Confirmation hearings for Cabinet members nominated by President-elect Trump are underway. The FBI conducts background checks focusing on "character and conduct" of the nominees. What's involved?

President Donald Trump’s first judicial nominees of his second term hedged their responses to whether Joe Biden won the 2020 ...

One of the civics lessons of the Biden-Harris shuffle: Parties can select their presidential nominees however they want to. But voters do expect to have their say.

Rob Kelner is a lawyer who has helped prepare dozens of presidential nominees for the confirmation process. He chairs the election and political law group at Covington & Burling, and he's on the ...

Paul Hartinger knows exactly what goes into ensuring the security of presidential nominees. "If had an event in my town, we might have 30, 40 police officers, not only on the interior but also ...

Vice presidential nominees weren't tasked with flinging mud until the last 40 years. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections. ... By 2012, the division of ...

The high-stakes question Trump’s nominees curiously won’t answer. Nominees have for decades pledged to refuse illegal presidential orders, but many of Trump’s nominees suddenly won’t.

In 1872, Democratic presidential candidate Horace Greeley died after the election, but he had already lost to Ulysses S. Grant and the electoral votes had not yet been cast.

A ceremonial vote for both the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees will also take place at the Chicago convention, which runs through Aug. 22.

WASHINGTON, D. C. - When Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz face off Tuesday in the only scheduled 2024 debate between vice-presidential candidates, millions of ...

Donald Trump is officially the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee, following a procedural roll call vote on Monday, July 15. He has selected Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance to join him on the ...