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Dec 12, 2025
The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans' feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and center.
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Dec 12, 2025
The way to oppose President Trump's era of corrupt deal-making is to present the American people with a clear and principled alternative.
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Dec 12, 2025
The way to oppose President Trump's era of corrupt deal-making is to present the American people with a clear and principled alternative.
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Dec 11, 2025
The report concerns a video in which Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, and five other Democratic lawmakers reminded military members of their obligation to refuse illegal orders.
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Dec 11, 2025
Republicans make up a majority of the Indiana Senate, but more than a dozen voted against President Trump's new political map, which aimed to add Republicans in Congress.
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Dec 11, 2025
Republicans hold an overwhelming majority in the Indiana Senate, but more than a dozen of them defied the president's wishes, voting against a map aimed at adding Republicans in Congress.
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Dec 11, 2025
The speaker has repeatedly lost his grip on the House floor thanks to a once rare parliamentary maneuver that G.O.P. members are increasingly using to force action on legislation.
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Dec 11, 2025
Republicans blocked Democrats' effort to extend the expiring subsidies while Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. proposal to replace them with direct payments for basic health coverage.
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Dec 11, 2025
Neither Democrats' plan to extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies nor Republicans' proposal to replace them with direct payments for those who buy basic insurance was expected to advance.
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Dec 10, 2025
The legislation codifies President Trump's agenda but includes a few measures challenging his policies and insisting on more consultation with Congress.
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Dec 10, 2025
Republicans redid their voting map so they could flip five seats to help keep control of the U.S. House. But achieving that goal is far from guaranteed.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Office of Government Ethics told senators that Bryan Bedford, the F.A.A. administrator, did not divest from the airline he previously ran as he had agreed.
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Dec 10, 2025
The state comptroller has aggressively investigated fiscal misconduct. The Democratic leader of the State Senate had introduced legislation blocking the office from subpoenaing records.
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Dec 10, 2025
Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, will run for a House seat in Brooklyn and Manhattan, challenging Representative Daniel Goldman in a Democratic primary.
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Dec 10, 2025
The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party's leaders and is all but certain to fail.
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Dec 10, 2025
Four of the additions are for districts where President Trump won handily, but Democrats are feeling emboldened by election outcomes this fall.
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Dec 10, 2025
Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, will run for a House seat in Brooklyn and Manhattan, challenging Representative Daniel Goldman in the Democratic primary.
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Dec 10, 2025
The first part of Handel's oratorio will be heard at Trinity Church, where it was performed in 1770.
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Dec 10, 2025
Hay una gran diferencia entre ser útil y ser respetado.
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Dec 09, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed congressional leaders on Tuesday about the monthslong military campaign targeting people suspected of being drug traffickers at sea.
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Dec 09, 2025
Senate Republicans plan to offer a proposal that would create a new payment for people with bare-bones health coverage, clashing with Democrats who are pressing for an extension of existing tax credits.
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Dec 09, 2025
There's a big difference between being useful and being respected.
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Dec 09, 2025
"One Rulebook" is not the kind of A.I. regulation this country needs.
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Dec 08, 2025
The Senate is set to vote later this week on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that Republicans oppose. The G.O.P. has yet to coalesce around an alternative.
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Dec 08, 2025
The announcement by the congresswoman, a rising star in the party, came hours after another prominent candidate, Colin Allred, dropped out.
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Dec 08, 2025
The system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.
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Dec 08, 2025
What a special House election just told us.
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Dec 08, 2025
His departure came as Representative Jasmine Crockett, a rising star in the party, appeared likely to announce her own Senate run soon.
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Dec 07, 2025
Lawmakers aim to send the bill, which authorizes $8 billion more than the White House requested, to the president's desk by the end of the year.
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Dec 07, 2025
Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to oust a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump's actions.
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Dec 06, 2025
Will the president soon wish he hadn't run for a second term?
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Dec 05, 2025
Chi Ossé had hoped to ride the momentum of Zohran Mamdani to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, but he failed to secure the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Dec 05, 2025
Top Republicans have said they want to produce a proposal in short order to counter Democrats pressing for an extension of health care subsidies. They have not gotten far.
