4 key political issues in Trump’s Manhattan case

We posted a special bonus episode on the trial Wednesday.) We’re now in the second day of extensive testimony in former president Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money/election-interference criminal ... Read More

Not a winning strategy: Four times House GOP all-or-nothing politics has cost them

In the 118th Congress, House Republicans have been riddled with party infighting and chaos since being sworn into office earlier in 2023. After 15 different votes to elect former Speaker of the House ... Read More

Trump leads in swing-state polls and is tied with Biden nationally

It's the moment you've all been waiting for: Today, 538 launched our interactive polling averages for the 2024 presidential general election. They show incumbent President Joe Biden and former ... Read More

Poll: Election interest hits new low in tight Biden-Trump race

NBC News' latest national poll shows Biden’s numbers inching up as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., inflation and abortion all scramble the 2024 contest. Read More

What we know about the protests erupting on college campuses across America

College campuses across the United States have erupted with pro-Palestinian protests, and school administrators are trying – and largely failing – to diffuse the situation. Read More

Biden Has All But Caught Up With Trump in Polls

Trump is maintaining a slightly larger lead (1.9 percent) in the national five-way polls that include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein, per RCP’s averages. RFK Jr. holds 10 percent ... Read More

Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money case, AP-NORC poll shows

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least ... Read More

Signs Suggest That Invasion of Rafah Is All but Inevitable

Israel says an assault on Gaza’s southernmost city is vital to dismantling Hamas and has proposed evacuating civilians. But more than a million people have taken refuge in the city. Read More

Trump is recreating his web of chaos at home and abroad in a preview of what a second term could look like

Some top Democrats worry that Americans have forgotten the chaos that raged every day Donald Trump was president, and that voters’ faded recall of the uproar will end up handing him a second term. Read More

Mike Johnson signals he won't put Senate supplemental on the floor despite increased pressure

The speaker faces mounting pressure to pass additional security funding for Israel and Ukraine from Democrats and some GOP lawmakers after Iran’s strike against Israel. Read More

Traces of Seattle’s Black Panthers are all around — if you know where to look

Former Seattle Black Panther Party members plan to open an interpretive center in Pioneer Square dedicated to preserving the historical legacy of the organization. Read More

NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

NPR has suspended Senior Editor Uri Berliner after he wrote an essay accusing the public radio network of becoming too progressive in its news coverage and losing the public's trust. Read More