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Days after defeating Ken Paxton in Texas, Senator-elect James Talarico walked onto the Saturday Night Live stage, joking about the flood of fundraising texts that powered his grassroots campaign.
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California Representative Robert Garcia, in line to chair the House Oversight Committee, says Congress will examine Elon Musk’s role in federal firings and Stephen Miller’s part in immigration enforcement.
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US stocks suffered one of their worst sell-offs in history on Thursday, wiping about $2.5 trillion from Nasdaq firms, and Donald Trump blamed the Democrats’ midterm wins.
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Prosecutor Scott Colom is leading Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by just over 1,000 votes in Mississippi’s US Senate race, and a win would make him the state’s first Black senator in more than 150 years.
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Democrats have won control of the US Senate with 54 seats and taken the House in the 2026 midterm elections, a result President Donald Trump has accepted.
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After Democrats swept both chambers of Congress, President Trump congratulated them, said he would work across the aisle, and insisted the result was not a verdict on him.
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Vice President JD Vance has blamed the war in Iran for the Republicans’ sweeping midterm defeat, in an unusually blunt break from the White House line.
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Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s open Senate seat, becoming the first Muslim American ever elected to the United States Senate.
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Roy Cooper’s projected win over Michael Whatley gives Democrats their first Senate flip of the night, but control of Congress remains undecided as counting continues.
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