PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump has one rally scheduled, but it's otherwise shaping up to be a low-key weekend for the former president and Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidates prepare for Tuesday's debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff will campaign for Harris in Pennsylvania Saturday ...Read more

NEW YORK — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was back in a New York courtroom Friday, appearing before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge a civil jury’s findings that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll and demand a new trial.

The Republican nominee, who was not required to attend, ambled into the 17th-...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump will not be sentenced in his Manhattan hush money case until after the November presidential election, a judge ruled on Friday.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he would rule on Trump’s outstanding motion to toss his conviction on Nov. 12.

He said Trump would be sentenced on Nov. 26 “if necessary....Read more

Foreign governments trying to tip the scales of American elections is nothing new, but the brazenness with which Russia and Iran are meddling in the 2024 presidential election is notable.

In a DOJ indictment, federal authorities announced charges and sanctions against Russian-government-linked operatives for interfering to boost Donald Trump, ...Read more

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp won’t soon have to face a decision on whether to remove members of Georgia’s State Election Board who are under fire for approving new rules that critics say are designed to favor former President Donald Trump.

That’s because Attorney General Chris Carr, a Kemp ally, declined to issue an advisory opinion Friday...Read more

Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an abortion. Fourteen states ban abortions in almost all circumstances, and another eight in almost all cases after 6 to 18 weeks of pregnancy.

Nonetheless, the number of abortions ...Read more

The public furor continues over Donald Trump’s behavior during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 26, 2024.

Since that visit to the U.S. military burial ground outside Washington, D.C., news reports and campaign photos have emerged showing the former president grinning widely and giving a “thumbs-up” gesture while ...Read more

When Barack Obama was elected president, the people of Moneygall in Ireland celebrated. Birthplace of Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather on his white mother’s side, the village commemorated the victory – and a later visit from the 44th president – with pints of Guinness and a kitschy trade in “O'Bama” memorabilia.

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Kamala Harris is now attacking Donald Trump for mourning with the families of fallen service members. Even in a heated political environment, that’s shameful.

Last week, former President Trump participated in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the 13 fallen heroes murdered in Afghanistan three years ago. A suicide bomber killed them as they ...Read more

A Missouri judge on Thursday struck down Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s official description of an abortion rights amendment that would have appeared at polling places across the state on Nov. 5.

Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker found that Ashcroft’s language summarizing the amendment, called Amendment 3, was unfair and ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump painted a dire picture of the effect of a Kamala Harris presidency on the future of Israel and the security of Jewish people in the United States as he courted Jewish Republicans on Thursday and urged them to convince their non-GOP friends to support him in the November election.

"Kamala Harris is the candidate of ...Read more

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