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After a string of deadly shootings in Minnesota, Louisiana and Texas began a national dialogue about how to address violence in communities across the country, House members Wednesday unveiled a bipartisan working group to explore how to respond.

President Barack Obama is meeting Wednesday with activists from the Black Lives Matter movement amid a spate of violence between black communities and police across the country.

Concerns over security in Cleveland have been ramping up ahead of next week's Republican National Convention -- and are now further inflamed by recent incidents of racial violence that have wracked the country.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are now running neck-and-neck in Florida, as well as Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University survey that took stock of three swing states.

It's that time again, when the political world transfixes upon a mystery that will inevitably be solved and data suggest may not matter much to the outcome of the election: Whom will the presidential nominees choose as their running mate?

Former President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will appear together in Little Rock on Thursday during the graduation of a leadership program launched by the duo in 2014.

The U.S. is trying to verify that airstrikes recently killed two top terrorist operatives, including a high-ranking ISIS commander, CNN has learned.

Theresa May is due to become the 76th prime minister of the United Kingdom Wednesday. But despite over two decades in politics, May is largely unknown on the other side of the Atlantic.

Hillary Clinton, standing inside the same chamber that helped shape Abraham Lincoln into the father of the Republican Party, argued Wednesday that Donald Trump was perverting what his party once stood for.

Former U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh announced Wednesday he will run to retake the seat he vacated six years ago, improving Democrats' chances of winning back the Senate in November.

Author, comedian and political commentator D.L. Hughley on Wednesday slammed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's recent comments regarding the black community, saying he is in no position to tell African-Americans how to behave.

Texas Republican Rep. Ted Poe announced Wednesday that he was recently diagnosed with leukemia.

Newt Gingrich has been one of Donald Trump's strongest supporters. But occasionally, his compliments can turn into criticisms.

Photographer Alex Webb recently spent a week in Cleveland, the host city of the Republican National Convention.

Republican working this week efforts to hammer out a platform representing the heart of the GOP kept coming back to one topic: LGBT issues.

Bernie Sanders commented on the qualities he would like to see in Hillary Clinton's vice president pick during an interview on Wednesday.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's well-known candor was on display in her chambers late Monday, when she declined to retreat from her earlier criticism of Donald Trump and even elaborated on it.

President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that a week of violence and racial tension exposed the deepest fault lines in American democracy, but urged Americans not to despair because the nation would overcome its divides.

As #WriteInBernie trends on Twitter and #BernieOrBust activists pledge their loyalty to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, comedian and Sanders fan Brandon Wardell told CNN that he is now ready to let go of Sanders and vote for Hillary Clinton.