Tal Kopan

For the members of Congress from Massachusetts, claiming the majority is just as important — if not more — for their immediate futures.

Then Donald Trump held a rally in New York and a comedian opening for him referred to Puerto Rico as “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”

With its 19 electoral college votes and status as a swing state, both Kamala Harris’s and Donald Trump’s presidential hopes largely rest on Pennsylvania.

For several election cycles, the path of a successful Democratic candidate has gone through Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. This year, voters in those states and elsewhere are on edge.

WASHINGTON — Republicans will win control of the US Senate on Tuesday night, the Associated Press projected, capitalizing on an extremely advantageous

WASHINGTON — On election night in 2016, as Kamala Harris became just the second Black woman to win a Senate seat, Donald Trump's surprise presidential victory prompted her to rip up her planned speech.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump walked onto the stage at a meeting of House Republicans Wednesday to a standing ovation, heartily shaking

WASHINGTON — Republicans are projected to narrowly hold on to the House majority, according to the Associated Press, after they claimed victory in at least 218 seats.

Supporters and opponents alike say they’ve spent the past eight years preparing for a different policy landscape and a different judiciary.

WASHINGTON — There's one thing Democrats in Washington agree on right now: They have a problem.