Predictions from five leading US political websites suggest that 12 states lie at the heart of the battle for control of the US Senate in the mid-term elections. Democratic two-term Senator ...

Democrats failed to move forward on a bill that would have ended a tax break critics say rewards companies who send jobs abroad. Legislation is going nowhere ahead of Election 2010.

The 39-year-old Tea Party favourite beat not only his Democrat rival to Florida's Senate seat, but also the Republican Governor, Charlie Crist, who ended up campaigning as an independent.

All the results of the 2010 US mid-term elections, including the Senate, House of Representatives, governors' elections and ballot initiatives in individual states.

He served in the Senate until November 2010, when voters chose his successor in a special election. Citing fundraising difficulties, Burris chose to retire instead of running for a full term. Tim ...

The Republican congressman from Ohio will replace Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House of Representatives, and become second in line to the US presidency (after the vice-president). Elected as ...