Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith to publicly testify in House Judiciary hearing

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led two failed prosecutions of President Donald Trump, will testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on January 22, the panel announced Monday.

CNN’s guide to the most important elections of 2026

This year’s midterms will serve as a referendum on the first two years of President Donald Trump’s second term and will shape his final two years in office.

DC pipe bomb suspect pleads not guilty to federal charges

The Virginian man accused of planting two bombs in Washington, DC, five years ago pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of transporting and attempting to use explosives.

This is the Democrats’ plan to solve their biggest long-term problem

For Democrats, few questions may be more consequential than whether they can recover ground among the Black and Hispanic ...

The political divide over January 6 is only deepening five years after the deadly US Capitol attack

Five years after the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the fundamental facts of that day continue to fuel deep ...

Campaigning under threat: How political violence is already shaping the next Democratic primary

After a year in which the assassinations of Charlie Kirk and former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman were just among ...

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he targeted US political parties because they were ‘in charge,’ memo says

The man accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, on the eve of the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to “speak up” ...

White House rewrites January 6 history and blames police for deadly attack on 5-year anniversary

The White House rolled out a new website Tuesday with a full-blown recast of the historical record of January 6, 2021, hailing the pro-Trump mob who stormed the US Capitol five years ago as “peaceful ...

Fact check: Trump makes false claims about crime, January 6 and the economy in GOP speech

President Donald Trump abandoned his teleprompter in favor of impromptu musings in a speech at a retreat for House Republicans on Tuesday. And those ad-libbed Trump comments were filled with false ...

House Judiciary Committee releases video and transcript of Jack Smith deposition

The House Judiciary Committee on New Year’s Eve released a transcript and video of its closed-door hearing with Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led the two failed prosecutions of President ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro launches his reelection bid with bigger plans in mind

Shapiro kicked off his 2026 campaign alongside Austin Davis, who is running again to be the state’s lieutenant governor, in what the Democratic governor says in a launch video is about another round ...

Another violent death in Minneapolis lays bare the nation’s fractured politics

It took just a few seconds and a violent, unnecessary death to drag a snowy residential street in Minneapolis into America’s ...