The Somali owner of a Minnesota daycare with reported fraud ties won a state legislative race last week in a historically red region. Democratic state Rep.-elect Abdi Daisane flipped a Minnesota House seat held by Republicans over the past two decades, securing 51.6% of the vote to become his district’s first Somali-born lawmaker. Daisane will […]

Senate Republicans are plowing ahead with plans Tuesday to hold internal leadership elections for the new Congress in January when they’ll be in the minority, even as a vocal faction demand they be postponed to debate the fallout from the GOP’s electoral bloodbath. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), who’s served in his role since […]

House Republicans will decide who will lead them in the 120th Congress on Tuesday, picking between Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) for minority leader. The race is a rematch for Scalise and Jordan, who ran for the top Republican spot when former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted in […]

President Donald Trump is urging the Senate to confirm 25 federal judges before Republicans surrender their majority in January, as resistance from Arkansas’s senators threatens a nominee whose confirmation would give Trump appointees a majority on a federal appeals court for the first time. “Very important for the U.S. Senate to confirm all of our […]