Latino voters moved away from President Donald Trump on Tuesday, from the Rio Grande Valley to Paterson, New Jersey, helping Democrats win seats Republicans had redrawn to hold and nearly toppling two in Miami.
For months, Alaska's ballot was a fight over who belonged on it.
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio woke up Wednesday to a political map far less friendly to their 2028 ambitions.
President Donald Trump has explained why he held back from making daylight saving time a major political issue before the midterm elections, saying he did not want certain Republican senators to lose their races in a landslide.
Democrat Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, is projected to flip a Republican-held House seat in South Carolina, likely delivering Democrats a striking victory in a district President Donald Trump won comfortably just two years ago.
Outgoing Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas warned that the writing was on the wall for the party ahead of the midterm elections, saying the results were foreseeable as the GOP "forgot four basic rules of coalition politics."
Some working Americans collecting Social Security could temporarily lose nearly $1,000 in benefits if their earnings exceed a new federal limit in 2027.
The Trump administration is preparing changes to federal workplace pregnancy rules that could reshape how the government treats miscarriage-related accommodations on the job.
Toronto’s CN Tower is displaying a bilingual message declaring "Lake Ontario Always" following President Donald Trump’s order to rename it "Lake America."
Six Democratic members of Congress who voted for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that included money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were projected to retain their seats after facing Republican challengers in Tuesday's midterm elections.
Democrats’ midterm victory could put some of the party’s most ambitious Social Security proposals back on the congressional agenda.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing mounting calls for impeachment following Republicans' bruising midterm election losses Tuesday, with Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, expected to introduce articles of impeachment when Congress returns next week.
The 2026 midterm elections delivered a string of historic firsts across the country as Democrats swept into control of both chambers of Congress in what has been described as a “blue tsunami,” while victors broke racial, religious, gender and LGBTQ representation barriers.
Final polling averages underestimated Democratic support in several of the most consequential races of the 2026 midterm elections, including contests for the U.S. Senate and state governorships.
President Donald Trump’s window to appoint another Supreme Court nominee may have closed, as Democrats have secured a Senate majority that could block any appointee he makes in the second half of his term, legal analysts told Newsweek.
On this day in 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, eventually holding diplomats for 444 days and draining the authority of the Carter administration amid economic discontent. He was ousted a year later.
NATO intelligence has confirmed Russian sea drones struck and sank a civilian container vessel just outside alliance member Bulgaria's territorial waters last week, a NATO official told Newsweek. The news came shortly after Western countries pledged to beef up their military foot...
Democrats critical of Israel's war in Gaza won major congressional races Tuesday, including two Senate contests in Michigan and Maine.