The job of videotape editors was once one of the least-noticed in the media world.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to bring a billion-dollar lawsuit against the BBC has cast a shadow over the British broadcaster’s future, but it could also be a bluff with little legal merit.

Not every voter in Northern Virginia has felt the impact of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal government.

A day after Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the president is in Miami to speak at a forum of business leaders and global athletes about what he sees as his economic achievements.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s victory in California’s election fight over U.S. House control will help raise his national profile as a Democrat willing to confront President Donald Trump.

Dick Cheney leaves behind a mixed legacy in his home state of Wyoming.

The flags at the White House are lowered to half-staff in honor of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died Monday.

In Dick Cheney’s hands, the vice presidency became a nexus of influence and manipulation — no longer the timid office where its occupants had tended their boss’ ambitions.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill has been elected governor of New Jersey.

President Donald Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him assurances that Beijing would take no action toward its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with mainland China while the Republican leader is in office.

Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to use Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey to rebuke President Donald Trump and candidates loyal to him.

President Donald Trump is returning to “60 Minutes” for an interview for the first time after settling a lawsuit this summer over the newsmagazine's interview with rival Kamala Harris.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is focusing on economic concerns rather than bold promises and anti-Donald Trump rhetoric in her race for Virginia governor.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey faces more than a dozen challengers as the Democrat seeks a third term.

Texans will vote on a large menu of constitutional amendments Tuesday.

Virginia will elect its first woman as governor as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

New Jersey voters will decide a competitive race for governor Tuesday in a contest that will be viewed through the prism of national politics regardless of who wins.

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait is facing rejection by the Republican-controlled Senate.

Detroit voters will choose a new mayor Tuesday in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

California voters head to the polls on Tuesday with just one yes-or-no question on the ballot.

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November.

Maine voters will decide a pair of high-profile ballot measures addressing elections and gun violence in a statewide referendum election next week.

Cincinnati’s mayor seeks a second term against a challenger with notable family ties in a municipal election next week.

Former President Joe Biden is calling these “dark days.”.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a leading Democratic critic of President Donald Trump, says he'll consider running for the White House in 2028 after the midterm elections next year.

Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House.

A new poll shows President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory in the 2024 election.

New Jersey Republicans have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a county that is key to the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race between Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill.

Progressive groups are launching an effort to reconnect with Latino voters to regain support in places where President Donald Trump has made inroads.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's memoir is coming out in January.

A spokesperson for Joe Biden says the former Democratic president has completed several weeks of radiation therapy to treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

Jack Ciattarelli has been endorsed by Donald Trump in next month's New Jersey governor's election and is a strong supporter of the Republican president and his agenda.

The federal government shutdown is approaching the second longest on record and there's no end in sight.

Kamala Harris sounds like a party elder and a future candidate at the same time.

Barack Obama has endorsed Democratic candidates Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.

Republican leaders in North Carolina have proposed a new U.S. House district map that could thwart reelection prospects of a Democratic incumbent in the state's only swing seat.

An unprecedented number of states are considering redrawing their congressional district lines mid-decade.

Billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker had some extra income in 2024 — from a lucky blackjack hand in a Las Vegas casino.

The Department of Energy says it has finalized a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a subsidiary of one of the nation’s largest power companies to upgrade nearly 5,000 miles of transmission lines across five states, mostly in the Midwest, for largely fossil fuel-run energy.

Democrat Jackie Norris has ended her campaign for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat.

President Donald Trump has posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot last month while speaking at Utah Valley University.

The New England governor who told President Donald Trump to his face she'd see him in court now plans to challenge Maine’s Republican Sen. Susan Collins at the ballot box.

Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago.

Former President Joe Biden's treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer has entered a new phase.

Katie Porter is fighting back.

Senate Republicans have voted to roll back restrictions on mining and drilling in federal land in three Western states.

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny’s music catalog has seen a jump in streams since his 2026 Super Bowl halftime performance was announced last week.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli have repeatedly clashed during their second and final debate in the closely watched race for New Jersey governor.

Political leaders in Washington are spending much of their energy these days blaming the other party for what could be a significant government shutdown.

U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade.

President Donald Trump is using the federal shutdown to push deep spending cuts in states that backed Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024.

Hamas responded Friday to President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, agreeing to give up power and release all remaining hostages, but the group said that other elements require further consultations among Palestinians.

