It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by Indigenous peoples for centuries.

But after nearly two years of trying, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians finally convinced the U.S. Board on Geographic Names on Sept. 18, 2024, to formally agree to rename the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains ...Read more

On the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has declared there are serious threats to the United States. First, he said, there is “the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous,” as he told Fox News in an Oct. 13, 2024, interview.

He went on to say ...Read more

The U.S. election next month will be a clash of visions that reverberates through the global economy for years to come.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in some cases have skirted how they will handle pivotal issues for major industries such as technology. Crucially, that includes how each candidate would proceed on antitrust efforts targeting ...Read more

In the final days of the presidential election, lies about noncitizens voting, the vulnerability of mail-in ballots and the security of voting machines are spreading widely over social media.

Fanned by former President Donald Trump and notable allies such as tech tycoon Elon Musk, election disinformation is warping voters’ faith in the ...Read more

Donald J. Trump is rightly being criticized for his threat that, if elected, he would deploy the National Guard and the military against “the enemy from within,” a term he has applied to political opponents such as Rep. Adam B. Schiff and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Trump’s defenders argue that his threat concerned only what House ...Read more

We're less than two weeks away from Election Day, and Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are sprinting from state to state in the race to the White House. However, increasing reports suggest Trump has been canceling some of his campaign events, with some critics attributing the decisions to fatigue and concerns about ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Democrats running in California's six fiercely competitive congressional districts, seats that may determine the balance of power in Washington, are aligning themselves with their Republican rivals in support of a tough-on-crime ballot measure that voters will decide in the November election.

That unity indicates the political ...Read more

The Central Park Five, whose harrowing ordeal is known to most, are suing Donald Trump for claiming, during his debate with Kamala Harris, that they had pleaded guilty to the 1989 rape of a white jogger in the park, who Trump also claimed, falsely, had died.

Boys at the time, they at first confessed and then recanted. The subject came up ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump predicted that Nevada will flip for him, which would mark the first time the Silver State elected a Republican for president since 2004.

“With your help, 12 days from now, we are going to win Nevada,” he told a large and enthusiastic crowd at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center.

Trump encouraged his ...Read more

Presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in battleground states on Thursday, urging voters to cast their ballots in a tight election that is less than two weeks away.

The Demoratic nominee appeared for the first time publicly with former President Obama, who has been hitting the campaign trail on her behalf and urging ...Read more

A majority of voters lack confidence the U.S. Supreme Court would be politically neutral in resolving potential legal challenges around the 2024 presidential election, a survey from Pew Research Center found.

Only 20% of registered voters polled are highly confident the court can be unbiased, but they’re split on party lines — with 34% of ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Ahead of a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s campaign encouraged supporters to bring their completed mail ballots to be transferred to a polling site, signaling a shift in Republican get-out-the-vote messaging.

A recent text message sent out to voters from the Trump campaign read, “NEVADA: Ballots...Read more

Presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in battleground states on Thursday, urging voters to cast their ballots in a razor-wire-tight election that is less than two weeks away.

Trump, who has been skeptical of early voting and mail ballots in particular, urged supporters to vote by mail, in person early or on Election Day,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general has begun an audit of Israel’s “proper use, storage and physical security” of American armaments, including missiles, drones and night vision devices.

The audit will be conducted under the Pentagon’s enhanced monitoring process of “accounting for sensitive defense articles” provided...Read more

WASHINGTON — Middle class Social Security recipients can pay income tax on huge chunks of their monthly benefit. Donald Trump wants to eliminate that tax.

But doing so could dramatically reduce how much recipients will get in benefits in a few years. Currently, 6.3 million Californians get benefits from Social Security programs.

Trump posted...Read more

The Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force released a statement Thursday giving updates on four men in different states accused of harassing election officials as Nov. 5 nears.

Teak Brockbank, 45, from Colorado, pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening two election officials, a judge and federal law enforcement agents between ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Bucks County Board of Elections has asked state and federal law enforcement to investigate a fake video that circulated on social media Wednesday afternoon falsely suggesting county election workers were destroying ballots.

In a joint statement members of the board slammed the fake video as a dangerous spread of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators are facing what could be a major shake-up in subcommittee leadership after the upcoming elections, particularly in control over the largest slice of annual discretionary spending: defense.

Current Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., is in a perilous position in his ...Read more