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Nov 12, 2018
The recount has not even really begun in Broward County. Local elections officials worked furiously through the day Monday to separate out the first page of a voting ballot that ranges from four to seven pages, so that Broward County can begin machine recounts of the elections for governor and Senate, as well as the statewide race for agriculture commissioner. Broward is one of two counties during the statewide recount that is most under the microscope.
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Nov 12, 2018
President Trump on Monday suggested that the ongoing recounts in Florida should be halted and the races called for Republican candidates while floating baseless claims of voter fraud.
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Nov 12, 2018
President Trump on Monday suggested that the ongoing recounts in Florida should be halted and the races called for Republican candidates while floating baseless claims of voter fraud.
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Nov 11, 2018
New York City hosted its annual Veterans Day Parade, the largest celebration of service in the nation, on Nov. 11. "America's Parade" featured more than 20,000 participants, with 300 marching bands, floats, veterans' groups and military units. Medal of Honor recipient Florent Groberg (U.S. Army, Afghanistan) was this years grand marshal.
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Nov 11, 2018
Over a year after an airstrike killed Buthaina's immediate family, remaining relatives are accusing Saudi authorities of kidnapping the girl in a bid to hide a powerful symbol of the war in Yemen.
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Nov 11, 2018
When Patrick Ho was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport on November 18, 2017, the former Hong Kong government official made one phone call: to James B. Biden, the younger brother of the former U.S. vice president, an acquaintance whose number he had on hand.
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Nov 11, 2018
When Patrick Ho was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Nov. 18, 2017, the former Hong Kong government official made one phone call: to James B. Biden, the younger brother of the former U.S. vice president, an acquaintance whose number he had on hand. The well-connected Hong Konger asked Biden for a lawyer. The U.S. Department of Justice was planning to indict him for using his connections at the United Nations to bribe a U.N. General Assembly president along with African government officials.
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Nov 10, 2018
People inspect a building in Sanaa, Yemen, destroyed in airstrikes carried out by warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition after the U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, departed on June 6, 2018. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even as the humanitarian crisis precipitated by Saudi Arabia's more-than-three year war in Yemen has deepened, the Pentagon earlier this year launched a new classified operation to support the kingdom's military operations there, according to a Defense Department document that appears to have been posted online inadvertently.
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Nov 10, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron and President Trump held talks at the presidential palace in Paris ahead of World War I commemorations taking place in the shadow of a new nationalist surge worldwide.
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Nov 10, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump held talks at the presidential palace in Paris ahead of World War 1 commemorations taking place in the shadow of a new nationalist surge worldwide.
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Nov 09, 2018
As votes continue to be counted, Democrats are inching toward solidifying their control of the House with a pickup of as many as 40 seats, while Republican Senate wins in Arizona and Florida are looking less solid.
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Nov 09, 2018
As votes continue to be counted in the outstanding races, Democrats are inching toward solidifying their control of the House with a pickup of as many as 40 seats, while Republican Senate wins in Arizona and Florida are looking less solid.
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Nov 09, 2018
President Trump's latest executive action, which seeks to limit the ability of migrants to apply for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, was met with widespread criticism Friday from legal experts, human rights advocates and some members of Congress, who described it as not just discriminatory and inhumane, but also illegal under both U.S. and international law.
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Nov 09, 2018
"People are looking too much at what got flipped and not at long-term directional trends," said Jessica Alter of Tech for Campaigns, which connects tech and campaign experts with candidates.
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Nov 09, 2018
President Trump on Friday said he did not know Mark Whitaker before appointing him acting attorney general, despite saying he did less than a month ago.
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Nov 09, 2018
Republicans cry foul over changing vote totals in Broward and Palm Beach counties, while Democrats demand all ballots be counted.
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Nov 09, 2018
U.S. progressive groups staged hundreds of protests nationwide on Thursday evening to demand that President Donald Trump do nothing to hinder an ongoing investigation into Russian meddling to help him win the 2016 U.S. election. The protests, operating under the banner "Nobody is Above the Law" and led by the activist group MoveOn, called for people to gather in cities at 5 p.m. on Thursday in an effort to protect the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The action was spurred by Trump's move on Wednesday to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, as acting attorney general.
