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By Timothy Gardner, Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Record Election Day diesel and gasoline prices helped push Americans toward Democrats in Tuesday's midterms, with voters citing the cost of living in their decision...

By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - With the US midterms over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades, a 2028 contest likely to expose the party's divide over how t...

By Alexandra Ulmer Nov 5 (Reuters) - After sweeping both chambers of the US Congress, Democrats will turn their new investigative powers on the Trump family's business deals as they make what they call corruption a central part of a 2028 campaign for t...

By Joseph Ax WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The unprecedented national Republican effort to reshape US House districts across the country failed on Tuesday, as the party's intended seawall was swept aside by a Democratic tsunami. As of midday Wednesday,...

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - When Geronimo Perez pulled up to vote at the Worth Heights Community Center in South Fort Worth, Texas, one thing was on his mind: a friend who had been deported just a week earlier. Perez, 56, cast his ballot for t...

By Dawn Kopecki, Sheila Dang, Alexandra Ulmer and Virginia Furness NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars on the US midterm elections, but the record expenditure yielded little for the world's richest man and leader o...

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - After Democrats seized control of the US Congress, investors are focused on the risk of standoffs over the government's borrowing limit, with the potential for political brinkmanship to unsettle markets. D...

By Nupur Anand, Tatiana Bautzer and Michelle Price NEW YORK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Wall Street banks were bracing on Wednesday for heightened scrutiny after Democrats took control of the US Congress, with executives and analysts predicting lawmakers would ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Melania Trump, President Donald Trump's wife, will bring together representatives from Russia and Ukraine on Thursday for a White House event to recognize a recent six-day ceasefire ​she helped broker in the Russian-contro...

By Mei Mei Chu and Nicoco Chan BEIJING, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The midterm drubbing of Donald Trump's Republicans may strengthen China's hand in trade talks with Washington, but Beijing is unlikely to revel in the misfortunes of a US president whose success...

By Gram Slattery, David Morgan and Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Democrats vowed to use their resounding midterm victory to rein in President Donald Trump, setting up two years of possible deadlock in Washington, as Trump spent his first po...

By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump backed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, a day after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in midterm elections that reflected voter anger...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other senior Republicans on Wednesday asked a US appeals court to overturn a ruling that found the Environmental Protection Agency improperly sent landmark Californ...

By Nate Raymond Nov 4 (Reuters) - The Republicans' failure to keep control of the US Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections also ends an era of rapid judicial appointments for President Donald Trump's party that it has used to reshape the federal courts...

Nov 4 (Reuters) - The Democratic architects of proposed bipartisan energy permitting legislation said on Wednesday they would not delay the bill in hopes of securing a better deal next ​year when Democrats take control of both chambers of ‌Congress. Th...

By Julia Harte Nov 4 (Reuters) - Democrats' takeover of the US Congress on Tuesday was replicated at the state level, with the party flipping Republican-held governors' offices in at least five states and poised to seize full control of state governmen...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Democrats' takeover of Congress and growing Republican unease over Israel could trigger the biggest reassessment of US support for its closest Middle East ally in decades, after an election shaped in p...

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The US midterm election landslide that gives Democrats control of Congress starting in January is fueling questions about the longevity of the Supreme Court's two eldest justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel ...

By Leah Douglas and Yasmeen Abutaleb Nov 4 (Reuters) - A Democratic Party fundraiser in Warren County, Iowa in October 2025 was so crowded that local party chair Jim Culbert found himself ordering pizza after the food ran out. "If we don't have enough ...

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Dan Catchpole and Jason Lange ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The outcome of the US Senate race in Alaska was unclear on Wednesday, one day after Democrats scored a sweeping victory in the US midterm elections that delivere...