Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016.

Fall is the time for publishers to release their most anticipated literary fiction, and this season will feature new books from Thomas Pynchon, Kiran Desai and Ian McEwan among others.

The upcoming literary season features long-awaited works from big names like Thomas Pynchon, Angela Flournoy and Kiran Desai.

President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.

The Trump administration’s announcement this week that it would rescind the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials was hardly an isolated act.

North Carolina farmer Jamie Ager is part of a new crop of Democratic candidates the party is turning to as it tries to compete in the tough, often rural districts it may need to flip to retake the U.S. House in 2026.

Pennsylvania’s two-term elected state Treasurer Stacy Garrity will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reelection bid in 2026.

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is in his fifth decade in Congress and the veteran Democrat is showing no inclination to step aside.

At the core of the fight in Texas over redrawing the state’s congressional districts is a debate over a time-honored right spelled out in the Constitution: Every two years, “the People” get to pick someone to represent their interests in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Skydance and Paramount officially closed their $8 billion merger on Thursday — kicking off the reign of a new entertainment giant after a contentious, over year-long endeavor to get the transaction over the finish line.

A new poll finds young people in the United States are less engaged in politics than older generations are.

Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Trump's second presidency.

The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after President Donald Trump on Friday fired the official who oversees it.

In firing the head of the agency that produces monthly jobs figures, President Donald Trump alleged that the recent weaker-than-expected numbers were phony and that positive numbers reported before the 2024 election were manipulated to make him look bad.

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have left Texas in an attempt to block the adoption of redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has criticized radio host Charlamagne Tha God, saying that the broadcaster "knows nothing about me or what I have done."

Democrats are arguing that a Republican plan for redrawing districts in Texas to create more winnable U.S. House seats for the GOP is an attack on Black and Hispanic voters.

Detroit voters will take a key step toward choosing a new mayor in the municipal primary on Tuesday, when nine candidates will appear on the ballot in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper jumped into the race for that state’s newly open seat with a vow to address voters’ persistent concerns about making ends meet.

The race to become California’s next governor has kicked into a new gear.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has announced a new memoir called "107 Days," detailing her historic Democratic presidential run last year.

President Donald Trump has downplayed the influence of Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur known for her incendiary social media presence, in his administration’s decision-making.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she will not run for California governor next year, leaving open the possibility that she could mount a third run for the White House in 2028.

Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will run for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina, giving Democrats a proven statewide winner in an open-seat race that is expected to be one of the most competitive 2026 contests.

Executive at Paramount Global can breathe a sigh of relief with FCC approval of its $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.

Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez is the first Democrat to officially enter the race for governor.

CBS News has named “60 Minutes” veteran Tanya Simon as the broadcast's fourth executive producer.

U.S. President Donald Trump is visiting Scotland this week, returning to the country where his mother was born and raised.

Hunter Biden has criticized prominent Democrats and party advisers in a recent interview.

The White House is escalating a battle with The Wall Street Journal over the newspaper's story regarding Jeffrey Epstein last week.

Republicans can't stop talking about former President Joe Biden.

CBS parent Paramount insists that this week's decision to cancel Steven Colbert's “Late Show” was strictly financial, and had nothing to do with politics.

A Virginia man has pleaded guilty in a federal case that accused him of stockpiling the largest number of finished explosives in FBI history.

A former senior aide to first lady Jill Biden has declined to answer questions as part of a House Republican probe into former President Joe Biden's mental state.

Stephen Colbert returned from vacation loaded for bear.

A federal grand jury has indicted the man accused of fatally shooting a prominent Minnesota state representative and her husband and seriously wounding a state senator and his wife.

The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.

Debate over President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package is over on Capitol Hill.

President Donald Trump says he is considering revoking actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship.

One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.

Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders.

Voters in southeast Washington, D.

Five Democrats and three Republicans are running in a July 15 primary election in southern Arizona to succeed the late Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva.

President Donald Trump is getting praise from his most ardent supporters for withholding some weapons from Ukraine after they recently questioned his commitment to keeping the U.S. out of foreign conflicts.

A man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14 says he's looking forward to the facts coming out.

The fallout from Paramount's decision to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over the editing of a CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview seems certain to linger.

A news report says hackers supporting Iran have threatened to release emails supposedly stolen from people connected to President Donald Trump.

Striking city workers are joining picket lines near Philadelphia City Hall, public libraries and other worksites as nearly 10,000 unionized employees walked off the job in search of better pay and benefits.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement over the weekend that he won't seek reelection is heating up the campaign on both sides of the aisle.

Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska has announced he will not seek reelection next year.

