Now that we are on the other side of Labor Day and summer is subsiding, this is — as tradition goes — when focus on political campaigns really begins to heat up. The off-year elections this November w

Now that we are on the other side of Labor Day and summer is subsiding, this is — as tradition goes — when focus on political campaigns really begins to heat up. The off-year elections this November w

Age Aging Politicians Are Only Going To Get More Common Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent freezes in front of cameras, in conjunction with the comparatively advanced ages of the two pres

Ron DeSantis Ron DeSantis Probably Didn't Turn Florida Red The state was already changing in big ways before he was elected governor. ABC News Photo Illustration / Win McNamee / Getty Images In his p

Politics Podcast: Polling Silly Season Begins What can we glean from new polling about the 2024 general election? Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accu

Among the most politically tuned-in, last week saw the kind of hand-wringing and accusations of bias surrounding the polls that you’d usually expect from the final two months of a campaign, not the fi

2024 Election Why 'Bidenomics' Isn't Working For Biden The economy is improving, but Americans aren't giving Biden credit for it. Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has

2024 Election The Senate Is Losing One Of Its Few Remaining Moderate Republicans Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah isn't seeking a second term, and his potential successors are generally more conservative. In

2024 Republican Debates The Second GOP Debate Could Be Smaller, With Or Without Trump Six of the eight candidates from the first debate appear set to qualify for the Sept. 27 event. Eight Republican c

Impeachment What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry Most aren't convinced President Biden is implicated in his son's wrongdoing. Photo Illustration by ABC News / Getty Images Welcome to

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court further weakened the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday, ruling that a congressional map in Louisiana was a racial gerrymander even though it was drawn to comply with the la

A federal appeals court Wednesday shot down President Donald Trump's request to rehear his appeal of the $83 million defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. Subscribe to read this story ad

WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to renew a powerful foreign surveillance program and passed a Senate-approved measure that would jump-start the process to fund ICE and the

The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner this past weekend will remain in custody. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ar

Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that she is suspending her campaign for the Senate, citing a lack of financial resources and clearing the way for military veteran and oyster farmer Graham Pl

WASHINGTON — For many members of Congress, Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was a chilling reminder of not only the threats they face, but also some of the sec

The effort to ban AI chatbots for minors is picking up steam in Congress. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. On Thursday, the Senate

FEMA has welcomed back at least 15 whistleblowers who were placed on indefinite administrative leave in August after signing a public letter protesting moves by the since-ousted Department of Homeland

Louisiana is delaying its House primaries that were scheduled for May 16 to give state lawmakers time to redraw congressional maps there, after the Supreme Court struck down the current district lines

The Senate passed a resolution Thursday to ban members and staffers from trading on prediction markets. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive con

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Thursday that it is not necessary for Congress to weigh in on the Trump administration’s military action in Iran because the United States is currently “not at

BAGHDAD — U.S. President Donald Trump called Iraq’s new prime minister-designate Thursday and extended an invitation for him to visit Washington once he has successfully formed a government, the Iraqi

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WASHINGTON — Iran is taking advantage of the ceasefire with the U.S. to dig out its weapons, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the matter. The regime has stepped up its e

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday approved a Senate-passed bill that would fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, ending the record 75-day shutdown of the sprawling federal agency. Subscr

Federal prosecutors say former FBI Director James Comey's use of the term “86” on Instagram was a threat “to do harm" to President Donald Trump — but some food service workers say the term is "everyda

Video released Thursday shows the suspect in the shooting during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner appearing to shoot a Secret Service officer as he sprints through a security checkpo

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., plans to campaign for Iowa Senate candidate Zach Wahls this month, adding firepower to a raging battle between progressive outsider candidates and the Democratic Party

Nebraska on Friday became the first state to implement Medicaid work requirements, eight months ahead of the federal deadline mandated in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Subscribe to

Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election and became the United States’ 46th president when he was inaugurated a few months later. He initially ran for a second term, but he announced a fe

Kamala Harris, the United States' first female vice president, made more history at the Democratic National Convention when she formally accepted the party's presidential nomination. But she came up

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