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Donald Trump’s attacks on the justice system after his indictment on federal charges this week are the latest step in a now eight-year campaign by the former president and his allies against the traditions and institutions that have helped maintain American democracy

Joe Biden opened his 2020 presidential run at a Pittsburgh union hall

All eyes are on a secretive Senate committee that is drafting rules for an impeachment trial. Those rules are expected to be presented to the Texas Senate on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s deal with congressional Republicans staved off a federal default crisis for another two years — but also evaporated hopes for now of ending debt ceiling battles once and for all, legal experts and White House allies say.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, the newest candidate in the Republican presidential field, is drawing some distinctions between himself and his rivals, suggesting that the six-week abortion ban signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is too severe and showing an openness to changing the country’s immigration system

Secession talks emerge in one Northern California county. Is a new state a possibility?

Los Angeles should add more city council members, create two new independent redistricting commissions and better enforce ethics rules, a panel of academics tasked with proposing reforms for the scandal-plagued city government said Thursday

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit Charlotte, North Carolina, next week to mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a 1973 landmark case that federally protected abortion rights, White House officials told McClatchy on Thursday.

"Progressive populists make tangible economic offers...Kennedy is not actually proposing any of this," Klein wrote