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The White House says the president's symptoms have been mild so far, but his positive test is likely to have far-reaching effects on Capitol Hill and...
President Trump tweeted after midnight Friday that he and the First Lady Melania Trump had both tested positive for the coronavirus. The White House p...
Early voting is way up in 2020. But conspiracy theories spread by the president and protests at polling places have spooked some voters, and changed h...
The Biden campaign chartered an Amtrak train to take the former vice president through Ohio and Pennsylvania after the first presidential debate. And,...
The first debate was chaotic and light on policy as the participants disregarded the agreed-upon rules. President Trump repeatedly interrupted the dis...
A New York Times investigation published on Sunday said that President Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes each year in 2016 and 2017, which...
The former Antonin Scalia clerk currently serves on the federal bench after a fifteen-year stint as a law professor at Notre Dame. The Senate will now...
There was bipartisan backlash after Trump suggested that he would have to see the results before committing to a peaceful presidential transition. And...
It is hard to conceptualize 200,000 lives lost. Hundreds more die each day. And a vaccine, with partial efficacy and patchwork adoption, won't be enou...
As Republicans secure the votes to move forward on a Supreme Court nomination, government funding negotiations hit a snag. And Americans are strugglin...
"Most of them [the potential nominees] are young, and they've gone through the [nomination] process very recently," Trump said. He noted that one pers...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancr...
A steady presidential race remains steady: Joe Biden's lead is in the high single-digits nationally. But Trump's messaging tying Joe Biden to socialis...
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Congress that a widely-available vaccine probably won't be available until well into 2...
Joe Biden maintains a lead in key states Trump won in 2016, but the race remains tight in Florida. Arizona and Georgia are toss-ups, and Texas is pink...
Understanding the motivation of voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania is key to understand the 2016 coalition that allowed President Trump to notch a de...
After the weekend's rally, aimed at building support among Hispanic voters, President Trump spent Monday in California hearing about disaster response...
As wildfires rage across the west, activists are noting the campaign's relative silence on the issue of climate change. Natural disasters of all sorts...
