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Nov 23, 2020
Georgia flipped blue for Joe Biden, but in its all-important and costly Senate runoff elections, the Republicans are in full attack mode while the Democrats stick to a steady liberal message.
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Nov 22, 2020
The next president promises to do for old-line newspaper columnists what Donald Trump did for cable. What a time to be George Will!
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Nov 22, 2020
Economists warn that lawmakers must pass aid now, as a renewed coronavirus surge chills consumer spending and business activity.
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Nov 21, 2020
Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, a Republican who is campaigning in a high-stakes runoff election that could determine control of the Senate, is isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus.
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Nov 20, 2020
A few top Republicans called for a smooth transition, but the critical mass of the party remained silent as President Trump continued to try to subvert the popular vote and falsely claim he won re-election.
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Nov 20, 2020
The polarization of the confirmation process, once a matter of giving the president the team he chooses, will present the new administration with a challenge in filling out its upper echelons.
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Nov 20, 2020
Claudia Tenney seemed poised to avenge her 2018 defeat to Rep. Anthony Brindisi, a Democrat, but her election night lead has shrunk to roughly 100 votes.
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Nov 20, 2020
He terminated emergency-lending programs that will limit the new administration's options — and upset the Federal Reserve, too.
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Nov 19, 2020
The president's daughter-in-law is said to be considering a Senate run in her native state of North Carolina.
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Nov 19, 2020
LeBron James, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Dr. Anthony Fauci and more spoke about topics like voting rights, Washington's future and the pandemic.
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Nov 19, 2020
After the state went blue in the presidential race, more than $135 million in TV ads have been booked in two Senate runoff elections.
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Nov 18, 2020
Andrew Garbarino, a Republican state assemblyman, defeated Jackie Gordon, overcoming a Democratic edge in voter enrollment.
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Nov 18, 2020
A fresh round of federal aid can keep restaurants in business during the winter months while protecting public health.
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Nov 18, 2020
Senator James Inhofe is pressing to jettison a broadly supported requirement to strip the names of Confederate leaders from military bases, a provision the president opposes.
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Nov 18, 2020
Democrats nominated Representative Nancy Pelosi for another term of as speaker of the House, and she suggested it could be her last.
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Nov 18, 2020
The California Republican believes his party's victories in 2020 came thanks to the president, not in spite of him: "He brought turnout."
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Nov 18, 2020
An intense battle between moderates and progressives has already spilled into public view.
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Nov 18, 2020
An intense battle between moderates and progressives has already spilled into public view.
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Nov 18, 2020
Having raised over $40 million this election cycle, the California Democrat is weighing his next moves, including the possibility of a Biden administration post, a Senate run or even House leadership.
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Nov 18, 2020
Divided government sometimes overperforms expectations.
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Nov 18, 2020
Divided government sometimes overperforms expectations.
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Nov 18, 2020
State and city governments employ millions of essential workers. But the pandemic has pushed them to the brink. President-elect Biden needs to step in now.
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Nov 18, 2020
Together, they employ about 23 million essential workers. But the pandemic has pushed them to the brink. President-elect Biden needs to step in now.
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Nov 17, 2020
Mr. Richmond, a House member from Louisiana for a decade, will be one of the highest-ranking Black officials in the Biden administration as the head of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
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Nov 17, 2020
Double-crossing. Accusations of lying and incompetence. And a bitter divide over whether to endorse President Trump's false claims of fraud. The G.O.P. in Georgia has a messy feud unfolding, with two Senate seats up for grabs.
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Nov 17, 2020
Two of the oldest members of Congress, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Representative Don Young of Alaska, now have the virus, underscoring the risks on Capitol Hill.
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Nov 17, 2020
Ms. Shelton, a Trump loyalist with unusual views, hit a major setback. But her journey toward the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors may not be over.
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Nov 17, 2020
With control of the Senate hanging in the balance, money is pouring into the two runoff elections in Georgia.
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Nov 17, 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on track to keep her post, but with a slim majority that leaves little room for defections, party divisions could prove disastrous. Republicans can't wait to exploit them.
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Nov 17, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter appeared before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend actions by their companies to moderate speech during the election.
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Nov 17, 2020
The executives, who have now testified several times in recent years, faced new questions about how they handled the election.
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Nov 17, 2020
The executives, who have now testified several times in recent years, will most likely face some new questions about how they handled the election.
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Nov 17, 2020
Many of New York State's top Republicans have stayed largely silent about President Trump's refusal to concede.
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Nov 17, 2020
Liberals got "trounced" in Montana, and the party will spend the next few years in the wilderness.
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Nov 17, 2020
Control of the Senate depends on Georgia, with the election set for Jan. 5. But absentee and early voting will begin in the next few weeks.
