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Simon Tisdall, a foreign affairs commentator for The Guardian, described President Donald Trump as a "one-man weapon of mass destruction" in a column published Friday. Tisdall argued that Trump's handling of the war with Iran poses a…
2026-07-18 · 3 MIN READThousands of Americans are expected to demonstrate this weekend in protests targeting three issues that organizers say will define the November midterm elections: killings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, data center…
2026-07-18 · 3 MIN READMore than a thousand people packed New Direction Christian Church in Memphis's Hickory Hill neighborhood on Friday to rally for state Rep. Justin Pearson, a Democratic candidate for Congress, after four fatal shootings by members of the…
2026-07-18 · 3 MIN READA Florida judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to remove Republican Rep. Cory Mills from the primary ballot, ruling the challenge failed on its merits.
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READTrump Media & Technology, the parent company of Truth Social, plans to sell Wall Street traders the ability to see posts from the platform's highest-ranking accounts — including possibly President Donald Trump's — milliseconds before the…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READHomeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday that the Department of Homeland Security identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada, a figure that election experts said…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READSen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who served 23 years in the Senate and evolved from a Republican maverick into a close ally of President Donald Trump, died at 71, leaving a state and a political party confronting a divided legacy…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump delivered a 25-minute prime-time address from the East Room on Thursday night, alleging the U.S. election system was compromised by Chinese interference and noncitizen voter registrations, without providing evidence…
2026-07-17 · 4 MIN READBroadcast and cable news networks took sharply different approaches Thursday night to carrying President Donald Trump's primetime address on elections, producing a patchwork of coverage that was largely united by one common strategy:…
2026-07-17 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump delivered a prime-time national address Thursday in which he made sweeping, largely unsupported claims about U.S. election vulnerabilities and urged Congress to pass the SAVE American Act, a voting-restriction bill…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump's financial disclosure showing his family businesses reported $2.2 billion in revenue last year — driven largely by cryptocurrency earnings — drew mixed reactions from Pennsylvania swing voters in two online focus…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READActing Attorney General Todd Blanche told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund created as part of an IRS settlement with President Trump is dead. The fund has become a sticking point for…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READA former Marine and Republican write-in candidate for the U.S. House in Florida has been arrested and charged in federal court with threatening to kill President Donald Trump, according to the U.S. attorney's office. William Upham, 35,…
2026-07-16 · 3 MIN READFour Avenal City Council members, including the mayor, are refusing to leave office after voters recalled them in an April special election. The dispute has led to a rival council meeting, a lawsuit authorized by the California attorney…
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An opinion piece by author Moustafa Bayoumi describes the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's foreign policy as "hawkish ideology" that left, in Bayoumi's words, a "legacy of destruction." The piece, published Tuesday in The Guardian, presents a…
2026-07-14 · 4 MIN READSouth Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is expected to appoint a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, launching a rapid Republican primary to fill the seat for a full six-year term in November's midterm election.
2026-07-12 · 3 MIN READThe collapse of Graham Platner's U.S. Senate campaign in Maine should not be used as evidence that political outsiders have no place in government, Guardian US columnist Bhaskar Sunkara wrote Sunday. Sunkara, also the president of the…
2026-07-12 · 3 MIN READThe Supreme Court's decision to reinstate Alabama's congressional map has eliminated one of the state's two Democratic-leaning districts, forcing Rep. Shomari Figures (D., Ala.) into a redrawn seat that would have favored President Trump…
2026-07-11 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump called communism 'the biggest threat that America has faced since its founding' during a press conference at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, and repeated his characterization of Democrats as communists ahead of…
2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READMarine Corps veteran Victor Marx won the Republican primary for Colorado governor on Thursday, inching past state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer in a race that took more than a week to call after the June 30 election.
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READThe National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to meet Thursday to approve site and building plans for President Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, as a federal lawsuit by Vietnam War veterans and…
2026-07-08 · 6 MIN READThe United States marked 250 years since independence on Saturday amid a landscape of competing narratives about the nation's past, present and identity. A sprawling Associated Press analysis published July 6 documents the ongoing struggle…
2026-07-06 · 4 MIN READProgressive candidates defeated two incumbent House Democrats in primary elections in New York and Denver this week, underscoring internal party divisions as Democrats aim to reclaim the House majority this fall, NPR reported.
