POLITICS

A newly released audio recording offers a behind-the-scenes look at how former President Donald Trump’s campaign team in a pivotal battleground state knew they had been outflanked by Democrats in the 2020 presidential election.

Kansas plans to give $304 million in taxpayer-funded incentives to a semiconductor company in its largest city to build a huge new factory.

A Brazilian magazine has released audio of a senator claiming then President Jair Bolsonaro sought help in a plot to annul the October elections and keep himself in power.

The U.S. says it is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days.

Nancy Pelosi has made an early pick in California's 2024 U.S. Senate race — providing Sen. Dianne Feinstein doesn't seek another term.

A former University of Mississippi chancellor says Republican Gov. Tate Reeves spoke privately with him years ago about the benefits of expanding Medicaid to people in low-wage jobs.

The Biden administration on Thursday said 15 Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million this year to fund settlements that ensure access to water that's legally theirs.

A federal task force has reunited nearly 700 children who were separated from their families during the Trump administration.

The U.S. is expanding it military presence in Asia, in a string of moves aimed at countering Beijing and reassuring Indo-Pacific allies that America will stand with them against threats from China and North Korea.

After months of agonizing, the U.

President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts.

A former leader of the Michigan state House had his phone seized as part of a federal investigation that included grand jury subpoenas, search warrants and bank records.

A onetime al-Qaida courier has been released after serving more than 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and enduring torture at clandestine overseas CIA sites.

A published report says federal authorities are investigating whether embattled New York Rep. George Santos raised $3,000 for life-saving surgery for a disabled veteran’s dog and then kept the money for himself.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican address to the nation in response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech next week.

Authorities say a New Jersey borough councilwoman was found shot to death in an SUV outside of her home.

President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser, Brian Deese, is leaving his post.

Martial law has been declared in several areas of military-run Myanmar, a day after authorities announced that a state of emergency has been extended throughout the country, which is wracked by violence that some U.N. experts have described as a civil war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with France’s president amid one of the deadliest periods of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years.

Real and fake news will collide again at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi forces in the battle of Stalingrad.

President Joe Biden attended the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday in Washington and delivered a message of unity.

Serbia’s populist president has warned during a chaotic parliamentary session that the Balkan nation could become a European “pariah” state if it rejects a Western plan for normalizing relations with Kosovo.

Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent have no “immediate access” to vaccines amid a global supply shortage.

The governments of Spain and Morocco have held wide-ranging meetings aimed at improving historically fraught ties and striking deals on customs crossings and business development.

Supreme Court police officers are looking for a few good men and women — as are law enforcement departments around the country in a tight employment market.

President Joe Biden is playing host to former President Bill Clinton to mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the EU’s biggest corruption scandals.

A protracted legal fight over how city council districts were drawn in Jacksonville, Florida, reflects an aspect of redistricting that often remains in the shadows.

Turkey has slammed a group of Western countries which temporarily closed down their consulates in Istanbul over security concerns.

Senior members of the European Union's executive branch are in Ukraine looking to boost relations with the war-torn country and pave the way for it to one day join the bloc.

Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles have struck residential areas in an eastern city for the second time in 24 hours.

The Austrian government says it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to United Nations agencies in the city, to leave the country.

The Bank of England has raised interest rates by half a percentage point as it sought to tame double-digit inflation that is fueling a cost-of-living crisis, public-sector strikes and fears of recession.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is marking 100 days in office.

Florida could make it easier for juries to hand down the death penalty.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has welcomed the former head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command who warned in 2021 that the island could face an invasion from China this decade.

The Philippines says it is allowing U.S. forces to broaden their footprint in that Southeast Asian nation.

A new poll shows that more U.S. adults disapprove than approve of the way President Joe Biden has handled the discovery of classified documents at his home and former office.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are meeting at the White House with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to explore the possibility of getting legislation to overhaul policing practices back on track.

Bitter divisions dominated a recent national Republican Party gathering.

House Republicans have voted to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Australia is removing the British monarchy from its bank notes.

Outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain burst into tears Wednesday as he talked about his boss, President Joe Biden, and his decades of work with him.

A federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.

A lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, has asked the Justice Department to investigate close allies of former President Donald Trump and others who accessed and disseminated personal data from a laptop that a computer repair shop owner says was dropped off at his Delaware store in 2019.

The most expansive federal report in over two decades on guns and crime shows a shrinking turnaround between the time a gun was purchased and when it was recovered from a crime scene.

The U.S. Air Force is telling North Dakota leaders it believes a Chinese company’s plan to build a wet corn milling plant near the Grand Forks Air Force Base poses a national security threat.

North Korea says it’s prepared to counter U_S_ military moves with the “most overwhelming nuclear force” as it warned that the expansion of the United States’ combined military exercises with rival South Korea is pushing tensions to an “extreme red line.”.

President Joe Biden is taking swipes at airlines and hotels over some of the fees that they charge consumers.

Experts say why they think it appears increasingly difficult for prime ministers to remain in power.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen make bitter attacks on each other ahead of Sunday's election.

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Chileans are voting for president Sunday with a mix of dread, optimism and above all uncertainty about what lies ahead after a wave of social and political unrest that includes the current effort to rewrite the constitution

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Christopher Hope is joined by Telegraph colleagues Camilla Tominey and Tony Diver in this week's Chopper's Politics podcast to discuss what can be learned from three very different recent by-elections. Our associate political editor, Camilla Tominey feels that going forward the same issue faces both the Tories and Labour: "They need to nail their colours to the mast. What kind of Labour party is Sir Keir Starmer going to lead, and equally now he's got Brexit done, what is Boris Johnson's ideolog

With baseball season's opening day around the corner, “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson takes a look back at presidential first pitches, a tradition more than 100 years in the making.

James Bennet of the Atlantic, Ben Domenech of the Federalist, Jeanne Cummings of the Wall Street Journal and Reuters’ David Rohde predict the changing political tides igniting the campaign trail in 2016.

Politics: The third rail of dating? CBS News explores whether political dating websites can help singles find their running mates

How politics could affect the fight against ISIS Ruth Marcus, David Sanger, Nancy Youssef, and John Harris discuss the intersection of U.S. politics and the fight against Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria.

Ben Bradlee talks politics with Martin Luther King, Jr. The late executive editor of the Washington Post interviewed the civil rights crusader on "Face the Nation" in 1964.

Is big money taking over American politics? Tom Friedman, Amy Walter, Todd Purdum, and CBS News' John Dickerson discuss the growing power of high-dollar donors and how fundraising is changing politics in America.