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UPDATED, with Schumer comment: Senator Kyrsten Sinema jolted Democratic hopes of obtaining a clear majority in the next Congress when she announced on Friday that she has switched her party affiliation to independent. “Like a lot of Arizonans, I have never fit perfectly in either national party,” she…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she will not seek a leadership post in the next Congress, ending a two decade career leading the party caucus. “With great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek reelection to Democratic leadership in the next Congress,” Pelosi said in a speech from…

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) was projected to win reelection over Adam Laxalt in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, assuring Democratic control of the Senate. The latest vote tallies were enough for networks to call the race for Cortez Masto, who trailed until final mail-in ballots were counted in more…

UPDATE, 8:28 AM: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was projected to defeat Mandela Barnes to win reelection, according to CNN and other networks. That raises the prospects that control of the U.S. Senate may come down to a runoff race in Georgia, where Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) leads Republican Herschel…

In a nighttime session, the U.S. Senate voted 69-28 tonight to pass a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government solvent through Feb. 18. It also included $7 billion in aid to Afghan evacuees, according to the Washington Post. The measure was approved by the House earlier in the day and will now go to…

“Democrats are now the party that can't tell the difference between Anthony Weiner and Al Franken,” said Bill Maher at the close of Real Time on Friday night. He went on to bemoan the increasing rigidity of the Left and the increasing, well, liberalism of the Right. “Once upon a time the Right were offended by…

Bill Maher's penultimate Real Time before the holidays packed a wallop. Maher began by trying to have a civil conversation with Jenna Ellis, a Senior Legal Advisor for the Trump 2020 campaign. He thanked Ellis for being brave enough to be on the show. He then tried to allow her to state her case. Ellis ran through a…

Bill Maher lit into Amy Coney Barrett and the Catholic Church, saying the prospective Supreme Court justice has been “”groomed since birth” to overturn Roe v. Wade. As the Real Time host began tonight’s show-ending monologue about Barrett, he joked that he had nothing against Catholics “except my entire upbringing.&#8221…

The Republican version of a new pandemic economic stimulus package should arrive next week, reports indicate, as Senate GOP leaders and the White House claim to have reached agreement on what they will propose on Monday. The $600 federal unemployment benefit ends tomorrow, leaving the millions of unemployed people…

It won't confirmed until the Democrats have their National Convention in August, but tonight Joe Biden finally locked in the party's nomination to take on Donald Trump in November. Having been the last man standing in the primaries after a commanding Super Tuesday performance that saw main rival Bernie Sanders…

The Democratic National Committee announced the first four Democratic debates of 2020. CNN and The Des Moines Register will host a debate on Jan. 14 in Des Moines ahead of Iowa's caucuses; ABC News, WMUR-TV and Apple News will host in Manchester, NH, on Feb. 7, ahead of the vote there; NBC News and MSNBC, in…

UPDATED with statement from Sen. Kamala Harris: Just weeks away from the next Democratic debate in her home state, Sen. Kamala Harris of California is ending her presidential campaign — a surprise decision after her bid for the White House in 2020 faltered. Harris informed her staff of her decision to suspend her…