Some of the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol nearly four years ago are celebrating the president-elect's electoral victory.

Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California on Wednesday.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump closed out this year’s presidential race with a fierce battle for Pennsylvania on Monday, making their final pitch to voters across a state that could prove decisive in the campaign for the White House.

Hakeem Jeffries has said this election is about the economy, and stopping Project 2025 and MAGA extremes.

Across the U.S., people's phones are pinging with text messages from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies.

The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home has been given a life term without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial.

Donald Trump’s allies have tried in vain to persuade him to stop venting his rage against “enemies from within” in the campaign’s waning weeks.

Across the country, local election directors are beefing up their security in advance of Election Day to keep their workers and polling places safe while also ensuring that ballots and voting procedures won’t be tampered with.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have launched campaign blitzes with dramatically different approaches to attracting swing-state voters who will decide the presidential contest.

A Massachusetts medical doctor who punched a police officer during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nine months of imprisonment followed by nine months of home confinement.

The Democratic National Convention’s third night showcased a familiar former president in Bill Clinton and introduced more Americans to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Nancy Pelosi opened her convention speech with a sense of gratitude for President Joe Biden, even after her doubts about his campaign fed into the pressures that led him to end his reelection effort.

Nancy Pelosi’s influence can be seen all across the Democratic Party shakeup.

Not quite two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, the threat of political violence would come for Nancy Pelosi's husband at their home.

Insiders who were close to Joe Biden's struggles are describing a president who was dogged in his determination to keep his candidacy alive — but ultimately not in denial about the odds.

President Joe Biden’s abrupt decision to bow out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic candidate against former President Donald Trump has caused a political earthquake.

After President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s pick to run against former President Donald Trump, the party’s leaders started to rally behind her.

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi gave a speech largely lacking mention of President Joe Biden's reelection bid to North Carolina Democrats in Raleigh.

President Joe Biden now is weighing whether to bow to the mounting pressure to exit the presidential race.

Catholics from across the U.S. have converged for five days of traditional devotions at the Indianapolis Colts’ football stadium in what they’re calling the National Eucharistic Congress.

Is it too soon for political comedy.

“Tone it down!”.

Republican and Democratic leaders, as well as some international friends and foes, are expressing shock following the news that gunfire had broken out during a Donald Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania — and relief that the former president survived the attack.

The uproar over President Joe Biden's ability to win reelection is leaving Democrats at a standstill.

President Joe Biden is forcefully defying the growing number of critics in his own party who have called on him to exit the race, pivoting to warnings about a second Donald Trump term and declaring he is “not done yet.”.

The Biden administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly sites in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

President Joe Biden says the pressure on him to end his reelection campaign is coming from Democratic Party “elites,” the same kind of people who have doubted him throughout his long journey in public life.

He’s calling in to his favorite morning cable news show, bashing the “elites” of his party and dismissing unfavorable polls.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan answered the age question with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide and a second term.

After days of no direct talks between Joe Biden and congressional leaders, many lawmakers have been grappling with a potential crisis that could reach beyond the results of the presidential election.

President Joe Biden visited the Emergency Operations Center in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to discuss extreme weather as Hurricane Beryl, a dangerous Category 5 storm, pummeled the Caribbean.

The White House says President Joe Biden will meet with Democratic lawmakers and governors and sit for a network TV interview in the coming days as he pushes back against growing pressure to step aside in the 2024 race.

In the first presidential debate, the Capitol riot and Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election weren't center stage.

The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress, nearly 60 Democrats skipped his speech nine years ago.

A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30 years in federal court has also been convicted of aggravated kidnapping by a state court, a conviction that mandates life behind bars.

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama at his residence in India’s Dharamshala, sparking anger from China which views the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a dangerous separatist.

Members of the U.S. Congress say the ruling Chinese Communist Party that sent in tanks against peaceful student protesters 35 years ago in the heart of Beijing is as ruthless and suppressive today as it was in 1989.

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has told a gathering of top security officials he doesn’t see war with China as imminent, nor unavoidable, despite rapidly escalating tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has met with his Chinese counterpart as the two countries seek to repair lines of communications between their militaries that could be critical as tensions continue to rise between them in the Indo-Pacific region.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart Admiral Dong Jun at a major defense conference in Singapore next week.

A federal judge will reopen the sentencing hearing for the man who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer after the judge failed to allow him to speak during his court appearance last week.

A Pennsylvania man whose father is a prominent conservative activist has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol.

A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer.

Crews have set off a chain of explosives to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers and actor Michelle Yeoh are among a diverse group of 19 people who have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has completed a book about her years in public life.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken with China’s national defense minister in the latest in a series of U.S. steps to improve communications with the Chinese military and reduce unsafe and aggressive incidents in the Indo-Pacific.

U.S. and Chinese defense officials have met for the first time in nearly two years to discuss unsafe and aggressive ship and aircraft incidents between their militaries in the Pacific region.

House Republicans are launching a vast reinvestigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump.

