The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, further weakening a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in ...

Canadians have never before seen a minority government become a majority government through a combination of floor crossing and byelections. A small increase in the number of Liberal caucus members ...

OTTAWA—Mark Carney is a political novice no more. In the span of a year, the former central banker and Goldman Sachs dealmaker has morphed into a prime minister and world leader willing to lay out a ...

A year ago this month, Canadians delivered a result that seemed impossible just a few weeks earlier: another Liberal minority government, this time under newly chosen leader Mark Carney. Now, after ...

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OTTAWA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday edged closer to a parliamentary majority that could help him counter U.S. tariffs when an opposition legislator defected to ...

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) sensed trouble. The GOP-led House was about to pass its final tranche of spending bills, including one providing money for border enforcement, a big ...

After a year spent largely relegated to the congressional sidelines, Democrats have begun approaching 2026 with something approximating optimism. The unpopularity of the Trump administration’s major ...

Unexpected vacancies have whittled the G.O.P.’s edge to just a couple of votes, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson with almost no margin for leading the chamber. By Ashley Wu and Annie Karni A surprise ...

Generic congressional ballot questions ask voters which party’s candidate they would support if the 2026 election were held that day as well as those that ask which party voters would prefer to ...

This piece is part of a Council on Foreign Relations analysis series assessing the geopolitical effect of the Trump administration’s tariffs policy on select countries in the Asia-Pacific Economic ...

President Donald Trump said he will soon have a "majority" of his nominees on the Federal Reserve board who will back his desire to slash interest rates. Trump's comment at a Cabinet meeting came ...