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It's hard not to view these two data points as symptoms of a democracy that is sick and in need of immediate attention:

Hunter Biden's former business partner told lawmakers, throughout his nearly five hours of testimony earlier this week, that "nothing" of importance was discussed the 20 times he recalled then-Vice President Joe Biden being placed on speaker phone during meetings with business partners, according to a full transcript of the closed-door interview released by House Oversight Committee Republicans on Thursday.

The day after former President Donald Trump was indicted over his efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, Trump repeated a lie that the indictment depicts as central to his attempt to obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Biden's victory.

The two young, Black Tennessee state House Democrats whose expulsion following a gun control protest sparked a nationwide controversy in April, will win reelection on Thursday, CNN projects.

President Joe Biden on Thursday called for the immediate release of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum in a written statement commemorating Niger's Independence Day, saying the US "stands with the people of Niger" as the country faces a "grave challenge to its democracy."

The share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who believe that President Joe Biden's 2020 election win was not legitimate has ticked back up, according to a new CNN poll fielded throughout July.

Despite months of increasingly positive economic indicators, the American public remains negative about the state of the nation's economy, with 51% saying they think the economy is still in a downturn and getting worse, according to a new CNN poll.

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty in a Washington, DC, federal courthouse to criminal charges related to the special counsel's investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In the ongoing battle between Walt Disney World and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Disney's governing district -- whose current board was hand-picked by DeSantis and took control of the district in February -- abolished all of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the district said in a Tuesday news release.

The US State Department on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family members from Niger following last week's military takeover.

The contribution from the professional basketball team to Never Back Down, a group supporting the Florida governor's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, has drawn attention and criticism from Democrats and LGBTQ activists in the state.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday undermined a key pillar of his old boss' defense in the special counsel's probe into 2020 election interference, telling CNN's Kaitlan Collins that Donald Trump "knew well he lost the election."

Family members of US Army Pvt. Travis King said Wednesday night that they had no reason to believe the soldier, who last month crossed the border between North and South Korea in the demilitarized zone separating the two nations, would defect from the US military.

Special counsel Jack Smith said Tuesday that the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol was "fueled by lies" told by former President Donald Trump. The indictment of Trump on four new federal criminal charges, all related to the former president's effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, lays out some of those lies one by one.

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to return to the epicenter of his alleged bid to overthrow the 2020 election to answer historic charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday dined with top Fox executives at his Bedminster golf club, during which Fox News president Jay Wallace and the network's chief executive, Suzanne Scott, encouraged him to participate in the first presidential debate the network is hosting later this month, two sources with knowledge told CNN.

Russia is forcing Ukrainians in Russian-occupied territories to accept Russian citizenship by engaging in a systematic push "to make it impossible for residents to survive in their homes" unless they do so, according to a newly released report from the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

The Senate went into lockdown Wednesday afternoon as US Capitol Police investigated reports of an active shooter in the Russell office building, putting Capitol Hill on edge more than two years after the January 6, 2021, attack.

Special counsel Jack Smith's criminal indictment appeared to be more than two and half years in the making, but the American public heard many of the key details of the case outlined in a series of hearings last year -- as a well as an 800-page report -- run by the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6 riot.