Some state averages started later in 2024 because of a lack of sufficient early polling. Source: Averages by The New York Times; polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and The Times. Nate CohnChief political analyst Despite a strong debate performance,

Election officials across the country struggle to enhance security measures to adequately safeguard workers and ensure voting integrity in advance of Election Day

In a campaign that has seen two attempted assassinations of one of the candidates, gun policy has still not been a factor.

Pennsylvania’s Al Schmidt is pleased about progress combating threats and misinformation — but disappointed state legislators haven’t enabled faster counting of mail ballots.

Just two years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, thus ending the nationwide right to abortion.

Countries could use next week's U.N. meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world's annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the U.S. election could jeopardize progress ahead of the next U.

Americans began casting their first in-person votes on Friday in a presidential election six weeks away that both Republican and Democratic leaders call the most important in generations. The stakes are high: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and other party leaders have described Republican nominee Donald Trump as a threat to democracy,

Former President Donald Trump is renewing efforts to change Nebraska's electoral vote allocation system to snag one of the state's electoral votes.

Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.

The next big upset came just a year after the historic Paris Agreement was signed, when U.S. climate negotiators were caught off guard at the U.N. summit in Marrakesh with Trump's defeat of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the presidency.