Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday against releasing a report on their long-running investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

President-elect Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the role of FBI director in the clearest indication yet that the incoming administration is looking to replace Christopher Wray in the position.

In the two weeks since Election Day, President-elect Donald Trump has been setting records with the pace of appointments for his incoming administration.

More than 1 million migrants are living and working legally in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general, opting for a loyalist who has built a national reputation as a disruptor and has vowed to dramatically overhaul the Justice Department.

President-elect Donald Trump has named former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency as he continues to build out his future administration with loyal supporters.

Based on Donald Trump’s first term and his campaign statements, the United States will become less predictable, more chaotic, colder to allies and warmer to some strongmen, and much more transactional in picking friends globally than before.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” is selling again.

Donald Trump's election victory was history-making in several respects even as his defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris prevented other firsts.

Donald Trump will rally supporters in North Carolina every day until Tuesday’s election.

Never before in a presidential election cycle has there been so much discussion of the child tax credit — a tool many Democrats and Republicans have endorsed as a way to lift children and young families out of poverty.

As the November election approaches, large get-out-the-vote efforts are targeting Latinos, and particularly Latina moms, with a climate focus.

Nationally, Catholic voters have been closely divided in recent presidential elections.

Nearly four years after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, political violence remains a persistent threat heading into another presidential election.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says Russia is a U.S. adversary but suggests it’s counterproductive to approach Moscow as an enemy.

Chinese hackers targeted cellphones used by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, his running mate, JD Vance, and people associated with the Democratic campaign of Kamala Harris.

“Black Insurrectionist,” the anonymous social media persona behind some of the most widely circulated conspiracy theories about Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, can be traced to a white man from upstate New York.

Ukrainian evangelicals are lobbying their American counterparts for continued support of their homeland in its war with Russia.

Millions of Americans can’t afford to buy a home or rent a suitable apartment, making housing a central issue for voters in the upcoming presidential election.

In a stretch of what once was Pennsylvania steel country, Democrats and Republicans are looking to test their strength with Latino voters.

In the months since he became Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance has repeatedly deflected questions about whether the Republican presidential nominee lost the 2020 election, saying he was focused on the future.

In a drab office suite just blocks from the White House, seasoned political operatives are drawing up detailed plans for a government in waiting.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both making pushes to energize key constituencies that their allies worry might be slipping away.

Local officials say former President Donald Trump’s campaign still owes a central Minnesota city nearly $209,000 for services related to a July campaign rally.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is again refusing to acknowledge that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election over former President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump spent time Friday in a Colorado suburb away from battleground states.

Early in-person voting is beginning in Arizona, making it the first of this year’s presidential battleground states where all residents can cast a ballot at a traditional polling place ahead of Election Day.

As thousands of U.S. counties and towns report vote totals, it can be hard to figure out when the results reported so far will reflect the outcome.

Vice President Kamala Harris opened a media blitz by the Democratic ticket on Sunday with a conversation on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast.

Donald Trump rallied supporters at the same Pennsylvania grounds where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, setting aside near-constant worries for his physical safety.

Mike Pence is no longer standing beside Donald Trump, and has refused to endorse the Republican nominee’s bid to return to the White House.

Among the nation’s charismatic Christians, there’s one highly politicized faction in particular that believes the reelection of former President Donald Trump would be a win in a literal spiritual war of angels in demons.

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Wednesday again refused to say who he believed won the 2020 presidential election, which has been the persistent focus of false claims by his running mate, Donald Trump.

When the issue of gun violence came up at the vice presidential debate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had a personal story to tell: His teenage son, Gus, had been at a sports center last year when a shooting took place.

In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance went after each other’s running mates Tuesday and sought to shore up their campaigns’ vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helene.

CBS News briefly muted the debate microphones of the two vice presidential candidates after Republican JD Vance objected to a fact-check made by Margaret Brennan, one of the network's moderators.

A program that helps refugees resettle in the United States has expanded to include LGBTQ+ people who have been threatened and harassed in their home countries.

The debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz featured an often orderly, policy-focused and even civil dialogue between the two men seeking to serve as the next president’s second in command.

Vice presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz have used their time on the debate stage to focus the bulk of their attacks not on one another, but on those at the top of their rival tickets.

Vice President Kamala Harris will tour damage caused by Helene in Georgia and North Carolina, as the devastating and deadly storm has also roiled the political calendar just over a month from Election Day.

Barring a late addition to the schedule, Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate between J.

Former President Donald Trump is spending the hours ahead of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate campaigning in Wisconsin.

In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each other’s running mates and sought to shore up their campaigns' vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helene.

JD Vance once criticized a bipartisan 2021 law that invested billions in America’s crumbling infrastructure.

The vice presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will bring together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the top of each ticket.

In the matchup between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the coming debate between their running mates is the undercard.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend a football game between the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz knows how to lean into abortion rights on the debate stage.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has a reputation for being informed, articulate and all but unflappable.

