Soccer team Leicester City has won the British Premier League. Before this year, the chances of that sentence ever being written seemed impossibly remote. 'Cinderella story' doesn't begin to explain it.
Bernie Sanders's blowout wins this weekend show how the rules are changing for this election and perhaps beyond.
The unrest at a Trump event was a symbol of a nation of partisans who don't trust each other. But it also highlighted a way forward.
Peyton Manning has dramatically reshaped the NFL through his mental approach to the game.
Whether held before this fall's elections or after, the hearings to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be be difficult – and reveal a lot about Washington.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have among the highest unfavorability ratings of recent presidential candidates. Their success shows how US politics is changing.
Bernie Sanders was surging ahead of Sunday's Democratic presidential debate. Polls suggest that white voters are the reason.
Hillary Clinton said so Saturday. Experts pushed back on her comment, but they do say that the Islamic State feeds on 'every sign of overreaction, of division, of fear.'
Boundless optimism has long been seen as America's most exceptional characteristic. But that unique worldview is under strain amid economic, political, and security crises. Can it be saved?
President Obama talked about efforts to defeat the Islamic State in his Oval Office address Sunday. But for success, the US might have to fight very differently.
The abortion debate is deeply polarized, and the tone of that debate, when dialed up, can fuel extremism, experts say.
Two large Black Lives Matter protests in Chicago and Minneapolis Tuesday night resulted in no violence. But that wasn't the whole story.
Brussels is poised for a third day of lockdown Monday amid threats from a terror cell with links to the Paris attacks.
The US's goal of zero civilian casualties went badly wrong at a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, leaving US officials to try to piece together why their efforts to protect civilians failed.
Even the sheriff of Roseburg, Ore., is refusing to name the man suspected of killing nine at Umpqua Community College last week, kindling questions about how to respond to mass killings.
John Boehner is leaving as speaker because he can't control the tea party. Should the whole GOP give in? It has happened before.
GOP presidential candidates Ben Carson and Donald Trump have made headlines over comments made – or not made – about Muslims. The incidents speak to the fundamental rift within the party that is shaping current American politics.
Local officials in Texas pointed to anti-police Black Lives Matter rhetoric after a white deputy was killed by a black man, with one suggesting there was 'open warfare' on cops. But data offer a different picture.
Much of the media coverage of Donald Trump has been as a phenomenon more than a presidential candidate. But there are signs that's changing, and it could present a new challenge for the early Republican front-runner.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is trying to attract black voters amid criticism from Black Lives Matter activists. But his record speaks for itself.