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House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and the House Democratic campaign arm chairwoman, Rep. Susan DelBene (D-WA), are linked arm-in-arm while they attend a Nov. 3 Election Night watch party at a Capitol Hill hotel in Washington, D.C.

Why everyone should have seen the blue wave coming (and why they didn’t)

W. James Antle III · November 10, 2026 7:00 am

Parents, teachers, childcare workers and community members hold up handmade signs during a press conference at Nokomis Daycare Center in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Somali daycare CEO tied to fraud scandal wins Minnesota House seat

Thune.

Thune forges ahead with leadership elections despite calls for post-midterm reckoning

Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH)

Republicans to choose between Scalise and Jordan as minority leader

Trump and Boozman.

Trump calls on Senate to confirm remaining 25 judges amid Arkansas senator friction

President Donald Trump walks from the stage after speaking at the opening of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington.

Trump claims he drew at least 45,000 people to his America 250 rally

Naomi Lim June 25, 2026 3:29 pm

President Donald Trump listens as Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., speaks during a Fighting For American Workers event, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Lawler pushes Trump administration to resume TPS for Haitians after court ruling

Claire Carter June 25, 2026 3:24 pm

Iran attacked a cargo ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, potentially upending President Donald Trump's diplomatic end to the war with Iran. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)

Iran strikes cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz, endangering Trump’s peace

Christian Datoc, Mike Brest June 25, 2026 3:24 pm

President Donald Trump, escorted by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., heads to a meeting with Senate Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP tries to mend fences with Trump after heated lunch

David Sivak June 25, 2026 3:15 pm

Audience members use American flag signs to shield themselves from the sun before opening of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall.

Touch grass or stay miserable: Joe Concha’s message for Democrats skipping America 250

Britta Miller June 25, 2026 3:07 pm

Judges Tomoko Akane, Kimberly Prost and Keebong Paek sit before delivering the verdict in the al Hassan case of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday Nov. 20, 2024.

Foreign ICC judges sue Trump administration for sanctioning them: ‘Financial death penalty’

Timothy Nerozzi June 25, 2026 2:46 pm

Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ghislaine Maxwell claims new evidence in Epstein files should erase her conviction

Kaelan Deese June 25, 2026 2:24 pm

Adam Kinzinger

Anti-Trump Republican Kinzinger unveils new PAC targeting GOP ‘enablers’

Sydney Topf June 25, 2026 1:17 pm

Trump in front of America 250 flag

What to know about the ‘Patriot Games’

Rena Rowe June 25, 2026 1:15 pm

Karl Stefanovic (left) and Tommy Robinson (right)

Australian broadcaster Karl Stefanovic in hot water over podcast interview with Tommy Robinson

Timothy Nerozzi June 25, 2026 12:53 pm

Texas state Rep. and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico takes a photo with a supporter during a rally in Houston, Wednesday, May 27, 2026.

Democrats’ great hope James Talarico declared war on billionaires. Guess what happened next

Rob Crilly June 25, 2026 12:30 pm

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed

Chris Van Hollen endorses leftist Abdul el Sayed in Michigan after socialist primary sweep in New York

Molly Parks June 25, 2026 12:24 pm