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Nov 09, 2018
In her upcoming memoir, Michelle Obama writes that she will "never forgive" President Trump for pushing the so-called birther conspiracy that she believes put her family's safety at risk.
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Nov 09, 2018
In her upcoming memoir, Michelle Obama writes that she will "never forgive" President Trump for pushing the so-called birther conspiracy that she believes put her family's safety at risk.
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Nov 09, 2018
Robert Gaafar, who survived last year's Route 91 Harvest massacre, is reliving seering memories after this week's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Nov 09, 2018
Of all the Democrats who could play a part in the looming drama of the next presidential campaign, the raspy, rumpled Ohio populist emerged from Election Day with the most to brag about.
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Nov 08, 2018
Many observers and experts expect the special counsel probe could conclude with a report by Mueller and both the timing and contents of that document have become sources of intense speculation.
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Nov 08, 2018
Asylum seekers turn themselves in to a U.S. Border Patrol agent after crossing from Mexico into the United States on Nov. 7, 2018 in Mission, Texas. The number of immigrant families, most from Central America, crossing into the U.S. to seek political asylum has risen sharply in 2018. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security released the text of an interim regulation Thursday afternoon outlining new restrictions on asylum that will be the subject of a presidential proclamation, expected to be issued by the White House Friday.
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Nov 08, 2018
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security released the text of an interim regulation Thursday afternoon outlining new restrictions on asylum that will be the subject of a presidential proclamation, expected to be issued by the White House on Friday.
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Nov 08, 2018
Gov. Rick Scott and former Rep. Ron DeSantis hold leads in their respective races that have been shrinking since Election Day.
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Nov 08, 2018
Jason Coffman, who was desperately searching for his son, Cody, in the hours after the deadly mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., received the heartbreaking news on Thursday that the 22-year-old was among the victims of the massacre.
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Nov 08, 2018
The abortion rights movement in the United States is finding much to celebrate in the midterm elections, though activists concede that victory is relative in this political landscape.
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Nov 08, 2018
The abortion-rights movement in the United States is finding much to celebrate in the midterm elections, though activists concede that victory is relative in this political landscape. There were a few clear advances by anti-abortion forces on Election Day, specifically constitutional amendments passed by voters in Alabama and West Virginia.
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Nov 08, 2018
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean's last major effort before retiring on Friday is giving information about the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Nov 08, 2018
A mass shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday left at least 13 people dead, including a sheriff's sergeant and the gunman, police say.
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Nov 08, 2018
A mass shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday left at least 13 people dead, including a sheriff's sergeant and the gunman, police say.
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Nov 08, 2018
A mass shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday left at least 13 people dead, including a sheriff's sergeant and the gunman, police say.
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Nov 08, 2018
In most polling, the percentage of voters who listed health care as their most important issue was twice that of those who said immigration was their greatest concern.
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Nov 07, 2018
Republican Brian Kemp claimed victory Wednesday afternoon in the Georgia governor's race, but Democrat Stacey Abrams said not all votes have been counted.
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Nov 07, 2018
By any historical measure, the Democrats had a pretty great night Tuesday, and the president's party did not.
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Nov 07, 2018
Rep. Richard Neal says that Democrats will request the president's tax returns, despite them being under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
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Nov 07, 2018
The dismissal of Jeff Sessions, the long-embattled U.S. attorney general, had been expected for months. But who will replace him as the nation's top law enforcement officer? That person will have to oversee Robert Mueller's investigation into potential Trump campaign collusion with Russia, which Trump wants to conclude quickly. He or she will also have to enact Trump's hard-line immigration policies. And before all that, he or she will have to win confirmation from the Senate.
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Nov 07, 2018
In op-eds and interviews, new acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker expressed his criticisms of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe and laid out a plan to stymie it.
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Nov 07, 2018
- Americans vote today in critical midterm elections that mark the first major voter test of Donald Trump's presidency, with control of Congress at stake. Other than marijuana — and unlike in some previous elections, there were relatively few hot-button social issues on the ballot.
