Investors in North American cannabis companies were still digesting the results of Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections — which saw voters in three states legalize cannabis in some fashion — when the sudden resignation of U.S. Attorney…

AFTER TWO years of unified Republican control, divided government is returning to Washington. In arguably the most consequential mid-term elections in recent memory, the Democratic Party won a comfortable majority in America’s House of Representatives.…

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WASHINGTON—Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, while Republicans retained their grip on the Senate, presenting challenges for President Trump on one front but ensuring robust support on another. Democrats won victories in key…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out of his post Wednesday by President Trump, ending a turbulent tenure that began with Mr. Sessions as one of Mr. Trump’s closest associates and ended with him facing…

BEFORE the mid-term election of November 6th, Elijah Cummings, a congressman from Baltimore, Maryland, swore that if Democrats flipped the House of Representatives, his party would do what Republicans have refused to, and “conduct independent,…