The candidates who will gather for the second Republican presidential debate this week face an unusual challenge: how to take on a front-runner who's not on stage and is already acting as if he's the nominee.
Confusion reigned on the eve of Joe Biden's Tuesday trip to Michigan, as the White House scrambled to finalize the president's plans for visiting striking autoworkers and lawmakers were left guessing about his itinerary.
A court-appointed special master offered three proposals on Monday to boost the Black voting-age population in a reconfigured Alabama congressional district -- the latest development in a closely watched redistricting case with implications for control of the US House of Representatives after next year's elections.
The 2024 GOP presidential debate stage is shrinking after the Republican National Committee announced late Monday that seven candidates are set to participate in the second debate -- down one from their first clash.
The House Oversight Committee on Monday announced witnesses for the panel's first hearing this week in its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
An investigation is underway after at least one Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC, Sunday night, though US officials say no one was hurt in the incident nor was significant damage done to the diplomatic outpost.
You're more likely to read about people in the aggregate in this newsletter -- how groups are affected by something the government is doing and how polls suggest those groups feel about it. CNN's John King is looking at the 2024 presidential race from the other side in his new "All Over the Map" project.
Former President Donald Trump made a series of inflammatory social media posts on Sunday in which, among other things, he lied that Senate Democrats rigged the 2020 election and baselessly accused the company that owns NBC and MSNBC of treason.
Migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border are expected to remain high in the near term, according to a senior US Customs and Border Protection official, who noted that additional commitments from Mexico are expected to help eventually drive down numbers.
The US is formally establishing diplomatic relations with a pair of Pacific Island nations Monday, recognizing the Cook Islands and Niue for the first time.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey remained defiant on Monday after being indicted on bribery charges at the end of last week, saying he believes he will be exonerated as he responded to some of the specific charges and evidence outlined by prosecutors.
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to have his busiest stretch of campaigning this week since launching his bid for a second White House term last fall. But one stop will be notably absent from the GOP front-runner's schedule: the second Republican primary debate.
President Joe Biden and his top aides at the White House plan to hammer away at a blunt message as the US government inches closer to a shutdown this week: A handful of extremist Republicans are entirely to blame for the havoc that would be unleashed across the country.
With six days until the government runs out of money, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a choice to make: Does he risk a shutdown to keep his job or does he cross his Republican hardliners by working with Democrats?
President Joe Biden and his Oval Office predecessor, Donald Trump, are about to wage the most direct showdown yet of their possible rematch as far-right House Republicans drive the nation to the brink of a government shutdown.
With government funding slated to run out September 30, the leaders of the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus told CNN on Sunday that "all options are on the table" to force a vote on their alternative stopgap plan to avert a shutdown.
Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide who delivered bombshell testimony to the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, defended the anecdotes she recounted under oath in her first TV interview since her Capitol Hill testimony.
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