The Latest Breaking News from US Senate

LAS VEGAS — In a very tight race, Republican former Attorney General Adam Laxalt took a slight lead over Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in the U.S. Senate race in early returns Wednesday morning, but an unknown number of mail ballots submitted on Election Day still need to be…

Maxwell Frost, 25, became the youngest congressman in history while Democrat Maura Healey of Massachusetts goes down in the history books as the first openly lesbian governor in US history

As the US midterm election results roll in, it’s evident that the Republican “red wave” that many experts anticipated hasn’t materialised. Early numbers indicate that Republicans are likely to take back the House of Representatives but by slimmer numbers than expected, even as the US Senate remains a toss-up. While…

Control of the U.S. Senate could again come down to Georgia — and that means it could further come down to the state's runoff election rules