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Three years ago, Times reporter Sarah D. Wire wrote about her experience inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now, with the aid of surveillance footage recently made available by the House and additional firsthand accounts, Wire provides a more expansive view of that day.

Trump's opponents have succeeded in getting to the U.S. Supreme Court with their argument the 14th Amendment disqualifies him from the ballot. But they face hurdles.

The backlash against abortion restrictions has been bigger than expected. Abortions in the U.S. have gone up in the last year. Now, Republicans have a strongly antiabortion speaker.

The "ReAwaken America Tour brings us back to Richard Hofstadter's Paranoid Style in American Politics, Friday the 13th.

U.S. elected officials across the ideological spectrum have denounced Hamas' killings of Israeli civilians and its taking of hostages, reflecting a surge in public support for Israel. A long war could change that.

At the Republican debates, cameras turn on, the press shows up, the candidates appear on stage. But it's all tangential to what's really taking place.

Think political ads were hard to escape last time around? Spending is about to take another major jump upward, the leading tracker of ad spending projects. California is leading the way even though it's not a swing state.

Ron DeSantis, Trump's former chief rival, did nothing to stop his slide; nearly all the candidates said they would back Trump despite everything; and the candidates made clear their support for abortion bans that most Americans reject.

In 2018 and 2022 midterm elections as well as the 2020 presidential election, young voters played a central role in Democrats' victories. Can Democrats go to the same well a fourth time?

And a CNN poll finds over half of Americans feel like the economy is getting worse.