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Nov 17, 2020
The $180 million Senate contest, a political scientist said, "was like being a local in Woodstock in 1969: When it first started, it was exciting and fun, but by the end, it was muddy and dirty."
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Nov 17, 2020
There are few if any pathways to changing either the Electoral College or the structure of the Senate in the near-term.
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Nov 17, 2020
In her latest work of graphic nonfiction, Lauren Redniss recounts what happened when a copper mining company decided to develop an Arizona tribe's sacred land.
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Nov 16, 2020
After the party lost seats in the House of Representatives on Election Day, some are pointing fingers and debating which wing was at fault.
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Nov 15, 2020
A voice for farmers, he lost a re-election bid after it was disclosed that he had joined a health spa that was shut down on prostitution charges.
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Nov 15, 2020
Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joseph R. Biden Jr. but a split decision for the two parties. Now they face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral map the country has seen in a generation.
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Nov 15, 2020
Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joe Biden, but a split decision for the two parties. Now Democrats and Republicans face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral landscape in a generation.
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Nov 14, 2020
Ms. Harris has barely appeared on the public radar since her acceptance speech last Saturday in Wilmington, Del., where she declared "a new day for America."
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Nov 14, 2020
The Senate contenders face not just Republicans but also the state's political history, which shows that change doesn't come easy.
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Nov 14, 2020
With the recovery slowing and coronavirus cases surging, Democrats must decide whether quick action on federal aid is more important than its scale.
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Nov 14, 2020
The special elections were devised by white Republicans to dilute the power of Black voters. But those involved in earlier contests say demographic change and Democratic energy could allow the party to finally beat the odds.
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Nov 14, 2020
Owning actively traded shares can create conflicts of interest. Georgia's Senate candidates agree. Will others? Mutual funds could be good for them.
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Nov 13, 2020
Representative John Katko, a moderate Republican, defeated Dana Balter in a Central New York district where Democrats outnumber Republicans.
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Nov 13, 2020
Representative John Katko, a moderate Republican, defeated Dana Balter in a Central New York district where Democrats outnumber Republicans.
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Nov 13, 2020
The freshman class of the 117th Congress, featuring a new crop of conservative women and an ascendant left, is attending an unusual pandemic-era orientation.
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Nov 13, 2020
The freshman class of the 117th Congress, featuring a new crop of conservative women and an ascendant left, is attending an unusual pandemic-era orientation.
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Nov 13, 2020
Representative-elect Cori Bush, a Missouri Democrat, arrived at the new House members orientation Friday wearing a Breonna Taylor face mask. Ms. Bush said some of her Republican colleagues were unfamiliar with Ms. Taylor, who was killed by the police in Kentucky, leading to protests across the country.
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Nov 13, 2020
Donations went to glamorous but unwinnable Senate races. Meanwhile, a representative in Brooklyn may lose to a first-time candidate and QAnon supporter.
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Nov 13, 2020
Donations went to glamorous but unwinnable Senate races. Meanwhile, a representative in Brooklyn may lose to a first-time candidate and QAnon supporter.
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Nov 12, 2020
President Trump retains a powerful hold on his party. But a growing number of Republican elected officials and party leaders have signaled they will indulge his conspiracy theories for only so long.
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Nov 12, 2020
Some Senate Republicans said the president-elect should be given intelligence briefings, and transition team members found workarounds for the president's stonewalling.
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Nov 12, 2020
What's bad for America would be bad for corporations, too.
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Nov 12, 2020
A pathway to a successful presidency.
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Nov 12, 2020
The Federal Reserve chief warned that a vaccine was still too uncertain to count on, and lawmakers signaled that more support was not imminent.
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Nov 12, 2020
Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican state assemblywoman, flipped a district that is considered the most conservative in New York City.
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Nov 12, 2020
The G.O.P. is trying to scapegoat Brad Raffensperger for Trump's apparent loss in Georgia.
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Nov 12, 2020
The state's lieutenant governor has been tweeting since election night. Mostly he's trying to get the president to understand simple arithmetic.
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Nov 12, 2020
Members of the new administration may have to reassemble a broken government before they can begin to use it for good.
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Nov 11, 2020
After becoming the target of his own party, Brad Raffensperger authorized a hand recount of the state's presidential votes.
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Nov 11, 2020
Senator Thom Tillis defeated Cal Cunningham after an expensive and hard-fought race, which was scrambled in the final weeks by revelations that Mr. Cunningham had an extramarital affair.
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Nov 11, 2020
Which party controls the Senate will largely dictate how ambitious President-elect Joe Biden can get on taxes, health care, climate change and other policy priorities.
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Nov 11, 2020
The social network told advertisers about its timeline in an update on Wednesday.
