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Donald Trump has pulled off an astounding political comeback and regained the White House as he's declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. He becomes the first president in ...

Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright on the closing messages from Harris and Trump NPR’s Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including ...

Given that, what better way to distract yourself from the doomscrolling than by binge-watching a political TV show, offering a dive into a fictional universe. From the romanticism of Aaron Sorkin ...

If you just ignore the political news and Wall Street, Elon Musk had an incredible week. His company SpaceX pulled off an engineering marvel on Sunday when it launched the largest, most powerful r ...

Donald Trump has completed a paradigm-shattering political comeback, winning the White House in an election shaped more by Americans’ dissatisfaction with the direction of the country than by ...

While the greatest political story of our lifetimes may be playing out in the 2024 presidential contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, there was a time ...

Dubbed the “election of a generation,” the 2024 presidential race and its result may very well be adapted for the screen — it feels stranger than fiction, like a TV plot come to life. As ...

Now, in the final weeks of the campaign, researchers have just published new findings about the social lives of people who are likely to endorse using political violence, and be willing to use it ...

Are you considering a vote for Donald Trump because you’re bad or because you’re stupid? That’s the question the Democratic Party wants to put to wavering voters in the final few weeks of ...

More than one-quarter of college applicants have ruled out a school solely because of the political climate in its state, a new survey finds. And those concerns span the political spectrum.

Maryland’s competitive race between Republican Larry Hogan and Democratic Angela Alsobrooks has cost at least six times more than the state’s last contest for an open seat. The settlement ...