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27 stories · Politics · from 2026-11-05 to 2026-11-12
President Trump meets Xi Jinping at APEC in Shenzhen next week with a trade truce expiring in January, a chip-spy scandal roiling Washington and fresh allied warnings over Taiwan.
A Wall Street Journal report says the vice president is considering a meeting with an Iranian hardliner to end the war. Tehran says no meeting is planned, and Israel is preparing for the possibility that diplomacy fails.
Craig Trainor takes over the Civil Rights Division on an acting basis after Dhillon's departure. Supporters credit her with ending race-based preferences and confronting campus antisemitism; critics call her tenure destructive.
With Democrats taking the Senate in January, the White House wants every pending judge confirmed this year. A few Republican senators are using home-state objections and committee votes to slow the line.
A razor-thin coalition of every Democrat and four departing Republicans will force a floor vote on a bill giving victims, state prosecutors and lawmakers the power to sue the attorney general over records still kept from them.
The Democrat's half-point win, settled by mail and provisional ballots, makes him Mississippi's first Black senator since Reconstruction and gives Democrats 55 Senate seats, with Alaska still uncalled.
On the 108th anniversary of the World War I armistice, the president laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, saluted heroes from the Bulge to Beirut and said the fight with Iran will end soon.
In a new interview ahead of his memoir, the former president says he would not have sought a second term had he known about his cancer, while still calling his disastrous 2024 debate inconsequential. His words reopen the question of who knew what, and when.
Six of our writers weigh the roll call, the President's support, the polls, the actual charges, the precedents and Hamilton's warning, and conclude lawmakers protected a grave remedy from turning into a tool for quarrels over war strategy.
Hakeem Jeffries, in line to become speaker in January, is taking fire from his own left after 11 Democrats missed the vote that shelved Rep. Thomas Massie's articles. Hegseth has called the effort a sham.
In a letter to Rep. Robert Garcia, White House counsel Will Scharf said oversight must serve lawmaking, not intimidation. Democrats say they will not be deterred.
The officer who supervised Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in Afghanistan says he never led troops in combat. Here is what the record shows and what Moore has said.
Conservatives want reconciliation, border laws and judges before Jan. 3. A Dec. 11 funding deadline, a permitting bill and Senate math will decide what gets done.
A day after calling his crackdown 'too tough' in the midterm postmortem, the President said his immigration policy is 'very strong' and ruled out any deal with amnesty.
The relocation, first reported by Fox News Digital, came as the Justice Department announced terrorism charges against three Iranian nationals.
The warm 2021 note stands in contrast to the bitter public fight over that year's transition.
In his first network interview since the midterms, the President blamed his absence from the ballot, defended the war and admitted he struggles to forgive his enemies.
Nancy Pelosi was among the absent as Republicans shelved Rep. Thomas Massie's articles 211-204. Three members blamed a police escort for blocking their way.
The incoming Democratic leader shut the door on Trump's new chief of staff, setting the tone for divided government before it even begins.
The President called the outgoing Kentucky congressman a “stone-cold loser” and handed his War Secretary top marks as Republicans held the line 211-204.
The Vice President's blunt postmortem and the President's refusal to second-guess the war are setting up the first real test of the Trump-Vance partnership heading toward 2028.
Senate Republicans re-elected John Thune by acclamation after conservatives forced a two-hour standoff demanding a plan for the minority years ahead.
Members of the Kennedy family say the planned 250-foot triumphal arch would cast a shadow over the eternal flame at Arlington. The administration's monument plan now faces a family fight.
A Freedom Caucus founder takes the top GOP post after defeating Steve Scalise.
The calls for a 'new generation' of Democratic leadership are growing louder before the party takes the Senate.
Rep. Thomas Massie was the lone Republican to oppose sending his articles to committee, as President Trump gave Hegseth an 'A plus.'
Conservatives wanted time to absorb the midterm losses before choosing leaders. Most of the conference said no.
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