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Nov 07, 2018
Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp attends the Election Night event at the Classic Center on November 6, 2018 in Athens, Georgia. In the first midterm election of Donald Trump's presidency, Republicans took a page from the Democratic playbook to slow anti-Trump momentum in a number of key states. Normally, Democrats are successful in non-presidential elections when they get lots of voters to the polls who are either new to the process or who usually only vote in presidential years.
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Nov 07, 2018
Normally, Democrats win midterms by rallying voters who are new or vote only in presidential years. But on Tuesday, Republicans stayed ahead — in conservative states at least — by mobilizing their own unreliable voters.
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Nov 07, 2018
Democrats in Congress are being encouraged by the party's left wing to hammer the Trump administration. But to keep their majority, they will need to address issues that more directly affect the American people.
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Nov 07, 2018
Jeff Sessions listens as President Trump speaks before he is sworn in as attorney general, Feb. 9, 2017. WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly announced on Twitter Wednesday that Jeff Sessions is no longer the U.S. attorney general. "We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States.
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Nov 07, 2018
Matthew Whitaker, left, and Jeff Sessions. WASHINGTON—President Trump abruptly announced that Jeff Sessions is no longer the attorney general in a pair of tweet on Wednesday. "We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States.
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Nov 07, 2018
The president angrily denies making racist remarks.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Trump on Wednesday cut off a reporter who dared to ask whether describing himself as a "nationalist" on the campaign trail had emboldened white nationalists.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Trump defended his characterization of migrant caravans from Central America as an "invasion" during a heated press conference following the midterm elections Wednesday.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Washington. President Trump defended his characterization of migrant caravans from Central America as an "invasion" during a heated press conference following the midterm elections Wednesday. Trump focused a lot of attention on the caravans in the weeks leading up to midterms, repeating unsubstantiated claims that many criminals and "unknown middle easterners" were among the mostly-Honduran migrants, many of them children and families, heading for the U.S. border where they plan to apply for asylum.
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Nov 07, 2018
Democrats won six state legislative chambers in from Republicans on Tuesday night.
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Nov 07, 2018
Democrats took six state legislative chambers from Republicans on Tuesday night.
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Nov 07, 2018
The president has a heated exchange with the man his supporters love to hate.
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Nov 07, 2018
President Trump on Wednesday said the Republicans "defied history" in the 2018 midterm elections by maintaining control of Senate and winning a "slew" of governor's races — despite losing its majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Nov 07, 2018
Some six weeks after President Donald Trump accused China of trying to interfere in the midterm elections to hurt Republicans, little public evidence has emerged to support that claim. There are clearly potential political benefits for the Trump administration in raising the specter of Chinese meddling, particularly after an election that didn't go the White House's way.
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Nov 07, 2018
EL PASO—Beto O'Rourke marked the end of his unlikely and ultimately unsuccessful bid to unseat Ted Cruz in Texas's surprisingly competitive Senate race just as he began it some 20 months ago, by clicking on his Facebook Live stream and walking through the crowd of thousands of adoring supporters gathered here as a few hundred thousand others watched online.
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Nov 07, 2018
For years, Democrats had dreamed of defeating Walker, an anti-union Republican.
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Nov 07, 2018
Stacey Abrams refuses to call it quits in Georgia, promising a "do-over" in her bid to become the first African-American woman in the United States to become governor,
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Nov 07, 2018
Will Democrats take back the House? Can Republicans maintain control of the Senate? Tune in here for live updates and instant analysis beginning at noon ET.
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Nov 07, 2018
Republican Iowa Rep. Steve King, known for his strident anti-immigrant rhetoric, has narrowly secured a ninth term in Congress, beating Democratic opponent J.D. Scholten Tuesday night by the thinnest margin of his political career. King's win comes amid significant losses for GOP lawmakers in the Hawkeye state, as fellow Republican Reps. David Young and Rod Blum were both unseated by Democrats. King is the only Republican remaining in the Iowa delegation.
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Nov 07, 2018
Like Beto O'Rourke, Hegar generated national media attention that wasn't enough to propel her to victory.
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Nov 07, 2018
Democratic victories in Virginia, particularly in the Richmond suburbs, where Republican Dave Brat was knocked out of his seat by former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger, show Democrats gaining power in the state.
