The political equivalent of an asteroid strike hit the Grand Old Party on Tuesday night. A blue wave tore through traditionally red strongholds, flipping the governorships in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, and other red-leaning states, and handing Democrats control of both houses of Congress with significant majorities. The Republican Party was handed an unmistakable, undeniable mandate […]

PITTSBURGH — The photographs hang near the front of the building, and John Thornton walks visitors past them the way some fathers show off old Little League pictures. Here is a rover he and his colleagues built some 15 years ago. Here is a larger rover photographed at night on a western Pennsylvania slag heap, […]

Houston Mayor John Whitmire bars police from notifying ICE during nonviolent stops despite defeated Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's order.

Capitol Hill leadership elections pit Hakeem Jeffries against progressive dissent, while Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan battle for GOP minority leader.

Anna Paulina Luna says she will reject all corporate PAC money and foreign policy-linked funding after her narrow midterm victory in Florida.

Susie Wiles served 21 months as Trump's longest-serving chief of staff across both terms, departing after Republicans lost the House and Senate. Trump announced Stephen Miller will take on the role.