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President Donald Trump is holding a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday, stumping for Republican candidates just over a week before the midterm elections. The president is set to appear alongside rapper Nicki Minaj in support of former Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Michigan’s ope...
Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday accused CBS News’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan of giving a “misleading” description of the Alaska Senate race, where two candidates with similar names will appear on the ballot. Brennan said the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Alaska preemptively ...
On Bloomberg This Weekend, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert discusses how security, democracy and the war in Iran are shaping Israel’s election and argues that the country needs a change in its approach to settler violence in the West Bank. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffi...
Hosted by Jane Pauley. Featured: The mystery of Houdini's death; actress Parker Posey; "Lincoln in the Bardo" composer Missy Mazzoli; "ghost signs" from the past; Israeli elections; and the Tower of London's ravenmaster.
Iran's floating oil inventory has fallen to zero as the U.S. naval blockade tightens, but the IRGC may be shielded while civilians bear the pain.
If you look at the few truly competitive seats, polls show a more complicated picture of momentum toward the Democratic Party in midterm House races. For the Senate, Republicans are on defense.
What I learned following the progressive firebrand’s campaign across central Michigan. The post How Abdul El-Sayed is trying to pull off the impossible in the Rust Belt appeared first on MS NOW.
On Bloomberg This Weekend, former US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro assesses the risk of renewed fighting with Iran after elections in Israel and the US and warns that another round of military operations could deepen regional and global economic strains. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Chri...
Politicians and business leaders know the H-1B visa program is a corrupt sham, but are too fearful to fix the problem, says billionaire tech-sector inventor Palmer Luckey. The post Palmer Luckey: Lobbyists Run ‘Sham’ Defense of H-1B Displacement appeared first on Breitbart.
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council (NEC), on Sunday said the economy is the “best we’ve ever seen” as the Trump administration and Republicans make their final pitches heading into the midterm elections. “So the great big picture about the economy is that it’s about the bes...
Dozens of medical professionals are running for Congress and top state offices this midterm season, a direct Democrat-led counteraction to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda’s outsized influence on national health policy. There are seven physicians running for congressional office in this...
Attorneys for Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and Senate Democrats filed a motion Friday urging a federal judge to dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit seeking to block the results of the upcoming election if Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan loses.
Barack Obama compared Trump's White House renovations to a Cheesecake Factory run by Saddam Hussein at a Cleveland rally for Ohio Democrats.
The Ohio Democratic candidate for governor spoke with MS NOW about the widely condemned GOP attack ad against her. The post ‘Learn the facts’: Amy Acton schools Trump on her childhood trauma appeared ...
The Trump administration says Canadian officials are trying to sway the midterm elections for Democrats. Prime Minister Mark Carney says those claims have “no merit.”
Attorney General Todd Blanche declined to detail the circumstances leading up to the Department of Justice filing a lawsuit challenging the results of Alaska’s Senate race because two candidates share the same name. Blanche appeared on two different programs Sunday morning and was asked about Presid...
Former President Obama has endorsed the Democratic candidates in Florida’s Senate and gubernatorial races less than two weeks ahead of the midterm elections. Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly and Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon both shared videos of Obama showing support for their...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod called out President Trump on Saturday, following Trump’s remarks at an evening rally where he told supporters he “did not give a damn” about high fuel prices because “we’re making a freaking fortune” on oil. “HE’s making money like he’s never made before. And he ...
The U.S. military has drawn up options to potentially attack Iran after the U.S. midterm elections, possibly renewing the conflict that has lasted over eight months. The U.S. Central Command (Centcom), which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, has plans ready to conduct follow-up strikes again...
Mike Johnson marks three years as House Speaker with $526 million in fundraising, but the midterm elections could threaten the Republican majority.
Alaska Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola was injured in a car crash Saturday night, leading the challenger to postpone her campaign stops just nine days before voters head to the polls in the Last Frontier. Peltola was headed to the Alaska Federation of Natives Annual Banquet when the car trans...
With less than two weeks to go before the midterms, the Trump administration is ramping up its warnings about voter fraud and is not ruling out the prospect of weighing in on states’ election certification efforts. The Justice Department (DOJ) reportedly sent letters Friday to California election of...
President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was worried Alaska voters will be confused when casting their votes Nov. 3 due to some possibly not knowing what the incumbent label means on the ranked choice ballot. Trump has repeatedly taken issue with Alaska’s ranked choice voting system, particularly as...
