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 […]
Delray Beach canceled its 2027 St. Patrick's Day Parade and Pride event after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida's new law restricting DEI-related funding.
Sen. Jim Justice said the GOP can "forget" reclaiming the Senate in 2028 after Democrats flipped at least eight seats in their historic blue wave midterm.
A behind-the-scenes rivalry between Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which sources say has been brewing since the early days of the Trump administration, could be culminating in real time as Republicans seek someone to blame for the Iran war and the GOP's disastrous showing in last week's midterm elections.
Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
The warning a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier sentinel called out to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's group on Veterans Day reflects a standard of decorum every visitor to Arlington National Cemetery is expected to meet, no matter their rank.
Democratic veterans in Congress are vowing to continue the fight to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth next year after Republicans blocked an attempt to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors this week.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an accompanying group on Veterans Day were scolded for a breach of decorum by a soldier standing watch at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Sen. John Fetterman faces at least one challenger so far in the 2028 Democratic primary, an "anti-Zionist" from Gaza who has spent the last three years in a tirade against Israel, its people and U.S. officials who support providing aid to the country in its ongoing war against the terrorist group Hamas.
