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CNN commentator and former Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested students protesting for gun control legislation would be better served by taking CPR classes and preparing for...

The Democratic senator won his re-election bid against Walker, the scandal-plagued, Trump-backed political neophyte.

A number of Black officials in South Carolina said their support for Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign has been overstated or misstated completely.

His confusing responses to allegations he paid for a partner's abortion are taking right-wing Christians on a ride and exposing them as hypocrites.

Republicans hoped to ride a wave of coronavirus-related outrage into power. Those hopes were crushed Tuesday night.

Presumption of innocence and impassioned defense of it are privileges we give only to a select few.

Republicans expressed shame over Akin’s bizarre anti-abortion claims in 2012. Would they do the same today?

Americans of all political stripes are beginning to reject the GOP's tradition of funneling money to the wealthy at less powerful people's expense.

They didn't make it into "The ReidOut" tonight, but these people deserve a spot at the table of shame, too.

The largely white gathering of Capitol rioters desperately wanted to depict themselves as victims. Here’s why their plan has failed. 

He fled state-sanctioned violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and eventually encountered similar violence in the U.S.

Brian Flores' lawsuit alleging discrimination in NFL hiring should crumble the league's facade, built over the last few years, that it supports anti-racism.

The House Jan. 6 committee has provided all sorts of evidence that Trump knew his election fraud claims were lies. That could open the door to more civil lawsuits.

The senator and Supreme Court nominee's exchanges have been the most enlightening, moving moments of the hearings so far.

Right-wingers are trying to demonize abortion rights supporters — and Democrats are just going along with it.

Texts between his wife, Ginni Thomas, and Mark Meadows destroy any facade that remained of the justice's impartiality.

Kim Potter, a former Minnesota police officer, has been found guilty in the April shooting death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.

Trainees and staffers with a state agency gave the salute in a class photo, saying they were honoring an instructor.

More voters from Herschel Walker's hometown county voted in the runoff than in the general election. But Sen. Warnock won a larger share of the runoff vote.

Racism and fear helped push the president into office. Now that he's backed into a corner, he's prioritizing white grievance politics over everything else.

Bucking CDC guidance on Covid-19 could cost you your job and more.

At colleges across the country, young supporters of the president are demanding that College Republicans fall into line.

The ever-changing narrative from law enforcement officials about the Uvalde shooting seems to blow a hole in the GOP's gun logic.

An organization backing Herschel Walker's Senate bid seems like it's trying to buy Black votes with gas and grocery cards, shining a light on GOP hypocrisy.

On Thursday, three people filed a complaint on behalf of current, former and prospective Facebook employees detailing alleged discrimination at the company.

Music writer Carol Cooper reflects on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival documented in the new film Summer of Soul as a necessary catharsis for Black America from the collective losses of the 1960s.

Democrats are seemingly deploying every strategy possible, with help from the Obamas, in the final days of the Georgia Senate runoff race.

The civil rights martyr was memorialized on the shore of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, near where his body was discovered in 1955.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself at odds with most of her caucus on initiating impeachment proceedings.

The investigations into the former president's actions have a common theme: Trump's refusal to let go of his presidential power.

Maricopa County attorney isn't a glitzy job, but the future of democracy may hinge on whether Gunnigle can oust her GOP opponent in the midterm elections.

A United Nations committee released a report voicing concerns about racist discrimination facilitated by Florida's anti-protest law, House Bill 1.

A guilty plea from one of the officers involved in obtaining the search warrant used in the raid reaffirms activists' suspicion about police misconduct.