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Sebastian Matta, a sophomore at Arizona State University, was elected on Tuesday as Superior Court clerk in Maricopa County, Ariz.
Some blamed President Trump for backing the novice candidate after the death of her brother, Lindsey Graham. Others accused Mr. Graham’s team of pushing her to run despite her lack of experience.
At a moment of opportunity for the party, its long-feuding factions are seizing on the midterm results to make their case for tacking to the center or to the left.
Incoming senators are nearly 15 years younger than departing ones, on average. But the chamber’s overall age isn’t shifting much.
The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia’s H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
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Democrats won at least 54 Senate seats Tuesday, but Republicans could flip the chamber in 2028 by sweeping six competitive states and holding the VP.
Olivia Reingold reports from Detroit, where the Muslim progressive's election signifies a seismic shift in the scales of power. Socialism, TikTok, and anger now reign supreme.
After an inconclusive election, Israel’s Arab parties hold the balance of power—but a renewed war with Iran may yet hand Netanyahu another chance.
House Republicans expressed shock and anger after Trump promoted Stephen Miller to chief of staff following the GOP's historic midterm losses.
The race for House minority leader is a rematch between two longtime rivals: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan.
We treat every hour as preparation for some future payoff, but some of the best ways to spend a life accomplish nothing at all.
I wonder if The Lancet’s editors also laud the keffiyeh Thunberg dons and her T-shirt bearing the slogan ‘Yalla Intifada’?
The socialists, entrenched in dark-blue districts and states, will be around for a long time. They’re bound and beholden to Piker and his sizable audience.
The party is unmoored from the things that are timeless and fixed. It has no core ideology. Its standards change with Trump’s mood.
If you can count the costs but can’t count your winnings, you are likely to conclude that you lost the game.
As US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello was sent to help return the country to civilian rule. Sudanese democrats say his choices empowered the very networks that buried it.
Dakota Meyer reveals troops going a year without hot water and sleeping in cars as he tours military barracks on Pete Hegseth's Pentagon mission.
A city in South Florida where many residents fled a socialist strongman voted for a democratic socialist Senate candidate.
Ninety percent of the residents in Texas's Hidalgo County are Latino. The majority of its voters backed Joe Biden in 2020. Four years later, Donald Trump narrowly won the county with 51 percent of the vote.
Abdul El-Sayed told Pod Save America that Democrats must treat Trump as an "unserious fool" and stop clinging to outdated political decorum.
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, Mr. Miller has been the public face of many of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development credited President Trump, while homeless advocacy groups said that so-called Housing First policies of his predecessors played a part.
Much more of the damage to Trump’s approval on the economy was done by the launching of the sweeping tariff war than the energy-price shocks of the Iran war.
On our latest episode, we analyze the nationwide victories by Democrats in this week’s Midterms JOHN ROGERS, senior partner and pollster at Cygnal, says Tuesday’s results followed broken promises to lower prices and not get America entangled in …
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
In a new book about the Carolingian Empire, historian James T. Palmer argues that its founder was more than just a brutal warlord. He was also ‘a savant with a large library and a taste for the obscure.’
His assassination marked a turning point from idealism to cynicism.
In an unusual move, the lead plaintiff in one of two cases challenging semiautomatic weapons bans has asked to drop out weeks before the cases are heard.
California district attorneys accuse Gavin Newsom of overriding juries and ignoring victims' families with his plan to commute all 548 death sentences in the state.
Florida’s status as one of the few red states to mostly withstand the Democratic sweep will be a core part of his argument, an adviser says.
Recent months have shown the most effective tool for accountability may be public opinion.
Two recent films offer very different portraits of Chris Hansen, the controversial journalist behind America's hit TV show ‘To Catch a Predator.’
The incoming House speaker looks to kill permitting reform that would ease energy prices.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
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In a Democratic landslide election, here are the ads that stood out. Some were effective, while others backfired.
Is the question that has animated the Republican race so far - JD Vance or Marco Rubio? - no longer the key question of 2028?
Voters also chose Allison Montgomery as the first openly transgender person elected to the state legislature.
