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DHS said ICE has initiated a “surge in sanctuary cities,” as part of the Trump administration’s continuous crackdown on immigration.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday said that his country is “fully prepared” for the conflict with the U.S. to resume if President Trump authorizes new strikes on the regime after the November midterm elections. Araghchi told NBC News’s Kristen Welker in an interview on “Meet the Pres...
“The question is, why are Republicans allowing this to happen?” Scarborough asked on Monday’s “Morning Joe.” The post Joe Scarborough fumes over GOP silence on Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads appeared fir...
Cook Political Report founder Charlie Cook on Sunday said that it has been a “done deal” conclusion that Democrats are likely to retake the House after the November midterm elections, while their chances of claiming the Senate look “very realistic.” “I would completely agree that the House has been ...
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s candidate won a special vote in the Calabria region for a seat in Italy’s parliament, comfortably beating the far-right National Future, which contested its first election.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's flirtation with a 2028 Senate bid is getting real — more real than the presidential buzz around her might suggest.She's barnstorming through upstate New York, meeting with local officials, and kicking off a voter turnout program that could help her collect ...
Venezuelan protesters called for opposition leader María Corina Machado’s return to the country, amid concerns that the prospect of democracy is sliding away.
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. The post Monday’s Campaign Round-Up, 9.28.26: Hegseth pushes voter registration ahead of midterms appeared first on MS NOW.
Trump’s unilateral policies have done significant harm to GOP candidates.
In a recent podcast interview, Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed sought to reassure voters about his healthcare stance. He’s a supporter of government-run single-payer healthcare, which would cost more than $3 trillion every single year, according to nonpartisan and even left-leaning...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is launching a six-week campaign blitz that will take him to more than 40 congressional districts across 22 states through Election Day, Axios has learned.Why it matters: Johnson is going all-in on defending Republicans' House majority at a moment when the political terr...
A year after her election, Mayor Katie Wilson wants to upgrade housing and transit in the Emerald City. But moderate councilors and divisions within her own base are undermining her.
Flock provides police departments with networks of surveillance cameras — primarily, automatic license plate readers that photograph each vehicle that passes them. | NurPhoto via Getty Images To no small extent, Americans have grown accustomed to being watched. For more than a decade, CCTV camera...
DA’s Dean Macpherson’s conciliatory tone exposes a rift with ANC coalition partner over how to handle Washington.
Turning to George Osborne’s playbook may look awkward, but cutting deposits to 2.5% could jolt a housebuilding sector stuck in a funkWhat you need to know about Your First Home schemeThere may be three reasons why the Labour government has hesitated until now to reheat the Tories’ decade-long help-t...
Andy Burnham has shown little patience for one of Britain’s oldest political traditions: debating whether the prime minister will call an early election.
Grammy-nominated rap megastar Nicki Minaj is urging young Americans to "vote red' ahead of what many political prognosticators believe will be a close and contentious midterm election cycle. The post Watch: Nicki Minaj Tells Young Americans to ‘Vote Red Now’ in 2026 Midterms appeared first on Breitb...
Senate Republicans force a test vote on the Ratepayer Protection Act, daring Democrats to block a data center affordability bill boosting Jon Husted.
Aliko Dangote’s planned refinery on Kenya’s Lamu Island will likely have to rely on seaborne imports for crude supplies.
House Republicans summon ActBlue attorney Ronald Machen for a closed-door interview, citing contradictions in his prior statements on donor verification.
There's a lot of flaws in both sweeping claims—and one that they have in common.
The historic immigration surge that reshaped the U.S. population after the pandemic left a big imprint on the economy: boosting growth with surprisingly little disruption to native-born workers — but also adding to rent inflation.Why it matters: Those findings — unveiled in new research presented at...
The political environment for the party has led to widespread alarm. “It feels like it could be a wipeout,” one strategist said.
In a debate with the Democrat Rebecca Bennett, the New Jersey Republican said he was willing to take on the president over funding for a Hudson River tunnel project.
Frustrated by $4.50 gas? Before voting Democrat-or skipping the polls-remember when prices topped $5. Here's why their energy record won't fix what's hurting your wallet.
One of Sen. Susan Collins’s (R-ME) federal offices in Maine was vandalized with profane graffiti, her top deputy confirmed on Monday. Chief of staff Katie Brown said that “Senator Collins and her staff will not be intimidated” after her office in Biddeford, one of six in the state, was spray-painted...
Andrew Bailey cited family reasons for his FBI resignation, expressing confidence that Kash Patel will continue reform efforts and restore public trust.
From New York to Michigan, DSA candidates keep winning Democratic primaries - and the party can't seem to push back as the midterms approach.
Cornell University's Young Democratic Socialists of America lead "from the river to the sea" chant before Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes stage.
Formerly tax-supported workers are discovering the uncertainties the private sector faces every day.
AI companies, private equity firms and unions are looking beyond 2026 in the data center debate, banding together to form a new multimillion-dollar coalition to make the case for responsible growth in seven key states.Why it matters: The new group, the American Infrastructure Alliance, wants to part...
In a 2016 opinion, authored one year before he became a Supreme Court justice, then-Judge Neil Gorsuch warned against lawyers who tempt judges to reach conclusions that aren’t supported by the Constitution’s text. “Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution,” the future justice wrote. “And tha...
Andrew Bailey was frustrated with the recent demotion of veteran FBI counterterrorism agents, according to sources. The post FBI’s co-deputy director resigns after agents assigned to case on Stephen M...
Many prominent Republican figures are skeptical the GOP will have any success in November's midterm elections.
The federal government’s spending plans should mirror the average American family's plan.
Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) said Sunday that during this summer, President Trump “did everything he could to help Republicans lose” the upcoming midterms. “Well, I think elections are won in the summer, and we’re now here in late September. And Donald Trump did everything he could to help R...
The GOP senator said he and Trump are leaning on the House to return and pass the measure before the midterms.
The president’s first one-on-one meeting with Dario Amodei followed months of tensions.
The son of a night watchman and a stay-at-home mother, Douglas Oliveira was 16 and living in a modest house in Brazil’s northeast when he cast his first ballot, helping Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva win a second presidential term.
The post The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting appeared first on ProPublica.
Outgoing Rep. Steny Hoyer argues that Democrats proved effective governance during the 117th Congress through landmark legislation like the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, urging voters to choose leaders capable of addressing the ongoing affordability crisis.
Troubles seem to be coming to the eurozone economy not as single spies but in battalions. These troubles include an Iranian-induced energy price shock, an onslaught of Chinese exports in the form of the so-called China 2.0 shock, and a spike in long-term bond rates as part of the global government b...
Justice Samuel Alito announced Monday he would be recusing himself from a major Supreme Court climate change case a week before oral arguments, after facing pressure from left-wing groups to do so. Alito, who has served on the Supreme Court since 2006 after being appointed by then-President George W...
In their last week in Washington before the elections, GOP lawmakers are pressing their party to do more to address the cost of living.
The Trump Education Department now has 90 days to decide whether to strip the American Bar Association of its decades-long law school accreditation monopoly.
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said that it's "entirely possible" his party wins control of the Senate in the midterm elections, while leaving the door open on his own political future.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's weighing a 2028 presidential run or a challenge to Chuck Schumer's New York Senate seat after midterm elections.
The president, booed at other big sporting events this year, drew mostly cheers at Neyland Stadium. In the parking lots, some of his own voters had misgivings.
Recent outbreaks of foodborne illness and high-profile recalls have made food safety a concern of voters.
On Sept. 20, Salazar said she’d spoken to the president, and he was “very receptive” to her concerns. A week later, he went after her with a vengeance. The post Maria Elvira Salazar initially avoided ...
The US is the world’s biggest diesel producer and exporter, and Trump’s threat has put buyers on alert.
The political battle for the Senate is spreading to states many analysts doubted would have a central role in the November midterms, prompting both parties to bolster spending in an election that is on track to be the most expensive in American history.
Tom Kean Jr., the New Jersey Republican congressman whose four-month absence from the House this year went unexplained until he disclosed that he was being treated for depression, clashed with Democratic opponent Rebecca Bennett in a debate Sunday in t...
The D.C. Council member was charged with taking bribes from a city contractor who handed him envelopes of cash during four meetings in 2024, all of them secretly videotaped by the FBI.
A federal appeals court has permanently blocked the recruitment provision of Tennessee's "abortion trafficking" law.
