The conservative justice has told friends he does not plan to step down before the end of the court’s term, even as Democrats are set to seize the Senate in January.
President Trump usurped power from the legislative branch with Republican help for two years. Democrats are now positioned to try to claw back some of Congress’s prerogatives.
When a new Congress is sworn in, it will have the power to hold hearings and issue subpoenas, prompting one representative to advise White House officials and others to “lawyer up.”
Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock plunged 24 percent a day after Democrats made huge gains in the midterm elections.
The two companies settled billing disputes between doctors and insurers, keeping patients out of the middle. One let doctors win 96 percent of the time.
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
Plus, how to vote from space.
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
The president loves combat and chaos. He’s about to get more of it.
The administration pushed back a hearing for Lisa D. Cook, the Federal Reserve governor that President Trump has tried to fire, after her lawyers raised scheduling issues.
Global leaders shared their reactions a day after Democrats routed the Republican Party in the midterm elections and were on track to control both the House and the Senate.
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression united Democrats for election after election. The Opinion contributing writer E.J. Dionne Jr. argues Trump could become a Hoover-like figure in the years ahead. “When people look back on this,” he says, “they’re going to ask, ‘What were we doing as a country in this period?’”
The Maine Republican survived tough cycles in the past even as the political ground shifted beneath her. But the anti-Trump fever in her state doomed her this time.
His party just suffered a drubbing unseen in decades. But the president, leading a tour of his ballroom project, was placid and eager to wax on about construction instead.
Americans are ready for a different kind of politics, and that showed up in the election results, the Opinion contributing writer E.J. Dionne Jr. argues. “People are tired of the division. They’re tired of wasting time. They’re tired of stupidity and ballrooms and wars,” he says.
President Trump answered questions on Wednesday from reporters about the election results. He also commented on Vice President JD Vance’s lengthy social media post that largely blamed the Republican losses on the war in Iran.
The results from the U.S. midterm elections could be the beginning of the end of the Trump era.
Democrats won control of state governments in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and won chambers in Texas, Georgia and North Carolina.
The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that President Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice.
Breathe easy. For a minute.
Republicans tried to redraw congressional maps to tilt more seats in their favor. Democrats captured many of the new districts instead.
U.S. stock futures fell as the first results came in, but later traded higher as investors assessed the outlook for artificial intelligence and other key sectors as the balance of power shifts in Washington.
In an interview with two Times reporters, President Trump blamed the G.O.P.’s losses on the fact that he was not on the ballot, and said he was willing to work with Democrats.
Israel once had bipartisan support in the United States, but a strong showing for Democrats, some of whom are deeply critical of the war in Gaza, has left the country with fewer friends in Congress.
From joy to concern, readers react to the Democrats’ “shellacking” of the Republicans in the midterm elections.
Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, declined to call a special session to draw new congressional maps or weaken the power of the governor’s office before a Democrat takes office.
The vice president offered his striking critique of the administration’s agenda and messaging with Mr. Trump’s apparent approval.
“Sometimes life is bumpy and you have to man up,” Representative Jeff Van Drew said as he acknowledged his loss to Zack Mullock, the mayor of Cape May, N.J.
It was hard to imagine that an electoral wave this big was still possible. But there have been extraordinary changes just beneath the surface.
The gap between U.S. exports and imports, which remained at a relatively high level in September, has defied efforts by President Trump to decrease it with tariffs.
Democrats celebrated a seismic triumph in the midterm elections, winning control of the Senate and the House as voters delivered a blistering rebuke to President Trump. Peter Baker, The New York Times’s Chief White House correspondent explains what this historic reset of the balance of power in Washington means.
What mattered most in these midterms?
Investors are already picking the winners and the losers after Democrats glided to a landslide victory in the midterm elections.
Democrats flipped several Senate seats, most of which had been held by Republicans since former President Obama was elected in 2008.
There was nothing inevitable about this comeuppance.
