Democratic candidates buoyed by widespread opposition to Donald Trump seized the balance of power on Capitol Hill, but Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections failed to produce what critics had hoped would be an even more scolding rebuke of the most controversial and divisive president of the modern era.

If the Democrats succeed in breaking through in the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, it will have a lot to do with women like Callie Rennison.

No one knows yet if it will be red, blue or purple, but a tidal wave of energized voters is expected to flood polling stations across the United States today, November 6, 2018, as Americans deliver their early verdict on President Donald Trump.

Under pressure over his no-prisoners, no-apologies style following the deadliest-ever anti-Semitic attack on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump sent his supporters on Monday, October 29, 2018, a familiar conservative comeback: it's all the media's fault.

U.S. President Donald Trump pulled some of his usual barrage of podium punches on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, urging politicians of all stripes to stop attacking each other's morals and calling on supporters to settle their ideological differences the civilized way: at the ballot box.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demurred on Friday, October 12, 2018, on the darkening mystery surrounding the fate of Jamal Khashoggi, saying only that Canada has "serious issues" with reports the Washington Post columnist was killed by Saudi Arabian operatives inside that country's consulate in Turkey.

From deep within the pantheon of diplomacy that is the United Nations came hardly a warning shot or a red flag — it was a rocket-propelled rhetorical grenade aimed directly at Canada, with a concussive blast that reverberated all the way to the Prime Minister's Office.

Senators voted on Friday, September 28, 2018, to send Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination for a broader vote on Capitol Hill — but not before the man holding the swing vote helped negotiate a last-minute caveat: a week-long FBI investigation into Christine Blasey Ford's allegations of sexual assault.

Canada and the United States have officially reached an 11th-hour deal with Mexico to modernize the North American free trade agreement.

A riveting, high-stakes exchange of she-said, he-said played out in full view of the world on Thursday, September 27, 2018, as Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford traded vastly different versions of their high school days in the summer of 1982, with control of the highest court in the land hanging in the balance.