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The past decade has been a remarkable demonstration of the extent to which celebrity and money can provide a platform for unfounded, dangerous theories about the world. These have always…

CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is releasing a new television ad in battleground states with a message aimed at the middle class, in its first major move after…

Recognizing that the audience for Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech would probably draw in a broader, less heavily Democratic audience, the lineup of speakers at the Democratic convention Thursday…

CHICAGO — The marchers had moved on, the chants had faded away, and the protest had ended. But Julie Wroblewski’s job is just beginning. She walked carefully through a public…

It is probably an understatement to say that the speeches during which each major party’s presidential candidate accepted their nominations differed dramatically. Former president Donald Trump’s was long, often diverging…

CHICAGO — Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes” at Democrats’ convention here while making a suggestive hand gesture — a throwback to Trump’s old squabbling with…

CHICAGO — It was not yet 9 a.m. Tuesday, but Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was moving fast through the labyrinth of delegate breakfasts at a hotel near the Democratic National…

Last month’s Republican convention was an energetic, enthusiastic celebration of Donald Trump, the party’s presidential nominee for the third contest in a row. But even as it marked one of…

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to make an announcement about the future of his campaign Friday, potentially shaking up the race for the White House a…