Republicans’ failure to stand up to President Donald Trump has brought the country close to a totalitarian state, allowing him to do largely as he pleased. Having captured control of Congress, Democrats should now resist the temptation to exact revenge and instead focus on restor...
A wave election is supposed to be about the candidates. It ends up grading everyone who tried to tilt the odds around them: the mapmakers, the donors and the party officials deciding who gets to run.
Elon Musk left California for Texas, hoping to put Democratic regulators behind him. But after Tuesday's election, the Tesla CEO may find that the political climate he moved to escape is catching up with him in the state he now calls home.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz sounded the alarm that Republicans could lose every statewide office in Texas in the lead-up to the midterms. Few believed him.
Twenty years ago this week, President George W. Bush walked into the East Room the day after his party’s midterm defeat—a "thumping," as he put it, three years into Iraq and five for Afghanistan—and announced that Donald Rumsfeld was leaving the Pentagon.
With speculation of an alleged U.S. plan to strike Iran with nuclear weapons circulating online, Iran has already begun preparing for worst-case scenarios.
Conservative commentator Laura Loomer and former Trump ally Tucker Carlson have sounded the alarm over Republican midterm losses, exposing growing divisions within MAGA even as Nicki Minaj doubled down on her support for President Donald Trump.
Multiple planes were targeted by suspected bomb threats in Europe on Thursday, days after a spate of similar incidents caused chaos.
A livestreamer's video that appears to show a man threatening to kill him on a Rhode Island bike path has gone viral after he said a body had been found in the same area.
Alaska’s Senate race is being fought on two tracks. One is the slow count of ballots that could take until November 18. The other is in federal court.
President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Republican Michele Tafoya and the federal raid on Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar’s home contributed to Tafoya’s loss against Democrat Peggy Flanagan for a Minnesota U.S. Senate seat, a political science professor told Newsweek.
Nino Mangione, cousin of accused United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, narrowly won re-election to the Baltimore County Council on Tuesday, edging out his Democratic challenger in what is considered one of the county’s purplest districts.
An unusually early disruption of the polar vortex could shake up weather patterns across the United States in the coming weeks, potentially opening the door to outbreaks of Arctic air as the country heads toward winter.
Several Democrats have issued warnings to Trump administration officials that they will face summonses to appear before congressional committees once the party takes control of both chambers in January.
Democrats' midterm victories did not stop at the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Across the country, voters handed the party control of state legislative chambers that determine everything from abortion laws and school funding to taxes, voting rules, and congressional maps.
California voters were leaning against a proposed one-time tax on billionaires, with Proposition 40 trailing as election officials continued counting ballots.
Voters in Virginia have approved an amendment to remove the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, two decades after residents voted to define marriage as a union solely between a man and a woman.
Latino voters moved away from President Donald Trump on Tuesday, from the Rio Grande Valley to Paterson, New Jersey, helping Democrats win seats Republicans had redrawn to hold and nearly toppling two in Miami.