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.
When House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted to President Donald Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans' tax breaks and spending bill, it was a memorable moment at the White House.
After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and President Donald Trump have shared a hug as he arrived in her home state.
One of the few remaining Republicans in Congress to openly clash with President Donald Trump has a book out this summer.
Conservatives who have spent decades promoting deep cuts to government are giving mixed reviews to the Department of Government Efficiency, the Elon Musk-led project to slash the federal workforce and reduce or end disfavored programs.
President Donald Trump says at a private religious group's Washington prayer breakfast he's forming a commission on religious liberty.
In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski had openly challenged or rebuked him at least three times.
President-elect Donald Trump has picked longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as an envoy for special missions.
Sen. Mitt Romney has given his final remarks after seeing the Republican Party for which he was once the standard bearer drastically transform under Donald Trump.
For a man who loves the spotlight, Donald Trump has been conspicuously out of view since his triumph in last week’s presidential election.
On a desolate slab of island tundra on Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a resident of a tiny village called Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president.
The Republican and Democratic candidates vying for Mitt Romney’s open U.S. Senate seat are aiming to convince Utah voters that they have the better blueprint to tackle climate change and protect the state’s vast natural resources.
Two decades ago, a Democratic nominee for president might not have dreamed of endorsing gay marriage.
A few months ago, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was one of the few prominent Republicans consistently keeping his distance from Donald Trump.
More than 200 staffers for four previous Republican presidential nominees have endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris' White House bid.
One thing has been missing from Kamala Harris' sudden rise as the Democratic choice for president against Donald Trump: contact with many reporters.
Above all, Joe Biden’s allies have wanted him to demonstrate strength and energy on the debate stage this week to help put to rest questions about the 81-year-old Democrat’s physical and mental acuity.
A pair of moderate Utah Republicans have won primary elections for U.S. Senate and governor over far-right candidates who are loyalists to former President Donald Trump, the latest example of how Utah is a rare Republican state that doesn’t fully embrace Trump’s stranglehold on the GOP.
The Utah Republican Party has selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate, hours after the local official received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
Speaker Mike Johnson will not send the House’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week as previously planned.
Joe Lieberman served as No Labels' chief defender when the critics got the loudest.
Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee.
Donald Trump’s claim that he once told a NATO ally that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to “delinquent” members of the group sent shockwaves through Europe over the weekend.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed the possibility of stepping down during a private meeting with former President Donald Trump.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Donald Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado, where that state’s highest court ruled that he violated a constitutional provision targeting those who “engaged in insurrection.”.
A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation’s soaring debt and make policy recommendations to Congress has won approval from a House committee.
A congressman and a senator’s son have jumped into the race for the Utah U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney.
Donald Trump is pushing his supporters to deliver a blowout win in next month's Iowa caucuses.
For President Joe Biden, a centerpiece of his reelection campaign is trying to negatively define Donald Trump in the public's eye.
Democratic operatives believe that Joe Manchin’s decision not to seek reelection virtually ensures the party will lose his Senate seat in deep-red West Virginia next year.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia says he won’t seek reelection in 2024, giving Republicans a prime opportunity to gain a seat in the heavily GOP state.
The Senate has voted to reverse an informal guidance issued by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last week that senators could wear what they want when voting or speaking in the chamber.
Republican Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson has formally announced that he's running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney.
Several of Donald Trump’s rivals stepped up their attacks against him in the second Republican presidential debate.
Democrats and Republicans are maneuvering to win over young voters before next year's presidential election.
Mitt Romney’s decision not to run for another Senate term has a distant echo of his father’s departure from politics five decades ago.
As the six-month sprint to the Iowa caucuses begins, the sprawling field of Republican presidential candidates is facing growing pressure to prove they can emerge as serious challengers to former President Donald Trump.
Republican senators says the Biden administration is taking $39 billion in federal money that's meant to build computer chip factories and using it to further “woke” ideas such as requiring some recipients to offer child care and encouraging the use of union labor.
The Republican National Committee is set to resolve a bitter leadership feud that is exposing dangerous divisions within a party that has struggled to move past a disappointing midterm ahead of a critical race for the White House.
The Republican National Committee is currently consumed by an increasingly nasty leadership fight as the GOP navigates election losses and its delicate relationship with Donald Trump.
The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, putting Congress one step closer to ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.
Former President Donald Trump has launched another run for the presidency, promising supporters he will “make America great and glorious again.”.
Former President Barack Obama has returned to the campaign trail in Georgia, framing the 2022 midterm elections as a referendum on democracy and urging voters not to see Republicans as an answer to their economic woes.
A former state representative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Geoff Diehl, has won the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor over a businessman, Chris Doughty, who was considered the more moderate candidate in the race.
A federal judge has convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to convict a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of storming the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
A police officer lauded for his bravery during the U.S. Capitol riot has publicly testified for the first time about his confrontation with a mob that chased him up a staircase.
Even the staunchest defense hawks in the Republican Party stood virtually united by Donald Trump’s side when the then-president was impeached in late 2019 after pressuring Ukraine’s leader for “a favor” and withholding $400 million in military aid.
A group opposing Donald Trump’s endorsement of JD Vance in Ohio’s contentious Republican Senate primary is making the former president the target of a new ad campaign.
Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, the chamber filled with the swell of history.
The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says judges are not deciding cases to impose a “policy result,” but are making their best effort to determine what the law and the Constitution require.
