WASHINGTON — As Democrats continue their victory lap after their big wins on election night, outside groups and incoming freshmen are already turning up the pressure — and laying out competing visions of what the next two years should look like.

For Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer, it bears repeating that “the Democrats aren�...Read more

Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., the presumed next chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, plans to bring resolutions to the floor to “immediately” end the war with Iran when Democrats take control of the House in January, he wrote in a letter Thursday seeking his colleagues’ support to become chairman.

The letter, which officially...Read more

Data center opposition had been building across the country, one moratorium or blocked project at a time. Then, virtually overnight, the midterm election tilted a broad swath of the regulatory map against the AI buildout.

Newly elected governors in Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico and Texas campaigned on a promise to stop — or at least ...Read more

BOSTON — An 18-year-old Tewksbury man who law enforcement says has described mass shooters as his “heroes” and advocated a race war faces federal charges alleging that he threatened to kill President Donald Trump.

Prosecutors say that on June 21, Trenton Touch sent a direct message on Instagram to another user with him holding what ...Read more

At the direction of Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, three competitive statewide races are being audited in accordance with a state law that requires reviews of results in races that are within one percentage point.

No winner has been declared in the contests for Kansas governor, attorney general and secretary state.

Democrats Cindy ...Read more

NEW YORK — Judges hearing an appeal of Donald Trump’s criminal conviction for concealing a hush-money payment to a porn star focused on whether prosecutors properly applied campaign-finance law to his conduct.

Trump attorney Robert Giuffra Jr. argued to a five-judge panel Thursday that prosecutors improperly elevated a false-business ...Read more

DENVER — Before Tuesday’s blue wave election, the one bright spot beleaguered Colorado Republicans could point to was that they had as many representatives in Congress from the Centennial State as Democrats did.

But that four-to-four split was upended this week, with two Republican congressmen losing their seats — and the specter of ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Beyond the major upsets to the Republican Party in North Carolina, Tuesday’s results brought a milestone in racial representation in the state’s congressional delegation.

North Carolina’s delegation is poised to flip from 10 Republicans and four Democrats to 10 Democrats and four Republicans, pending the outcome of some ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is weighing whether to leave the Trump administration, people familiar with the matter said, as he considers his next moves following Republicans’ midterm elections wipeout this week.

Rubio and his advisers are going over options for his future, according to the people, who asked not to be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers are looking to impeach embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as soon as next week, an effort that’s gained momentum after the Iran war he championed partly led to Republicans losing control of Congress in the midterms.

Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican and frequent critic of President Donald...Read more

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, who is poised to lead the House Judiciary Committee after Democrats won control of the chamber, clashed with a Republican colleague on CNN Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s impeachments and the direction of the new Congress.

Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who currently serves as the committee’s ranking member, is ...Read more

NEW YORK — Progressive Rep-elect Claire Valdez, D-New York, Thursday said she hasn’t decided whether to support Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for speaker of the House but projected optimism that Democrats will be unified behind an agenda of economic populism after their sweeping midterms landslide.

Valdez, a Democratic Socialists of America member ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday called on officials to shift votes in the still-uncalled Alaska Senate race to Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, in order to defeat Democrat Mary Peltola, who holds a narrow lead.

The president said Alaska authorities should hand Sen. Sullivan all the votes that went to the other two candidates in the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Tom McClintock won another term representing California’s 5th Congressional District despite a Democratic-backed redistricting effort that reshaped his sprawling Sierra Nevada and Central Valley seat, The Associated Press projected Thursday.

McClintock, R-Elk Grove, who has served in Congress since 2009, defeated ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, a prolific Democratic lawmaker who has reshaped state policy on a host of fronts — from housing to transgender rights — will succeed House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi in Congress after San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan called Wiener on Wednesday to concede, her campaign...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, has lost his race for reelection, a stinging defeat for the man charged with preserving the House majority for the GOP.

Hudson fell to Democrat Richard Ojeda, a former West Virginia state senator who was leading 51% to 49% ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The incoming freshman class of the 120th Congress includes several people who scored historic wins in their states and the nation at large.

Among them were women breaking glass ceilings in the Senate and trailblazers for Native American representation. Beyond Washington, a handful of nominees pulled off milestone victories in ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland voters reelected Gov. Wes Moore, approved a constitutional amendment concerning congressional redistricting and elected new county executives in several of the state’s largest jurisdictions Tuesday.

The results also included a closer race in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District, changes in the state’s congressional...Read more