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Tensions escalated outside Newark's Delaney Hall immigrant detention center as protesters took over traffic control and ICE agents used pepper spray.
Justice Clarence Thomas orders left-wing voting rights activists in Alabama to defend a congressional districting map that helped Democrats flip a deep-red House seat in 2024.
House Republicans face minor redistricting setbacks in Alabama and South Carolina but remain in a strong position in the midterm redistricting war.
Stephen Miller and Nicolle Wallace have something in common. The post My Reality TV Show: What Won’t They Say? appeared first on The American Conservative.
Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino criticized the Department of Homeland Security‘s response to the outbreak of protests at New Jersey‘s Delaney Hall immigration detention center on Thursday. People have gathered outside Delaney Hall since last week, protesting the conditions ins...
Democrats simply cannot or will not find a normal candidate to run in competitive or hostile Senate races. That leads to candidates such as Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, who have to run away from their bizarre past comments to avoid alienating voters. On paper, the Senate race in T...
Democratic infighting eruped after Colin Allred's runoff win over Rep. Julie Johnson, with Equality Caucus co-chairs criticizing his primary challenge.
Democrat Graham Platner leads Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a new Maine Senate poll despite controversies over inflammatory online posts and a tattoo.
Maine Democrats vying for Jared Golden's House seat lined up behind Graham Platner, exposing a rift with centrists who rebuked his Senate candidacy.
A federal judge ruled Democrats' bid to block Trump's executive order on mail ballot delivery was premature since no agency has yet acted on it.
Trump is unpopular. Gas prices are high. Republicans are searching for a midterm message.
Texas Democrat James Talarico has launched his general election campaign for the U.S. Senate
Data: Bureau of Economic Analysis; Chart: Axios VisualsAmericans are burning through their financial cushion at an accelerating pace, spending faster than their income is growing, as the energy shock from the Iran war slams household budgets.Why it matters: Consumer spending has indeed held up, defy...
As part of NPR's Swing Shift project checking in with swing voters, these Americans are split on who is to blame for high gas prices but they all agree it has an impact on their personal finances.
Democrats see an opportunity to flip several GOP-held Senate seats this fall, including Texas, where the matchup was officially set this week.
A key inflation gauge accelerated in April to the highest level in three years, squeezing Americans' finances and creating political challenges for President Trump and congressional Republicans with midterm elections just five months away.
An obscure document from 2010 could be shaping U.S. diplomacy. The post How Brazil’s Left-Wing Leader Might Help Trump End the Iran War appeared first on The American Conservative.
President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is not hoarding lump-sum payments from member states and collecting on each nation’s pledges bit by bit as required for its projects in Gaza instead. The international committee, of which Trump is the inaugural and permanent chairman, received pledges of $1 bi...
James Talarico is the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas this year. He is raising money hand over fist, will enjoy Beto O’Rourke-style adulation from most of the “news” media, and now faces an exceptionally flawed Republican opponent in the general election. The GOP, desperate to hold this seat, wil...
Lib Dem Makerfield by-election candidate Jake Austin says only his party is bringing normal politics.
Makerfield by-election Green candidate Sarah Wakefield pledged action on two "big buckets of issues"
The constituency is suddenly at the epicentre of British politics - and the by-election result could decide the next prime minister.
The General Services Administration joins the White House fraud task force to combat waste and abuse in federal contracting and procurement systems.
The Pentagon informed allies it plans to reduce U.S. military contributions to NATO by one-third to one-half amid a push for European burden-sharing.
Jill Biden recalled fearing Joe Biden was having a stroke during his 2024 debate against Trump, sparking criticism from conservatives and media figures.
For two decades, Terry Pitchford has agued his conviction was not valid, pointing to what he says were racially biased selections of the jurors who heard the case.
Whitmer, term-limited after two gubernatorial wins in her battleground state, had been widely viewed as a potential Democratic candidate.
The renewed violence came after the president said Iran was wrong if it thought he would feel pressure to make concessions and resolve the standoff before U.S. midterm elections later this year.
In a striking shift, White voters without college degrees who voted to reelect Trump by a huge margin are now net-negative on his job approval.
Other southern states are advocating for South Carolina to remain the first to vote in the Democratic presidential primaries
Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a protest festival near Washington, D.C., shortly before the midterm elections
The crowded race for California governor still has no clear front-runner with only days left for voters to decide which two candidates to advance to the general election in November
The Trump administration is bracing for the potential collapse of Cuba's totalitarian government as early as this summer, and has war-gamed new military response plans in case the island descends into chaos, U.S. officials tell Axios.Why it matters: President Trump hasn't authorized an invasion and ...