Undocumented immigrants are taxpayers. Why shouldn't their children, for whom they have often sacrificed so much, enjoy the benefits their parents have worked to earn?
A lawsuit by the Justice Department challenging a potential narrow loss by the GOP Senate incumbent in Alaska reflects a new tactic by the president to try to shape the election results.
On Bloomberg This Weekend, Bloomberg Corporate Lobbying and Influence Reporter Emily Birnbaum explains how Elon Musk’s record political giving is boosting Republican groups in the final days before the US midterms. Bloomberg News reports Musk has now contributed more than $445 million to political g...
Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign and the Senate Democratic campaign arm filed a motion to fight the Trump Justice Department’s “extraordinary assault.” The post Democrats take legal action against Tru...
Islamabad’s hopes for “Taliban 2.0” have turned into a nightmare. The post Pakistan’s Afghan Crisis appeared first on The American Conservative.
With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president’s instrument of unmediated executive power.
In a sign of the potentially dire midterm political environment, Republicans have spent millions of dollars playing defense in Arkansas, one of the most conservative states in the country.
Statehouse elections this fall could swing the balance of power in state capitals. In Pennsylvania, Democrats could take control of what has been a divided legislature.
Gas, diesel and food prices are high and expected to remain elevated through Election Day, creating a strong political headwind for Republicans who are at serious risk of losing control of the House and possibly the Senate, as well. President Trump’s diesel deal with Russia has had little lasting im...
Ted Brown, the Libertarian candidate in the highly contested Texas Senate race, shut down claims that votes for him could end up splitting votes, leading to a potential outcome that could cost Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) the election. “Both sides are saying the same thing. Democrats are sa...
Election season is known for fiery policy exchanges and personal attacks, but November’s midterms have been marked by notable moments that have been criticized for going beyond the pale. From a controversial campaign ad in Ohio to a candidate telling his opponent to “shut up” on the debate stage, c...
Local election officials in California are frustrated after receiving a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice
With less than two weeks to go before the midterms, the Trump administration is ramping up its warnings about voter fraud and is not ruling out the prospect of weighing in on states’ election certification efforts. The Justice Department (DOJ) reportedly sent letters Friday to California election of...
University of Michigan students offered over a dozen different definitions of socialism, reflecting a national confusion highlighted by Gallup polling.
President Donald Trump has cast his ballot in the midterm elections, voting for all Republicans in Florida before speaking at a Georgia rally
The Trump administration is suing to prevent the Alaska Senate election from being certified if GOP Sen. Daniel Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola because of the other Dan Sullivan who is on the ballot.
Former President Barack Obama characterized President Donald Trump as an agent of “chaos and cruelty” and a man of broken promises during a midterm election rally.
Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending the Trump administration’s lawsuit to block certification of Alaska's Senate results if incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan loses the race
As they look to win the Senate, Democrats are hoping that independent candidates in Nebraska and Montana can help them topple Republicans in a part of the country where their own brand is hurting.
“There’s got to be something inside you where you just say, ‘You know, no office is worth stooping that low,’” former President Barack Obama said at a Cleveland rally for Democrats. The post Obama an...
A timely demographic story on election night that we’ve never been able to tell before.
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," with the midterm elections less than 10 days away, CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto dives into our latest polling. Plus. retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis joins.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Iran against attacking Israel on the day of its elections, telling Tehran, “Don’t test us.” Netanyahu released a video in Hebrew on Sunday ahead of the Jewish state’s elections on Tuesday. The prime minister is seeking to extend his tenure a...
Eye-opening revelations this past week have solidified my personal fears about the year ahead: As a nation and as a globe, we're facing a record number of wild risks that are way outside our control.My growing hunch about this scenario has been bolstered by daily conversations with CEOs, government ...
Throughout this election cycle, candidate after candidate has championed the growing movement of democratic socialism. It doesn’t help that this increasingly vocal movement is backed by roughly 240 Democratic Socialists of America chapters across the country — nearly two dozen of which are, unsurpri...
The Alaska Senate candidate and her family sustained minor injuries, her campaign announced Sunday.
Fox News Digital found Uzbek trucking companies donated hundreds of thousands to the Islamic Center of Maineville despite serious safety violations.
