List of All Articles with Tag 'matters'

A "government shutdown" -- as we've come to define it -- is expected if lawmakers can't agree to pass a spending bill. But most of the government, as it touches people's everyday lives, will continue to churn.

As Americans approach the second straight presidential election in which they are on course to be offered two candidates who both would be the oldest president ever elected, everyone should take note of the as-yet unknown repercussions caused by the passing of Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

It was a shorter distance through US history from the White House to the Soviet Union or North Korea than to an autoworkers picket line in Michigan.

You're more likely to read about people in the aggregate in this newsletter -- how groups are affected by something the government is doing and how polls suggest those groups feel about it. CNN's John King is looking at the 2024 presidential race from the other side in his new "All Over the Map" project.

Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted for the second time in 10 years on bribery and corruption charges. Here's a look at active and recent federal cases against federal lawmakers and governors.

It's hard to believe there's a new eyewitness account from a Secret Service agent who was right there at the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Is it better to do nothing or to do something many people are positive will be struck down by courts?

Americans' reckoning with their own democracy extends beyond the looming presidential election to a much more local level.

It's not every day you hear top officials at the Pentagon publicly accuse a US senator of aiding communist states and enemies of the US.

Here is an often-repeated claim you'll hear from reporters and analysts: Former President Donald Trump's control over the Republican primary field solidified not in spite of, but because of, his four criminal indictments.

The exhausting view of this bizarre week -- with the first GOP presidential primary debate one day, followed by the fourth arrest this year of the former president the next -- is that everyone should prepare for so much more of this uniquely American and continuously unbelievable political spectacle.

Donald Trump's rivals agreed Wednesday that Republicans should look past the former president. But the iconic image of the week will be his fourth arrest this year, this time at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta.