Bipartisan U.S. House caucus planning for post-war Middle East
A police officer walks near a police station that was destroyed after a battle between Israeli troops and Hamas militants on Oct. 8, 2023, in Sderot, Israel. A U.S. House caucus formed this month with...
View ArticlePair of U.S. House Dems add to chorus calling for Alito, Thomas recusals
The U.S. Supreme Court pictured on September 28, 2020. Congressional Democrats have called for ethics reforms for the court in the wake of recent controversies. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty...
View ArticleTrump claims ‘great unity’ after talks with congressional GOP
Former President Donald Trump is applauded by U.S. Senate Republicans before giving remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters on June 13, 2024. Trump, the...
View ArticleCalm, conservative, confident: What GOP senators want in Trump’s vice...
Former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, on June 13, 2024 in Washington, D.C., as Sen. JD Vance of Ohio,...
View ArticleBiden to pardon vets discharged for same-sex relationships
Sailors decorate the mess decks in observance of Pride month aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham in the Atlantic Ocean on June 16, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass...
View ArticleDelayed Supreme Court ruling makes Trump trial on 2020 charges unlikely...
Former President Donald Trump appears in court during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 20, 2024, in New York City. Trump was convicted on 34...
View ArticlePresidential immunity extends to some official acts, Supreme Court rules in...
Former U.S President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he leaves court for the day at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 18, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty...
View ArticleTrump questions NY guilty verdicts after U.S. Supreme Court presidential...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks to speak to the media after being found guilty following his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024, in New York City. Trump’s attorney...
View ArticleCongressional Dems urge a more robust Biden on the campaign trail, but few...
Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, departs the Capitol on July 8, 2024 in Washington, D.C. A handful of congressional Democrats have urged President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid following a...
View ArticleBiden commends NATO strength, pledges more aid for Ukraine against Russia
President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the NATO 75th anniversary celebration at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium on July 9, 2024, in Washington. NATO leaders convened this week for an annual summit to...
View ArticleBiden at NATO press conference rebuts doubters: ‘I’m the best qualified to...
President Joe Biden holds a news conference at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, D.C. NATO leaders convened in Washington this week for the annual summit to discuss future strategies...
View ArticleRepublican National Convention launches Monday amid some grumbling over...
A worker helps prepare the Fiserv Forum for the start of the Republican National Convention on July 11, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Republican National Convention will be held in Milwaukee from...
View ArticleFederal judge dismisses Trump classified documents criminal case
A classified documents case against former U.S. President Donald Trump was dismissed on Monday, July 15, 2024. In this photo, Trump speaks to the media as he arrives for his hush money trial at...
View ArticleHeritage Foundation touts controversial Project 2025 plan on RNC outskirts
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts speaks to reporters at the organization’s all-day Policy Fest at the Bradley Symphony Center in downtown Milwaukee, just blocks from the Republican National...
View ArticleOhio’s J.D. Vance pitches for swing-state votes in accepting nod as Trump VP
Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee,...
View ArticleTrump describes assassination attempt in speech accepting GOP presidential...
Former first lady Melania Trump joins Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump on stage after he officially accepted the nomination on the fourth day of the Republican National...
View ArticleTop Trump adviser says 2024 election ‘not over’ until Inauguration Day
Chris LaCivita, former President Donald Trump’s 2024 co-campaign manager, participated in a lengthy interview with Politico at the Turner House near the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,...
View ArticlePresident Joe Biden bows out of reelection campaign
U.S. President Joe Biden departs the White House on July 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden was traveling to Las Vegas, Nevada to deliver remarks at the NAACP National Convention and the UnidosUS Annual...
View ArticleVP Harris meets with Netanyahu to discuss Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
Vice President Kamala Harris and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands before the start of a meeting in the Vice President’s ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office...
View ArticleProtection of kids on social media platforms advances in U.S. Senate
The U.S. Senate voted 86-1 Thursday to move ahead with the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act. Both were rolled into one legislative vehicle. (Photo by...
View ArticleBiden urges term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices, new ethics rules
Protesters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, during oral arguments on a presidential immunity case. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Before he leaves the Oval Office...
View ArticleIn rare bipartisan vote, U.S. Senate passes package aimed at protecting kids...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks during a news conference on the Kids Online Safety Act at the U.S. Capitol on July 25, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)This story...
View ArticleU.S. Senate fails to advance expanded child tax credit, despite broad House...
Children from the KU Kids Deanwood Childcare Center complete a mural celebrating the launch of the Child Tax Credit on July 14, 2021 at the KU Kids Deanwood Childcare Center in Washington, D.C. (Photo...
View ArticleChair of U.S. Senate tax panel probes GOP megadonor’s travel gifts to...
Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist, Virginia Thomas, while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 21, 2021. (Photo by Drew...
View ArticleStruggle for control of Congress intensifies as presidential contest shifts
In this year’s battle for control of Congress, Republicans aim to increase their slim majority in the House of Representatives and flip the Senate, while Democrats are hoping to hang onto their...
View ArticleDOJ looks to revive classified documents case against Trump, argues judge’s...
Special Counsel Jack Smith is looking to reopen a case against former President Donald Trump, filing arguments on Monday, Aug. 26, with a federal appeals court of Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to...
View ArticleSpecial Counsel Smith files new indictment in Trump’s Jan. 6 case
Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a new version of the indictment against former President Donald Trump on his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election to take into account a U.S....
View ArticleHarris, Walz defend past statements, promise ‘opportunity economy’ in CNN...
Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Enmarket Arena on Aug. 29, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. Harris has campaigned in southeast Georgia for...
View ArticleHarris to roll out new plan on tax relief for small businesses
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois....
View ArticleTrump’s Jan. 6 case to extend beyond Election Day under timeline laid out by...
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Clinton Middle School on Jan. 6, 2024 in Clinton, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)This report has been...
View ArticleTrump and Harris to meet in long-anticipated debate Tuesday night in...
Final preparations are made in the spin room prior to the ABC News Presidential Debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the...
View ArticleHarris tears into Trump over abortion rights and race in tense presidential...
The Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, and the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, debate for the first time during the presidential...
View ArticleTrump, Harris storm swing states in days after debate as presidential race...
The Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, greets the Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, as they joined other officials at Ground Zero on Sept. 11,...
View ArticleHarris, Trump campaigns scuffle over migrants and abortion bans 7 weeks out...
Absentee ballots are prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on Sept. 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. North Carolina will send out absentee ballots to military and overseas...
View ArticleRacing toward Election Day, control of U.S. Senate and House up for grabs
The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is visible as protective fencing is erected around construction for the 2025 inauguration platform on the West Front on Capitol Hill on Sept. 17, 2024 in...
View ArticleTaxes: Where do Trump and Harris stand?
With many 2017 tax cuts expiring and cost of living a major challenge for Americans, tax policy has become a central issue in the 2024 presidential campaign. (Photo by Phillip Rubino/Getty Images)This...
View ArticleWalz, Vance prep for debate as hurricane politics swirl around presidential...
The entrance to the CBS Broadcast Center undergoes repairs on Sept. 30, 2024, the day before the television network will host the vice presidential debate in New York City. The Republican vice...
View ArticleTim Walz and J.D. Vance tangle in wonky, largely cordial vice presidential...
The Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speak after their debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on...
View ArticleTrump describes traumatic brain injuries sustained by U.S. troops in Iraq as...
Members of the U.S. military and international media survey the damage of Iranian missile attacks at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on Jan. 13, 2020. Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 211th Rescue Squadron...
View ArticleSpecial counsel Jack Smith reveals new evidence against Trump in 2020...
Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Justice Department on Aug. 1, 2023 in...
View ArticleForeign policy: Where do Harris and Trump stand?
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds an American flag as he addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 21, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win...
View ArticleVance in Pennsylvania says there was a ‘peaceful transfer of power’ in...
Republican vice presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, of Ohio, speaks at a rally at JWF Industries on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States...
View Article‘You pick the next president’: Pivotal Erie County, Pennsylvania, rallies for...
The Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks during a campaign rally at Erie Insurance Arena on Oct. 14, 2024 in Erie, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty...
View ArticleWalz rallies with Steelers fans in Pittsburgh, questions Trump’s mental fitness
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz rallied before a few hundred spectators at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, and her...
View ArticleThe presidential race is consuming battleground Pennsylvania. What do voters...
Maria Figueroa, 42, and David Figueroa, 40, wait in line with their 3-year-old son, Santiago, outside a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in their city of Erie, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Oct. 14,...
View ArticleReforms at the U.S. Supreme Court: Where do Harris and Trump stand?
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, are giving voters very different answers when it comes to any changes at...
View ArticleEarly voting now underway, Trump and Harris crisscross the battleground states
An employee adds a stack of mail-in ballots to a machine that automatically places the ballots in envelopes at Runbeck Election Services on Sept. 25, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. The company prints...
View ArticleFinal results may lag in deadlocked presidential contest, anxious election...
Voters make selections at their voting booths inside an early voting site on Oct. 17, 2024 in Hendersonville, North Carolina. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — As an exceedingly...
View ArticleSpeakers at six-hour Trump rally in NYC insult Puerto Ricans, mock Harris’ race
The Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, speaks at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's derogatory remark...
View ArticleRallying on the Ellipse, Harris calls on voters to reject Trump’s ‘chaos and...
Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks at a rally on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON —...
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