President Joe Biden is weighing major new sanctions against Russia’s energy sector in his final weeks in office, four people familiar with the matter said, as the administration considers a parting blow in its financial war against Vladimir Putin.
Washington's 2024 Electoral College meeting was part celebration of democracy as it currently exists and part call for a change that would eliminate such gatherings in the future.
Elon Musk’s net worth has climbed by more than $200 billion in 2024, a massive increase in the same year that the world’s richest person spent at least $277 million backing Donald Trump and other Republican candidates. The bulk of the increase, more than $170 billion, has come since Election Day.
Some people compare the presidential race to a marathon. But with the primaries, the conventions, the general election, the Electoral College vote and the official Congressional Count, it's more like a pentathlon.
Georgia's governing lawmakers on Saturday handed the presidency to a former soccer star turned far-right politician, setting up a standoff with the sitting president and deepening the country's political turmoil after weeks of protests and a disputed parliamentary election.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since Republicans won control of the House, Senate and White House in last month’s elections, Democrats in Congress have embarked on a series of public and private debates over what went wrong for their party.
President Joe Biden's staff is debating whether he should issue blanket pardons for a swath of President-elect Donald Trump's perceived enemies to protect them from the "retribution" he has threatened after he takes office, according to people familiar with the discussion.
The final tally of this year’s presidential election suggests Spokane County voters remain sharply divided, although the polarization may be shifting slightly rather than growing rapidly.
Republican Dan Newhouse is preparing for a sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving one of Washington state’s most solidly Republican congressional districts.
PALM BEACH, Fla. – Former congressman Matt Gaetz greeted his admirers Thursday night on the lawn outside Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, freshly named as the president-elect’s pick to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer despite an outstanding House investigation into allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl.
Two weeks removed from a set of losses that sent Democratic leaders into a tailspin, the years-long ideological battle between the progressive left and centrists has once again come to a head as both sides fight to shift blame and take the reins of the future direction of the party.
It might sound simplistic to summarize the election as “Donald Trump won; we have to do whatever he wants.” But that’s the thrust of what some influential Republicans and conservatives are saying.
Two Republican Senate candidates are refusing to concede after losing, and their allies are raising questions about how the election was conducted in a pair of swing states Donald Trump won.
Republicans cemented their control of the House on Wednesday after holding onto a handful of critical seats in Arizona and California and defeating incumbent Democrats in key battleground districts, handing the GOP a governing trifecta in Washington to enact President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.
General election results show Democrats in Washington are on track to growing their already-strong majorities in the state Legislature. Heading into the election last week, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 29-20 in the Senate and 58-40 in the House.
Voters in Washington this year showed overwhelming support to keep in place the state’s controversial landmark climate policy as well as its capital gains tax.
President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, extending a presidential tradition to his onetime rival that Trump did not offer four years ago after Biden defeated him.
Despite so far appearing to secure the popular-vote victory - likely for only the second time for a Republican candidate in the past nine presidential elections - Donald Trump’s coattails did their jobs unevenly.