When JD Vance and Tim Walz take the stage for next week's vice presidential debate, CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderators, to fact-check each other.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are meeting Tuesday for their first and only scheduled vice presidential debate.

A strange moment in American politics surfaced at the U.N. General Assembly, brought up by a top Haitian official.

There’s an unlikely star in Kamala Harris’ fight to make history in North Carolina: Mark Robinson, the state’s scandal-plagued candidate for governor.

A Republican congressman who slandered Haitian immigrants in a social media post is facing a censure push from Democrats.

Word of a large police presence and a motorcade on a Florida highway was all the notice many got on Wednesday that Sen. JD Vance was in Central Florida.

This year’s vice presidential candidates both entered the spotlight this summer as relative political unknowns — but as they prepare to address their biggest audience yet in next week’s debate, Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance is less popular among voters than his Democratic rival, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community has invoked a private-citizen right to file charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is making his first campaign visit to battleground Georgia since a feud between the former president and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp ended last month with Kemp endorsing Trump.

Just two years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, thus ending the nationwide right to abortion.

Virtually everyone calls the U.S. immigration system broken.

From Iranian hacking to Russian influence campaigns, the 2024 presidential campaign is encountering a spate of efforts by foreign adversaries to weaken faith in the outcome and potentially alter the results.

Journalists at a news site that covers issues facing the Haitian community in the United States say they've been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering the false story about immigrants eating the pets of people in Springfield, Ohio.

In the quiet corners of Springfield, Ohio — out of sight of the drumbeat of politicians, journalists, troopers and newly installed security cameras — people are attempting to carry on.

A small Ohio city has been inundated with hoax bomb threats since last week’s presidential debate, when former President Donald Trump falsely accused members of Springfield’s Haitian community of abducting and eating cats and dogs.

Tensions flared last fall in western Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley with news that several dozen refugees would be resettled in and around the city of Eau Claire, one of several midsize cities across the U.S. that has grappled with refugee resettlement.

Ohio officials have stationed state police at Springfield schools in response to bomb threats that officials say are mostly coming from overseas.

The presidential campaign is moving forward after a second apparent attempt on Donald Trump’s life over the weekend.

A leading conservative Christian group is putting on a show of Republican unity in Georgia.

Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city that has endured dozens of violent threats in the wake of a national political furor over Haitian migrants.

Sunday was to be a day of relative rest for Donald Trump, rare this deep into a presidential campaign.

For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance isn't backing away from the false claims he and Donald Trump have been making that Haitians living in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets.

Being a venture capitalist carries a lot of prestige in Silicon Valley.

Donald Trump and his running mate continue to disparage Haitian migrants in an Ohio community, further fueling false claims the Republicans have promoted even as the city has seen bomb threats and school evacuations and local officials called for a cooling of the anti-immigrant rhetoric.

The father of an Ohio boy killed last year when a Haitian immigrant driver hit a school bus is imploring Donald Trump and others to stop invoking his son's name in the debate about immigration.

Former President Donald Trump says he would not sign a federal abortion ban, insisting that a ban would not pass Congress anyway.

Many cities have been reshaped by immigrants in the last few years without attracting much notice.

Music superstar Taylor Swift is officially in her Kamala Harris era after releasing a lengthy Instagram post supporting the Democratic presidential nominee.

Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy.

Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president shortly after the end of the presidential debate.

Former President Donald Trump has amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are abducting and eating pets.

Democrats have denounced the conservative Project 2025 blueprint in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversized book form as a convention prop and mentioned it frequently.

Abortion rights questions are on the ballot in nine U.S. states in November and could help draw more voters to the polls.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a “fact of life" and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.

A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn’t recognize the people wearing “Nebraska Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media.

One of John McCain's four children has registered as a Democrat and will vote for Kamala Harris for President.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview.

This fall, Hollywood will be trying — with everything from swaggering historical epics like “Gladiator II” to the high-seas adventure of “Moana 2” — to capture the nation’s attention at a time when much of it will be directed at the polls.

Usha Vance's presence in the Trump-Vance campaign has energized some Indian Americans, particularly Hindu American conservatives.

The reported altercation at Arlington National Cemetery involving former President Donald Trump’s staff has come less than two weeks after Trump sparked outrage after he seemed to dismiss the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest decoration for service members.

A senior FBI official says the gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity.”.

Families are looking for relief from the high cost of caring for children.

More than 200 staffers for four previous Republican presidential nominees have endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris' White House bid.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump wouldn't support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk.

Political conventions are exercises in storytelling.

It might feel like the presidential election is still a long way off, but it’s not.

On the night she became the first woman of Black and South Asian heritage to be a major party’s nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t explicitly mention the racial and gender firsts she would set if elected to the White House.

A southern Arizona man has been arrested for allegedly making death threats against Donald Trump on social media.