Even by the standards of American elections, it has been an absolutely bonkers few weeks. A gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a stump speech, prompting him to sport ...

We looked at polls, resumes and more to assess the likely front-runners. President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race on Sunday set off a whirlwind of activity among Democrats to ...

Nine-week-old border collie pup Flip was recorded trying his paw at herding sheep and did so expertly. In a clip shared by Backwoods Working Border Collies (BWR)'s TikTok account @border ...

What we know and don't know about the potential new presidential contest. The past nine days have featured some of the wildest twists and turns in the history of U.S. presidential elections. On ...

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Something strange is going on in Poll World. The gap between FiveThirtyEight and its competitors has outsize importance given how many Democrats are arguing that Biden should end his reelection ...

Something strange is going on in Poll World. Simply put, FiveThirtyEight’s model gives Joe Biden a much better chance of beating Donald Trump this fall than the other leading models out there do ...

Something strange is going on in Poll World. Simply put, FiveThirtyEight’s model gives Joe Biden a much better chance of beating Donald Trump this fall than the other leading models out there do—and ...