Politics

If she wins Delaware’s only House seat in November, the Democrat is poised to become the country’s first openly transgender member of Congress.

Congress is off for the campaign season. Now, lawmakers from one of the most chaotic and unproductive legislative sessions in modern times are trying to persuade voters to keep them on the job.

Vice President Kamala Harris is making her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.

The 90-minute debate will start at 9 p.m. ET on Oct. 1. It’s being moderated by “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Former President Donald Trump has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China and a 20% tariff on everything else the United States imports.

Former President Donald Trump recently reissued his loyalty test to religious Americans, declaring that he can best protect their freedoms while preemptively blaming some if he loses the presidential election in November.

The brief, submitted Thursday over the Trump team’s objections, is aimed at defending a revised and stripped-down indictment that prosecutors filed last month to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that conferred broad immunity on former presidents.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met face-to-face with Donald Trump on Friday with public tensions rising between the two over Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington, D.C., Thursday, months after he lost his law license in New York for pursuing false claims that then-President Donald Trump made about his 2020 presidential election loss.

A strange moment in American politics surfaced at the U.N. General Assembly, brought up by a top Haitian official.

A New York appeals court panel appeared receptive Thursday to potentially overturning or reducing a civil fraud judgment that stands to cost Donald Trump nearly $500 million.

As Jimmy Carter nears his 100th birthday this October 1st, he remains in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia. It’s where he wanted to be.

Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the Trump assassination attempts emphasized during their first hearing that the Secret Service, not local authorities, were responsible for failures in planning and communications.