Voters rejected both of SEIU boss Dave Regan’s proposals: a billionaire wealth tax and a measure to punish community health clinics resistant to unionizing.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., now join Seattle and New York City as top-20 U.S. cities led by DSA-affiliated socialist mayors in office.
Years before Omar's latest federal probe, Minnesota Republicans flagged her controversial tax filings to the IRS, according to newly obtained correspondence.
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Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced, and the historians it cites—Benny Morris among them—are misrepresented.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., says he feels "pretty certain" at least one committee will investigate DOGE, calling Elon Musk's cost-cutting effort a catastrophe.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Schoolchildren will learn about Donald Trump more than a hundred years from now, but his successor will likely be a footnote and historical nobody.
On Tuesday night, the president said he was looking forward to working with Democrats. Three days later, he found a way to ensure more confrontations.
Trump's confidantes often remarked that he cared little about the outcome of the midterms. He regarded his party's loss of seats in Congress as an inescapable historical pattern. He had a point.
In North Carolina, Republican Reps. Addison McDowell, Brad Knott, Richard Hudson and Tim Moore all lost. Reps. Greg Murphy, Virginia Foxx and David Rouzer may be next.
The president has bulldozed through obstacles as he has sought to remake the face of Washington. But newly empowered Democrats and angry judges are setting up a high-stakes showdown.
The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem on her family’s Sephardi history, 7 October, and why she wants Jewish students to study in Israel.
Local leaders and first responders who opposed the amendment warned it could lead to painful cuts in services.
President Donald Trump announced NASA will launch its first nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars within two years, aiming to send astronauts to the red planet.
A wave of high-ranking women have left the Trump administration in the past year. Many were replaced by men.
In 1999, just as today, when share prices fall, it isn't a delusion correcting. It's uncertainty resolving.
The true test of exactly how much Trump has fallen will be whether Republicans stop fearing to cross or criticize him.
Democrats won big on Tuesday. But they'll still have to deal with presidential veto power.
Voter turnout reached its second-highest peak in more than a century, driving surprise victories for Democrats.
The State Department's Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $20 million for tips on Iran's nuclear program via Signal or Tor tip lines.
A doctor said the Connecticut Democrat has made “tremendous progress” and is expected to make a full recovery after rehabilitation.
NASA’s race against China to return to the moon depends on Axiom Space, a start-up with an uneven record and a Prada partnership. Its investors include a firm where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.
We’re playing a long game, and these unfortunate results could prove to be God’s blessing in disguise.
Watchdog groups said the defense secretary’s self-promotional messaging as he fights to keep his job probably violated federal law.
Ruing the day I doubted Jim Geraghty.
Creating a bunch of razor’s-edge districts proved particularly unwise for a Republican Party that relies on the fits and fortunes of a single man.
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy on the riots, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and why he thinks France may have to burn before it can rebuild.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
District attorneys and law enforcement unions blast Gov. Gavin Newsom's mass commutation of 548 death row sentences as a betrayal of victims' families.
As the Republicans suffered a nationwide midterm defeat on Tuesday, Florida voters proved that Florida conservatism is American conservatism. All other strands of the movement failed to hold the line. Despite the enormity of the challenges before …
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accused The Washington Post of fabricating claims he reached out to political consultants about a potential 2028 presidential bid.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
Nothing short of being at the precipice, on the sharp edge between the world as it was and the world as it will be, ever seems able to describe the present in terms that adequately capture it.
Within hours of the GOP's midterms walloping, Vice President J.D. Vance was quick to assign blame. "The reason we lost was the war," he argued in an X post. The new White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, is apparently blaming the war, as well…
Casting off all restraint seems to have gotten the public’s attention.
The staffing shake-up comes as Trump remains angry over Tuesday’s midterm losses, and it means his policy agenda will probably move further to the right.
How Trump can navigate the rest of his term.
Democrats’ wins in the Lone Star state exceeded their wildest dreams.
As the Chinese Communist Party hurtles headlong into the AI dilemma, its successes and failures will leave behind some kind of rudimentary map for the rest of us.