Vice President Kamala Harris is performing better than President Biden was among Black voters in the critical swing states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, a new poll found.

IRS employees are increasingly poking into taxpayers' secret information -- a violation of the law -- but prosecutors are refusing to go after them, the agency's inspector general said in a new report.

The Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday, with delegates and officials descending on Chicago after a wild few weeks that saw the party switch out its nominee, upending what had already been an unprecedented campaign year.

Every Monday evening, the Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA basement becomes a sanctuary for men who, local leaders say, have too often been denied one.

Vice President Kamala Harris' first major policy plan took on the top issue in the presidential campaign -- the economy and high prices -- with sweeping proposals for expanded government intervention and more federal spending.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz will campaign by bus in southwestern Pennsylvania on Sunday, hoping to ride the wave of enthusiasm her candidacy has brought to the presidential race to their party's nominating convention in Chicago this week.

Compared with the wild twists and turns of the presidential election, Florida's primary Tuesday will be relatively tame. The only statewide race on the ballot is for the Senate seat held by Republican Rick Scott, who will learn who he'll face in November.

Thousands of activists are expected to converge on Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, hoping to call attention to abortion rights, economic injustice and the war in Gaza.

Anti-Israel boycotts are gaining momentum in the U.S., reflecting a growing trend among younger Americans who are increasingly unsympathetic to the Israeli cause, and a lack of understanding of the Holocaust and its historical context.

Austan Goolsbee, the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said lowering interest rates in the fall is not a "certainty." "I don't think it's a certainty, and I don't like, as you know, tying our hands ahead of time when we got a lot of data to come in and everyone...