DIGGING IN Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano presides over the Senate plenary session for the second day since the ouster of Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III from the post. —MARIANNE BERMUDEZ MANILA, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...