Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir "Book of Lives" shares how Trump's 2016 and 2024 elections influenced "The Handmaid's Tale" series.

"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, in his victory speech, celebrated the fall of the Cuomo political dynasty and promised to usher in a new generation of change. NEW YORK CITY MAYOR-ELECT ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Thank you,

Exit polls show that the big winners in yesterday’s off-year elections — Democrats Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherill and Zoran Mamdani — share one common denominator: They won in large part because voters are dissatisfied with how President Donald Trump is handling the economy.

The beleaguered, battered and bewildered Democratic Party had a good week. It’s been a long time since anyone has been able to say that. And it has given President Donald Trump and his Republican allies something to worry about.

First, Latino voters were the vanguard of the New American Majority, growing in number and destined to lift the Democratic Party to new heights. Later, around 2020, they were the canary in the coal mine for Democrats’ problems with voters without a college degree.

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we get you up to speed before polls close tonight in California, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and beyond.

The Inter Miami and Argentina star has a huge presence in the business world, but humbly admits he knows little about it

After years on the perimeter of Westminster politics and known largely as the populist cheerleader for Brexit, Farage is increasingly making a pitch for power as the man to break a sclerotic political system, just as Donald Trump famously rode his golden escalator in 2015 to storm the US presidency.

Sen. John Fetterman rejects socialism's influence in Democratic Party, telling Fox News that New York City's leftward politics don't represent party's future.

Rep. Jared Golden, whose district is the most pro-Trump in the country represented by a Democrat, says he’s “grown tired of the increasing incivility and plain nastiness” in politics.