Iran's military fired four one-way drones at a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, a senior U.S. official said.The U.S. military shot down the drones and attacked another Iranian drone-launching unit on the ground before, the official added.Why it matters: This is the second such s...
A Brazilian artificial intelligence startup that helps police investigate violent crime is planning a rapid expansion at home, betting its technology is ready for wider use as Brazil confronts mounting public security concerns.
Argentine provinces are tapping global bond markets at the fastest pace in nearly a decade, even as the federal government sticks to short-term debt in the local market amid investor fears over the 2027 elections.
In a case that raised questions about racial bias in the criminal justice system, the Supreme Court threw out the murder conviction of a Black death row inmate in Mississippi.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said that she does not plan to run for president in 2028, rebuffing assumptions that she would join a crowded Democratic primary field.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has declined to temporarily block President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting mail-in voting. Another judge may rule on the order soon.
U.S. forces carried out new defensive strikes on Iran on Wednesday as President Trump insisted November's midterm elections won't make him rush to make a deal to end the Iran war.
The bill says it would permit the teaching of the positive impact of Judeo-Christian values in U.S. history. Opponents say it offers a skewed view of history.
Veterans groups hoped a Trump executive order would supercharge housing for homeless vets. That hasn't happened, and veterans' advocates want to know why.
Democrats see an opportunity in Texas to retake the Senate, but how realistic is that goal? NPR's A Martinez speaks with Kyle Kondik {KAHN-dik} of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Over three decades, Netanyahu’s pivot to divisive electioneering has paid off.
Also, can Stephen and Katie Miller stop whining?
New York lawmakers want to close loopholes in anti-shackling laws to protect incarcerated pregnant women.
The two judicial conservatives continue to disappoint criminal justice reform advocates.
If the government does not reduce the cost of public services, then a special tax break for one group merely forces everyone else to pick up the slack.
I am happy to pass along this hiring notice from my friends at ADF: Alliance Defending Freedom is seeking Senior… The post Alliance Defending Freedom Is Hiring A Senior Counsel appeared first on Reason.com.
The documents reveal BusPatrol’s plan to equip tens of thousands of school buses with license plate readers and share the data with law enforcement.
As I noted in a separate post, the legal advocacy group Neutral Principles engaged Erik Jaffe and me to draft… The post Amicus Brief in Suncor Energy on the Foreign Commerce Clause and Climate Change Lawsuits appeared first on Reason.com.
The legal advocacy group Neutral Principles engaged Erik Jaffe and me to draft an amicus brief for them in Suncor… The post Amicus Brief in Suncor Energy on the First Amendment and Climate Change Lawsuits appeared first on Reason.com.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
Compare what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky to what "Subject Judge" did with her paramour.
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt has seen a flurry of donations and support in the run-up to LA’s June 2 mayoral election, in a campaign shaped by last year’s Palisades Fire and a series of provocative AI videos.
The two Republican critics of President Trump — Thomas Massie, who lost his House primary last week, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress — met up in the tropics.
Whitmer said she’s looking forward to taking “a little bit of a break.”
A group of Democratic leaders from Southern states advocated Thursday for South Carolina voters to cast the first ballots in the next presidential primaries. The Democratic Party chairs from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and West Virginia made the request in a letter to Democratic Nation...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said Thursday that she will not run for president in 2028, taking herself out of what is expected to be a crowded Democratic primary field. “There will be a robust group of people running for president. I will not be one of them in 2028, I can tell you that,”…
Donald Trump may well congratulate himself on another primary win, but he might have second thoughts when the Senate convenes in 2027.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is casting doubt on a new piece of legislation introduced by lawmakers in the Senate that would regulate the big business of college sports. The bill’s “primary effect,” Murphy wrote in a social media post on Wednesday night, “seems to be to limit the compensation of athl...
A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Trump’s March executive order beefing up rules surrounding mail-in ballots to stand in the face of legal challenges from Democrats. The order would require the federal government to establish a list of eligible voters based on available citi...
The redistricting math is getting complicated for both parties ahead of the midterm elections, where the House majority is on the line. This week has brought good and bad news for both parties: South Carolina’s legislature rejected a GOP map and a federal court blocked Alabama Republicans’ preferr...
State Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) win in the Texas Senate primary exhilarated President Trump and the MAGA base on Tuesday night. But the victory also electrified Democrats, who say the seat is not just competitive but winnable with their candidate, state Rep. James Talarico. Democrats for ye...
Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are neck and neck in a new poll on a hypothetical Republican presidential primary as chatter builds about who could lead the GOP in 2028. An Emerson College Polling survey found Vance with 36 percent support among Republican voters, and Rubio ...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is leading in new polling on a hypothetical Democratic presidential primary as the party seeks a new path after 2024 losses. An Emerson College Polling survey released Thursday found Buttigieg at the top of the pack with 18 percent support, followed by...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and other Senate Republicans are under new pressure to deliver on President Trump’s agenda after Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) suffered a blowout loss in the Texas GOP primary. Republican strategists say Cornyn’s lopsided loss is a major blow to Senate GOP lea...
President Trump had endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the primary runoff.
The truth about Lebanon, the Palestinians, and peace.View Post
Higher inflation in April is due to energy, tariffs and AI-related spending
Texas Democrat James Talarico, a former middle school teacher and a state lawmaker from Austin, laid out a clear strategy for the months ahead: Litigating Paxton's scandals to a weary electorate.
The Iran war has clouded the economic outlook as higher energy prices squeeze consumers and businesses.
His new friends are not only his adversaries of yore, but the obstacles to policies he wants now—particularly peace in Iran. The post Trump May Miss His Principled Opponents appeared first on The American Conservative.
Peter Walker is joined by pollster Luke Tryl of More in Common to discuss Sir Tony Blair’s intervention in the Labour leadership saga and the party’s prospects in the Makerfield byelectionPlease send your questions and messages for Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey to politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Co...
Clean power remains essential. But until it arrives, Britain must stop LNG made scarce by the Iran war setting gas and electricity prices The US-Israel war on Iran will drive household energy costs in Britain to their highest level in two years over the summer. This has given fresh impetus to calls ...
Only the Greens can actually counter Reform UK – Labour is out of touch and partly responsible for the hard right’s riseThe Green party of England and Wales has announced Sarah Wakefield as its candidate for the upcoming Makerfield byelection. The constituency is split between Greater Manchester and...
Be more strident and ambitious, take on economic inequality, and progressive voters will reward you as they have the UK’s GreensTarik Abou-Chadi is a professor of European politics at the University of OxfordEuropean Green parties have been through a phase of stagnation and crisis in recent years. L...
E. Jean Carroll attends the 2024 TIME 100 Gala on April 25, 2024, in New York City. | Getty Images for TIME Had you time-traveled back to 2023, and started telling people that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department would soon be trying to imprison a woman who had accused him of rape, most wou...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The Trump administration announced last Friday that US visa holders who want a green card must first return to their home countries and apply...
E. Jean Carroll, the woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, allegedly lied under oath during the trial. She claimed she was not receiving outside money to fund her cases — but as it turns out, left-wing megadonor Reid Hoffman was footing the bill. This much has been known since ...
The Supreme Court sided with a death row inmate in Mississippi who challenged the dismissal of four black potential jurors during jury selection for his trial in a sharply divided ruling Thursday. Terry Pitchford was convicted by a state jury to death for his role in the 2004 killing of the owner of...
The president's last-minute endorsement of Paxton was driven by his petty grievances against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who was clearly the safer bet to retain the seat.
Data: UnidosUS/BSP Research/Shaw & Company; Chart: Sara Wise/AxiosA new UnidosUS poll finds that 1 in 4 Hispanic Trump voters say they would not vote for him again if given the choice.Why it matters: The erosion of Latino support for President Trump, combined with dissatisfaction with the economy, s...
Maryland election officials are mailing replacement ballots to voters after a vendor error led to some voters receiving a mail-in ballot for the wrong political party's primary in June. However, in criticizing the mix-up, President Donald Trump distorted the facts to claim that 500,000 “fake,” "corr...
Are there ears to hear the former prime minister’s Fire Sermon on what Labour must do to remain viable? The post Blair’s Bombshell appeared first on The American Conservative.
The clues in the memorandum point to a specific judge.
The Democratic candidate dresses up a negative, partisan appeal as genuine moderation.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to supporters on May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas. | Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Now that Ken Paxton, the conservative attorney general of Texas, has defeated incumbent John Cornyn for the Republican Senate nomin...
Seattle residents built street barricades to stop rampant shootings months after socialist Mayor Katie Wilson took office, sparking online criticism.
GOP lawmaker Paul Kanitra rips Democrats for demanding what he calls five-star accommodations for illegal immigrants at Newark's Delaney Hall.
Republican and Democratic strategists say Maureen Galindo's Texas congressional runoff defeat was not the course correction some Democrats hoped for.
