MANILA, Philippines — Senate proceedings were abruptly adjourned on Tuesday night, May 26, after a dispute over quorum broke out during discussions on proposed rule changes, including a move to allow ...

Non-whites are set to become the majority for the first time in the US by 2050, a situation mirrored in up to 16 states — including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, according to new census data.

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 ...

BUDAPEST, April 8 (Reuters) - Hungary's opposition party Tisza is on track to win a two-thirds parliamentary majority in Sunday's election, allowing it to amend the constitution and key laws needed ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at how the U.S. public feels about the legality of abortion, including medication abortion, as well as views of the ease or difficulty of obtaining an abortion ...

Some House Republicans are getting worried over the prospect of colleagues quiet-quitting after losing their primary races as election season heats up, threatening to whittle down the GOP's already ...

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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.

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 ...

President Donald Trump's small Republican voting majority in the House of Representatives is getting even smaller amid unexpected departures and a tragedy, further complicating their path for passing ...