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Nov 07, 2018
In Pennsylvania, Democrats recovered Tuesday from their disastrous showing in 2016. Two years ago, the Keystone State was part of Hillary Clinton's supposed "blue wall" of states that she could count on as safely in her column. Instead it went to Donald Trump, in the first time a Republican had won since 1988.
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Nov 07, 2018
Last night's election means that as the party in control of the House of Representatives, the Democrats will chair all 21 of that chamber's committees. With that control comes the power to launch investigations.
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Nov 06, 2018
Republicans had long coveted McCaskill's seat, which she successfully defended in 2012, but Missouri has increasingly turned Republican, voting for Trump by a wide margin in 2016.
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Nov 06, 2018
Democrat Tom Malinowski, who worked for former President Barack Obama, defeated Republican Rep. Leonard Lance for the New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District.
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Nov 06, 2018
Laura Kelly, a state senator from Topeka, had been neck-and-neck with Republican Kris Kobach, who currently serves as Kansas' secretary of state.
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Nov 06, 2018
Propelled by an unprecedented surge of rank-and-file enthusiasm and widespread suburban dissatisfaction with the GOP, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2011. "Thanks to you we owned the ground," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — likely the next House speaker — said Tuesday night.
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Nov 06, 2018
Propelled by an unprecedented surge of rank-and-file enthusiasm and a widespread suburban dissatisfaction with the GOP, Democrats were on track to win control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2011. The outcome is largely a repudiation of President Trump, who told a rally last month in Mississippi to "pretend I'm on the ballot" — and a partial vindication.
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Nov 06, 2018
With victories in Tennessee, Indiana, North Dakota and Texas Donald Trump's Republican Party preserved and likely extended its majority in the U.S. Senate, capitalizing on a lopsided battlefield that forced Democrats to defend 10 seats in states Trump won in 2016. Control of the House was still in doubt, although Democrats were making inroads on the Republican majority. Voters turned out in record numbers to deliver a verdict on Trump after two years in which he has monopolized the media, polarized the electorate and dominated American political life like no president since Franklin Roosevelt — or arguably ever.
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Nov 06, 2018
The former representative from Florida denies Andrew Gillum the prize in the governor's race.
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Nov 06, 2018
Senator Heidi Heitkamp, the first-term Democratic Senator from North Dakota, lost her re-election bid to Republican challenger Kevin Cramer -- a defeat considered a direct result of her vote against the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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Nov 06, 2018
There will be Muslim women in Congress for the first time in history, as Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib easily won their House races. Omar was declared the winner in Minnesota's left-learning Fifth Congressional District — which includes Minneapolis and its suburbs, and has elected Democrats since 1960.
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Nov 06, 2018
Beto O'Rourke's candidacy dramatically shifted a race where Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had been an easy bet for re-election, but his unorthodox campaign was not enough to unseat the tea party incumbent.
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Nov 06, 2018
Mikie Sherrill's victory may mark the beginning of a new political superstar for the Democratic Party. The former Sea King helicopter pilot for the Navy and former federal prosecutor will be the first Democrat to hold the seat since 1985.
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Nov 06, 2018
In Tennessee, conservative Marsha Blackburn defeated a popular Democrat, former Gov. Phil Bredesen, to replace moderate Republican Bob Corker in the U.S. Senate.
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Nov 06, 2018
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney easily wins his bid to replace Orrin Hatch in the U.S. Senate.
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Nov 06, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with attendees during rally in the Bronx on Nov. 1, 2018. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old who shocked the Democratic establishment with her June primary win, is officially on her way to Congress after winning New York's 14th District. Ocasio-Cortez all but sealed her seat with an upset over Rep. Joe Crowley, the fourth- ranked Democrat in the House and ten-term incumbent.
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Nov 06, 2018
Republican businessman Mike Braun defeated Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly in Indiana on Tuesday in one of the tightest races of the election cycle.
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Nov 06, 2018
Voters in the Sunshine State restore voting rights to an estimated 1.5 million convicted felons.
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Nov 06, 2018
Democrat Jennifer Wexton triumphs over Republican Barbara Comstock in a Virginia House race.
