Jon Ward

Jimmy Carter passed away on Dec. 29 in Plains, Ga., the Carter Center said.

Former President Donald Trump’s won caucuses in Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho Saturday, while Nikki Haley scored her first victory of the nominating cycle...

Former President Donald Trump’s victories in Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho Saturday give him momentum for Super Tuesday, although the caucus votes featured...

Former President Donald Trump’s victories in Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho Saturday give him momentum for Super Tuesday, although the caucus votes featured...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's latest health scare will increase speculation about who will be the next Senate Republican leader.

The former South Carolina governor and ex-U.S. ambassador to the U.N. suffered an embarrassing loss in the Silver State Tuesday, receiving fewer votes than the "none of these candidates" option.

Here’s what we know about what information is still undisclosed and what’s come out in the last few years.

You’re shifting gears to head into the weekend, so here are the top five political stories worth remembering this week.

The Supreme Court may find that when social media platforms restrict, fact-check, take down or leave up content, this is constitutionally protected speech and the government cannot interfere, which is the view of many legal experts.

Large numbers of Americans are unhappy with the idea of a Biden vs. Trump rematch, polls show, but both the Democratic and Republican parties appear to be paralyzed, unable to do anything about it. Here's why.

The president’s son and business partners made over $20 million from foreign business deals since Joe Biden was first elected vice president in 2008, the GOP alleges.

A new Yahoo News/YouGov survey shows that opinions are mixed about race-based criteria for college admissions, ahead of a decision from the Supreme Court this week.

Why top Trump allies like Roger Stone are using apocalyptic religious rhetoric

I was a teenage evangelical missionary

While it may not always dominate the headlines, the debate over free speech in the U.S. remains at the forefront of our political conversation.

Foreign policy is usually dismissed by political analysts as a second-tier campaign issue, especially in primaries, but the war in Ukraine has taken center stage as the 2024 Republican contest heats up.

Mike Pence still insists he hasn’t made his mind up about a 2024 campaign. But an interview with Yahoo News shows that he’s certainly started talking like a contender for the Republican nomination. The former vice president has ready-made critiques of his potential rivals, comparing Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to California's liberal Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, while also taking direct aim at Donald Trump.

Two weeks after President Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, a group of Christian pastors stood on stage inside a nondenominational church in a suburb of Phoenix, whipping the congregation into a frenzy of prayer mixed with violent and bloody imagery.

When Rob Portman announced he was retiring from the Senate two years ago, it was taken as another sign that Congress was going to the dogs.

The Jan. 6 committee’s final hearing Monday was a concise, efficient summary of the case against former President Donald Trump, designed for a digital age dominated by short attention spans.