NHK projects that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will win a two-thirds supermajority on its own. A two-thirds majority — comprising 310 seats — will enable the LDP to override any Upper House ...

The House Republican majority just got reduced to a perilously slim one-vote margin thanks to a Democrat's victory in Texas over the weekend. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swore in newly minted Rep.

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday that will narrow Republicans' already-slim majority, telling President Donald Trump that the Democratic district ...

A major demographic shift is underway in the United States. White births in the country have fallen below 50% for the first time ever. That's among the findings in a new study published Friday by ...

Republicans are clinging to a razor-thin 218-213 House majority. But House Speaker Mike Johnson shouldn't expect many reinforcements anytime soon. This month's shocking early House retirement of MAGA ...

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 ...

Democrats can’t ever seem to win federal races in North Carolina, but former Governor Roy Cooper is the strongest U.S. Senate candidate that the party has run there in a long time. The party has also ...

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 ...

Republican Representative Doug LaMalfa has died, further shrinking the narrow GOP House majority, according to party leaders. The California Republican’s death after 13 years in Congress was announced ...

When U.S. Congressman Doug LaMalfa died Tuesday morning, his absence closed further an already narrow gap between the U.S. House of Representatives’ Republican majority and its Democratic minority.