The Senate majority leader race is on. Or is it? Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is answering the calls of his Democratic colleagues who want new leadership when they take back control of Congress next year and is offering himself as an alternative to Charles E. Schumer.
At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]
Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]
“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he discussed Pete Rose with President Donald Trump at a meeting two weeks ago and he plans to rule on a request to end the sport's permanent ban of the career hits leader, who died in September.
The same people who years ago accused President Trump of "family separations" for deporting parents without their children in tow are now lambasting him for sending the children with their parents.
Dem senator warns President Trump his deportation efforts, including the decision to remove Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the U.S., is "not going to end well" for him.
The Trump administration is investigating Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review for allegations that they violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Something is certainly afoot in the Democratic Party's inner rankings – but whether that's enough to meaningfully move the midterm needle is anyone's guess.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ruled to restore a lower court’s order barring the Trump administration’s planned mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau.
Former Biden administration cyber official Jen Easterly said she fears President Trump's personnel changes represent something more sinister than the normal churn of the revolving door in the federal government.
China is a "threatened market" for U.S. farmers as the trade impasse between Beijing and Washington leads to canceled orders and a complex scramble to find new markets, a major trade group said Monday.
House Republicans returned to Washington after a two-week recess ready to begin piecing together the "big, beautiful bill" that will carry the bulk of President Trump's legislative agenda.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will give a speech Wednesday to counter President Trump's messaging about his first 100 days in office and outline his party's vision for the country.
The order comes as Trump seeks to speed up deportations, following through on a key promise he made on the campaign trail during his third bid for president.
