The American singer-songwriter and poet visited with the American pope at the Vatican during a break between concert dates in ...

Democratic party leaders and political analysts spoke with Morning Edition about the results of the midterm elections, the ...

Four weeks of flooding washed out roads and sent thousands fleeing their homes on the Navajo Reservation. But many worked ...

After Tuesday's bruising defeat for Republicans, House Speaker Mike Johnson will not stay on as minority leader come January.

The Methodist pastor who flipped a Republican Senate seat says voters want more than political change. He tells NPR what he ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, about what polls captured (and underestimated) after Democrats performed stronger than expected in midterm elections.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with former congressman and Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel about what Democrats' strategy should be, now that they'll soon control both houses of Congress.

Democrat Adam Hamilton beat Sen. Roger Marshall, a fierce loyalist to President Trump, per a race call by the Associated ...

Across the country, tens of millions of voters made their voices heard at the ballot box with no major disruptions from ...

Missouri voters defeated a measure that would have banned abortion just two years after voters legalized abortion in another ...

Democrat Roy Cooper has won North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, according to a race call from the Associated Press, ...

Keisha Lance Bottoms' win marks the first time Georgia has elected a Democratic governor in more than 20 years.