Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media. She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group. She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.
House lawmakers will subpoena Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to compel her to appear at a July 22 hearing about the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump.
President Biden's loyalists are on track to lock in his nomination online, before the Democratic National Convention meets on Aug. 19 in Chicago, but some Democrats are exploring a way to replace him on the ticket.
Republicans on Monday nominated former President Trump as their party's presidential nominee, capping a remarkable political resurgence few predicted when he left office in 2021.
Former President Donald Trump selected Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio on Monday as his running mate, adding youth to the ticket amid voter concerns about age and the presidency, days after an assassin nearly killed Mr. Trump.
Republicans formally nominated Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio to the 2024 ticket, an hour after former President Trump announced on social media he picked the 39-year-old former Marine as his running mate.
Republicans formally nominated former President Donald Trump to serve atop the party's 2024 ticket Monday in a round of votes that took place just as Mr. Trump announced his vice presidential pick online.
Former President Donald Trump on Monday tapped Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate, ending months of speculation over who the presumptive Republican nominee believed would best boost his chances of returning to the White House this fall.
Former President Trump may select a relatively unknown governor as his running mate, casting aside more-publicized Republican choices, including two from the U.S. Senate.
The assassination attempt against Donald Trump came after months of heated rhetoric aimed at the former president, including from President Biden who a week ago said it was time to put his political rival "in a bullseye."
A Trump supporter saw a man with a rifle crawling on top of the roof of a building behind the campaign rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania where former President Donald Trump was apparently hit by a bullet in an assassination attempt on Saturday.
Former President Donald Trump was injured but survived an apparent assassination attempt Saturday in which law enforcement agents shot dead a gunman, and a Trump supporter was killed, at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Former President Trump was bloodied but escaped serious injury when apparent shots rang out while he was speaking Saturday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, has been deeply intertwined in the Biden family for 15 years and the close relationship has raised doubts about his objectivity in assessing President Biden for neurological problems that some believe have rendered him unfit to serve.
In one of the most consequential press conferences of his political career, President Biden defended his foreign and domestic leadership, stumbling several times in his bid to prove he is fit for another four years in office despite his 81 years.
Former President Barack Obama's ex-aides and prominent pals have become the loudest voices pushing President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, even as their old boss publicly backs his vice president.
President Biden is hell-bent on showing he's not too old for the job as he helms a critical NATO summit while lawmakers in his own Democratic Party scrutinize his performance to determine if he belongs on the 2024 ticket.
President Biden delivered a defiant message Monday to panicked Democratic Party leaders: He's not quitting his reelection campaign because it would defy the will of primary voters.
A neurologist and Parkinson's disease specialist has made nearly a dozen visits to the White House Medical Unit, visitor logs show, raising new questions about President Biden's fitness for office as he battles efforts to push him off the 2024 ballot.