USA Conservatives blast Pelosi for tearing up a copy of Trump's State of the Union address Vice President Mike Pence told "Fox and Friends" he "wasn't sure if she was ripping up the speech or ripping up the Constitution." 05/02/2020
USA The takeaway from Iowa: Buttigieg, Sanders won their respective ideological lanes First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. 05/02/2020
USA The 2020 State of the Union, visualized A by-the-minute breakdown of what President Donald Trump talked about in his third State of the Union speech. 05/02/2020
USA Trump's State of the Union was an 80-minute victory lap Analysis: He never mentioned impeachment. But as he addressed Congress Tuesday night, the triumphalist tone was unmistakeable. 05/02/2020
USA What's true and what's false in Trump's State of the Union address Here's what the president got right, wrong and in between in his third such address to Congress. 05/02/2020
USA Why more than one candidate could declare victory in Iowa The Iowa Democratic Party is releasing three sets of results, all at once, for the first time. 05/02/2020
USA Michigan Gov. Whitmer, in Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union, says GOP taking health care away The gains in the stock market that the president touts haven't helped average Americans, she says. 05/02/2020
USA Iowa's muddled vote count was a debacle, but not for Joe Biden Analysis: Biden may benefit from Monday's chaos, but the party may be in danger of a long slog that could endanger unity against Trump in the fall. 05/02/2020
USA Iowa chaos raises NH stakes, reshapes Democratic race The delay in results stood to diminish the significance of Iowa, elevate New Hampshire and test Joe Biden's durability as the 2020 national front-runner. 04/02/2020
USA Emory professor hit with criminal charge, linked to Chinese government program Xiojiang Li was a member of the Thousand Talents plan, a Chinese program that a Senate report last year said was designed to steal sensitive research. 04/02/2020
USA Iowa Democratic Party to release 'majority' of caucus results Tuesday afternoon The results of Monday night's contest, the first of the 2020 Democratic primary, were delayed due to technical issues. 04/02/2020
USA Chief Justice Roberts to attend Trump's State of the Union amid impeachment trial Rehnquist was absent from the speech to a joint session of Congress by President Clinton in 1999 when his trial was ongoing. 04/02/2020
USA Iowa's reporting chaos helped two candidates — and it hurt two others First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. 04/02/2020
USA Trump's campaign shouts 'rigged' as Iowa caucuses thrown into chaos There was no evidence that the state Democratic Party, which is overseeing the election, was "rigging" the results. 04/02/2020
USA So far, there's only one loser in Iowa: The state's Democratic party Analysis: Iowa's colossal inability to count its Democratic caucus votes threatens to end its first-in-the-nation status for good. 04/02/2020
USA Candidates give victory-like speeches in Iowa sans results The speeches added to the disarray in Iowa late Monday amid major delays in the reporting of results of the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses. 04/02/2020
USA Video appears to show Trump pretending to conduct band during anthem The president has made an issue of NFL players who kneel when the anthem is played. 04/02/2020
USA Iowa caucus results much slower than expected, state Democratic Party 'quality controlling' After 10:00 p.m. ET, no data had yet been made public in the first-in-the-nation voting state. 04/02/2020
USA Entrance poll shows dip in first-time Iowa caucusgoers This year's level of new participants is well shy of that in 2008, when a whopping 57 percent of Democrats said they had never caucused before. 04/02/2020
USA Trump the projected winner in Iowa's GOP caucuses Trump was projected as the winner over minor candidates Joe Walsh and Bill Weld. 04/02/2020