As the two presidential candidates entered the debate stage, Kamala Harris strode across it and offered her hand to Donald Trump to shake, setting a confident tone that didn’t flag throughout the debate.

Trump, appearing to grow angrier through the night, stuck to his well-trodden themes of American decline and reminded viewers that...Read more

Tuesday night’s debate was another major milestone in a historic American election year that has already seen the sitting president of the United States announce he won’t seek reelection, and the former president hit with a conviction for 34 felonies, and then survive an assassination attempt.

Tens of millions of voters watched the high-...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Harris went on the offensive from the beginning of the night, casting the former president as the extreme candidate and baiting him by talking about issues known to irk him.

The most highly anticipated 90 minutes of the presidential campaign are over and the mics are off — for good.

Here’s what stood out from the debate ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump repeated claims during Tuesday's debate that crime is "through the roof" and that much of it is being caused by immigrants. Data suggest both claims are incorrect.

Asked about his proposal for "the largest deportation operation" in the nation's history to remove millions of people in the U.S. without documentation,...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed her presidential rival Donald Trump for not protecting American interests against China, and criticized his public praise for Chinese leader Xi Jinping during the global pandemic.

“Under Donald Trump’s presidency, he ended up selling American chips to China to help them improve and modernize their ...Read more

Democrat Kamala Harris opened her presidential debate with Republican Donald Trump by touting her economic agenda, saying she was the only candidate on stage with a plan focused on “lifting up the middle class and working people of America.”

Harris addressed one of her biggest electoral vulnerabilities, high prices and costs that have ...Read more

It was a topic that seemed destined for a full-throated argument during Tuesday night’s debate: race.

Moderator David Muir asked Donald Trump about his controversial comments about Vice President Kamala Harris in July, when he said at a National Association of Black Journalists convention that he did not “know she was Black until a number ...Read more

Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump sparred through their first debate, with the former president often on the defensive over abortion rights, the Jan. 6 insurrection and on foreign policy.

The debate saw Harris draw from her past to a prosecutor, peppering in lines that appeared designed to needle Trump, including by taunting ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump's schedules will pick back up in earnest following Tuesday's debate in Philadelphia, with both campaigns making several stops in battleground states around the country this week.

On Wednesday, both Harris and Trump are slated to attend remembrances of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, ...Read more

Fred Trump III, the nephew of Donald Trump, said the pugnacious Republican is going “absolutely insane” as Vice President Kamala Harris continues to rise in the polls.

Fred, who has openly endorsed the VP for president, told People magazine on Tuesday that his uncle will continue to lash out as he gets more upset.

“It’s ‘win at all ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump now leads Vice President Kamala Harris by 3 points among independents, marking a dramatic shift from one month ago, according to new polling.

In the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, 49% of independent respondents said they are supporting or leaning toward Trump, while 46% said the same for Harris. Three percent ...Read more

Abortion quickly emerged as a flashpoint in the first presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Republican falsely arguing that Democrats' support killing babies after birth and the Democrat saying Trump can't be trusted because of his dizzying statements on the matter.

"It's an execution," Trump ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphians have always known that our city is the center of the universe. For Tuesday and the next 55 days, so will everyone else.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met Tuesday night for a debate that was so historic and potentially pivotal that it's nearly impossible to fit into one sentence ...Read more

Less than a week after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four people dead, former President Donald Trump’s campaign is holding one of its larger debate watch parties at a suburban Atlanta firearms outlet that bills itself as “The World’s Largest Gun Store.”

The Republican’s campaign said the decision to hold the event at ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is turning to a well-worn playbook, seizing on baseless claims that Haitian immigrants living in a southwestern Ohio city are abducting and eating local wildlife and their neighbors’ pets, to stoke fears over migrants living in the United States.

On Monday, an official social media account of Trump�...Read more

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo testified before adversarial members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Tuesday afternoon.

The heated discussion revolved around the former governor’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, largely regarding nursing home-related deaths at the beginning of the outbreak.

Subcommittee ...Read more

The Walt Disney Co.'s proposal for a partial, temporary detente as the blackout of its channels on DirecTV and U-Verse stretches into its 10th day has devolved into another round of bickering.

Early Tuesday, Disney offered to restore the ABC network to DirecTV, U-Verse and DirecTV Stream customers for tonight's highly anticipated debate between...Read more

Missouri voters will decide on Nov. 5 whether to overturn the state’s abortion ban after the state Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared away a final effort by anti-abortion activists to block a vote on a landmark proposal enshrining a right to abortion in the state constitution.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the proposed amendment to the ...Read more

An attorney for a campaign to overturn Missouri’s near-total abortion ban told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday that the amendment should stay on the Nov. 5 ballot, arguing against a Cole County judge’s ruling.

The court is weighing whether to remove the amendment, called Amendment 3, from the ballot, a major decision that will decide ...Read more

With less than two months to go before November’s elections, Republicans on the House Administration Committee are keeping up a drumbeat: Are we ready?

That’s what they plan to ask six secretaries of state at a hearing Wednesday, including those from the battleground states of Arizona and Michigan.

Since Chairman Bryan Steil took the reins...Read more