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Turning Point Action is registering voters and building an organizing presence at the Iowa State Fair as it positions itself to shape the state's 2028 Republican presidential caucuses. Activists with the conservative youth group also booed…
2026-09-05 · 3 MIN READSen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) shows little interest in his Senate duties beyond cultivating conservative media ties and advocating for Israel, according to a Wall Street Journal report based on interviews with more than a dozen former…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Republican lawmakers facing tough reelection campaigns to run on his White House record despite his sagging popularity, and he pledged to campaign in the roughly three dozen contests…
2026-09-03 · 6 MIN READThe Pentagon is extending troop deployments in the Middle East as the U.S. military campaign against Iran enters its seventh month, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal said Pete Hegseth had promised a quick, decisive blow that…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READFormer U.S. Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Justice Department and Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging her March 2025 firing was unlawful and tied to her refusal to recommend restoring actor…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READSen. Ted Cruz of Texas spent last weekend in Iowa promoting his new book and quietly asking Republican operatives whether they would be interested in working on a potential 2028 presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READThe Associated Press marks 180 years of news gathering, tracing its origins to 1846, when five newspaper publishers in New York City pooled resources to speed delivery of news about the U.S. war with Mexico. The wire service says…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READChinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for a three-day state visit, his first to Egypt in a decade. Xi met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Wednesday and told him China supports Middle East countries exploring…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READThe US launched new airstrikes on Iranian targets, reigniting direct military hostilities after the six-month conflict had shifted to an economic standoff. Iran responded with counterstrikes targeting American interests in Bahrain, Kuwait,…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READVenezuela's national assembly, dominated by the ruling United Socialist Party, approved a sweeping oil agreement on Tuesday granting US-backed North American Blue Energy Partners 100-year rights over 17 Venezuelan oil fields. President…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READHeba Gowayed, a resettlement policy expert who has consulted for the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, wrote in a Guardian opinion piece published Tuesday that 10,258 refugees admitted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READA jury in Valletta, Malta, on Wednesday acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech of masterminding the 2017 car-bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The verdict closes the last prosecution in a case that toppled a…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READThe Maryland Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a proposed constitutional amendment on congressional redistricting must appear on the November ballot, reversing two lower-court rulings that had blocked the measure from going to voters. The…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READA professional MMA event at Orlando's Kia Center drew condemnation from Florida officials after fighter Paul Miller used an antisemitic slur against opponent Ben Azoulay and appeared to give at least two Nazi salutes from the ring. A…
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Hundreds of people lined up outside Miami's immigration court on Tuesday under a new Trump administration scheduling tactic — "mega master" calendar hearings — that places more than 100 cases on individual dockets that previously averaged…
2026-09-02 · 6 MIN READThe Dutch central bank announced Wednesday that it moved 86 metric tons of gold from vaults in New York and Ottawa to London between March and August, describing the transfer as part of its crisis-preparedness strategy amid rising global…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READG-20 finance ministers and central-bank chiefs meeting in Asheville, N.C. issued a joint statement Tuesday calling on countries with persistent trade surpluses to end policies that fuel overreliance on exports — language implicitly aimed…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READA Guardian opinion column published Tuesday compared the White House ballroom under construction to Confederate monuments, characterizing the project as a "monstrous architectural legacy" that should be repudiated. The column, written by…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READSouth Korea's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers in Seoul on Tuesday that a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un should be considered possible "at any time," citing signs of dialogue…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READPEN America released a report Tuesday finding that US public libraries are "at breaking point" because of political interference, harassment and ideological censorship. The 16-page study, "Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Postal Service could "derail" the midterm election if it continues rushing out "untested" technology as part of President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting, according to a whistleblower report released Tuesday by Sen.…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READA University of Texas poll shows Democratic candidate James Talarico leading Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton 42% to 39% in the state's U.S. Senate race, according to a Wall Street Journal Politics newsletter published Monday. Sen. John…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READArmy Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Trump following months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the direction of the service and the ouster of numerous senior Army officers, The Wall Street…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READNorth American Blue Energy Partners, a Trump-backed Venezuelan oil company led by businessman Alejandro Betancourt, plans to deploy more than 50 drilling rigs to Venezuela over the next several years, according to internal documents…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READPrediction-market operator Kalshi permanently banned former Rep. George Santos from its platform Monday and imposed a $71,356 penalty, the company's first lifetime suspension. Kalshi said the ban was issued because Santos did not fully…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READVice President JD Vance is scheduled to speak Monday at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual gathering in Las Vegas in a session the Associated Press reported would be closed to the news media. According to the AP, the gathering offers…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump has begun describing life after the White House in recent speeches, telling an audience on Long Island, New York, this month that he expects to be sitting around watching television while his successor claims credit…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READDavid Maxwell, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel who specializes in Northeast Asian security affairs, published an opinion column in UPI on August 29 opposing what he characterized as a proposed 'achievable' agreement between…
2026-08-29 · 5 MIN READAbbas Alawieh, a co-founder of the 2024 'uncommitted' movement that drew more than 700,000 Democratic primary voters to pressure the party over the war in Gaza, won the Democratic nomination for a state senate seat in Dearborn, Michigan,…