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Nov 11, 2020
Alyse Galvin, an independent, fell short in her bid to oust the dean of the House, who found himself vulnerable amid economic woes and President Trump's troubles in Alaska.
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Nov 11, 2020
Democrats were optimistic about gaining control of the upper chamber, but it didn't pan out that way. Now, a pair of races in Georgia will determine the balance of power in Washington.
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Nov 11, 2020
Democrats were optimistic about gaining control of the upper chamber, but it didn't pan out that way. Now, a pair of races in Georgia will determine the balance of power in Washington.
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Nov 11, 2020
Emergency federal programs to assist the unemployed in the pandemic will expire at year's end if there is no congressional action.
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Nov 10, 2020
The Democrats had expected to flip several seats, but came up short. Their hopes to control the chamber now likely rest on a pair of races in Georgia.
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Nov 10, 2020
Beth Van Duyne's victory in a suburban Dallas district helped hold a crucial Republican seat as her party fought to add to its numbers in Congress.
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Nov 10, 2020
Como todavía quedan por contar tantas boletas enviadas por correo, aún no sabemos quién ganó en varias contiendas al Congreso.
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Nov 10, 2020
It won't be easy, but coming after a self-styled "disrupter" opens up its own possibilities.
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Nov 10, 2020
It won't be easy, but coming after a self-styled "disrupter" opens up its own possibilities.
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Nov 10, 2020
At a Supreme Court argument Tuesday, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh suggested that striking down one provision would not doom the balance of the law.
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Nov 10, 2020
A transformed court, with a six-justice conservative majority, will take a new look at the sprawling health care law.
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Nov 10, 2020
Because so many mail ballots still need to be counted, we don't yet know who won a lot of congressional races.
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Nov 10, 2020
President Trump's iron grip on his party has inspired love for him among many Republican lawmakers, and fear in others. Neither group will tell him it is time to concede his loss.
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Nov 10, 2020
This time, the issue is democracy, and the Supreme Court's duty to leave political decisions to the elected branches of government.
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Nov 09, 2020
Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, slammed Democrats for expecting the president to quickly concede and said he had every right to pursue legal challenges.
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Nov 09, 2020
Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler took an extraordinary step in urging Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to step down. His office has defended the integrity of the election.
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Nov 09, 2020
Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler took an extraordinary step in urging Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to step down. His office has defended the integrity of the election.
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Nov 09, 2020
The No. 5 House Democrat plans to announce he is running for another term in his post, as he and a new generation of leaders position look to a future after Speaker Nancy Pelosi is gone.
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Nov 09, 2020
The victory of the Biden-Harris ticket and the enduring power of Republicanism tell two stories.
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Nov 08, 2020
The incoming Democratic president and top Senate Republican have personal ties and a history of deal-making that could shape the future of a Biden administration.
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Nov 08, 2020
Joe Biden's narrow lead in Georgia and the runoffs that will determine control of the Senate have raised questions as to whether 2020 is a Trumpian aberration or a long-anticipated political shift.
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Nov 08, 2020
For Joseph R. Biden Jr., who narrowly won the election in a deeply divided nation, the early signals he sends as the country's new leader will be critical.
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Nov 07, 2020
The top Senate Republican issued no statement congratulating President-elect Biden, while a leading House Republican echoed President Trump's protestations that the election was not, in fact, over.
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Nov 07, 2020
Neither of Georgia's Republican senators drew a majority on Election Day, sending both of their races to special rematches in January that will likely determine control of the Senate.
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Nov 07, 2020
Kamala Harris hará historia como la primera mujer en ocupar el cargo de vicepresidenta.
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Nov 07, 2020
With at most a narrow majority in the Senate, the new president will be inclined to do less. He must be pushed to do more.
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Nov 07, 2020
Preparing to assume the presidency in a divided country, Joe Biden confronts the ultimate test of his principal theory of governance: that compromise is good and modest progress is still progress.
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Nov 07, 2020
Don't undersell the triumph of ousting Trump.
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Nov 07, 2020
Joseph R. Biden Jr. has spent his career devoted to institutions and relationships. And those are the tools he will rely on to govern a fractured nation.
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Nov 07, 2020
Kamala Harris to make history as first female vice president.
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Nov 06, 2020
Mr. Perdue, a first-term Republican, narrowly failed to clear 50 percent of the vote, sending the race to a January runoff that, along with another runoff contest, will probably determine which party controls the Senate.
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Nov 06, 2020
Si estuviéramos ante un país extranjero con el nivel de disfunción política de mi país, tal vez consideraríamos que está al borde de convertirse en un Estado cuyo gobierno ya no es capaz de ejercer un control efectivo.
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Nov 06, 2020
Democrats are debating whether the party's stances alienated moderates, but progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenged that narrative.
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