Trump picks Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters in the spin room following the CNN Presidential Debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President...
View ArticleTrump pick of J.D. Vance as running mate opens new battlefront in...
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, celebrate as he is nominated for the office of Vice President alongside Ohio Delegate Bernie Moreno on the first day of the Republican...
View ArticleTrump unexpectedly drops in on convention in first public appearance since...
The Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Republican Vice Presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, appear on the first day of the Republican...
View ArticleGun rights advocates at convention spell out plans if GOP gains control in...
Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita speaks with Katie Pointer Baney, managing director of Government Affairs for Delta Defense and the U.S. Concealed Carry Association, during an event the...
View ArticleCalifornia Rep. Schiff latest Democrat to call on Biden to drop out
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., listens during the third hearing by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 16, 2022...
View ArticleBiden tests positive for COVID, will return home to Delaware
President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. In this photo, he holds a news conference at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty...
View ArticleOhio’s J.D. Vance pitches for swing-state votes in accepting nod as Trump VP
Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks on stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee,...
View ArticleTrump describes assassination attempt in speech accepting GOP presidential...
Former first lady Melania Trump joins Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump on stage after he officially accepted the nomination on the fourth day of the Republican National...
View ArticleWhat’s next for Democrats with Biden out of the presidential campaign
The White House is seen on June 24, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party has just weeks before its delegates are scheduled to vote for a presidential...
View ArticleDNC panel to meet in public to set ‘transparent, fair’ framework to pick...
President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff view a Fourth of July fireworks display over the National Mall from the Blue Room Balcony,...
View ArticleMembers of Congress condemn violence after shots seemingly fired at Trump rally
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by an apparent bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler,...
View ArticleBiden says ‘no place for this kind of violence in America’ after shooting at...
President Joe Biden gives brief remarks from Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Saturday, July 13, 2024, on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. (Screenshot from White House...
View ArticleGOP convention to go on as planned in Milwaukee, with Trump in attendance
Workers prepare the stage for the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 13, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The convention will be held in Milwaukee from July 15-18. (Scott...
View ArticleDemocrats approve virtual vote by delegates to pick a presidential nominee
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has gained the support of enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks to the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Grand Boule at the Indiana Convention...
View Article‘Pass the torch’: Biden addresses nation on why he won’t seek a second term
President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House on July 24, 2024 in Washington, D.C. The president addressed reasons for abruptly ending his run for a second term after initially...
View ArticleWall Street Journal reporter, former Marine, Putin critics freed in prisoner...
President Joe Biden, joined by relatives of prisoners freed by Russia, delivers remarks in the State Dining Room at the White House on Aug. 1, 2024, on the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan...
View ArticleKamala Harris will be the Democratic presidential nominee, DNC announces
On Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, the Democratic National Committee announced Vice President Kamala Harris received enough votes in a virtual roll call to be the party’s presidential nominee. In this photo,...
View ArticleKamala Harris officially becomes the Democratic presidential nominee
Vice President Kamala Harris departs Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport aboard Air Force Two, after speaking at a campaign rally inside West Allis Central High School on July 23, 2024, in...
View ArticleCongress limps toward the end of a disappointing session, with just 78 laws...
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson...
View ArticleWalz’s U.S. House tenure: Bipartisan bills and a focus on vets and farms
Tim Walz, center, then the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee, and then-Chairman Phil Roe, right, R-Tenn., pictured during a March 7, 2017, hearing about reforms at the...
View ArticleMore than 1 million veterans receiving benefits via PACT Act ahead of...
Family members hold up images of deceased loved ones during the ceremony where U.S. President Joe Biden signed the PACT Act in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 10, 2022 in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleColorado remains bird flu hot spot as USDA to take ‘additional step’ in...
Dairy cows gather at a farm on July 5, 2022 in Visalia, California. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to embark on a year-long study beginning next...
View ArticleStruggle for control of Congress intensifies as presidential contest shifts
In this year’s battle for control of Congress, Republicans aim to increase their slim majority in the House of Representatives and flip the Senate, while Democrats are hoping to hang onto their...
View Article‘I’m entitled to personal attacks’ against Harris, Trump asserts
The Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, holds a news conference outside the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on Aug. 15, 2024 in Bedminster, New Jersey. The food items...
View ArticleDemocrats celebrate with boisterous state-by-state roll call vote for Harris
Rapper Lil Jon performs with the Georgia delegation during the Ceremonial Roll Call of States on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 20, 2024 in Chicago,...
View ArticleFDA greenlights new COVID vaccine after a summer of rising numbers of cases
Registered nurse Orlyn Grace administers a COVID-19 booster vaccination to Jeanie Merriman at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on April 06, 2022 in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty...