America’s economic ambition should reach well beyond slowing price increases. We should be expanding what this country can produce and what its people can achieve. The Federal Reserve should hold interest rates steady in October while it assesses September’s increase. Before making capital more expe...
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Saturday that the Justice Department is not trying to stop the certification of Alaska’s election, referring to a lawsuit filed this week which claimed to “protect the integrity” of the election. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the distri...
Garrett Haake, Heidi Heitkamp and Pat McCrory join the Meet the Press Post Game for an extended conversation on the week’s biggest political stories.
Volkswagen AG plans to build a new $4 billion factory for its premium Audi brand in the southern US state of Georgia, expecting the move will yield potential relief from tariffs that have severely eroded profits.
Billionaire hedge fund investor Bill Ackman called for Israel’s next government to exclude far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich days before Israeli voters head to the polls, arguing that both have damaged the country’s international reputation. “...
Former PM Howard tells crowd: 'You don’t give that up for a few bob.'
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado reappeared in Venezuela on Sunday for the first time since December, about a month before the U.S. military deposed the country’s then-President Nicolás Maduro. Machado announced her arrival on social media, writing ...
Karoline Leavitt reveals Trump's blunt strategy to combat negative approval ratings and rally MAGA voters who typically skip midterm cycles.
Former Democratic Bronx Assemblyman Stephen Kaufman accuses his own party of being overtaken by socialists while rallying for Bruce Blakeman.
Top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said US-Canada trade negotiations have “picked up” and are “gathering steam,” two days after the Trump administration modified Canadian tariffs to benefit some Maine businesses following lobbying by Senator Susan Collins.
The Volkswagen division, which imports all its cars from Europe or Mexico, has been hit hard by U.S. tariffs.
Courts should still strike down the Section 338 tariffs and import bans that remain in place.
The post A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart. appeared first on ProPublica.
In 1952, the GOP ran on ending war and inflation. Sound familiar? The post When Republicans Won on an Antiwar Platform—and Delivered appeared first on The American Conservative.
Thirteen years later, the damage is clear. States freed from federal oversight, many of them states of the old Confederacy, have adopted new restrictions on voting that dramatically dilute minority voting power.
The campaign bus rolls through North Texas under a cloudless sky. Inside, James Talarico, the 37-year-old Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, speaks in the measured cadence of a man who once taught middle-school English and now studies to become a Presbyterian minister. He quotes Script...
With Election Day less than two weeks away, Trump rallied in Florida, Georgia and Michigan as both parties deploy top surrogates to battlegrounds.
Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department's suit over Alaska's Senate race in an interview on CNN.
Bulgaria’s incumbent president, Iliana Yotova, was poised for a narrow win in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, moving closer to delivering an ally for the country’s prime minister who opposes military support for Ukraine.
With new intelligence and the possibility of all sides seeking pretexts for action, the war in Iran is entering a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel.
The former president brings his star power on a three-state swing through must-win territory just 10 days before Election Day. The post ‘Most potent weapon’: Obama arrives to boost Democrats in battle...
With just nine days until the midterms, the Trump administration is escalating its assault on two of the Department of Justice's most sacred guardrails:Independence from the White House.Restraint before elections.Why it matters: President Trump's DOJ has shattered the traditional calm of a pre-elect...
President Donald Trump's busy midterm campaign schedule is bringing him to Michigan, where Republicans hope to claim an open Senate seat on Election Day
Federal courts extended Second Amendment protections to switchblade knives and body armor, fueling optimism ahead of the Supreme Court's AR-15 case.
Sources close to Tory leader say Jack Ross, who faces party investigation after undercover report, worked as social media consultantA former Conservative election candidate who was suspended after he was filmed discussing the cost of hiring contract killers worked as a consultant in Kemi Badenoch’s ...
Vance has centered his career on his faith. But he has set those teachings aside in his politics. The post JD Vance’s remarks to a Catholic nun unraveled the White House’s claims about religious freed...
Nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause, represented by attorneys from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has filed a motion to intervene in the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Alaska’s Senate election. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming that the presence of a candidate ...
The Fifth Circuit Friday ruled illegal immigrants never formally admitted to the U.S. have no constitutional right to individualized bond hearings.
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — fighting for political survival in Tuesday's elections — has pleaded with President Trump in recent days to show more public support for his campaign, according to a U.S. source with knowledge and an Israeli source briefed on the matter....