NEW YORK — It was a political joust with a healthy side of Midwest nice. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) shook hands twice Tuesday before the only vice-presidential debate of the cycle, exchanging broad smiles before repeatedly paying each other respect as they launched sustained and biting attacks on each […]Read More

Tehran will face “severe consequences” for its large-scale missile attack on Israel Tuesday, the White House said, after the United States employed military force to help defend its closest Middle Eastern ally from Iranian fire for the second time in five months. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles […]Read More

A former congressional candidate in Florida has been charged after allegedly threatening to send “the Russian mafia” after his opponent. William Robert Braddock III, 41, was charged Thursday in federal court with threatening now-Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R). Braddock and Luna were rivals during the 2021 Republican primary election for Florida’s 13th Congressional District, which […]Read More

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