The embattled US attorney general Jeff Sessions was asked to resign today. He will be replaced on an acting basis by his chief of staff, Matthew G. Whitaker.
The tally for US governor’s races looks pretty good for Democrats in yesterday’s midterm elections. Seven states were flipped from Republicans, and none were lost.
For a longshot candidate in solidly Republican Texas, Democratic US representative Beto O’Rourke got astonishingly close to snatching a US senate seat for his party.
Jared Polis, the Democratic candidate for Colorado governor’s race, became the first openly gay person to be elected to that office in the country.
Democrats in reliably conservative Georgia and Texas tried a new tack this year: they bet on nonvoters.
With less than 24 hours before of the election, US representative Beto O’Rourke’s campaign to become Texas’s junior US senator is still hustling to raise money, asking that supporters consider donating just $3 each. “In a close election that could come down to just a few thousand votes, this final push could make the difference,” pleads an email to supporters (and potential campaign contributors).
US voters in four states—Michigan, North Dakota, Utah, and Missouri—will decide whether to approve some form of legal marijuana on Nov. 6. The effects of their choices will likely waft all the way down to Mexico.
Marianne O’Riley has been waiting for her husband Alex for seven years.
If the past is any indication, Sri Preston Kulkarni is wasting his time.
Donald Trump has grown increasingly frustrated by a group of thousands of Central American immigrants heading toward the US.
The US economy is growing briskly with unemployment at a historic low, but for many Latinos, the US might as well be in the middle of the Great Recession.
When talking about Donald Trump’s base, Latinos aren’t the first group that comes to mind. But the president does have some Hispanic support, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. In a tight election, those Republican Latinos could make a difference—if they vote.
This week started with president Donald Trump claiming that “unknown Middle Easterners” were traveling with a caravan of migrants making its way to the US. Yesterday, vice president Mike Pence said it was “inconceivable that there are not people of Middle Eastern descent in a crowd of more than 7,000 people.” When asked to verify those claims, a senior administration official suggested reporters get in touch with Mexican authorities to find out who is and isn’t part of the caravan.
Supporters of free trade regularly point to the World Trade Organization as an antidote to Donald Trump’s protectionism. But a growing number of them are starting to admit that the WTO needs to be fixed, first.
Donald Trump had a vocabulary lesson for the thousands of supporters who gathered at a Houston rally on Monday (Oct. 22.) for Ted Cruz, Texas’s candidate for the US Senate. He defined two terms: globalist and nationalist.
Another immigrant caravan from Central America is heading to the US, again drawing presidential ire. Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he will shut down the US-Mexico border if he has to, in order to stop the immigrants.
The forgotten Americans that helped elect Donald Trump are now getting a lot of attention from economists and policy analysts that once overlooked the region.
Donald Trump threatened today to close the US-Mexico border, to block a caravan of Central American immigrants.
The Trump administration said it’s pulling the US out of the agency that governs international mail—unless it can get a better deal.
Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic US Senate candidate from Texas, had kept his campaign remarkably civil, but on Tuesday (Oct. 16) came out swinging against Republican opponent Ted Cruz. “Ted Cruz is for Ted Cruz,” he said during the pair’s televised debate in San Antonio, the second and final face-to-face debate between the candidates before the Nov. 6 election.
The race between Republican Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke has stirred national interest in the battle for the US Senate seat up for grabs in Texas.
Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic congressman from El Paso, has made the Texas race for US Senate one of the most widely watched nationally. Americans get to take the pulse of it tonight (Oct. 16), when O’Rourke faces the Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in a debate in San Antonio.
Donald Trump has 55 million followers on Twitter. But his tweets reach less than half of that, according to an analysis by SparkToro.
Americans are registering to vote in record numbers ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 6. The divisiveness of the Trump presidency has fired up both Democrats and Republicans across the country.
