In the first week of the new year, Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings took to social media to decry recent issues involving America’s political climate.

It took just a few seconds and a violent, unnecessary death to drag a snowy residential street in Minneapolis into America’s ...

A wildly important midterm year is off to a chaotic start, with a raid in Venezuela, an uneasy economy and more. Here’s what we’re curious about.

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Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy “illegal orders” say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews, signaling a possible inquiry into ...

(Bloomberg) -- Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of ...