Americas

Elon Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars on the US midterm elections, but the record expenditure yielded little for the world’s richest man and leader of SpaceX and ...

Europe’s far-right politicians have begun to distance themselves from Donald Trump following the Democrats’ victory in the US midterm elections – but have mostly avoided directly criticising the president himself. ...

Voters across the US elected a historic slate of women, candidates of color and other underrepresented politicians on Tuesday, reshaping the face of political leadership as Democrats rode a wave ...

Democrats secured control of the US Senate and House of Representatives in Tuesday’smidterm elections, giving them an important slice of power in Washington after two years of Republican control. ...

US President Donald Trump backed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, a day after Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in midterm elections that reflected voter anger over ...

Oil prices fell more than 8% to settle at their lowest in more than two months on Wednesday after President Donald Trump’s Republican Party lost control of Congress in midterm ...

The US president repeatedly branded him a jihadist. His Republican opponent questioned his loyalty to America. Campaign mailers suggested he had ties to terrorists and warned that, if elected, he ...

US President Donald Trump has acknowledged that the war with Iran contributed to Republican losses in the midterm elections, agreeing with Vice President JD Vance’s assessment of the defeat, ...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s political rivals seized on Democrats’ capture of the US Congress as proof that he had squandered generations of bipartisan American support for Israel, as they seek a ...

The US Treasury issued fresh sanctions on Wednesday against companies and individuals based in Tukey and India for their support of Iran, warning that it would continue to go after ...

US President Donald Trump went to war seeking regime change in Iran. Instead, it was his own grip on Washington that gave way, as voters weary of the war and ...

Democrats vowed on Wednesday to use their resounding midterm victory to rein in President Donald Trump, setting up two years of possible deadlock in Washington, as Trump spent his first ...

US Vice President JD Vance distanced himself from President Donald Trump’s war on Iran on Wednesday, questioning its worth and blaming it entirely for a stinging electoral rebuke by ...

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson will not run for election as House minority leader, following the loss of his Republican majority in this week’s midterm elections, a ...

As Republicans suffered a landslide defeat and Texas elected its first Democratic governor in more than three decades, one of the biggest losers of the US midterms was not on ...

Democrats seized control of both the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, scoring sweeping victories in Republican strongholds for the first time in generations as tens of millions of ...

President Donald Trump acknowledged on Wednesday that the US-Israeli war on Iran played a role in his party’s sweeping defeat in the midterm elections, as Democrats won control of ...

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s open US Senate seat on Tuesday, according to media projections, becoming the first Muslim elected to the chamber while preserving a crucial Democratic seat ...

Democrats are on track for big gains in governor races, notching victories in Ohio, Texas, Iowa, Georgia and Wisconsin, according to US media projections, with a number of other races ...

Americans went to the polls on Tuesday in midterm elections that will determine who controls Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term. Here are some ...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he made a deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington would stop $4 billion in annual funding to Israel after this year, ...

American voters will deliver a verdict on the first two years of President Donald Trump’s second term in Tuesday’s midterm elections, with polls and nonpartisan analysts favoring Democrats ...

Iran and the United States remain far from a deal to end the war, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday, despite intensified diplomatic efforts to avert a return ...

Democrats need a net gain of at least four seats in November’s midterm elections to wrest control of the US Senate from Republicans, with voter discontent over President Donald ...