During the State of the Union address, the House speaker and vice president sit behind the president.

President Joe Biden will deliver his third State of the Union on Thursday night.

A Texas-based writer for a conservative media outlet has surrendered to authorities to face charges that he joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Hakeem Jeffries’ Black Baptist upbringing has shaped his role as House minority leader.

A group of United States Congress members are praising Taiwan's democracy during a visit to the island.

Any parent who's ever called one of their children by the other's name likely could empathize when President Joe Biden mixed up the names of French leaders Macron and Mitterrand.

Donald Trump has a well-worn playbook against women who challenge him.

News executives are certainly familiar with Donald Trump as he seeks his third straight Republican nomination for president.

Nikki Haley has questioned whether Donald Trump is mentally capable of serving as president again, after he repeatedly seemed to confuse her with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a campaign speech.

Taiwan’s incoming president is promising continuity.

U.S. and Chinese military officers have resumed talks that were frozen after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in 2022.

Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has spoken with his Chinese counterpart.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are in California for six fundraising events and meetings this weekend, as they hope to rake in record-breaking campaign contributions.

Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller has been sentenced to six months of home detention for joining the mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

President Joe Biden will head to Los Angeles next week for a big-dollar event that will be his first since strikes by writers and actors effectively ground his fundraising to a halt in the heart of the entertainment industry.

A Miami-Dade man who prosecutors say has ties to the far-right Proud Boys organization was found guilty in federal court on two felony charges related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

Experts on extremism fear that the threat of politically motivated violence will intensify as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up.

A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer of federal charges.

A lawyer for the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked her husband has asked jurors to consider that he was acting because of his political beliefs.

The man accused of attacking former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer has apologized.

Paul Pelosi has recounted publicly for the first time what happened on the night he was attacked by a man with a hammer in the San Francisco home he shares with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping’s have no shortage of difficult issues to discuss when they meet Wednesday in the San Francisco area.

The trial has begun for the man accused of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home, bludgeoning her husband with a hammer and seeking to kidnap her.

Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights have swept this year’s legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power.

Taiwan says China has sent another 43 military aircraft and seven ships near the self-ruled island, the latest sign that Beijing plans no let-up in its campaign of harassment, threats and intimidation.

Dysfunction within the Republican Party isn’t limited to the leadership chaos in the House of Representatives playing out in the nation’s capital.

California's newly appointed U.S. senator is facing a risky decision: whether or not to enter the 2024 race for her seat that already is crowded with candidates.

Supporters of Israel and backers of the Palestinian cause rallied in American cities Sunday over the conflict that has killed hundreds and wounded thousands in the Middle East.

Vice President Kamala Harris and other national leaders praised the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein as a leader of uncommon integrity and defender of American values.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington this week comes at a critical time as Republican leadership in the House and Senate diverge on the best way to get more military and humanitarian aid over the finish line.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she'll seek reelection to Congress in 2024.

There are so many dots on the maps they blur into blobs – each one reflecting trillions of public and private dollars flowing in the U.S. in a nationwide investment.

Thousands of people representing scores of religions and belief systems are expected to convene in Chicago for a weeklong event.

This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden was just the latest example of how violent rhetoric has created a more perilous political environment across the U.S. Threats against public officials have been steadily climbing in recent years, creating new challenges for law enforcement, civil rights and the health of American democracy.

President Joe Biden has made some progress wooing his party’s left wing since taking office.

China’s vice president says his country is willing to work with Washington on reducing global warming as long as its political demands are met.

A federal judge has denied a motion to move the trial of a man charged in last year’s attack against former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband out of San Francisco.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers participated in a discussion about the situation in Cuba on Monday at the Bay of Pigs Museum & Library in Miami’s Little Havana.

Republicans in the House are increasingly threatening impeachment against President Joe Biden and his top Cabinet officials.

A former National Security Agency employee has been sentenced to 14 days of imprisonment for storming the U.S. Capitol along with associates described by authorities as fellow followers of a white nationalist movement.

A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison.

An Arkansas man who propped his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in a widely circulated photo from the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison.

A top White House official has told a key Chinese diplomat that the Biden administration is “looking to move beyond” tensions spurred by the U.S. shooting down a Chinese spy balloon.

President Joe Biden is aiming to showcase the Democratic coalition rallying around his reelection bid.

A year ago, Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Ukraine, then the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to visit Kyiv at the start of the Russian invasion.

The NBA and its players have voted to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement, formalizing a deal that was tentatively agreed to earlier this month.

China’s military has declared it is “ready to fight” after completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island in response to the Taiwanese president’s trip to the U.S. last week.

The chairman of the House Select Committee on China says the U.S. must take seriously the threat Beijing poses to Taiwan.

As Taiwan’s president begins a stopover in the United States on her way to Central America, China says it is closely watching developments.

The Biden administration is stressing to China unofficial stopovers to the U.S. by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen should not be used as pretext by Beijing to increase aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait.

German officials say the country’s education and research minister is making an official trip to Taiwan next week.