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A record-breaking six women have already announced their candidacies for the Democratic nomination.

Six women — so far — have declared their candidacies for the Democratic nomination in 2020. It’s the most women who’ve ever run for a major-party nomination in history.

Until this cycle, there had been, at most, two women who had ever competed in a major party primary, according to

As President Barack Obama begins his second term in the White House, a new national poll indicates Americans are divided on how things are going in the country.

Forty-nine percent of people questioned in a CNN/ORC International survey released Sunday say things are going very or fairly well in the country, with 51% saying things are going pretty or very badly.

Amid reports of peace talks, President Obama spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday for the first time since the West imposed tougher sanctions on Moscow for its military aggression in Ukraine. The White House said Mr. Obama “reiterated his deep concerns about Russia’s increased support for the separatists in Ukraine.” The two leaders agreed to keep open their channels of

Survivors and family members of the Fort Hood shootings released a video last week demanding the U.S. government designate the massacre as an act of terrorism rather than a case of a murderous rampage.