More than a dozen candidates will compete for their parties’ nominations Tuesday to fill a vacant Tennessee congressional seat in the closely divided U.S. House.

President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion intended for clean energy projects across 16 states.

Bad Bunny captivated audiences with his residency in Puerto Rico, inspiring patriotism and drawing half a million people to the island this summer.

New Jersey's contest for governor is seeing some groups that traditionally support Democrats, like union and Black leaders, raising concerns about prospects in November.

Bad Bunny has been chosen to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, marking a significant moment for Latin identity on a major stage.

President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his perceived political enemies has reached new heights as his Justice Department brings criminal charges against a longtime foe and he expands his efforts to classify certain liberal groups as “domestic terrorist organizations."

President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with U.S. news organizations over his time in office has led to a host of legal battles and disputes.

In an excerpt of former Vice President Kamala Harris's new book, she says she would have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year but America wasn’t ready for the pairing.

Charlie Kirk began plotting a way to mold young minds into conservatism at an age when he was still sorting out his own path.

Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster and ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed.

Ex-Vice President Kamala Harris says it was reckless for Democrats to let President Joe Biden decide whether to seek reelection last year.

Missouri's Republican-led House has passed a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump.

CBS News has appointed an ombudsman to investigate consumer complaints, although Kenneth Weinstein's background and duties are different from the way the job has traditionally been defined in journalism.

President Donald Trump celebrated news that an alumni group from West Point canceled an award ceremony set to honor Tom Hanks.

CBS says it will no longer allow editing of newsmaker interviews on its Sunday morning show “Face the Nation.”.

Voters in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington will choose a replacement Tuesday for the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, who died in May after battling cancer.

Joseph McNeil, a key figure in the civil rights movement, has died at 83.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has secured a third term following a tight race on an island shaken by corruption, inequity and economic concerns.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mayor Paige Cognetti is announcing a bid for Congress.

President Donald Trump has revoked former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection that otherwise would've ended next summer.

In a letter sent to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, President Donald Trump said he wouldn't be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid — effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch.

Utah is the latest state at the center of a national redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Jonathan Karp, CEO of Simon & Schuster, is stepping down to lead a new imprint at the publisher.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other top Democrats are warning President Donald Trump to stay out of the cities they run.

Lisa Cook made headlines three years ago when she became the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.

Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016.

Fall is the time for publishers to release their most anticipated literary fiction, and this season will feature new books from Thomas Pynchon, Kiran Desai and Ian McEwan among others.

The upcoming literary season features long-awaited works from big names like Thomas Pynchon, Angela Flournoy and Kiran Desai.

President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.

The Trump administration’s announcement this week that it would rescind the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials was hardly an isolated act.

North Carolina farmer Jamie Ager is part of a new crop of Democratic candidates the party is turning to as it tries to compete in the tough, often rural districts it may need to flip to retake the U.S. House in 2026.

Pennsylvania’s two-term elected state Treasurer Stacy Garrity will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reelection bid in 2026.

Lady Gaga will take the stage at this year's MTV Video Music Awards stage.

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is in his fifth decade in Congress and the veteran Democrat is showing no inclination to step aside.

At the core of the fight in Texas over redrawing the state’s congressional districts is a debate over a time-honored right spelled out in the Constitution: Every two years, “the People” get to pick someone to represent their interests in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Skydance and Paramount officially closed their $8 billion merger on Thursday — kicking off the reign of a new entertainment giant after a contentious, over year-long endeavor to get the transaction over the finish line.

A new poll finds young people in the United States are less engaged in politics than older generations are.

Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Trump's second presidency.

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it.

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony and that positive numbers reported before the 2024 election were manipulated to make him look bad.

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have left Texas in an attempt to block the adoption of redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has criticized radio host Charlamagne Tha God, saying that the broadcaster "knows nothing about me or what I have done."

Democrats are arguing that a Republican plan for redrawing districts in Texas to create more winnable U.S. House seats for the GOP is an attack on Black and Hispanic voters.

Detroit voters will take a key step toward choosing a new mayor in the municipal primary on Tuesday, when nine candidates will appear on the ballot in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper jumped into the race for that state’s newly open seat with a vow to address voters’ persistent concerns about making ends meet.

The race to become California’s next governor has kicked into a new gear.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has announced a new memoir called "107 Days," detailing her historic Democratic presidential run last year.