Adam Hamilton, the Democrat seeking to be the first Kansans sent to the Senate in nearly a century, once asked his church congregation to repent for eating beef.
Republicans have let conservatives down on gas prices and the SAVE Act. But staying home in midterm elections would put their biggest wins at risk.
President Trump has brought his New York real estate background to the White House. But experts say D.C. is a very different historic and legal landscape — and worry about the precedent he could set.
Five suspects believed to have been planning an attack on a U.S. Air Force base in the United Kingdom have been released on bail. The announcement of the men’s release on Monday has sparked raised eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic. The arrest of the five British men of Middle Eastern or South A...
The taxpayer-funded campaign borrows the president's political rhetoric as the White House defends the spots as “public service” announcements.
It’s Sept. 28 — 36 days away from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
Double, double toil and trouble - the electoral witching hour draws nigh for the GOP in 2026. We are well past Labor Day weekend - traditionally the last point at which a party on the electoral back foot is thought to have any chance of turning its fortunes around before the November midterm electio...
The real world is messy and complicated, full of constraints and bottlenecks—that, whether we’re talking about white-collar or blue-collar jobs. Forecasts about AI-driven job displacement that fail to grapple with these realities should be treated with extreme skepticism. The post What Robot Trucks ...
A new book examines the assassination attempt that changed the course of our recent history The post The Mysteries of Butler appeared first on The American Conservative.
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Monday, readers! We hope you all had a great weekend despite the rainy and gloomy weather. 🌧️☔ This week is set to be another busy one in the nation’s capital. With just five weeks left before midterm elections, Senate Republicans are pushing to advan...
In one X post unearthed by CNN, Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas railroad commissioner, appeared to call for the execution of former president Barack Obama. The post Report: Texas GOP cand...
House Republicans are demanding testimony from an attorney for ActBlue, accusing him of defending the Democratic fundraising platform’s foreign donor screening practices with findings that conflict with internal documents. In a letter on Monday to WilmerHale partner Ronald Machen, Chairmen Bryan Ste...
The Middle East conflict is a supply shock dragging global growth down, while the AI investment boom is a demand shock pushing it up, but what happens when one side gives?
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Andrew Bailey, deputy director of the FBI, is leaving his post after just over a year of service, Bailey and Director Kash Patel confirmed Monday.Why it matters: Bailey's resignation adds to turnover under Patel, as top aides and experienced security officials have left the agency.What they're sayin...
President Trump on Sunday praised law enforcement in the U.K. for its work in arresting five men suspected of planning a terror attack on a U.S. air base “The arrest in the U.K. was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job,” Trump told reporters in Chicago, according to NewsNation’s Li...
President Trump went after the Supreme Court on Sunday for blocking a Missouri congressional map favoring Republicans. “The Supreme Court of the United States will just not let Missouri have an Election Victory. They continuously, three times now, overrule Judges who came to the correct decisions,” ...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former White House ethics czar Norman Eisen about the ethical and legal questions raised by new Trump administration advertisements, which are funded by taxpayer money.
New York’s lawsuit against Polymarket is the latest salvo in a long-running dispute between states and the Trump administration. The post Trump put out a ‘for sale’ sign for prediction markets. States...
JD Vance targets H-1B visa abuse, saying large companies lay off thousands of American workers then claim they desperately need foreign labor.
There is nothing holding back Republican political fortunes this year more than the war that President Donald Trump started with Iran.
Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general, was hired for the leadership role about a year ago.
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
Bobby Pulido would be the only member of Congress with a Latin Grammy to his name. That comes with its upsides and downsides.
Iranian officials have privately expressed pessimism about reaching a deal to end hostilities with Washington and reopen the Strait of Hormuz before US midterm elections in November, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump announces Mesabi Metallics' $15 billion Iowa steel plant, but the massive facility won't produce its first steel until 2030 at the earliest.
The congressional voting districts for the midterm elections finally are settled — roughly 440 days after President Donald Trump spurred a rare mid-decade redistricting battle
The U.S. and Chinese governments each unveiled $30 billion worth of products subject to lower tariffs, after President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met last week in Washington, according to the White House. Chinese products subject to lower tariffs under the new “30-by-30” framework includ...