US Midterms

Republicans look set to widen their majority in the US Senate after two Florida recounts – one by machine, one manual – confirmed that the state’s out(...)

US president Donald Trump has called for the election recount in Florida to be abandoned and for Republican election candidates to be appointed, as he(...)

There is no dust settling after the US midterms. Within 24 hours of the elections, Donald Trump started clearing house and throwing tantrums. He fired(...)

Now may not be the ideal moment for a European to try to understand America’s woeful political plight, and its foreshadowing of a possibly dismal futu(...)

The election of two Muslim women to the US House of Representatives as well as the Democratic Party’s success in taking back control of the chamber ha(...)

On Wednesday morning, as most journalists in Washington were waking bleary-eyed from the marathon midterm election count of the night before, the Whit(...)

The US midterm elections brought significant gains for Democrats, who retook the House of Representatives and snatched several governorships from the (...)

CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta has been banned from the White House, after a tense interaction with US president Donald Trump at a p(...)

For those looking for a decisive snapshot of the state of American politics in 2018, the results of the midterm elections are frustratingly inadequate(...)

A combative Donald Trump claimed “close to a complete victory” on Wednesday as Republicans expanded their Senate majority but lost the House of Repres(...)