RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx narrowly trails her Democratic challenger as county election boards review and count more ballots.

The lead flipped back and forth Tuesday, but as more results came in, Chuck Hubbard’s lead stretched to 196 votes as of 5:45 p.m., extending his 99-vote lead from election night.

The results ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy, who clung to a razor-thin lead on election night, is trailing after provisional ballots tipped the race in favor of Democrat Raymond Smith Jr.

But the results are not final, with more votes to be counted.

Murphy, a physician, has represented the 3rd District in Eastern North Carolina since ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans blocked the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for U.S. military actions in the Middle East and Latin America, effectively killing the effort until Democrats take over Congress in January.

GOP leaders forced a procedural vote to block quick consideration of the impeachment measure introduced on Monday...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of the Kennedy family are seeking to intervene in the legal fight to block construction of a triumphal arch in Washington championed by President Donald Trump, saying it would interfere with memorial gravesites of family members — including JFK’s eternal flame.

In a motion filed Tuesday, attorneys representing the ...Read more

MIAMI — Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar was declared the winner Tuesday in the tight race for Florida’s 27th Congressional District against Democrat Eliott Rodriguez following a contentious recount that lasted nearly two days and took a brief detour through federal court.

The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board, after recounting 247,952 ...Read more

Every level of government failed to prevent Jeffrey Epstein from sex trafficking minors for over a decade, according to a report released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee, the most recent effort by elected officials to further an investigation into his sex crimes.

Those failures began in South Florida with the Miami U.S. Attorney’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Florida Rep. Darren Soto, the most vulnerable House Democrat running for reelection, narrowly won a sixth term Tuesday in a district that state Republicans redrew in their favor.

Soto was leading Republican Navy veteran Dan Green by less than a point when The Associated Press called the race for Central Florida’s 9th District a...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wanted to know how Jensen Huang was holding up after admitting to an affair with a woman who may have been a Chinese spy. So on Monday, he spoke with the Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer — and came away satisfied with what he heard.

Recounting the conversation to reporters, the president said that ...Read more

The massive Democratic majority in the U.S. House and Senate that was ushered in by a historic blue midterm vote is an ideologically diverse one.

Candidates spent much of the past year differentiating their positions from the mainstream Democratic coalition. The result is a freshman class filled with as many progressive liberals as ...Read more

As U.S. House members pushed for a potential vote Wednesday on whether to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his handling of the Iran war and other alleged “high crimes” against the nation, Hegseth prepared for a fight — with President Donald Trump squarely behind him.

“In the 250 years of our American republic, no secretary of...Read more

The 2026 midterm rout that awarded Democrats decisive majorities in the Senate and House has also sparked interest in the future of the U.S. Supreme Court.

With Democrats securing at least a 54-seat majority in the Senate on Jan. 3, 2027, the window is rapidly closing for President Donald Trump to appoint a new Supreme Court justice ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of an effort to overhaul how the House deals with sexual misconduct hope their proposal will see action before the end of the 119th Congress, though they’re split on the odds.

Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., chair of the Republican Women’s Caucus, said legislative text is done and is being looked at by the relevant ...Read more

Although it’s difficult to imagine, the Supreme Court looks poised to eliminate the ability for citizens to bring legal action against U.S. Immigration and Customs agents and other federal officers who violate their constitutional rights. Following a hearing for Nielsen vs. Watanabe on Monday, there is every reason to fear that the court’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she opposes any push to expel outgoing Michigan Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens after she flipped her Senate endorsement from her former primary rival Abdul El-Sayed to Republican Mike Rogers just before last week's midterm elections.

"We have about three more or two more ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mounted a combative defense against the impeachment effort against him in Congress, casting the move as a politicized attack on U.S. troops and lawful military operations ordered by President Donald Trump.

“I was proud to execute” Trump’s orders, he said, “and I would do it again.”

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In most races in the midterm elections on Nov. 3, 2026, Americans had only two realistic choices: Democrats and Republicans.

As a scholar of parties and elections, I am often asked why the U.S. has only two major parties, while other democracies offer voters three, four or even five choices. The U.S. system looks weird compared to ...Read more

The law of large numbers in statistics means the greater the sampling size, the truer to the actual values. In politics, the law of large numbers of Democrats elected to the House under Hakeem Jeffries and to the Senate under Chuck Schumer means that the chambers will not be held hostage to a handful of members and the bodies can be truer to the...Read more

U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner has won reelection to Washington’s 5th Congressional District seat, in a race that saw a Democratic challenger get the closest to winning the district in more than 30 years.

With Monday’s vote count, Baumgartner, a Republican from Spokane, led Democrat Carmela Conroy 51.7% to 47.9%.

Earlier vote tallies had ...Read more