US Politics

As Americans fretted about the cost of living, Donald Trump declared a ‘national emergency’ and slapped hefty tariffs on imports. Now the midterm results are forcing a rethink.

THE WASHINGTON POST: After winning majorities in both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, the party is figuring out how to approach the Republican president.

Internal party polling showed Republicans’ approval rating started to crater after the Trump Administration attacked Iran in February.

President Donald Trump, populism’s poster child, has shown the MAGA movement is a dead end. This is why every political party and their supporters should take note. 

One adviser to the Trump administration says Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth ‘could be on the chopping block’ because of the ongoing war in Iran.

Texas elected its first blue senator, Kansas its first first in nearly a century — but how did the blue tsunami affect the US’s stock market.

Vice President JD Vance, a potential 2028 presidential contender, has posted a 600-word spiel outlining where it all went wrong in the midterms.

While the president was quick to lay blame for the election drubbing, his party was soon pointing the finger back at him.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will step aside from the Republican leadership after the party’s midterm wipeout, according to two people familiar with his decision.

Republicans lost control of the House and Senate as voters offered a stinging rebuke to President Trump’s agenda.

Governor Tina Kotek, one of the few endangered Democratic incumbents, rode the mid-terms’ nationwide Blue wave back into office in Oregon.

In his short conversation with the New York Times, the President sounded subdued as he absorbed the decisive Democratic wins across the country.

Democrat Annie Andrews has defeated senator Darline Graham, who was running for her late brother Lindsey Graham's seat in heavily Republican South Carolina.

An ex-Aussie citizen is a favourite to take on Trump’s successor in the next US election. Meet Jon Ossoff.

Americans have voted in the US midterms, but when results start to come in depends on the state. Here is when to expect a winner in every state.

Donald Trump has spoken after the crushing midterms election result outlining why the Republicans lost. But saying he wouldn’t change a thing.

Donald Trump says he made a deal with Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would stop funding Israel after the end of this year. Here’s where the money went.