The victory by Thune, a well-regarded institutionalist, shows that while the Senate Republican Conference has grown more aligned with President-elect Donald Trump with each successive election, it ...

Republicans regained control of the Senate late Tuesday, meaning come January, a whole new set of GOP lawmakers will be poised to help shape the federal government’s health care priorities for ...

A bolstered Senate majority would allow Republican leadership to sidestep any objections from more moderate members of their conference, such as Susan Collins, R-Maine, or Lisa Murkowski ...

Montana has officially solidified itself as a red state, ending a long period of Democratic leadership with the ousting of the last statewide Democrat in the 2024 election. Montana's first two ...

Former President Donald Trump highlighted during a "Fox and Friends" interview that he soundly defeated 2024 Republican presidential primary rival Nikki Haley, but that the former South Carolina ...

The GOP has taken majority control of the Senate and could also take control of the House of Representatives. President & CEO of Voto Latino Maria Teresa Kumar and Washington Post Opinion ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated President-elect Donald Trump and outlined his hopes for a Republican-controlled Senate, including keeping the filibuster. McConnell will step ...

On the heels of former President Donald Trump’s reelection victory, Republicans are naturally taking a victory lap. There remain some scattered outstanding votes left to be counted in House ...

Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump's demand that new Republican-led Senate take a recess so he can make appointments unencumbered by confirmations is largely unnecessary because there are ...

US stock futures nudged slightly higher on Thursday as investors waited for a Jerome Powell speech to set the tone for interest-rate cuts and assessed the impact of a Republican sweep of political ...

US stocks were little changed on Thursday as investors waited for a Jerome Powell speech to set the tone for interest-rate ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) ticked up 0.2%, while the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC) rose 0.1%. The Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC) ...