This is the Democrats’ plan to solve their biggest long-term problem

For Democrats, few questions may be more consequential than whether they can recover ground among the Black and Hispanic ...

CNN’s guide to the most important elections of 2026

This year’s midterms will serve as a referendum on the first two years of President Donald Trump’s second term and will shape his final two years in office.

Fear of Trump’s wrath ripples through House GOP

President Donald Trump faced Republican defections on a series of split votes this week, but his willingness to call out ...

Hill liberals push for shutdown clash over ICE funding but face resistance in Democratic ranks

Congress’ most liberal Democrats are pushing for an all-out fight to rein in President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration ...

Trump’s iron grip on congressional Republicans is weakening

And in fact, CNN’s Annie Grayer reported Friday on how Trump’s threats after the Senate war powers vote actually dissuaded ...

Judge blocks Trump’s elections order in lawsuit by vote-by-mail states Oregon and Washington

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest ...

Campaigning under threat: How political violence is already shaping the next Democratic primary

After a year in which the assassinations of Charlie Kirk and former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman were just among ...

Noem says ‘domestic terrorism’ remark wasn’t a rush to judgment; DHS is sending ‘hundreds more’ officers to Minneapolis

Smith also cast doubt on the federal government’s ability to conduct a legitimate probe of the shooting, as administration officials blame rhetoric by Democrats for the violence. “I don’t see how we ...

Another violent death in Minneapolis lays bare the nation’s fractured politics

It took just a few seconds and a violent, unnecessary death to drag a snowy residential street in Minneapolis into America’s ...

The keys to understanding one of the most critical weeks for Venezuela — and why some citizens have mixed emotions

A lot of questions remain to be answered following the unprecedented US attack in Venezuela and everything that has happened ...

The political divide over January 6 is only deepening five years after the deadly US Capitol attack

Five years after the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the fundamental facts of that day continue to fuel deep ...

DC pipe bomb suspect pleads not guilty to federal charges

The Virginian man accused of planting two bombs in Washington, DC, five years ago pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of transporting and attempting to use explosives.