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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire about President Trump's deal for Russian diesel and his claim of an "energy ceasefire" that did not materialize.
The 2026 midterm elections are heating up as Republicans and Democrats battle for control of Congress. From Texas and Maine to Michigan, key Senate races, shifting polls and campaign spending battles add to the uncertainty, while both parties look ahead to the 2028 presidential race.
Harvard's hometown just adopted a new policy against arresting or prosecuting sex workers. But what the policy means in practice—including for sex buyers—is debatable.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday criticized President Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, saying it “reeks of weakness.” “Donald Trump and his war in Iran are to blame for our nation’s sky-high diesel and gas prices. His latest ploy—buying fuel from his friend Vladimir Putin—reeks of weakn...
France’s education crisis and Spain’s housing shortage will not be solved with yet more government intervention.
Most Americans regardless of party oppose betting on election results through prediction markets such as Kalshi or Polymarket, according to a new survey. A Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Monday, found that 60 percent of respondents did not support betting on election results, as the midterm elections ...
Judge Ana Reyes screamed at government lawyers over 430 trees cut down at East Potomac Golf Links, demanding answers about late Friday notification.
Republicans outspend Democrats by $400 million ahead of Election Day, forcing Senate Majority PAC to make tough choices across nine battlegrounds.
The senator garnished paychecks and pushed arrest warrants when his patients couldn’t afford their bills. His interest rates added insult to injury. The post In Kansas, the interest rate Roger Marshal...
Sen. Darline Graham (R-South Carolina) clashed with Democrat Annie Andrews in their only scheduled debate of a Senate race that has become unexpectedly competitive.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said she will “not be silenced” following a raid on her home earlier on Monday by federal agents as part of a criminal investigation. “I’m ok,” Omar wrote in a post on X. “Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. Fo...
The 47th president has been a disaster for nonproliferation. The post How Trump Made the World Go Nuclear appeared first on The American Conservative.
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Republican strategist Rina Shah about how President Trump's personal grievances and projects are affecting the chances of GOP candidates in the upcoming election.
The post What does it take to beat the midterm curse? One president pulled it off. appeared first on MS NOW.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling for a comprehensive review of the New York City Police Department’s use-of-force policies over the coming months after several high-profile incidents involving police and renewed calls from progressives for change. “When the government uses force against...
Katie Zacharia is scheduled to hold her first briefing Tuesday.
Steve Hilton walked through Skid Row's homeless encampments, accusing California's Democratic leaders of fueling the crisis with billions in spending.
Once a leading figure in the anti-government militia movement, Ammon Bundy is now speaking out against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, arguing that the same federal overreach he spent years fighting is now being directed at immigrants.
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. The post Monday’s Campaign Round-Up, 10.12.26: Musk spends heavily on midterms for the GOP appeared first on MS NOW.
Christine Drazan aims to end Oregon's four-decade GOP losing streak in a tight rematch with Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek over local issues.
Democrats are up in arms this week after federal agents raided the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing the government to go after political adversaries. The Democrats are particularly piqued that the operation, conducted Monday morning by agents of U.S...
Top administration officials have all but pronounced her guilty in an ongoing investigation.
The race for control of the Senate is heating up, with forecasters increasingly moving races in the Democrats’ direction less than a month out from the election. Last week, nonpartisan election forecasters Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Pol...
While Gen. Dan Caine testified that the U.S. military has no plans to be at polling places, experts warn that military leaders will need to utilize specific rules for the use of force to mitigate potential voter intimidation if the Insurrection Act is invoked.
Democratic South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Annie Andrews and Republican Sen. Darline Graham clashed during a U.S. Senate election debate.
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
High costs opened a divide between Trump and some who voted for him. His support for data centers has widened that gap.
Hundreds of opposition leaders and party workers marched through central New Delhi on Monday, stepping up pressure on India’s election watchdog over a contentious overhaul of voter rolls.
