As the U.S. celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this year, here are eight ways its political system stands apart from the world’s other 105 democracies. Still, many ...

This Pew Research Center study goes beyond Americans’ partisan attachments and vote choices to explore the values and attitudes that underlie the political landscape and the Republican and Democratic ...

A cluster of high-profile political attacks in the U.S. spotlight the nation's extreme divisions—but they don't necessarily signal a broader uptick in politically inspired brutality, experts say. If ...

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WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump opens a 16-day celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary with a political rally on Wednesday, the start of festivities shaped by ...

The Trump administration said it would commit aid, at a time when it has been expanding U.S. commercial interests in Venezuela beyond oil. By Edward Wong and Michael Crowley Edward Wong and Michael ...

Political Director and Executive Director of Politics and White House, CBS News Fin Daniel Gómez is CBS News' political director and executive director, Politics and White House. In this role, Gómez ...

The president’s call to the head of FIFA underscores that he has yet to find an area of American, or even global, life where he is unwilling to assert himself.

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried ...

A new poll shows that a large majority of Americans say they think there is too much money in U.S. politics. Politico released a poll on Saturday showing that 72 percent of Americans say there’s too ...