Politics

Poll shows presidential race in dead heat and most people unsatisfied with candidates

By Lisa Desjardins, Ali Schmitz, Saher Khan

The race for the White House remains in a dead heat with just months to go before Election Day. Lisa Desjardins breaks down the numbers from our latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

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Trump says he loves Milwaukee after reportedly calling the RNC host city 'horrible' last week

By Christine Fernando, Jill Colvin, Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeatedly praised Milwaukee just weeks before it hosts the Republican National Convention, playing cleanup ain talking about swing-state Wisconsin’s largest city.

Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes, U.S. government acknowledges

By Gene Johnson, Associated Press

A report details how the unprecedented structures devastated salmon runs, inundated villages and burial grounds, and continue to severely curtail the tribes’ ability to exercise their treaty fishing rights.

Congressional Budget Office raises federal budget deficit projection by $400 billion

By Fatima Hussein, Josh Boak, Associated Press

Deficits are a problem for lawmakers in the coming years because of the burden of servicing the total debt load, an aging population that pushes up the total cost of Social Security and Medicare and rising health care expenses.

Here's what's in Biden's plan to offer some migrants a pathway to citizenship, and how it will work

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

It is one of President Joe Biden's most sweeping immigration policies and one that migrant advocates had been heavily lobbying the administration to undertake.

WATCH: Pentagon holds news briefing as NATO's Stoltenberg visits U.S.

By News Desk and Associated Press

Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryder will hold a news briefing as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg visits the United States.

Boris Epshteyn, Trump's adviser, pleads not guilty to 9 felony charges in Arizona's fake elector case

By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press

Epshteyn is accused of assisting Rudy Giuliani in carrying out the scheme to submit fake electors for Trump in Arizona and obstruct the certification of election results by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.

High inflation curbs spending as retail sales rise a meager 0.1% in May

By Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press

Retail sales rose 0.1% in May, below the pace that economists projected, according to the Commerce Department.

WATCH: White House holds briefing ahead of Biden announcement on relief for some undocumented immigrants

By News Desk and Associated Press

President Joe Biden is taking an election year step to offer relief to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S.

New York's top court turns down Trump's request to hear appeal of gag order

By Jake Offenhartz, Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

The Republican former president has repeatedly railed against the hush money case gag order, which prevents him from commenting on witnesses, jurors and others who were involved in the case.