2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READAs the final days of summer give way to the fall campaign, Democrats and Republicans have opened a two-month sprint to the November midterms with fundamentally different closing arguments. In a Michigan swing district just north of…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READA walk through Dubai found Iranian commercial activity operating openly despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's 'Economic D-Day' sanctions campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Treasury this week said the United…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READWyoming Attorney General Keith Kautz is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials monitored poll workers and observed voters in the state's most populous county during the Aug. 18 primary, a spokesperson for Republican…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for all Bank Melli branches to close during his announcement of "Economic D-Day," but Iranian banks in Dubai remained open and serving customers this week. The continuing operations underscore the…
2026-08-27 · 5 MIN READTexas Republican congressional candidate Carlos De La Cruz has changed his campaign website headline from "TRUMP CONSERVATIVE" to "PROVEN CONSERVATIVE," according to an Associated Press report by Steve Peoples. The shift is part of a…
2026-08-27 · 3 MIN READSAUGATUCK, Mich. — Michigan Democrats gathered this week in a West Michigan congressional district they are trying to flip blue, intending to talk about the cost of living under President Donald Trump. An attendee at the gathering publicly…
2026-08-27 · 3 MIN READContractors working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection have begun building a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona along part of the Tohono O'odham Nation's reservation, the Associated Press reported. The project advances one of…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READRobert Gilman, a U.S. Marine veteran, returned home this month after more than four years in Russian custody, the Associated Press reported. His release has drawn attention to other Americans who remain detained in Russia, some of whom…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READA Wisconsin state prosecutor said Tuesday that Elon Musk will not face charges over his promise to give $1 million to voters in a 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election because no jury would find that constituted election bribery. The…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READA Department of Homeland Security official told Nevada election officials earlier this month that the agency's initial figure of roughly 16,000 noncitizens on the state's voter rolls was a 'ceiling,' with each match still requiring manual…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READThe Legal Accountability Center filed bar complaints on Tuesday against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two subordinates, alleging the prosecutors violated ethical duties by seeking federal charges against six Democratic lawmakers for…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READThe super PAC MAGA Inc. is spending more than $800,000 on get-out-the-vote calls and text messages to support Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina's Tuesday runoff election, according to a federal filing. The expenditure is the first time…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READRobert White Jr., the Democratic nominee for the District of Columbia's nonvoting U.S. House delegate seat, unveiled a 'Defend DC' strategy Monday to counter congressional interventions in the district's affairs by recruiting city…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READRep. Al Green, D-Texas, filed new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of "high crimes and misdemeanors" tied to the operation of federal immigration enforcement agencies. The resolution names four…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READMore than a dozen major US companies that publicly backed the Voting Rights Act continue to fund state-level political organizations working to weaken the legislation, according to research by the nonpartisan Center for Political…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READA Wall Street Journal investigation found that President Trump personally directed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, an intervention that let the concert promoter keep Ticketmaster and retain…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READSen. Tim Scott defended fellow South Carolina Republican Sen. Darline Graham's national security knowledge on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. His appearance came two days before Graham faces Rep. Ralph Norman in a Republican runoff to…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READThe White House declined to comment on the possibility that President Trump would declare a national emergency over US elections when asked by The Guardian, framing the dispute around pending legislation instead. Since a July primetime…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READBBC News published a video report on August 22 by correspondent Tom Bateman examining what triggers President Donald Trump's public insults of reporters, according to the broadcaster's description. The BBC's description states that the…
2026-08-22 · 3 MIN READManitoba Premier Wab Kinew publicly criticised a prospective US-Canada trade deal on Thursday, called President Donald Trump a 'bad person' and urged Canada to 'fight' rather than rush into concessions hours before a US-set Friday…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READRubén Rocha, the governor of Mexico's Sinaloa state, said Friday he is returning to office after Mexico's federal prosecutors cleared him of drug-trafficking charges brought by the U.S. Justice Department. A federal grand jury indicted…
2026-08-21 · 5 MIN READDonald Trump's personal lawyer has threatened the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit unless the think tank retracts a July report that concluded the president's National Guard deployments in three cities had…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READState prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs over allegations that she took part in a pay-to-play scheme with a group home company, Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Friday. The decision follows…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department aims to deploy roughly 1,000 election monitors at polling places for November's midterm elections, a target that voting rights experts and former department officials said the agency is unlikely to reach. Harmeet…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READFederal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READLawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper for an earlier ruling in the Kennedy Center facade case, according to a status report filed late Tuesday. In the same filing, the Kennedy Center told the court it…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READSalt Lake City prosecutors cited an engraved bullet inscription reading "Hey Facist! CATCH!" in arguing that defendant Tyler Robinson targeted Charlie Kirk for how the defendant perceived his politics. The dueling filings also dispute…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READWashington — Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday to confirm that the U.S. military will not be sent to polling places or used to seize election materials during November's midterm elections, as part…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READFlorida and Alaska voters head to the polls Tuesday in primaries that will serve as early tests of Republican-led congressional redistricting efforts ahead of November's midterm elections, contests that could determine control of Congress…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READA Massachusetts woman who drove to the U.S. Capitol with homemade firebombs and told police she intended to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was sentenced on Tuesday to six years and one month in federal prison.
