Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck in the race for the White House, according to new nationwide polling.

The latest New York Times/Siena Poll, conducted after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday, shows Harris trailing Trump by only a single percentage point among likely voters ...Read more

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called in to Fox News Thursday, where he told supporters that presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a “radical left, not very smart person” who’s part of a massive conspiracy to weaponize the nation’s legal system against him.

Harris’ campaign fired back mere minutes later with ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday asked a judge to uphold Donald Trump’s conviction for falsifying records in a hush money scheme to hide claims that he cheated on his wife with Stormy Daniels from voters — arguing the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling has “nothing to say” to say about the case despite what ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Now that the presidential race has turned to the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the candidates are emphasizing stark differences between each other.

Each is trying to paint the other as extreme, with Trump blasting Harris as a “radical left lunatic,” and Harris charging Sunday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The end of July is always a whirlwind of activity in Congress. It’s the last chance to pass bills and hold hearings before the August recess, so the calendar gets jam-packed. This week was no different, with the House voting on spending bills late into the night — sometimes to no avail, as GOP unity frayed.

And on Thursday, ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump entered a new phase of the presidential race on the morning after an Oval Office speech in which President Joe Biden bowed out — each taking new aim at the other as they sprint toward November.

During a Thursday morning conversation on the Republican-friendly "Fox and Friends," ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Josh Shapiro and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris at an event in Pennsylvania on Monday.

It will be the first time Shapiro, who is widely considered to be on Harris' shortlist of running mates, has campaigned for Harris since President Joe Biden exited the race and she became ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed President Joe Biden’s speech explaining his decision to bow out of the presidential election and hand the baton to Kamala Harris, branding the Democratic candidate switch as a “coup.”

Hours after Biden delivered his 11-minute speech from the Oval Office Wednesday night, Trump derided the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris is set to hold a campaign event in Atlanta on Tuesday, her first public appearance in Georgia since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Democratic leaders swiftly made her the party’s de facto nominee.

The details of the July 30 event will soon be released, according to an official familiar...Read more

WASHINGTON — Big corporations and upper-income households could soon be “feeling the Bern,” as unabashed progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Wednesday hinted at throwing his hat in the ring for the soon-to-be-open Senate Finance Committee seat.

Sanders, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, is a vocal critic of Wall ...Read more

The 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act has garnered little fanfare. Only a handful of news articles and events have commemorated the centennial of the law giving U.S. citizenship to Native Americans.

Perhaps that’s unsurprising. The legislation has little relevance to most American citizens, and many Native Americans ...Read more

Vice presidential picks can’t help a presidential candidate, but they can hurt one, according to political scientists. Presidential campaigns still spend a fair amount of time thinking about running mates and the ways in which they might boost the ticket – or at least not hurt it.

Who will Vice President Kamala Harris pick as her ...Read more

In the days since the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, supporters of the former president have used the incident to project an image of power.

T-shirts of a bloodied Trump with his fist clenched were on sale at the Republican National Convention, where Trump – his ear bandaged – recounted his ordeal.

Of course, ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In a few rare instances, Idaho allows patients to pursue abortions and override the state’s ban on the procedure, one of the most restrictive in the country. Those exceptions include reported cases of rape and incest.

But one major barrier could make that a difficult, if not impossible, reality for survivors: denial of their ...Read more

Oil companies are worried that federal incentives and the growing popularity of electric vehicles will eat into their profits and threaten their stranglehold over energy consumption. Former President Donald Trump and other Republican politicians want to exploit consumer and autoworker anxieties about the transition to zero-emission vehicles to ...Read more

Kansas won’t require abortion providers to survey women about why they’re seeking an abortion as a lawsuit against the new rules plays out in court.

Lawyers for the abortion providers and Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach reached an agreement in recent days to hold off on enforcing the survey requirement until a final judgment in the ...Read more

President Joe Biden’s decision to pull out of the race on Sunday afternoon shocked the country. A day earlier, the president was talking as if his campaign was full steam ahead. His change of heart left even some of his closest advisers in the White House bewildered.

Much will be written in the next several days about why Biden bowed out. But...Read more

Donald Trump’s threat to ban Mexican-made cars is a bluff that “isn’t serious,” according to the nation’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Trump’s proposal won’t happen, since such a move would significantly raise prices for U.S. drivers, Lopez Obrador told reporters.

“A car imported from Mexico represents savings to a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Fox News is proposing a new debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris that would take place in Pennsylvania on Sept. 17 if the two candidates agree to participate, according to letters sent to both campaigns obtained by The Inquirer.

“We are open to discussion on the exact ...Read more