Miriam Adelson, the physician wife of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in an ceremony in the East Room of the White House today, along with six others. Several awardees, including Elvis Presley and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, received their medals post-humously.
Utah’s Orrin Hatch, 84, will be the US’s longest-serving Republican senator in history when he steps down at the end of this year. Hatch started his career in the Senate in 1976, when Gerald Ford was president.
US first lady Melania Trump ran up a six-figure hotel bill for a one-day trip to Toronto last year, according to federal spending records.
No one gets out of the Trump administration with a better reputation.
For years, law enforcement, anti-terror experts, and emergency responders have been compiling information on who commits mass shootings in the US. Because such shootings are so frequent, there’s plenty of data to collect.
Updated Nov. 9 at 9:00am EDT
Update Nov. 14 (10:30AM PT): We’ve updated the races and statistics to reflect new results. Rob DeSantis’ is no longer the winner of the race for Florida governor (that election is now under recount) and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has won the Arizona Senate race.
If you thought America was politically divided before, just wait until January, when the newly elected members of the US Congress take their seats.
Updated at 8:30pm EDT with the time of the protests.
Donald Trump does not like to be challenged.
The US midterms offered some bitter disappointment for progressive Democrats who were hoping to unseat Ted Cruz as senator of Texas, hold onto their Senate seats, and knock back the Republicans who embraced Donald Trump’s hardline, nativist views.
Donald Trump’s presidency has pulled the Republican party far to the right, and several of the candidates on the ballot tonight have openly embraced extremist views to court his base, including railing against non-white immigrants and courting white supremacist groups. Nearly all of the incumbents have voted closely with Trump since he took office.
US voters set new records for getting their ballots in early ahead of the midterm elections, and the president was among them.
This article has been updated with new data, and clarified.
American voters are expected to turn out in record numbers today to elect 435 House representatives, 35 senators, 36 state governors, and hundreds of local politicians.
There’s a record number of women running in the US midterm elections Nov. 6—and a record amount of money from women voters has rushed in to support them and other candidates that support women’s rights.
The American media is being played by the Trump White House’s propaganda machine, and journalists don’t know what to do. How should reporters cover a president who lies, constantly, shamelessly, and seemingly without consequence?
Many of the US midterm election races have become all about Donald Trump, even though he isn’t on the ballot.
The US Department of Justice said today (Nov. 1) it has charged a Chinese state-owned company with economic espionage, after a 20-month investigation that featured a unique partner—Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice.
Donald Trump’s dispatch of thousands of US military troops to the southern border is a hastily planned campaign stunt that takes soldiers from other duties and leaves the Pentagon with the bill.
Just days ahead of the midterm elections, the US is struggling with deadly political violence and stomach-lurching market drops. Forgoing centrist appeals, Donald Trump is now pushing a polarizing fringe anti-immigrant agenda; this week, his historically low approval ratings dropped even further.
Steve King, the Republican congressman from Iowa, has been making derogatory statements about minorities since he joined Congress in 2003. His rhetoric has only escalated in recent months.
The FBI has been alerted to an alleged plot to discredit special prosecutor Robert Mueller after a woman said she’d been offered money to falsely say that he’d sexually harassed her.
The US is sending thousands of troops to “harden” the border with Mexico, Pentagon officials said today (Oct.29), as thousands of asylum-seekers approach on foot from Central America.
