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Last updated Thursday, November 5, 2026 — 3:50 AM EST
House Speaker Mike Johnson told staff on Wednesday he would not run for minority leader after Republicans lost their majority in the midterm elections. The party elects new leadership on November 10.
Democrats took the House and seven Senate seats from the Republican Party in the 2026 midterm elections, returning the party to full control of Congress for the first time since 2023.
US voters choose the full House, a third of the Senate and governors in 36 states on Tuesday, with Democrats needing net gains of four seats in both chambers to take control of Congress.
Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, former leaders of the FBI’s disbanded Foreign Influence Task Force, were taken into custody and charged with making false statements to Congress about their roles in the agency’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Wall Street is bracing for stocks to fall if Democrats regain control of both houses of Congress in the US midterm elections less than a month away, Bloomberg reported.
Brad Lander, a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York, said Israeli forces detained him while he helped Palestinian farmers harvest olives, in what two Israeli lawyers told NPR was the largest mass detention of activists in the West Bank in at least a decade.
