Democrats handily secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin a

Four years ago, Michelle Obama told skeptical voters that despite her husband's funny name, he was just like them. On Tuesday, she tried to convince them he was also an exceptional president.

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Washington: President Barack Obama swaps serene Hawaii for the partisan hurly-burly of Washington on Tuesday, with empowered Republicans maneuvering to strangle his health care law and stall his new

Mumbai: Looking for mid-term adjustments for his government in the wake of an electoral debacle back home, President Barack Obama Sunday ruled out any change in the 'fundamental belief' of US policy t

Nov 3: Republican Nikki Haley, daughter of Sikh immigrant parents from Amritsar, will be the new governor of South Carolina state after she defeated her Democratic rival Vincent Sheheen in a close rac

Republicans marched toward House control Tuesday night in midterm elections shadowed by recession, locking up enough Democratic seats to install a conservative majority certain to challenge President

Washington: The US House of Representatives became the headquarters for the nation's surly mood toward government as Republicans pivoted from the campaign trail into a two-year attempt to neutralise P

Days ahead of his visit to India, America's first black president Barack Obama saw his Democratic party suffer a near rout in the face of voter dissatisfaction over a recession-hit economy.

Most likely voters in US elections on Tuesday prefer a Republican-controlled Congress, an opinion poll showed in a new indication that Republicans are poised to make substantial gains.

US voters demoralised by a faltering economy, look certain to hand Republicans a mid-term elections triumph on Tuesday after souring on President Barack Obama's Democrats, just two years into his crus