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Democrats have taken control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives after voters in traditionally Republican strongholds turned against Donald Trump’s party in the midterm elections.
Democrats are weighing options to enforce Congress’ authority to declare war.
The BBC's Ros Atkins looks at the state's long track record of voting Republican and what was different in this year's election.
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This story was produced in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Amid a spate of historic political upsets across Texas, voters in the industrial port city of Corpus…
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has hailed incoming Democrat progressives as “a new generation of leadership” after a blue tsunami in the midterm elections.
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Democrats won control of state governments in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and won chambers in Texas, Georgia and North Carolina.
Duck Hodges told the "Game Runs Deep" podcast he gave his friends false hope about setting them up with Ella Langley after marrying Lainey Wilson.
Crude oil prices tumbled Wednesday after Vice President JD Vance blamed the Republicans' steep midterm election losses on the Iran war.
Netanyahu says 'serious suspicions' of foreign interference in vote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that there are "serious suspicions" of foriegn interference in the Israeli elections after his Likud party…
Modest in his demeanor but remarkably enduring, the American-born, Swedish conductor continually fell in love with music, leading orchestras with no-nonsense insight and integrity well into his 90s.
The Trumps have enjoyed a highly lucrative two years, riding a wave of crypto deals and other business enterprises into billions of dollars in new wealth. But around 7:10 p.m. ET Tuesday night—as some of the early election results were…
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Joe Lavorgna, chief economist at SMBC Nikko Securities, said that Trump's 'inability to deliver' on economic promises is what created a backlash from the American working class and Republicans subsequent midterm losses. Lavorgna said that…
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In early, preliminary figures, the news channel trailed several other networks in prime-time viewership On a midterm election night that was a huge disappointment for Republicans, with Democrats taking control of the US House and Senate…
After his party’s historically humiliating midterm defeat, President Donald Trump’s first public move was to show off his ballroom. “This is a special structure. It’s going to be not only one of the biggest, but it’ll be the most beautiful…
A White House official blamed the Iran war for midterm losses and suggested Trump may hold Pete Hegseth accountable during the lame duck session.
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The election results in Texas may offer the Republican Party a chance for a hard reboot, says Bloomberg Opinion columnist Abby McCloskey, as the state's voters rejected MAGA and Trump-aligned candidates. (Source: Bloomberg)
We can exhale — and celebrate — and then we need to sustain movement energy for the long-haul pressure campaigns ahead.
Republicans lost most of the Democratic-held seats they had targeted to flip, lost others they had banked on retaining and got swept out of power by a Democratic surge fueled by voter dissatisfaction with Trump, the economy and the war…
The 2026 midterm elections exposed three critical Republican failures, from the affordability crisis to the Iran war, that could reshape the 2028 race.
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Tuesday night’s blue wave flipped both chambers of Congress for the Democrats, ushering in a new class of medical experts to federal and state offices after vaccine policy and health funding were upended by the Trump administration.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats should focus on lowering costs instead of getting even, but critics say accountability and delivering results go hand in hand.
The president loves combat and chaos. He’s about to get more of it.
US President Donald Trump acknowledged the Republicans’ crushing defeat was partly due to the war on Iran.
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Democratic Representative Joe Morelle of New York said that Democrats need to focus on anti-corruption efforts and setting American families up for success after voters handed the party control of both chambers of Congress. Morelle also…
