Politics

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his country is the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine hasn’t provoked the awe and wonder of the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite into orbit in 1957

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is making history as the third woman ever to be chosen as a vice presidential candidate on a major party’s ticket. She’s also biracial, and the first Black woman selected to run. Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he had selected Harris as his running mate. “Women have to prove ove...

As expected, voters on Tuesday rubber-stamped Republican President Donald Trump and former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden in primary elections in Connecticut, where officials anticipated large numbers of absentee ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to the presidential races, voters cast ballots in two GOP congressional pri...

Hopes that talks on a huge COVID-19 relief deal would generate an agreement soon are fizzling, with both the Trump administration negotiating team and top congressional Democrats adopting hard lines and testy attitudes.

Joe Biden picks Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. If elected, she would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.

Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate creates a conundrum for which President Donald Trump’s campaign didn’t have an immediate answer: How to run against her.

Because of COVID-19, some Vermont polling places got creative to make sure voters could make their voices heard safely in Tuesday’s primary elections. “Making history,” Ashleigh Ricciarelli of Barre City said as she experienced a whole new kind of voting during the pandemic. For Vermont’s primary elections, Barre’s pol...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was “surprised” Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as his running mate, given her performance in the primaries and her treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. “She was extraordinarily nasty to Judge Kavanaugh,” he said. “She was nasty to a level that was just a horrible th...

Joe Biden has chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, in a move that fulfills the wish of Democrats clamoring to see a woman of color on a major party’s presidential ticket for the first time in history.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, some polling places in Vermont offered drive-thru voting in Tuesday’s primary.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District

Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Edward Markey and his Democratic primary challenger, U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, jabbed at each other in a heated televised debate Tuesday. The contest was one of the sharpest of the campaign as both candidates wrestled for the upper hand. One point of focus was the case of Danroy “DJ” Henry, a young Black man fro...

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden, announced Tuesday that U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif., will be his running mate.