Poll reveals how Democrats and Republicans view Elon Musk

President Joe Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address next week to a country that has a pretty gloomy outlook on things.

President Joe Biden rallied Democrats ahead of a possible reelection bid Friday evening, leaning into the accomplishments of his first two years in office and revving up his attacks on "extreme MAGA Republicans."

Unlike 2016, Trump has a clear path to the nomination, says Washington Post columnist David Byler: "He doesn't have the same resistance of, 'Oh, he's just a reality tv star...' These last years have transformed him into really the party's elder statesman, for better or worse."

New York Times reporter Brett Stephens and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D- AZ) discuss issues the Democratic party is facing reaching constituents with Bill Maher.

CNN's SE Cupp says that Republicans criticizing President Joe Biden over his handling of the China spy balloon episode "seems so absurd" when compared to former President Donald Trump's role in the lead up to the January 6th insurrection.

President Joe Biden said the mission to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the East Coast was successful, and that he had ordered the Pentagon to knock the aircraft out of the sky as soon as it was safe to do so.

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Officials are still tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon as it travels across the US. CNN's Brian Todd reports on how spy balloons work and how they are equipped.

The US military has shot down the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, a US official said Saturday.

Donald Trump is raising the nightmare scenario for Republicans in the 2024 presidential election -- that he might refuse to endorse the party's nominee if he loses his primary race.

Frida Ghitis writes that in the continuing drama surrounding Republican Rep. George Santos of New York, there's one particularly disturbing aspect that points to a dangerous weakness in American democracy: Who paid for Santos' election camapign?

Russia's mass mobilization, looming offensive and missile-borne terror against civilians is triggering fresh calls for even greater Western lethal aid to Ukraine, days after leaders signed off on their latest package that included the first tanks.

Rep. Jim Jordan, one of the GOP's most vocal partisans and now the chair of the powerful Judiciary Committee, started a recent meeting on the "weaponization" of the federal government with a surprising move: He urged caution.

House Republicans investigating what they believe are political abuses inside the Justice Department got to work this week, securing a private interview with one of their top targets.

A small family-run business that employed one of the purported leaders of a White supremacist, pro-Nazi homeschooling network announced he is no longer an employee as a result of "this disturbing and secretive behavior."

Konstantin Yefremov, a Russian soldier who fled Russia after he was dismissed from the army for refusing to return to Ukraine, speaks with CNN's Erin Burnett about the "dire" conditions he experienced while fighting.

In the latest episode of "Unfiltered," SE Cupp argues former President Donald Trump, now a 2024 presidential hopeful, is struggling to build momentum around his campaign -- finding that his old tactics no longer resonate the way they once did.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders represents a new generation of Republicans eager to weaponize the Trump outrage machine, while showing that they can govern without the self-defeating chaos and tumult that rocked the nation from 2017 to 2021, writes Julian Zelizer.

Several months after President Joe Biden promised Saudi Arabia would suffer "consequences" after the Saudi-led OPEC+ oil cartel unexpectedly announced it would cut production, the Biden administration has no plans to take proactive steps to punish -- let alone significantly reorient its posture toward -- the oil-rich Middle East kingdom, multiple sources on Capitol Hill and in the administration tell CNN.

Former President Donald Trump, who is now running for president again, made an inaccurate claim on Wednesday about his successor's response to the Russian war in Ukraine. Trump said in an online video that President Joe Biden is "now doing what he said 10 months ago would lead to World War III: he is sending in American tanks."