WASHINGTON — The lame-duck session of Congress kicks off this week as the House is expected to consider a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while the Senate seeks to advance a bipartisan deal on permitting reform.

Last week’s midterm elections saw Democrats claim sizable majorities in both the House and Senate in the new ...Read more

Former Israeli general Gadi Eisenkot faces a daunting test as he tries to cobble together a ruling coalition from a divided opposition while potentially luring allies away from Benjamin Netanyahu, a master political tactician and veteran of national power struggles.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog tasked Eisenkot with forming the country’s ...Read more

Judging only by the maps of congressional election results, it would appear last week’s Democratic wave bypassed Illinois as it swept across the country, turning new and unfamiliar places blue from South Carolina to northern Nevada.

After Tuesday’s transformative midterm elections, the partisan makeup of Illinois’ delegation is unchanged:...Read more

The first volunteers gathered in the back house of Nithya Raman's Silver Lake home with little besides a whiteboard counting down the number of days until the June 2 primary election.

Raman had jumped into the Los Angeles mayor's race the day before, right at the Feb. 7 filing deadline. Her campaign didn't have an office, a bank account, a ...Read more

A recount for Florida’s District 27 race will begin Monday following Miami Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar’s narrow lead over Democratic challenger Eliott Rodriguez, according to Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia.

As ordered by the Florida Secretary of State, the recount is scheduled to start 10 a.m. Monday at ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, had a message for President Donald Trump’s administration officials Tuesday night as Democrats claimed victory in the U.S. House and Senate:

“Lawyer up.”

Garcia is set to become chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Garcia said the committee, soon to be under ...Read more

Israeli election challenger Gadi Eisenkot got the first attempt at forming a new government, putting him a step closer to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s record tenure.

Eisenkot was formally handed the mandate on Sunday by President Isaac Herzog, who noted the “immense” challenges facing the country. Eisenkot will have up to ...Read more

Republicans’ midterm defeat is crushing any remaining hopes that Congress would approve President Donald Trump’s unprecedented $1.5 trillion defense budget request amid an unpopular war in the Middle East.

Democrats, who won solid majorities of both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, were already largely opposed to the 44% increase from the ...Read more

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries backed impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, saying he’s a “hard yes” on a measure that may be introduced as soon as this week.

“The so-called Secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, which ...Read more

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said any effort by Democratic lawmakers to investigate Donald Trump and his family is likely to fail, taking a defiant stance as the president’s political foes threaten a range of probes once they take control of Congress in January.

Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal defense lawyer, ...Read more

Last week’s tidal wave election was both an embrace of Democrats and a firm, widespread rejection of Trumpism and MAGA.

Thankfully, Donald Trump himself is not contesting the results, as he had threatened to do, perhaps a product of just how acutely he’s been rebuffed by the American public.

When the 120th Congress convenes on Jan. 3 under...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Months after thousands of federal agents descended on Minnesota, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown remained a powerful force in the state’s election. It shaped voters’ choices, mobilized volunteers, took Republicans by surprise and reached far beyond the communities where the crackdown unfolded.

An NBC ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said Friday she’s requested “nonpartisan election observers” to be present for vote counting across North Carolina’s 5th District as she trails in the election.

Foxx, 83, has served 11 terms representing the district, which today encompasses rural parts the northwestern section of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he is offering the role of White House press secretary to UFC chief Dana White, asking him to “please take the job.”

It wasn’t clear if the offer was sincere. Trump said he had asked the “violent Fighter and Warrior” to bring “assistants,” attaching the names and photographs of famous cage fighters in ...Read more

Several Senate Republicans are pushing to delay the party’s leadership elections scheduled for next week following the GOP’s midterms defeat, a move that may open the door to a potential challenge against John Thune.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott expressed support for holding a meeting to discuss postponing next week’s vote, saying that ...Read more

President Donald Trump blasted Democrats for threatening to investigate his administration and Republican donors, saying he ordered the Department of Justice to launch its own probe against them.

As Democrats prepare to take control of both chambers of Congress in January following their decisive victory in the midterm elections, they have ...Read more

MIAMI — Elliot Rodriguez, the Democratic candidate for Florida’s 27th Congressional District, filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to bar Miami-Dade’s Republican supervisor of elections from taking part in an expected recount of his close race against GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, accusing the elections chief of having a stake in the outcome ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he is offering the role of White House press secretary to UFC chief Dana White, asking him to “please take the job.”

It wasn’t clear if the offer was sincere. Trump said he had asked the “violent Fighter and Warrior” to bring “assistants,” attaching the names and photographs of famous cage fighters in ...Read more