The party clinched the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, giving Democrats a powerful platform to counter President Trump.
While the president attributed sweeping losses to the fact that he was not on the ballot, others in his party dismissed his explanation and pinned blame squarely on him.
Gov. Kathy Hochul won re-election to a second full term, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez secured a fifth term in Congress.
The Democratic Party wrested control of Congress from Republicans in a wave of midterm victories as voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Trump.
“People hate the way that Trump is running this country,” the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues. Her fellow columnists and the American electorate agree. Democrats had a great night, but what now? Eight Opinion columnists offer their views on what Democrats need to do next, and what Trump’s final two years in office might hold.
Commentators abroad wondered what the president’s electoral losses might mean for oil prices, the war on Iran and the end of the Trump era.
Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House in a stunning rebuke of President Trump.
Democrats won shocking victories all over the map and flipped the Senate and House with ease, leaving the president weakened. “There was a mood in the air, I guess,” he said.
For Republicans, Texas has long been a dependable political anchor. Now, it’s finally blue.
Americans showed that the power to choose their leaders belongs to them. Now they must remain vigilant until officials certify every race and the winners take office.
Voters from South Carolina to Ohio to Texas have elevated a new class of Democrats who could not be more different from one another.
The party’s victory in the House cemented an era of divided government and a freshly assertive Congress after two years in which Republicans ceded power to President Trump.
A G.O.P. voter in Kansas put it bluntly: “The Republican Party has lost its way.”
What’s stunning about his win is that it wasn’t a surprise by Election Day.
On TV, the outcome of the midterm elections became clear early on. Pundits celebrated and grieved by turns.
Every Senate win holds important lessons for Democrats.
Just months after his death, Mr. Grah Senate seat is gone and his Ukraine policy is diminished.
One of the greatest survivors in U.S. politics finally falls.
Our White House correspondents Tyler Pager and Erica L. Green called President Trump to ask whether he would accept the results of the election.
With President Trump a focus of the race, Ms. James overcame a challenge from a Republican former federal prosecutor, Saritha Komatireddy.
On a consequential midterm night, the president offered some harsh criticism of the cable news channel on his social media account.
The attack on a drug-trafficking group killed about two dozen people, a rights group said. It comes as the United States is militarizing the fight against “narcoterrorism” in Latin America.
The two countries have long been adversaries, and the United States attacked Venezuela this year, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio is starting talks on a legal agreement.
Fighting corruption, the theme in his race, could work for Democrats in 2028.
Michelle Cottle and David French wonder if there’s a paradigm shift in American politics.
Immigration agents did not show up in large numbers at polling places. But Trump administration officials repeatedly warned on Election Day that noncitizen voters would face consequences.
In North Carolina, Roy Cooper affirmed the power of the right person waging the right campaign in the right place.
Journalists for The Times are watching for election issues, problems at the polls and misinformation, reporting tips to one main place.
Josh McKoon, a Trump ally who helped advance Republican efforts to change election rules after a bitter 2020 count, said, “I think everybody’s going to respect the outcome.”
President Trump said on Tuesday that the bulk of American aid to Israel would be cut off by the end of year. He said the Election Day announcement was part of a deal reached months ago.
The party has flipped key seats in Republican strongholds, as voters rebuked Trump.
Nate Cohn, our chief political analyst, explains how polling has fared in the Trump era and whether we should trust this year’s midterm polls that are favorable to Democrats.
Though President Trump’s name is not on the ballot, voters are weighing the effects of his agenda in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Lisa Lerer, a national political reporter for The New York Times, describes how three crucial issues are affecting their decisions.
$20 million from the Social Security Administration. $8 billion from the Department of Agriculture. Have you received a check from the Trump administration? According to the Opinion contributor Cristian Farias, an “alphabet soup of agencies” have been deputized by President Trump to bribe his way through the midterms and, he argues, to “interfere with the democratic process.”