View ArticleTrump urges shutdown unless Congress passes bill requiring ID to register to...
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La. speaks during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 10, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent...
View ArticleAdditional security will be in place for Jan. 6, 2025 certification of...
A protester holds a Trump flag inside the U.S .Capitol Building near the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol Police are welcoming...
View ArticleTrump, Harris campaigns move quickly past apparent assassination attempt on...
The South Portico of the White House is seen Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)WASHINGTON — The presidential campaigns are rushing ahead this week without missing a...
View ArticleGovernment shutdown deadline nearing as U.S. House stumbles on stopgap...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks back to his office following a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 11, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Congress has 12 days...
View ArticleNew stopgap bill in Congress would postpone shutdown deadline to December
The U.S. Capitol on Sept. 23, 2024. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Congress is on track to approve legislation this week that will give lawmakers until mid-December to broker agreement on...
View ArticleCongress poised to race out of D.C. after dodging shutdown
The U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government running...
View ArticlePostal chief insists to Congress that mail-in ballots will get delivered in time
Chaffee County ballot envelopes for the November 2023 election are stacked in the county clerk's election office. (Mike Sweeney for Colorado Newsline)WASHINGTON — United States Postal Service...
View ArticleBiden pledges federal help for states in the Southeast stricken by...
Men on a four wheeler pass a storm damaged house along Mill Creek in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 30, 2024 in Old Fort, North Carolina. According to reports, more than 100 people have...
View ArticleHundreds missing in Southeast states after Hurricane Helene, federal...
Ron Grindstaff, right, comforts his wife, Marie, as they remove belongings from their home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 30, 2024 in Old Fort, North Carolina. According to reports, at...
View ArticleTim Walz and J.D. Vance tangle in wonky, largely cordial vice presidential...
The Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speak after their debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on...
View ArticleSpecial counsel Jack Smith reveals new evidence against Trump in 2020...
Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Justice Department on Aug. 1, 2023 in...
View ArticleCongress left D.C. with little done. They’ll be back Nov. 12 to give it...
Congress is in recess in the leadup to Election Day, but will return afterward for a lame-duck session. Pictured is the U.S. Capitol on March 14, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States...
View ArticleCDC conducting extensive probe into bird flu contracted by Missouri resident
A case of bird flu in a Missouri resident is the only diagnosis in the United States this year where the person did not have contact with infected dairy cattle or poultry. (Photo by Stephen...
View ArticleHarris on ‘60 Minutes’ says Congress would work with her as president if...
Vice President Kamala Harris was interviewed on the CBS news show “60 Minutes” that aired Monday night. In this photo, she speaks at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th National Convention on...
View ArticleFEMA chief decries rumors, disinformation about hurricane recovery as worst ever
The Rocky Broad River flows into Lake Lure and overflows the town with debris from Chimney Rock, North Carolina after heavy rains from Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024, in Lake Lure, North Carolina....
View ArticleHarris in interview with Charlamagne Tha God urges disillusioned voters to...
The Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, right, walks into the studio with Charlamagne Tha God before “We The People: An Audio Townhall With Kamala Harris and Charlamagne Tha...
View ArticleSocial Security and Medicare: Where do Harris and Trump stand?
How to address projected shortfalls for both the Social Security and Medicare trust funds will become an increasingly important topic for the president and Congress during the next decade. (Getty...
View ArticleLaw enforcement officials prepare for possible post-election violence in D.C.
Donald Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The threat of...
View ArticleMillions of Americans flock to early voting, in person and via mail
"I voted" stickers are seen at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library polling location in Denver on Jan. 25, 2024. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline) WASHINGTON — Nearly 30 million...
View ArticleWorries grow about disinformation, false claims and even violence as election...
Chris Schultz votes at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library polling location in Denver on Jan. 25, 2024. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline)WASHINGTON — A pro-democracy organization...
View ArticleRallying on the Ellipse, Harris calls on voters to reject Trump’s ‘chaos and...
Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks at a rally on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Democratic...
View ArticleWill control of Congress shift? The results hinge on a handful of states and...
The outcome of the struggle for control of both the House and Senate will have sweeping implications for the country’s future. Shown is the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 9, 2024. (Jane Norman/States...
View ArticleAs presidential campaign rockets toward end, 7 big things that happened this...
Maya Rudolph and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris appear on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 2, 2024 in New York City. With only days to go until Election Day, Vice...
View ArticleRepublicans take majority control of U.S. Senate after Ohio, West Virginia...
It could be days or even weeks before the nation learns which party controls the U.S. House and Senate. Shown is the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON —...
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