2024 Elections

A classicist said she saw "all kinds of ironies" after an NBC News profile on Usha Vance, the successful lawyer married to Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), observed a literary opus she was reading about "male rage."

Vanity Fair spoke with classicist Emily Wilson, who did a new translation of Homer's Iliad, published in 2023. The profile talks about Vance as a member of a "slow pace" book club and that she began reading it when her 7-year-old son became interested in mythology.

Less than two weeks before voters head to the polls to choose between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a concerned group of mental health experts issued a new warning about the former president.

Operating under "Duty to Warn," 233 mental health professionals signed off on a letter to be published in the New York Times, calling Trump an "imminent catastrophic public danger" to the world should he be re-elected based upon recent evidence on display in his public appearances.

Two onetime campaign officials tied to former President Donald Trump's 2020 fake electors plot have been hired by House Republicans to oversee national elections, according to a new report.

The Committee on House Administration, which will play a key role when Congress certifies the election on Jan. 6, has hired former Trump campaign lawyer Joshua Findlay and operative Thomas Lane, CNN reported Thursday.

Republican nominee for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Michele Morrow appeared to flee after being asked to autograph messages she wrote calling for former President Barack Obama to be killed.

Comedian Jason Selvig of The Good Liars caught up with Morrow at a recent event and shared the video on X.

Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) opponent is jumping on a new report showing the senator only travels home an average of six times a year.

The St. Louis Magazine sorted through public filings from the offices of elected officials to uncover what they're using taxpayer dollars to pay for.

Former President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social was backed by a Wall Street firm whose partners are accused of blowing millions of company cash on private jets, hangover cures and a prostitute, according to court records and reports.

Partners at EF Hutton, a company that specializes in risky start-ups such as Truth Social, were the subject of dueling lawsuits and a securities fraud investigation revealed Thursday by the Wall Street Journal and Daily Beast.

Arizona law enforcement officials are conducting an arson investigation after election ballots were damaged when a USPS mail collection box was burned in Maricopa County, a Democratic stronghold.

ABC 15 reported that crews responded to the USPS Osborn Station around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday and found a mail collection box on fire.

The editorials editor of The Los Angeles Times, one of the most-circulated newspapers in the United States, announced her resignation Thursday over the billionaire owner's decision to block a proposed endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the high-stakes 2024 contest that's less than two weeks away.

Mariel Garza, who spent nearly a decade on the Times' editorial board, handed in her resignation letter days after Semafor reported that Patrick Soon-Shiong—the newspaper's owner—vetoed the editorial board's plan to endorse Harris.

In a report on the growing fame of longtime Republican party consultant Scott Jennings as a regular on CNN, there was displeasure expressed by some of his co-panelists that he is crossing a line when defending Donald Trump.

Jennings, who is closely allied with former Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), seems to be a daily presence on the cable news network as the "go-to" commentator presenting a conservative perspective.

Voters in a strong red state have received a dire warning from their capital's Republican mayor not to elect former President Donald Trump.

Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, a lifelong Republican, wrote in the Philadelphia Citizen Thursday why he cannot vote for Trump. "I will vote for virtue," he wrote.

CNN's Jim Acosta faced off against Georgia Republican Party chairman Josh McKoon on Thursday as the host questioned whether the GOP would accept the election results.

McKoon was rattling off details around early voting, saying that Donald Trump was, in his opinion, winning Georgia in the early vote and would likely win the state.