Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Nashville on Friday where she delivered an impassioned speech advocating for gun control and met with a pair of state lawmakers who were expelled from the General Assembly after protesting on the state House floor.
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the leaks of a trove of apparent US intelligence documents that were posted on social media in recent weeks.
Key Democrats hoping to keep abortion access a central part of the 2024 campaign are looking to the 2004 playbook of an old Republican nemesis: Karl Rove.
As House Republicans prepared to pass a parental rights bill -- a signature plank of their governing agenda -- GOP leaders ran into unexpected headwinds.
The Pentagon is investigating what appear to be screenshots of classified US and NATO military information about Ukraine circulating on social media, a Pentagon official told CNN.
The State Department's review of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has far more findings in it than the document about the withdrawal that the White House released Thursday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the report.
The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has upheld the Justice Department's use of a key criminal charge against hundreds of January 6 rioters, saying they can be charged with obstructing Congress.
Americans' views of the economy are the best they've been in more than a year, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS -- but they're still pretty bad, with 7 in 10 saying it's in poor shape. Closer to home, 50% say their own financial situation is worse than it was a year ago.
President Joe Biden often envisions what he could accomplish with a second term, advisers and allies who speak with him say, but he has expressed no urgency to formally launch a campaign to win another four years in office.
"This is far greater than mere ethics violations; it's about the perceived legitimacy of the Supreme Court," one former conservative federal judge said.
Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a bill Wednesday to ban gender affirming care for minors in the state, following a growing trend of GOP-led states restricting transgender youth's access to such treatments after Idaho enacted similar legislation earlier in the week.
The 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, who claimed she was fired for refusing to manipulate state Covid-19 data while working in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' state Health Department, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening a shooting at a middle school.
Tennessee Republicans' ruthless use of their state House supermajority to expel two young Black lawmakers for breaching decorum exposed a torrent of political forces that are transforming American politics at the grassroots.
The former head of Michigan's medical marijuana licensing board and former state House speaker admitted to taking more than $110,000 in bribes to help businesses get medical marijuana licenses, according to a plea agreement filed in federal court.
The Supreme Court on Thursday denied West Virginia's request to let it fully enforce a state law that bans transgender women and girls from participating on public school sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
The Biden administration is proposing a new federal rule that outlines policies that "categorically" ban transgender students from sports teams consistentwith their gender, according to a public notice from the US Department of Education, but would allow schools to "adopt policies that limit transgender students' participation."
Over two dozen members of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus are calling on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to address concerns about the safety of Black motorists.
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