Author: Susan Page, USA TODAY

Trump skipped the start of the GOP campaign, the Milwaukee debate. He’ll be at the next big event, at the Fulton County jail. A look at what’s ahead.

The skirmish among eight Republicans debating in Milwaukee underscores that the only person likely to cost Trump the GOP nomination is Trump.

Criminal charges against Trump may sound familiar the fourth time around, but the Georgia indictment poses distinctive perils for him.

The expanding spider’s web that is ensnaring the former president now includes federal charges that go to the heart of our democracy.

Even a third of Republicans in Ohio support a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, a USA TODAY Network/Suffolk poll finds.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed a six-week abortion ban and the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, faces a big gender gap, a USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll finds.

A Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden Common Ground survey finds a split on racial views by race, partisanship, age, and between the “religious” and the “spiritual.”

The sight of a former president being arraigned for federal crimes was breathtaking, but after everyone exhaled, did anything change?

Will President Biden debate challengers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson? Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly say he should.

Sure, the nation was hurtling toward a fiscal cliff. The good news for the USA, and Joe Biden, is that the pols stopped just short of the edge.