Former President Donald Trump in a speech to business leaders on Thursday called for the creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, a government-owned investment fund, to finance “great national endeavors.”

While offering few details, Trump said the fund would would yield a “gigantic profit” that could help “pay down the national debt�...Read more

Kamala Harris reportedly raised about $300 million for her presidential campaign in August, more than double Trump’s $130 million haul, an edge that suggests she will continue to enjoy a financial advantage in the last two months of the race.

The Democratic nominee has not released exact figures for the late summer windfall, but NBC News ...Read more

The expanding controversy over a State Election Board controlled by loyalists to former President Donald Trump is putting Gov. Brian Kemp and his Republican allies into exactly the position they hoped to avoid: a debate over the last election.

With two months until the November election, the three-member majority of the board is trying to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday said she would not consider the upcoming election as she sets a schedule for the criminal prosecution in Washington against Donald Trump, an approach that could allow prosecutors to make public more evidence related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris will arrive in Pittsburgh Thursday and is expected to stay in the city until Tuesday, when she will travel to Philadelphia to debate former President Donald Trump.

Harris is spending the weekend preparing in Pittsburgh to give her an opportunity to pop out for quick campaign appearances in a state that will be ...Read more

In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed her opponent, former President Donald Trump – not with scorn or outright condemnation but, as columnist Peter Nicholas put it, by taking a “cheekier tone.”

“In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man,” Harris said, ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday in the new and streamlined federal Jan. 6 election interference case that was filed after the Supreme Court granted him significant immunity.

U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan accepted the plea from Trump’s lawyers and suggested she plans to consider whether prosecutors can move ...Read more

Hunter Biden intends to change his plea in his federal tax case, his lawyer told a federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday just moments before jury selection was set to begin.

The second son of President Joe Biden has been accused of nine misdemeanor and felony offenses. Prosecutors say the 54-year-old failed to pay $1.4 million in federal ...Read more

Rep. Sharice Davids has won the endorsement of the Kansas Farm Bureau’s political arm, with the state’s most influential agricultural group coming to view the Kansas City-area Democrat as a reliable ally as Congress struggles to pass a farm bill.

The nod marks the first time the Kansas Farm Bureau’s political action committee - Voters ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump made an unfounded claim of a nation in peril at a pre-taped Fox News town hall in Harrisburg Wednesday, suggesting that "we're heading into World War III territory" unless he is elected because "everybody was afraid of Trump."

Trump fielded questions from Fox News anchor Sean Hannity at the New ...Read more

To laughter from some in his audience, a smiling President Vladimir Putin said he has made his choice in the U.S. presidential election.

Having previously favored a second term for Joe Biden, Putin said Russia now wants U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to win in November because she’d been endorsed by the incumbent Democrat.

“Biden was ...Read more

GRAYLING, Mich. — Clairene Jorella was furious.

In the northern stretches of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, the Crawford County Board of Canvassers had just opened its meeting to certify the August primary when Jorella, 83 years old and one of two Democrats on the panel, laid into her Republican counterparts.

Glaring, she said she was ...Read more

If reelected, former President Donald Trump, vows to carry out the “largest domestic deportation operation” in U.S. history and he claims that the Biden-Harris administration “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.”

It’s a ridiculous claim, as ...Read more

With flags and voting receipts in hand, thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets in Caracas and worldwide to protest Nicolás Maduro’s refusal to recognize his overwhelming defeat in the presidential election a month ago. The United States can do more to back them up.

The opposition party’s leader, María Corina Machado, recently ...Read more

It’s time for “safe state” voters to be more than nervous spectators and symbolic participants in presidential elections.

The latest poll averages confirm that the 2024 presidential election will again hinge on seven swing states. Just as in 2020, expect more than 95 percent of major party candidate campaign spending and events to focus ...Read more

Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump by nearly 30% among Latino voters nationwide, a poll revealed Wednesday — a significantly larger margin than other recent surveys.

The Democratic nominee has the backing of 59% of Latino voters compared to 32% for Trump, according to the poll of more than 3,000 voters carried out by Unidos, a ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Division of Elections to remove the name of an incarcerated man from the ballot for Alaska’s U.S. House seat.

Democratic candidate Eric Hafner is set to appear on the ballot despite being in the middle of a 20-year federal prison sentence for threatening ...Read more

Donald Trump said he plans to allow his opponent, Kamala Harris, to speak without interruption during their presidential debate next week, a shift for the reality-television-star-turned-politician who built a career on combative exchanges.

“I’m going to let her talk,” Trump said Wednesday at a taping of a town hall in Harrisburg, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The rules for next week’s presidential debate in Philadelphia are officially set after Vice President Kamala Harris’ and former President Donald Trump’s campaigns agreed to a list of guidelines that include muting candidates’ microphones when they are not speaking, debate host ABC News said Wednesday.

The battle between...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican nominee Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance are campaigning on a grab bag of tax cut proposals that could collectively cost as much as $10.5 trillion over a decade, a massive sum that would exceed the combined budgets of every domestic federal agency.

Even if Congress were to eliminate every dollar of nondefense ...Read more