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Dec 05, 2025
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
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Dec 05, 2025
The court's conservative majority said that Texas' asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps meant to disadvantage Democrats in the midterms.
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Dec 05, 2025
A Trump-aligned political group is quietly spending millions to help state Republicans have a friendlier House map in 2028 — not in 2026, as with all of his other redistricting efforts.
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Dec 05, 2025
Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?
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Dec 05, 2025
Aviation buffs want to be sure that Marine Air Terminal, an Art Deco landmark, will be protected.
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Dec 04, 2025
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.
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Dec 04, 2025
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
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Dec 04, 2025
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
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Dec 04, 2025
Democrats won an agreement for a floor showdown after the shutdown, but consensus still eludes the Senate. Will Republicans pay a political price?
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Dec 04, 2025
Republicans and Democrats released a two-year plan to scale back and extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, but it faces long odds in the G.O.P.-led House.
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Dec 04, 2025
See the state-by-state schedule for every primary leading up to the midterm election.
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Dec 04, 2025
Rare pushback from his party and troubling poll numbers reflect the newly precarious situation in which Trump finds himself.
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Dec 04, 2025
Antonio Reynoso's bid to replace Representative Nydia M. Velázquez will most likely be contested by a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Dec 04, 2025
Gov. Kathy Hochul received nearly $250,000 for her re-election campaign from donors eager to have her sign a bill that would regulate the A.I. field in New York.
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Dec 03, 2025
A small group of G.O.P. women have been among the most vocal in raising what their colleagues say is a broader frustration with the speaker.
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Dec 03, 2025
Republican candidates face the problem that President Trump alone gets out the vote that they need. And he alone gets out the vote that Democrats need, too.
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Dec 03, 2025
Charles Booker is running again for the chamber as Democrats take chances even in heavily Republican states like Kentucky, where Senator Mitch McConnell is retiring.
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Dec 03, 2025
Almost every election night this year has gone poorly for Republicans — a familiar position for the party that occupies the White House.
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Dec 03, 2025
The three being targeted are Senators John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan and Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats. None are up for re-election next year.
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Dec 03, 2025
Almost every election night this year has gone poorly for the Republicans — a familiar position for the party that occupies the White House.
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Dec 02, 2025
Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans' slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.
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Dec 02, 2025
In recent elections, the pendulum has kept swinging, with Republicans now in its path.
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Dec 02, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Tennessee congressional special election.
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Dec 02, 2025
Ms. Pressley, a prominent progressive, will instead run for re-election to the House. Her move is expected to help Senator Ed Markey, though he still faces one well-known Democratic primary challenger.
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Dec 02, 2025
Plus, Ozempic for cats?
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Dec 02, 2025
The former lieutenant governor is the best-known candidate in a crowded field, but some state Democrats have cooled on him since he lost a Senate bid in 2022.
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Dec 02, 2025
A special election for a House seat in Tennessee was supposed to be an easy Republican victory. But national spending and Democratic enthusiasm have made it an unusually high-profile race.
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Dec 02, 2025
Tennessee's Seventh District was created to be safely Republican, but in recent special elections across the country Democrats have done significantly better than they did in 2024.
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Dec 01, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson put the president on speakerphone during a Monday stop in the state, underscoring the unusual amount of national attention on a House special election.
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Dec 01, 2025
The Justice Department is trying to access ballots cast in 2020, while several officials who were involved in the fight over the election outcome are seeking higher office.
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Nov 26, 2025
In a podcast interview, Speaker Mike Johnson opened up about the crushing demands of a job that he joked was his in name only.
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Nov 26, 2025
The dozen candidates include an activist endorsed by Bernie Sanders, New Jersey's lieutenant governor and an ousted congressman running in a new district.
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Nov 25, 2025
A small cadre of politically vulnerable Republicans in Congress is breaking with the party to push for the extension of health care tax credits for a program the G.O.P. reviles.
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Nov 25, 2025
Senator Mitch McConnell and several other lawmakers accused President Trump's team of appeasing the Kremlin, warning that doing so would not lead to lasting peace.
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Nov 25, 2025
The 25-year-old is harnessing the power of the internet to propel other working class and Gen Z digital natives into office.
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Nov 25, 2025
Several Democratic incumbents are facing primary battles after Zohran Mamdani's win suggested that being pro-Israel was no longer a universal selling point.
