Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.Thanks for [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf; Ashley Parker; Michael Scherer; Josh Dawsey In early 2021, as football star Herschel Walker considered running for Senate, he approached some of Georgia's top Republican operatives about [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan Russia has secretly funneled at least $300 million to foreign political parties and candidates in more than two dozen countries since 2014 in an attempt to shape [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware In Pennsylvania's contentious Senate race, Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is hitting his Republican rival, Mehmet Oz, where he lives. Fetterman took aim Wednesday at the [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff BERLIN -- The first chancellor of West Germany used the state intelligence agency to spy on the leading opposition party just eight years after World War II, [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker A fundraising committee operated jointly by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee in 2016 served as a vehicle for state parties to pass more than [...]

Byline: Dan Balz Public opinion polls in the 2020 presidential election suffered from errors of 'unusual magnitude,' the highest in 40 years for surveys estimating the national popular vote and [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford;Hannah Denham U.S. markets soared Wednesday, lifted by tech shares, as investors waited for final results in the highly charged presidential race. Earlier in the day, President Trump [...]

Russian meddling on behalf of Donald Trump is an intelligence version of a perpetual-motion machine. It never stops spinning, from the 2016 campaign to the 2020 race to right now, [...]

Byline: Emily Guskin Most 2020 pre-election polls underestimated former president Trump's support against President Biden, with similar patterns to 2016: Polls were fairly accurate in some states, but polls in [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany The Texas Democratic Party, whose entreaties for more spending in the state by the Biden campaign were denied in the final stretch of the 2020 election, is [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler Both President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden enter Tuesday night's debate with histories of making false, misleading or exaggerated statements, often well-documented by The Fact [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa;Sean Sullivan President Trump heads into his and Joe Biden's first debate already on defense as he fights off attacks stemming from a damning report that he avoided [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg;Isaac Stanley-Becker A database built by Cambridge Analytica, the Republican-aligned firm that unraveled over allegations of improper use of Facebook data, disproportionately identified Black voters as ripe for [...]

Byline: Sean Sullivan Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is privately expressing concerns about Joe Biden's presidential campaign, according to three people with knowledge of the conversations, and is urging Biden's team [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany with Brent D. Griffiths Good Tuesday morning. Tips, comments, recipes? You know the drill. Tune in to our special report on the second night of the Republican [...]

Byline: Rosalind S. Helderman;Tom Hamburger The effort began only days after Paul Manafort resigned as chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in August 2016. Manafort faced scrutiny for accepting millions [...]

Byline: Brad Parscale Brad Parscale is the campaign manager of President Trump's reelection campaign. 'Bush's Rating Falls To Its Lowest Point, New Survey Finds,' read a bold headline on the [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler When an official government report disrupts a political narrative, it's exceedingly rare for politicians to admit error. They either play down the new information -- or stick [...]

Byline: Shane Harris;Carol D. Leonnig;Rosalind S. Helderman The FBI had barely closed a politically volcanic investigation into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when it [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett;Matt Zapotosky;Karoun Demirjian;Ellen Nakashima A Justice Department inspector general's report examining the FBI investigation of President Trump's 2016 campaign rebutted conservatives' accusations that top FBI officials were driven [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg The Russian military hackers who stole tens of thousands of sensitive Democratic Party documents in 2016 struggled to disseminate their bounty online -- at least until anti-secrecy [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang A focus group of black voters in South Carolina commissioned by Pete Buttigieg's campaign found that the candidate's sexual orientation may be one of the reasons [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks THE KEY During a contentious and highly partisan hearing with Attorney General William Barr yesterday, senators did manage to find one bipartisan point of agreement: Pushing for [...]

Byline: Salvador Rizzo 'The FEC report once again highlights President Trump's immense grassroots support among small donors. 98.79% of first quarter contributions to the Campaign and the joint committees came [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Billions of dollars are spent every election cycle on advertising, which accounts for the lion's share of the money in U.S. politics. Campaigns also spend countless hours [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman Today the Center for American Progress, the most prominent Democratic think tank in Washington, is holding an 'Ideas Conference' at a moment when the Trump administration seems [...]

Byline: Fenit Nirappil Former Virginia congressman Tom Perriello is gaining ground and is tied with Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, according to a survey released Tuesday, [...]

Byline: Greg Miller;Adam Entous Russia carried out a comprehensive cyber campaign to sabotage the U.S. presidential election, an operation that was ordered by Russian President Vladi -mir Putin and ultimately [...]

Byline: Callum Borchers Perhaps you've heard that incriminating documents linking Hillary Clinton to the 1993 death of White House attorney Vince Foster have mysteriously 'vanished' from the National Archives. You [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple The title of Thomas Patterson's new study suggests ambition: 'News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primaries: Horse Race Reporting Has Consequences.' It's a delightful read steeped in [...]

Byline: Rebecca Sinderbrand Donald Trump's unorthodox campaign is on pace to shatter another precedent: if he becomes the Republican nominee, 'he would start the general election campaign as the least-popular [...]

Byline: Ed O'Keefe This item has been updated. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to launch his presidential campaign from the high school he graduated from, according to reports from [...]

Byline: John Wagner The Cook Political Report, one of the nation's leading prognosticators, on Friday declared Maryland's gubernatorial race to be a 'tossup,' giving rise to more speculation that Republican [...]