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READDisney's ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission, alleging the agency's efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate the talk show 'The View' are illegal and an effort to quash speech the Trump administration finds…
2026-08-18 · 4 MIN READFlorida voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose nominees to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and to fill the remainder of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's unexpired U.S. Senate term. The state will also hold its first…
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READRep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is seeking her 12th term in Congress by running in a new district after Florida Republicans redrew the state's congressional map earlier this year, ahead of Tuesday's Florida primaries.
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READBrazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva endorsed oil drilling in Brazil's northern and northeastern coastal regions on Monday, calling the exploration "a passport to the country's future" after state-run Petrobras reported a…
2026-08-17 · 5 MIN READThe top election official in Shasta County, California, plans to hire Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted for allowing a breach of her county's voting equipment, as an elections consultant. Clint Curtis, appointed last…
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READRetired feedstore owner Anne Smull, a conservative in Lincoln, California, said she learned she can no longer vote for Rep. Kevin Kiley, the conservative who currently represents her in Congress. The Associated Press reported that…
2026-08-16 · 3 MIN READGuardian foreign affairs columnist Simon Tisdall argued in an August 16 analysis that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is failing to fulfill his diplomatic duties as multiple global crises intensify. The assessment arrives as Israel rejects…
2026-08-16 · 3 MIN READGrassRoots Organizing Western Wisconsin is conducting 15-20 minute deep-canvass conversations across western Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district, aiming for 4,000 voter conversations about healthcare before November.
2026-08-15 · 3 MIN READThe Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved two competing resolutions on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its summer meeting in Austin, Texas — one calling to abolish the agency and another backing 'concrete reforms.'…
2026-08-15 · 3 MIN READThe Guardian on August 14, 2026 published a Politics Weekly America video episode titled "Trump's great plane escape," examining Donald Trump's reported absence from Air Force One during his departure from Turkey after July's NATO summit.…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READThe Progressive Change Campaign Committee endorsed substitute teacher Elijah Manley in next week's Florida Democratic primary against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, an 11-term congresswoman and former DNC chair. The contest unfolds in a…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READThe Dominican Republic on Thursday ordered nine members of Cuba's diplomatic mission and their families to leave the country within seven days, according to the Dominican Foreign Ministry, and Cuba rejected the decision as having "no…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READJustin Pearson, one of three Tennessee state lawmakers expelled in 2023 for protesting gun violence after a deadly school shooting, has won the Democratic congressional primary in the state's redrawn 9th District.
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READClark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus on Thursday dismissed forgery charges against six Nevada Republicans accused of submitting a false electoral certificate identifying themselves as presidential electors for Donald Trump in 2020. Nevada…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump will visit the Nassau County Police Academy on Friday to release new FBI crime statistics showing a decrease in violent crime for 2025, the White House said. The suburban Long Island stop targets competitive New York…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READZach Lahn, the Republican nominee for Iowa governor, is confronting skepticism from traditional GOP voters during his general election campaign, according to AP reporting. Lahn, a political newcomer who describes himself as a "change…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READGraham Platner, the former Maine Democratic Senate nominee, is scheduled as the featured speaker at a Labor Day rally in Ellsworth, Maine, in what may be one of his first public appearances since ending his campaign in July. The event,…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READRepublican senators criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for repeatedly excluding Democrats from closed-door briefings on the administration's record $1.5 trillion defense budget, warning that the approach could jeopardize passage of…
2026-08-13 · 4 MIN READHasan Piker, a 35-year-old left-wing livestreamer with 3.1 million Twitch followers, has become a political litmus test for the Democratic Party as the candidates he backed notch primary wins and prompt criticism from establishment voices.…
2026-08-13 · 5 MIN READParamount has in recent months discussed creating an editorial board for CNN and other safeguards to ease concerns over its news operation's independence, according to people familiar with the situation. The internal discussions about…
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