"I ran against Donald Trump, and Terry’s running against an acolyte of Donald Trump," President Joe Biden said Tuesday. President Joe Biden took the stage at a campaign rally in Virginia on Tuesday, stumping for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe while painting the race as an urgent referendum on Trumpism throughout the Republican Party. McAuliffe...

Rep. Paul Gosar A bombshell report from Variety’s sister publication Rolling Stone alleges that organizers of the Jan. 6 protests, which escalated to violence when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, met numerous times with White House staff and members of Congress to strategize in the days prior. At least three organizers of the Stop the Steal rally...

Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who rose to become the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer but whose reputation was tainted in 2003 when he touted spurious intelligence to the United Nations to make the case for war with Iraq despite deep misgivings, died...

The odds of a vaccinated person getting sick with COVID-19 have changed since the more transmissible Delta variant came to dominate the U.S. pandemic, but probably not as much as you think, David Leonhardt writes in Tuesday's New York Times. In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported...

“This is not a ‘What happens in Texas stays in Texas’ situation,” said NARAL’s Kristin Ford. Texas’ six-week abortion ban is one of the most — if not the most — draconian and unprecedented anti-abortion bills to ever become law. It seemed almost unfathomable that it could be enacted, and yet at midnight...

The Asian population in the U.S. grew by 35.5 percent over the past 10 years. The Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities continue to grow steadily, the 2020 census data showed.  The data, released Thursday, revealed almost 20 million people identified as "Asian," and another 4 million checked boxes as...

Government officials and health experts are leaning on the private sector to lead the U.S. out of a coronavirus surge caused by the highly infectious Delta variant. The reason lies largely in the fact that the federal government won't issue a blanket mask or vaccine mandate, and some states are actively...