On the eve of Tuesday’s presidential debate, former President Donald Trump is the election betting favorite again over Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump is a -130 favorite at BetOnline to win the election over Harris, the +110 underdog.

Harris was a slight +100 favorite over Trump after the Democratic National Convention ended Aug. 22. But...Read more

Former President — and presidential hopeful — Donald Trump is scheduled to return to the Bay Area for a fundraiser on Friday, Sept. 13.

The San Francisco Republican Party promoted the event on its website but provided few details, noting only that it will take place beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Woodside, a bucolic wealthy town on the ...Read more

China hawks in the U.S. House overcame a last-ditch lobbying effort and passed legislation Monday night that would blacklist Chinese biotech companies and their U.S. subsidiaries.

The bill, approved by a vote of 306 to 81, now goes to the Senate.

At stake, the bill’s backers argued, is whether China will dominate another field the U.S. ...Read more

Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will make campaign stops in Las Vegas on Monday and Tuesday ahead of the presidential debate, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will stump for the campaign in Nevada after the debate on Tuesday.

Walz will touch down in Las Vegas on Monday evening and deliver remarks at a campaign stop Tuesday ...Read more

House Republicans are using this month’s government funding showdown to spotlight an immigration issue that can fuel their criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic lawmakers ahead of the November elections.

In a draft measure released Friday to keep the government funded after Sept. 30, the House included the text of another ...Read more

Justice Samuel Alito is the only U.S. Supreme Court member with a stake in more than two dozen individual companies, a distinction that threatens to sideline him from major business cases.

Alito or his wife own tens of thousands of dollars of stock in companies including Raytheon Co., ConocoPhillips and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The ...Read more

The White Stripes are suing former President Donald Trump and his campaign for unlawfully using audio from their hit song, "Seven Nation Army," in a video posted on social media.

Jack White and Meg White, as the White Stripes, sued Trump, his campaign and his deputy director of communications Margo McAtee Martin Monday in the U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The debate schedule in Pennsylvania's pivotal U.S. Senate race continues to take shape, with both Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick now on board for at least a pair of debates next month in Harrisburg and Philadelphia.

A third debate in Pittsburgh remains in the works, with the candidates having accepted ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who was killed on the Ma and Pa Heritage Trail last year, is scheduled to testify before Congress on Tuesday on the topic of immigration policy, according to the family’s attorney.

Patty Morin is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing titled: “The Biden-Harris ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were going through final preparations Monday for the first — and maybe only — debate of their neck-and-neck race for the White House.

With just hours to go before they meet in person for the first time in the high-stakes clash, neither Harris nor Trump had any public appearances...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the use of his election police to question people who signed petitions for an amendment that would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban, saying it’s part of an investigation that has already uncovered fraud.

“They’re doing what they’re supposed to do,” DeSantis said when asked during a news ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Keystone State will be awash in presidential candidates this week.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is departing Pittsburgh this afternoon after days of preparing for Tuesday's debate and heading for Philadelphia, where the event will be held Tuesday evening. Former President Donald Trump, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Joppatowne High School shooting that left one child dead has reignited debate over whether a law requiring that children in custody consult with an attorney before being interrogated hinders police investigations.

“The 16-year-old who committed this crime, he’s going to live his life, he’s being charged as an adult, he�...Read more

It is easy to get distracted by the barbs, swipes and bluster of the ongoing and very public spat between the world’s richest man and a fierce justice on Brazil’s highest court. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posts regularly of his contempt for Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes – a man Musk has labeled a “dictator” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are using this month’s government funding showdown to spotlight an immigration issue that can fuel their criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic lawmakers ahead of the November elections.

In a draft measure released Friday to keep the government funded after Sept. 30, the House included the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Philadelphia is in the center of the action once again as the city gears up to play host to the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

The ABC-organized and televised event will take place Tuesday at the National Constitution Center near Independence Mall. For those ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will be face-to-face for the first time Tuesday night as they debate, aiming to keep the other out of the Oval Office.

Harris closed the polling gap on Trump after her surprise ascension to the Democratic nomination, but she still trails in some polls. She will have a chance to change that when the ...Read more

Even though debates have been some of the most eagerly anticipated events in presidential campaigns, audiences and candidates have long wondered whether they matter.

The political history collections at the National Museum of American History, where I am a curator specializing in the history of presidential campaigns and campaign ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The spotlight aimed at Pennsylvania is going to need a new bulb soon.

Tuesday's debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at 9 p.m. at the National Constitution Center will become the latest high-stakes moment in an unprecedented presidential campaign playing out in Pennsylvania.

The impact ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is downplaying the fact that, if elected, she’ll be the first woman president. On the other hand, her opponent, Donald Trump, has tried repeatedly reminding voters of this fact by leveling gendered insults at her.

Both campaigns are probably taking these approaches for the same reason: Hillary Clinton ...Read more