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WASHINGTON (AP) — As he takes stock of his Republican Party’s midterm drubbing, President Donald Trump now faces the difficult question of what to do about his unpopular 8-month-old war against Iran. For weeks, Trump has threatened to return to a full-scale bombardment of Iran once the U.S. elections were in the rearview mirror if […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was publicly humbled by inflation in Tuesday’s midterm elections, as rising prices provoked a bli...

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana won reelection but will not seek to lead House Republicans in the next Congress. Following the GOP’s election losses, Johnson told staff Wednesday that he […] Continue reading with a Black Chronicle subscription. Purchase The Black Chronicle Newspaper Subscription – Now with the All-New TBC Magazine! or The Black Chronicle Newspaper Subscription – Now with the All-New TBC Magazine!! to unlock this article and a

Shortly after 29-year-old Melat Kiros learned she would head to Washington D.C. as the first Black, Gen Z and democratic socialist congresswoman-elect to represent Colorado, Kiros shared what the moment meant to her. It feels surreal. It feels like a moment in history right now that we’re living through, Kiros said. In her first interview […] The post Melat Kiros to become first Black woman, Gen Zer, and democratic socialist to represent Colorado in congress first appeared on Krystal

BATON ROUGE - Republican State Sen. Blake Miguez is one step closer to Washington, D.C., after Tuesday night's election, heading to the Dec. 12 runoff for the District 6 House seat against Democrat Chauna Banks, a former EBR Metro Councilmember.According to the unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State, Miguez took the second highest number of votes after Banks.Ten different candidates qualified for the 6th Congressional District race, six Republicans, three Democrats and one Li

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is on the cusp of making history as the nation’s first Black speaker of the House, a generational shift in U.S. politics after […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters took a wrecking ball to the traditional map of political battlegrounds, electing Democrats in states that were long considered reliably Republican during Tuesday’s midterm election. Kansas, South... Read More

WASHINGTON — JD Vance publicly broke from President Donald Trump‘s defense of the Iran war Wednesday after the Republican Party’s deep losses in the midterm elections, attempting to distance himself from voters’ clear rebuke of...

Sam Forstag, Montana’s soon-to-be first Democratic U.S. Representative in three decades, said on Wednesday that winning his election was just the beginning of the fight for working-class Americans.  He is going to Washington, D.C., to fight “so that every person in this country and this state can afford to work one good job and afford […]

WASHINGTON — For a decade, the political map has been largely stagnant, locked into the same half-dozen or so political battlegrounds, reflecting a polarized, evenly divided country. On Tuesday, voters took a wrecking ball to...