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Nov 24, 2025
A group of liberal senators is quietly challenging the minority leader over his approach to the midterms and President Trump, in a sign of the party's deep frustration.
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Nov 24, 2025
The defense secretary called the senator's remarks urging troops not to follow illegal orders "despicable, reckless, and false."
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Nov 24, 2025
The move sets up a possible rematch between Mr. Jones, the last Democrat to win statewide office in Alabama, and Tommy Tuberville, the Republican who ousted him from the Senate in 2020.
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Nov 24, 2025
The defense secretary called the senator's remarks urging troops not to follow illegal orders "despicable, reckless, and false."
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Nov 24, 2025
Track the latest congressional ballot surveys that ask who Americans plan to vote for in the 2026 midterm election.
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Nov 24, 2025
The defense secretary called the senator's remarks urging troops not to follow illegal orders "despicable, reckless, and false."
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Nov 24, 2025
"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough," the New Jersey senator argues.
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Nov 23, 2025
Students and alumni set aside rivalries at the 141st Harvard-Yale football game on Saturday to summon support against attacks on higher education under the Trump administration.
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Nov 22, 2025
Ms. Greene's resignation blindsided her conservative Georgia district, which had stuck by her through ups and downs, including her split with the president.
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Nov 22, 2025
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's sudden resignation underscored the fragility of the G.O.P. majority, and exposed deep discontent on the right going into the midterm elections.
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Nov 22, 2025
The Georgia congresswoman strove to be both the ultimate Trump warrior and to be taken seriously. She wound up in political exile.
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Nov 22, 2025
"You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games," the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
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Nov 22, 2025
Formal reprimands, once rare, dominated the chamber's agenda this week, prompting lawmakers in both parties to call for changes to the way the House handles such actions.
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Nov 22, 2025
Ms. Greene, who was elected in 2020, had positioned herself as a die-hard Trump supporter until a series of recent ruptures with the president, who recently unendorsed her.
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Nov 22, 2025
"You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games," the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
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Nov 22, 2025
The 77-year-old Connecticut Democrat is facing primary challenges from people who say he's too old and has been around too long. He says his age and experience are his strength.
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Nov 21, 2025
Ms. Greene, who was elected in 2020, positioned herself as a die-hard Trump supporter until a series of recent ruptures with the president, who recently unendorsed her.
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Nov 21, 2025
State officials have asked the justices to allow it to use a newly redrawn map for the 2026 midterms, part of a nationwide redistricting push by President Trump.
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Nov 21, 2025
Thoughts on current and future of "a coalition uniquely built by Trump."
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Nov 21, 2025
State officials are seeking to use a newly redrawn map for the 2026 midterms, part of a nationwide redistricting push by President Trump.
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Nov 21, 2025
Before casting a crucial vote for the health secretary, the top Senate Republican laid out several specific commitments he had secured, some of which appear to have been breached.
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Nov 21, 2025
A series of setbacks for Republicans leaves an unlikely opening for Democrats to narrowly win this year's redistricting wars.
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Nov 21, 2025
"The Age of Disclosure," a documentary featuring government and military officials, was screened for a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives.
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Nov 21, 2025
The group, which powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's rise in 2018, is backing Darializa Avila Chevalier's primary challenge against Representative Adriano Espaillat.
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Nov 21, 2025
Some members of the party are defying him.
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Nov 21, 2025
A series of setbacks for the G.O.P. leaves an unlikely opening for Democrats to narrowly win this year's redistricting wars.
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Nov 21, 2025
Thoughts on current and future of "a coalition uniquely built by Trump."
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Nov 21, 2025
Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat, is likely to emphasize his history of fighting President Trump, an approach that many Democratic voters say they want their elected officials to take.
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Nov 20, 2025
Ms. Velázquez, 72, a 16-term congresswoman, said it was time for a new generation of Democrats to step forward.
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Nov 20, 2025
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani argued that an endorsement of a left-leaning ally, Chi Ossé, would hurt his efforts to secure mainstream Democratic support for his proposals.
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Nov 20, 2025
Election defeats earlier this month and the approach of 2026 have G.O.P. lawmakers cautiously asserting themselves.
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