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The civil battery and defamation trial for columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump is set to begin Tuesday.

President Joe Biden formally announced his bid for reelection Tuesday, setting off a battle to convince the country his record merits another four years in the White House and his age won't impede his ability to govern.

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will run for reelection in 2024.

A scam PAC operator was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday after pleading guilty to wire fraud and money laundering for operating a scheme to collect more than $3 million from donors during the 2016 election.

Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the head of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, endorsed former President Donald Trump Monday night.

Iranian hackers accessed a US municipal website for reporting unofficial election results in 2020 but were kicked off the network by US military hackers and didn't have any impact on voting, a top US general said Monday.

President Joe Biden launched a reelection bid like none before it on Tuesday with a call for Americans to choose him again to save democracy -- less than three years after his defeat of Donald Trump was supposed to restore normality and unite the country.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has issued a subpoena to Jennifer Leigh Moore, executive assistant director of human resources at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, demanding she answer questions from the select subcommittee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government.

House Republican Whip Tom Emmer sounded upbeat Monday as he vowed Republicans will have the votes to pass their debt ceiling bill later this week, making the case he's made to members all weekend that a vote against the package would hand President Joe Biden and Democrats a victory.

This could be the most consequential rematch in US history -- a president who portrays himself as the champion of democracy against a former president who routinely rejects election results.

After months of legal battles, infighting between defense lawyers and dozens of rejected mistrial motions, the federal criminal trial against five Proud Boys accused of plotting to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, moved to its final stage Monday.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis plans to announce this summer whether she'll bring charges against former President Donald Trump or his allies for their attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday.

President Joe Biden said Monday that he would let people know "real soon" about his reelection plans -- stopping short of announcing another run during a White House ceremony honoring the 2023 Teacher of the Year recipients.

A key Democratic senator is scrutinizing a Republican megadonor who financed luxury travel taken by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a real estate transaction with his family, and examining whether the gifts and deal triggered obligations under US tax law.

President Joe Biden, who at 80 has had to confront questions about his age and mental acuity as he launches a reelection campaign for president, once ran a campaign that sharply attacked his opponent's age.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with three Democratic Tennessee lawmakers at the White House on Monday, after the trio faced expulsion votes over their act of protest advocating for gun control.

The question put to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, hours after he announced plans to run for the Republican presidential nomination, was a simple one: How do you plan to defeat Donald Trump?

Former President Donald Trump keeps using wildly inaccurate figures to minimize the threat of climate change.

Domestic violent extremists have in the last year increasingly shared tactics with each other on using guns to attack electric power stations in a move that likely escalates the threat to US critical infrastructure, according to a Department of Homeland Security bulletin obtained by CNN.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced that the warring factions in Sudan agreed to a a ceasefire, "starting at midnight on April 24, to last for 72 hours."