Election
Democrat Derek Tran defeats GOP Rep. Michelle Steel in Southern California swing House district
Democrat Derek Tran ousted Republican U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel in a Southern California House district Wednesday that was specifically drawn to give Asian Americans a stronger voice on Capitol Hill.
Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks wins reelection after recount in close Iowa race
Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won her reelection bid Wednesday after a recount confirmed her lead, helping her party pad its thin majority in the U.S. House and retain control of all four of Iowa's congressional seats.
Judge upholds a Missouri law requiring voters to show photo ID to cast a regular ballot
A law requiring Missouri voters to show government-issued photo identification to cast regular ballots will stand after a lower-court judge found it constitutional Tuesday.
Harris aides answer shots that she stuck with Biden and skirted interviews
Vice President Kamala Harris' aides are reacting to two issues that might've hurt her campaign: how she didn't want to distance herself from President Biden and dodged interviews.
Alaska prepares recount in narrow defeat of proposal to repeal ranked choice voting
Alaska's top-four ranked choice voting system survived by a whisker in the November election, but supporters may not want to pop the champagne corks just yet.
Ignorant voters fueled Trump’s win, Alec Baldwin says: ‘Americans are very uninformed about reality’
Americans were too dumb to pick Kamala Harris. That was the explanation Alec Baldwin had for the election result earlier this month.
Vote count: Trump scored GOP’s biggest win in 36 years, Democrats bailed on Harris
Ballots are still being tallied in some slow-counting states three weeks after Election Day, but the size and scope of President-elect Donald Trump's victory are firming up in what analysts called a decisive, but not overwhelming, victory for the GOP.
Trump tapping Project 2025 authors and influencers for key roles
As a former and potentially future president, Donald Trump hailed what would become Project 2025 as a road map for "exactly what our movement will do" with another crack at the White House.
Trump’s Republican Party is increasingly winning union voters. It’s a shift seen in his labor pick
Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, a political shift spotlighting one of President-elect Donald Trump's latest Cabinet picks: a GOP congresswoman, who has drawn labor support, to be his labor secretary.
Voters rejected historic election reforms across the U.S., despite more than $100M push
Two weeks before Election Day, activists from across the country gathered for an online rally heralding the historic number of state ballot initiatives seeking to change the way people vote. Hopes were high that voters would ditch traditional partisan primaries and embrace ballots with more candidate choices.
Trump-backed Derek Merrin concedes to Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur in Ohio
Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur's Trump-endorsed rival said he called the veteran Ohio congresswoman to concede defeat in the 2024 election.
Bob Casey concedes to David McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate race
Sen. Bob Casey, Pennsylvania Democrat, officially conceded defeat in his reelection bid.
Medically woke: Report finds U.S. medical societies back liberal policies unrelated to research
A vast majority of leading American medical societies have adopted left-leaning political positions unrelated to their health specializations, the anti-woke medical advocacy group Do No Harm reported in a new study made public this week.
Trump-backed Nick Begich beats Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola for Alaska’s only House seat
Republican Nick Begich has won Alaska's U.S. House race, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola to claim the seat once held by his grandfather.
‘Disillusioned’ Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi to ‘get the hell out’ of U.S. after Trump’s win
Actresses Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi reportedly have decided to never come back to the U.S. after Mr. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5.
Florist who refused to serve Trump supporters closes shop amid fierce backlash
Kristin Wolter has closed her shop for the rest of the week "due to threats to me and my business," according to a statement made on the now-private Instagram account of Everbloom Design.
Georgia prosecution could follow Trump into White House even as other legal battles wind down
There's still one legal battle that could continue to plague Donald Trump into his new administration in the coming year -- the criminal prosecution over election meddling in the 2020 election out of Fulton County, Georgia.