Stanford University's Robert E. Hall and Columbia University's Michael Woodford won the Nobel Prize in economics for research on how policymakers can stabilize economies, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.Why it matters: Their work helped shape how central banks set interest rates...
At the Republican Party's midterm convention, President Trump said he would make his crusade against transgender rights a major campaign issue ahead of the Nov. 3 election - calling the message that "men should not be playing in women's sports" one of his party's "great sound bites of all time."
A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.
Republicans already saddled with Trump's unpopular policies in the midterms now face another awkward choice: whether to back his diesel deal with a dictator many of them despise.Why it matters: The agreement President Trump struck with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday is designed to ease the ...
Indian authorities released the leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party on Sunday, after security forces detained thousands of protesters during massive anti-government demonstrations.
Southeast Ohio is a long way from New York City. The post What I Saw and Heard in Vance Country appeared first on The American Conservative.
The Michigan Democratic Senate nominee wrote an op-ed in 2012 expressing dismay at what he said were "failures' by Obama. In an NBC interview, El-Sayed blamed the comments on his youth.
The latest breach comes from the Whatsapp account of Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday pushed back on critics saying he should step down and allow his country to hold elections, saying they “can’t find a key [for] how to stop” Russian President Vladimir Putin. ABC News’s Jonathan Karl asked Zelensky on “This Week” about President Trump’...
A federal judge on Sunday ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt taxpayer-funded ads featuring President Trump.Why it matters: The ruling temporarily blocks the ads weeks before November's midterm elections as multiple lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's use of taxpayer mon...
With a deal to import millions of tons of diesel fuel from Russia, President Trump is struggling to show voters that he is focused on the cost of living ahead of the midterms.
President William Ruto lauds the benefits of this huge investment but opponents see it as part of a pattern of opaque deals.
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
Democrats are hoping nominee Scott Colom delivers an upset in the deep red state in the November midterm elections.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli says Chinese espionage is "extremely pervasive" after his office charged alleged spies in recent months.
BATH, Maine - Election after election, Republican Sen. Susan Collins has defied national political winds to return to office, representing a state that has backed Democrats in every presidential contest since 1992. But her Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, is betting that her eight-year-old vote to...
As the Florida midterm elections approach, analysts suggest that shifting racial dynamics and reactions to President Trump's immigration policies may play a decisive role in the outcome.
Will Democrats’ blue wave materialize? Watch these races.
The top Senate Democratic super political action committee is shifting millions in ad money from North Carolina to Ohio and Iowa, a sign of the shifting battlefield for control of Congress just three weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Trillionaire Elon Musk has quietly become the biggest known spender in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in the House and Senate
From Bukele to Bolsonaro, the region’s conservatives have learned to love Zionism. The post How Israel Conquered the Latin American Right appeared first on The American Conservative.
The vice president is putting it all on the line to help turnout voters for Republicans in the midterm elections. The results are poised to have ramifications for 2028 if he chooses to run for president.
President Donald Trump’s deal with Moscow on its diesel exports and his praise for Vladimir Putin are just the latest in a string of Russia-related news that has sparked public criticisms from Republicans weeks ahead of a midterm election that increasingly favors Democrats.
This is a case in which Judge Sutton may agree that the decision is not merely wrong, but also en-banc-worthy.
The push includes cutting off spending for some House races, piling in money to shore up others and training its focus on key Senate races.
After the founder of Holly's Sweet Treats called out Sen. Roger Marshall's campaign for stiffing her company on a 2020 purchase, the debt was paid off.
Supply-side activists are rejoicing in the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to Stanford’s Robert Hall, the author of the flat tax that would replace the existing tax system with a single flat rate. “It surely adds credibility to the flat tax, that even those people would think it’s good,...
Tech trillionaire Elon Musk gave $276 million to several Republican super PACs and organizations over the past three months, as the GOP faces headwinds ahead of the midterm elections. This brings the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s total contributions so far to $366 million. A spokesperson for Musk’s America...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been the most influential Turkish statesman in a century. Will his project survive him? The post When a Populist Becomes the Deep State appeared first on The American Conservative.
Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, told a crowd at the Warsaw Security Forum that the alliance should overhaul its military infrastructure to allow fast deployments from Western to Eastern Europe. Whitaker spoke about the importance of “moving things from the west to the east” when it co...
Pete Buttigieg has been able to campaign for Democrats across the country more than many of his potential 2028 rivals this past year. One reason: He doesn't have a job.That's by choice. Buttigieg said no when top Democrats urged him to run for governor or the U.S. Senate in Michigan this year.Why it...
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The Roberts court has redefined the separation of church and state. This term may show how far it will go.
Plus: The decline of children's books, Fed interrogation, and more...
Running against corruption is not new. But Democrats have turned the familiar attack into a broader message tied to voters’ economic pain.
The search was related to a criminal fraud investigation, a source told MS NOW. The Minnesota Democrat accused Trump of “political intimidation.” The post Rep. Ilhan Omar says she ‘will not be silenc...
Decreased school attendance may hurt some districts temporarily, but it ultimately helps state budgets. The post Open Borders Do Not Fund Schools appeared first on The American Conservative.
Both parties will be pressured to intervene more in markets after the midterms as economic frustration animates the new Congress, according to an FGS Global sketch of 2027 Washington scenarios, shared first with Axios.Why it matters: In a Trump-dominated Washington, Congress ceded much of its power ...
Some Republican lawmakers voiced staunch opposition after United States President Donald Trump announced a diesel agreement with Russia.
Addressing the Commons, Burnham is expected to say that a new deal with the EU could help tackle illegal immigration and boost economic growth.
The $25,000 ad, which accused the challenger to Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins of raising taxes, ran in Portland, Oregon. The post A GOP PAC ran an ad opposing Maine Democrat Troy Jackson — in th...
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, at a campaign event in Vandalia, Ohio, on October 3, 2026. | Jessica Phelps/Bloomberg via Getty Images In early October, Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, went for a classic “politician on the stump” move...
The 15th Congressional District runs from the east of San Antonio all the way down into the Rio Grande Valley. This majority-Latino district provides a window into the Latino vote in Texas.
The New York City mayor discussed his nearly two-hour phone call with Trump and Mullin after a federal agent shot a 28-year-old man last week. The post Mamdani tells Trump and Mullin to end ICE’s ‘te...
More than half of the references to data centers on Fox News over the last two years would have left viewers with a favorable impression, according to a Semafor analysis.
Federal agents conducted a search at the home of of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as part as an ongoing criminal probe. NBC News' Ryan Reilly has the early details on the investigation and the unusual timing of the action this close to an election.
The brutal, yearslong war might end in 2027—if the White House plays its cards right. The post A Long-Term Plan to Secure Peace for Ukraine appeared first on The American Conservative.
Victor Martinez runs a Spanish-language radio station in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and talks about voters' frustration with everyday realities like higher fuel prices and inflation ahead of next month’s midterm election
Farage’s party says it would ‘embed’ immigration enforcement in UK and use ‘aerial imaging’ to identify peopleUK politics live – latest updatesChildren and mothers would not be exempt from plans by Reform UK to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers and impose a five-year ban on people being grant...
Republicans predict that Democrats will not confirm Supreme Court and Cabinet nominees if they retake the Senate in the midterm elections.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks to the press on the steps of the US Capitol on September 30, 2026. | Finn Gomez/Getty Images Barring a catastrophic midterm polling miss, Democrats are on track to win a majority in the House of Representatives next month. Come the new Congress in Janua...
Trump has largely dismissed the focus on higher gas prices, but this deal with Russia suggests the president knows what’s at stake.
A super PAC affiliated with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) says it’s getting a full refund after a vendor mistakenly placed ads attacking her Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, in the wrong state. Defending Main Street PAC earmarked around $25,000 for digital advertising that was accidentally spent in Po...