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Nov 06, 2018
Donna Shalala, whose résumé already includes secretary of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration, is now adding a new title — congresswoman — after winning in a longtime Republican district in Florida.
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Nov 06, 2018
Long lines and malfunctioning machines — but apparently no foreign interference — plagued midterm elections as of Tuesday evening, as the first polls closed in Kentucky and Indiana, say government officials.
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Nov 06, 2018
It's Election Day in America, and voters will deliver their first verdict on President Trump's tumultuous tenure in midterm elections that are expected to draw historic numbers to the polls. Across the country, people are talking about this election as one of the most momentous in their lifetimes — a fight for the very soul of America. Here's a look at candidates, politicians and the political elite as they vote on Election Day.
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Nov 06, 2018
Here are the places to watch as results come in from Texas.
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Nov 06, 2018
Here are the places to watch as election results come in from Texas.
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Nov 06, 2018
Here is a guide of midterm races to watch — hour-by-hour indicators of what might be happening in the House, the Senate and at the state level.
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Nov 06, 2018
From rogue hackers to foreign government interference to campaigns of misinformation, America's electoral system is under siege.
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Nov 06, 2018
For his last rally before the midterm elections, President Trump took the stage on Monday night and delivered an hour and twenty-minute long speech before a packed house at the Show Me Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University.
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Nov 06, 2018
Will Democrats take back the House? Can Republicans maintain control of the Senate? Tune in here for live updates and instant analysis beginning at noon ET.
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Nov 05, 2018
There is a core Republican message regarding Democrat Stacey Abrams in Georgia's gubernatorial election: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Nov 05, 2018
In his efforts to narrow the gender gap Republicans face in Tuesday's midterm elections — in which women voters strongly favor Democrats — Donald Trump brought three of the top women in his administration to a rally in Fort Wayne, Ind.: senior adviser Ivanka Trump, counselor Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Sarah Sanders.
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Nov 05, 2018
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor in Tuesday's elections, lashed out Monday morning at Republican Brian Kemp over his handling of a report to his office overseeing the election about vulnerabilities in the state's voter system. Abrams noted that she does not lightly use such rhetoric. "I have worked hard … to be as careful as possible with my language," she said.
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Nov 05, 2018
If the final round of major national polls is to be believed, Democrats are poised to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives, while Republicans are set to maintain control of the Senate.
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Nov 05, 2018
The cable network joins NBC in pulling the ad that has been decried by Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Nov 05, 2018
Ted Cruz tries out different messages as his hard-to-predict, tighter-than-expected race against Beto O'Rourke comes down to the wire.
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Nov 05, 2018
When Beto O'Rourke announced his longshot bid to unseat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz well over a year ago, no one would have predicted the race would emerge as one of the most closely watched elections in the country. In theory, the race is still Cruz's to lose. Texas is a deeply red state that has moved further and further to the right since George W. Bush defeated Ann Richards, the sitting Democratic governor in a stunning upset that put Republicans firmly in control of the Lone Star state 24 years ago.
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Nov 05, 2018
(Countdown above in EDT) Key races checkup
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Nov 04, 2018
MACON, Ga. — President Trump has focused his final week of campaigning before the midterm elections on helping the GOP in key Senate races, but on Sunday afternoon he made a detour to Georgia to help prevent what would be a massive upset for Democrats in the state's contest for governor. Trump appeared with Republican Brian Kemp, who is locked in a dead heat with Democrat Stacey Abrams, a notable show of strength for the Democrats in a state long known for its conservative politics. If Abrams, an African-American woman, were to win, it would be the second major victory for Democrats in the Deep South in a year, following on the heels of Doug Jones's victory a year ago, when he become the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in 26 years.
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Nov 04, 2018
Former President Barack Obama campaigned for Sen. Joe Donnelly in Indiana on Sunday — despite some significant ideological differences.
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Nov 04, 2018
Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams defended herself against President Trump's claim that she is unqualified to be governor on Sunday.
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Nov 04, 2018
Steve Bannon, now alienated from Trump, with his plans to remake the Republican Party a dismal failure, is focused on abetting the rising tide of nationalism in Europe. But most right-wing European parties are reluctant to align with him.
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