John Thune backs Ken Paxton for Senate after Texas runoff victory, urging Republicans to go all in to prevent Democrats from flipping the key seat.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that aims to shield California elections from federal interference ahead of the state's primary next week
Senate Republican leaders are rushing to mend fences with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, signaling to big-dollar donors that the road to keeping the majority now runs straight through Texas.Why it matters: The goal is to make the $130 million Senate primary between Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn fe...
Several of President Trump's top political advisers are joining Rep. Mike Collins' campaign in the Georgia Senate race, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The hires provide the clearest indication yet that Trump may be leaning towards endorsing Collins ahead of his June 16 primary runoff against for...
President Trump is building a fiercely loyal midterm army amid a revenge tour where MAGA credentials appear to outshine traditional conservatism.Why it matters: The president's victory lap following primary wins that ousted several objectors to his agenda could be premature, as there's no guarantee ...
In today’s edition, we take stock of President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign this month as Ken Paxton and James Talarico look ahead to the general election in Texas.
A U.S. Senate race in Texas is now set with the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton winning the GOP nomination in a primary runoff Tuesday. He'll face Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.
Next week's primary in California includes a closely watched race between two Democrats in the state's Central Valley competing to unseat GOP Rep. David Valadao.
Plus: Plan B for STIs, justifying "deadly force" to protect fertilized eggs, and more.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is throwing his support behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after Paxton’s primary defeat of incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R) on Tuesday. In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday, Thune said maintaining the Republican Senate majority is paramou...
Ideological gatekeeping not only prohibits heterodox ideas and interesting scholarship from mainstream publishing but hinders career advancement for heterodox scholars. The post A Plea to Reform Academic Journals appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
The party is facing a remarkably anti-incumbent base ahead of a tough midterms, this time cheered on by a president who likes to pick winners
The US political parties are best understood by looking at Texas and California, whose 2026 primaries tell a story: Republicans are run from the top, Democrats aren’t run at all.
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is claming state election laws amount to voter suppression, vowing to out-organize GOP rival Ken Paxton in 2026.
Former first lady Jill Biden said in an interview clip released Wednesday that she thought her husband, former President Joe Biden, was “having a stroke” during his critical June 2024 debate, which catalyzed the chain of events that eventually led him to drop out of the presidential election.“I don’...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico said Wednesday that previous comments he’s made on sensitive cultural issues “missed the mark,” as Republicans lean on those remarks to attack him in the contentious Senate race.
President Donald Trump went on a winning streak in May primaries as he ousted several Republicans who had dissented from his party line, further tightening his grip on the GOP.
Democrats are looking for a path to winning more Congressional seats in the future. One way may be to court more rural voters.
A judge last week threw out a criminal indictment against him on the grounds that it was tainted by vindictiveness. But that same spirit infects another part of his story that few people have discussed.
Though some of their products may have been redirected elsewhere, American farmers are likely eating most of the losses.
A 2024 paper claimed higher minimum wages don't kill jobs. It was statistically significant—and almost certainly misleading.
The surprising demand to appear at a hearing suggested new concern about the Trump administration’s efforts to repay the full $166 billion owed from illegally imposed tariffs.
The Trump administration plans to send Americans exposed to Ebola to a quarantine and treatment facility being constructed in Kenya, an administration official said Wednesday. Sources said public health service officers are preparing to be quickly deployed to the region to staff the new facility. ...
President Trump has fallen out of favor with many Latino voters, but they are not incredibly warm toward Democrats in turn, according to a new poll. In the UnidosUS poll, first shared with CBS News, 57 percent of respondents said they backed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the last presidenti...
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) on Wednesday fired back at President Trump after the president attacked the Texas Democrat following Green’s primary loss the night before. Green on Tuesday lost the Democratic primary runoff for the Houston-based 18th Congressional District to Rep. Christian Menefee. “Congra...
Takeaways from Texas primary runoffs; Trump paints murky picture of Iran peace talks.
The November ballot in Texas is now set, after a four-term Republican senator lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger in Tuesday's primary runoffs. Meanwhile, Texas Democrats are angling to win their first Senate race since 1988.
Self-erasure since October 7 has reached an alarming state.View Post
President Trump again proved his political power in Texas as his endorsed candidate in the Senate primary won in a landslide. Ken Paxton secured the GOP nomination, beating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Paxton will face Democratic nominee James Talarico in the fall in what's set to be one of the natio...
The European Central Bank warned US President Donald Trump’s policies could lead to a financial crisis, as inflation risks grow more urgent.
A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different nowA paradox lies at the heart of Sir Tony Blair’s latest sermon to a Labour party that he seems actively to dislike these days. The 5,700-word interventi...