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WASHINGTON — Florida Rep. Darren Soto, the most vulnerable House Democrat running for reelection, narrowly won a sixth term Tuesday in a district that state Republicans redrew in their favor.

Soto was leading Republican...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wanted to know how Jensen Huang was holding up after admitting to an affair with a woman who may have been a Chinese spy. So on Monday, he spoke with the Nvidia Corp. chief executive ...Read more

The massive Democratic majority in the U.S. House and Senate that was ushered in by a historic blue midterm vote is an ideologically diverse one.

Candidates spent much of the past year differentiating their ...Read more

As U.S. House members pushed for a potential vote Wednesday on whether to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his handling of the Iran war and other alleged “high crimes” against the nation, Hegseth prepared ...Read more

The 2026 midterm rout that awarded Democrats decisive majorities in the Senate and House has also sparked interest in the future of the U.S. Supreme Court.

With Democrats securing at least a 54-seat majority in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of an effort to overhaul how the House deals with sexual misconduct hope their proposal will see action before the end of the 119th Congress, though they’re split on the odds.

Rep. Kat Cammack...Read more

Although it’s difficult to imagine, the Supreme Court looks poised to eliminate the ability for citizens to bring legal action against U.S. Immigration and Customs agents and other federal officers who violate their ...Read more

Republicans in the House and Senate will be relegated to minority status beginning Jan. 3. They’d be wise to use their last few weeks in the majority productively.

Specifically, there are currently 28 federal judicial ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she opposes any push to expel outgoing Michigan Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens after she flipped her Senate endorsement from her former primary rival ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mounted a combative defense against the impeachment effort against him in Congress, casting the move as a politicized attack on U.S. troops and lawful military operations ...Read more

In most races in the midterm elections on Nov. 3, 2026, Americans had only two realistic choices: Democrats and Republicans.

As a scholar of parties and elections, I am often asked why the U.S. has only two ...Read more

Now that the dust has settled some after last week’s stunning midterm elections, there are two words the electorate has for President Donald Trump.

No, not those two words.

The two words we’re hearing most are “...Read more

The law of large numbers in statistics means the greater the sampling size, the truer to the actual values. In politics, the law of large numbers of Democrats elected to the House under Hakeem Jeffries and to the Senate ...Read more

Are you exhausted? Just can’t shake that weary feeling? If you’re chronically fatigued, you are not alone. Far from it, in fact.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently conducted a national study of ...Read more

It would be wrong to say there wasn’t any federal interference in the midterm elections. The electoral landslide was simply so thorough that the dangers experts had warned about never came to pass.

Some votes are still ...Read more

One week after the Republican midterm election debacle, questions about how it happened while sorting through the debris that left Democrats in charge of Congress, many governorships and state legislators will likely ...Read more

The big message from the midterms is that Americans are struggling with the cost of living. In case anyone missed it, they need relief now. This will put even more attention on the Federal Reserve: Will Chair Kevin Warsh ...Read more

Kalshi and Polymarket have taken the trading world by storm in recent years, and now Illinois has become a battleground for the future of “prediction markets.”

These newfangled exchanges make it easy for everyday ...Read more