Former Vice President Joe Biden’s run for the White House is unique, because unlike anyone else on the long list of Democrats challenging him for the party’s nomination, he’s campaigning against a younger version of himself. As a young and ambitious U.S. senator, Biden, 76, made a name for himself as a tough-on-crime advocate. Most

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBoris Johnson says he has three priorities, to deliver Brexit, unite the country and beat Jeremy Corbyn Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister. He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes

Dame Cheryl Gillan, a returning officer for the election, announced the result of the Conservative Party leadership election. Mr Johnson beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival’s 46,656. Almost 160,000 Conservative members were eligible to vote and the turnout was 87.4%. The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.

On Sunday morning, MSNBC legal analyst and former Obama-era U.S Attorney Joyce Vance offered quite the whopper that, if she had made such a mistake as a Fox News contributor, the CNN Media team would be tut-tutting for days on end.  Instead, Vance’s false claim that the Fox News Channel would not be airing Wednesday’s

Donald Trump is already in a world of trouble heading into 2020 as a majority of the American people say that they will “definitely vote against” him in next year’s general election. According to a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll, just 44 percent of the country said they approve of Trump’s job performance. But the number

To answer that, let’s think for a minute about the narrative that says Ukraine is operating in bad faith to undermine democracy and elect Democrats in the US. To get clues as to who’s behind it, we have to ask who this narrative benefits, and how. Well, it benefits Russia to the degree that Ukraine

A Facebook post by a Louisiana police officer suggesting that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “needs a round” drew criticism on Sunday from officials in the city where he works. The officer, Charlie Rispoli, a 14-year veteran of the police department in Gretna, La., referred to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, in a post on Thursday

[…] We reached out to Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, to learn more about the meaning of the phrase “America: Love It or Leave It” and the long history of nativism as a campaign tool. “My living here, being born here, and being a citizen

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 election contains “very substantial evidence” that President Donald Trump is “guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.” Nadler made his remarks just days before the keenly anticipated appearance by Mueller before two House committees on Wednesday to discuss the

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionA Royal Navy frigate can be heard warning Iranian armed forces, before the oil tanker is seized The UK government did not take its “eye off the ball” over the seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf on Friday, the chancellor told the BBC. Philip