We’re now in the final full month of the 2024 campaign, and that means politicians and their allies are frantically seeking votes for their side. And for one side, in particular, that means an increasing onslaught of wild claims, conspiracy theories and outright falsehoods. That side, of course, is Donald Trump’s. The president who set […]Read More

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) will face off Tuesday night at a CBS News vice-presidential debate in New York. Virtually every poll suggests they go into it from very different political places. Walz is modestly popular, and Vance is quite unpopular. That’s been the case for weeks. But that’s not […]Read More

Hurricane Helene is gone, fragmented into large cloud formations over the Eastern United States that folded into the rest of the country’s weather. But many Americans are still dealing with the devastation Helene carried with it, especially portions of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida declared disaster zones. At least 125 deaths have been confirmed as […]Read More

When right-wing conspiracy theorist David DePape broke into the house of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in San Francisco, beating her husband, Paul, with a hammer as part of a deranged effort to undermine the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the initial response from the political right was dismissive. Conspiracy theories abounded, many […]Read More

Hurricane Helene’s destructive path across western North Carolina threatens to upend the fall election in the key battleground, with halted mail service disrupting absentee voting, thousands of voters cut off from polling locations and election administrators scrambling to adjust. Even as emergency response teams continued their search for survivors of the devastating storm and airlifted […]Read More

Less than two weeks into his presidency, Jimmy Carter sat before a crackling fire in a cardigan sweater and asked Americans to make sacrifices in the face of natural gas shortages and a brutally cold winter. The speech would be ridiculed and mischaracterized for nearly half a century. To this day, Republicans invoke it as […]Read More

Tim Walz, who became Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick partially on the strength of a viral, unscripted cable-news appearance in which he called Donald Trump and JD Vance “weird,” is a surprisingly bubble-wrapped campaigner. The Minnesota governor rarely interacts directly with undecided voters within view of the press. Instead,much of his independent travel involves thanking and […]Read More

The first and only vice-presidential debate is Tuesday. Republican nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) and Democratic nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off in person, and it could be the last debate before the election. Vice-presidential candidates can make a difference in tight races, said Joel Goldstein, a vice-presidential scholar at St. Louis University. […]Read More

PLAINS, Ga. — Signs that read “Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President!” dot lawns. The local general store is stocking up on its famous peanut butter ice cream. And the population of this tiny southwestern Georgia town is expected to double for a day. Jimmy Carter turns 100 Tuesday, and his hometown is pulling out all […]Read More

North Carolina voters are closely divided in the choice between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a Washington Post poll, with no sign that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s scandal-plagued campaign for governor has diminished Republican enthusiasm for the former president. Ahead of Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, the poll finds that 50 percent of […]Read More