It's a presidential election year, which means the party conventions are a fixture on the summer schedules of every political pundit and reporter. In the past, the big conventions were gatherings ...

The DNC is announcing Monday that the 2028 national convention will be held from Aug. 7 to Aug. 10, CBS News has learned.

The Democratic National Committee is forgoing a party convention for the midterm elections this year, opting for a different strategy than its Republican counterpart. The Republican National Committee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Now that Joe Biden has ...

New Jerseyans aren’t always civil, but it’s still possible for a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican to have a rational and pleasant ...

Party conventions used to nominate presidential candidates. Now that's all done in advance. Next week's Republican Party convention plans to break with tradition. Instead of waiting until Wednesday, ...

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to ...

In recent decades, the national political party conventions have ceased to be actual contests over presidential and vice-presidential nominations. The days of deal making between state party bosses ...

The cheering, clapping and speechifying are over. Historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have returned after their trips to the 2024 political party conventions to ...

In 1952, party leaders coalesced around Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, who was not even a candidate before the Democratic National Convention started. Credit: Bridgeman Images via Reuters Connect Now ...

President Joe Biden at the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President ...