Colom defeated incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Mississippi since 1982 ...

Just six years after Mississippi removed the Confederate stars and bars from its state flag, CNN’s Decision Desk projects ...

Two newly elected McCordsville Town Council members made history last week by being the first man and woman of color to be ...

Democrats will enter the next Congress with one of the largest majorities in a generation, flipping dozens of House districts ...

Historian and The New Yorker writer Jill Lepore says the DSA, once maligned, is no longer "beyond the political pale." She discusses the history of socialism in America, and its current resurgence.

The new White House chief of staff has been the subject of numerous rumors we fact-checked before his promotion.

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) departs after his first news conference at the Capitol since Democrats won sweeping gains in last week’s midterm election, in Washington, DC, US, ...

Rep. Jeff Hurd won reelection despite the Democratic wave that swept the nation in last week’s midterms. Here’s a look at the ...

The party already has won at least 254 seats in the House, with leaders estimating they could end up with close to 260.

As soon as this year’s winners are sworn in, roughly 75% of all Americans will have Democratic governors — a shakeup that reflects the party’s dominance in the nation’s most populous states and could ...

As is only proper, the weight of post-election punditry has fallen on the question of the demographics and political impetus ...