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman has been honored at a funeral where former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attended.

JB Pritzker, who has spent years building a national profile, will seek a third term as Illinois’ governor.

Across the U.S. Americans are expressing a mixture of support, apprehension and anxiety over President Donald Trump's decision to bomb nuclear sites in Iran.

Democrats seem to be at odds once more when it comes to the Mideast.

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.

Some segments of the U.S. restaurant industry don’t support President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal taxes on tips.

President Donald Trump says the U_S_ knows where Iran’s supreme leader is hiding during the Israel-Iran conflict but doesn’t want him killed “for now.”.

A spokesperson for Minnesota Gov_ Tim Walz says the governor wishes Donald Trump would be a “president for all Americans.”.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

Top Democratic strategist David Plouffe is joining Coinbase as an adviser as the cryptocurrency exchange broadens its political reach.

Eight years after President Donald Trump's first travel ban largely targeted majority-Muslim countries, many Arab Americans say his new ban is motivated by bias.

New Jersey primary voters chose their nominees — and President Donald Trump notched a win in his endorsement belt — in one of two high-stakes governor's races being held this year.

When he first ran for office, Donald Trump seemed like he could be a new kind of Republican when it came to LGBTQ+ rights.

President Donald Trump is directing his administration to investigate Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and raising questions about his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has keynoted the Democratic state conventions in South Carolina.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency is a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as an “extraordinary human being."

Donald Trump's lawyer says that the president suffered “mental anguish” from CBS News' editing of an interview last fall with his Democratic election opponent Kamala Harris.

Political analyst Sean Freeder joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton to break down the questions around Biden’s decline and what’s on the horizon for the Democrats on this week’s episode of Politics & Power.

Four months into the Trump administration, some top Democrats are rethinking their approach to podcasts.

Kentucky Democrats are trying to address the party's steep deficits in overwhelmingly white, conservative pockets of rural America.

After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.

President Donald Trump’s “no tax on tips” pledge became a catchphrase for his 2024 campaign.

Attorneys say U.S. immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan despite a court order on removals to third countries.

Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump aren't new foes.

The announcement that Joe Biden has prostate cancer is the latest example of how the final chapters of his political career have been shaped by the disease.

CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon says she's quitting.

Tim Walz has used a law school graduation speech to go after President Donald Trump.

A decade ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a volunteer organizer for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez provided Democrats a rare bright spot last fall when she won reelection against a MAGA diehard in a Trump-leaning district in southwestern Washington state.

Joe Biden’s time in public office is now behind him, but his age and mental acuity have become a litmus test for the next leaders in his party.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a term-limited Democrat with national ambitions.

Podcaster Theo Von performed a set for U.S. troops in Qatar where he joked about doing drugs on a mixed-race baby, the sexuality of men in the U.S. Navy, and compared the Qatari hosts’ attire to Klansman robes.

Democrats have long focused on immigration when courting Latino voters in states like Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey and Florida, where generations of Latin American immigrants have settled and gained permanent legal status.

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or in their world views.

Young people have consistently turned out to vote at lower rates than older Americans.

Democrats will pick their next presidential nominee in 2028, but before that happens, the party will have to decide which state gets to go first on the nominating calendar.

Former President Joe Biden says he’s responsible for Donald Trump’s victory last fall.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union when things quickly devolved.

A bipartisan group of President Donald Trump’s critics is launching a new organization, dubbed the Cost Coalition, to highlight Trump’s struggle to control rising costs in the early months of his new presidency.

A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post who quit in protest after editors killed her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before President Donald Trump, has won the Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary.

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is among many Democrats looking to find the right path to challenge President Donald Trump and Republicans after the GOP won the White House and congressional majorities in 2024.

Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.

President Donald Trump is once more calling opponents “communists” as his administration wages policy fights on trade and in the courts.

President Donald Trump has dispatched Vice President JD Vance all over the world in the opening months of the administration.

Cincinnati’s mayor faces a primary challenge Tuesday from two first-time candidates, including the half brother of Vice President JD Vance.

A prominent pastor and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement says he was told items he had loaned to the Smithsonian Institution would be under review for whether they should remain on display at the institution.

Last fall's “60 Minutes” story on Kamala Harris — the subject of a $20 billion lawsuit by President Donald Trump — was nominated for an Emmy Award for “outstanding edited interview.”.

President Donald Trump says he is naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating as United Nations ambassador.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has used a high-profile speech in San Francisco to criticize President Donald Trump, accusing him of abandoning American ideals.

So many headlines about The Washington Post over the past year had little to do with its journalism.