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to deliver a speech Friday morning at City Hall to mark the United States' 250th birthday. The address, set for 10 a.m., will be delivered from behind George Washington's desk with Mamdani…
2026-07-03 · 3 MIN READTucker Carlson, the former Fox News host and conservative podcast host, said in an interview published Wednesday that he plans to help build a new political party in the United States, though he offered few details and said he has no…
2026-07-02 · 3 MIN READColorado Attorney General Phil Weiser defeated U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, in a race that tested voter frustration with the party's establishment figures.
2026-07-01 · 3 MIN READDemocratic socialist Melat Kiros defeated long-serving Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado's 1st District Democratic primary on Tuesday, multiple news outlets reported, in the wake of a series of New York primary wins by DSA-backed candidates…
2026-07-01 · 3 MIN READVice President JD Vance reported earning up to $5 million in royalties from his 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" last year, according to his federal financial disclosure report released Tuesday, with total income across all sources reaching…
2026-07-01 · 3 MIN READHouse Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he will send a bipartisan housing affordability bill to President Donald Trump on Monday, days after Trump canceled a scheduled signing ceremony and said he would not sign the legislation until…
2026-06-28 · 3 MIN READNearly half of Latin American workers operate outside the formal economy, a pattern that analysts say undermines democratic institutions and perpetuates a cycle of weak governance across the region, according to a commentary published…
2026-06-26 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump has backed away from his endorsement in the South Carolina governor runoff as voters in New York, Maryland and Utah prepare for primary elections Tuesday. The shift in the Republican race came after neither candidate…
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READPanama formally offered its territory as a neutral venue for talks between the United States and Cuba, Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha announced Monday at the opening of the Organization of American States General Assembly in Panama…
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READTwo years after Joe Biden's exit from the 2024 presidential campaign accelerated a reckoning over aging leadership in the Democratic Party, a generational battle is playing out in congressional primaries across the country, pitting older…
2026-06-23 · 3 MIN READPrime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation Monday, pushing the United Kingdom to the brink of its sixth leader in seven years, The Wall Street Journal reported. Starmer, a former human rights lawyer who returned the Labour Party…
2026-06-22 · 3 MIN READBusiness Secretary Peter Kyle, usually an upbeat defender of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, sounded like a man who knew it was all over for the prime minister during a round of Sunday television interviews, according to a political sketch…
2026-06-21 · 3 MIN READThe Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district has become one of the most expensive House primaries in history, with super PACs spending nearly $30 million ahead of the June 23 vote. Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old…
2026-06-20 · 4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump reposted a document in the early hours of Friday that compared his power favorably to a list of historical autocrats including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong, writing "Sounds good to me!" in response.…
2026-06-19 · 4 MIN READMaine election officials on Friday announced the results of ranked-choice primary runoffs, confirming Democrat Hannah Pingree and Republican Bobby Charles as the candidates for the November gubernatorial election. In the 2nd Congressional…
2026-06-19 · 3 MIN READCuba's parliament approved a package of 174 economic reforms in a single week, the most significant shift in government policy in at least 15 years, as President Miguel Díaz-Canel seeks to address the island's deepening economic crisis and…
2026-06-19 · 3 MIN READItaly's foreign minister canceled a trip to the United States on Friday after President Donald Trump claimed Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni 'begged' him for a photograph at the Group of Seven summit. Meloni rejected the claim as 'completely…
2026-06-19 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration has proposed a rule that would place all federal research and other discretionary grants under the control of political appointees rather than scientific experts, a move opponents say would effectively dismantle…
2026-06-19 · 4 MIN READLabour's Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, decisively won a special election for a parliamentary seat early Friday, positioning himself as the leading contender to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer for leadership of the…
2026-06-19 · 3 MIN READDavid Walbert, a veteran voting rights litigator who argued election cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and testified before Congress, warned that President Donald Trump's campaign to challenge election results "is setting the stage for a…
2026-06-17 · 4 MIN READVoters in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Georgia cast ballots Tuesday in primary runoffs that will determine Republican nominees for Senate and governor races. The contests serve as the latest test of former President Donald Trump's sway over the…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READVoters in the District of Columbia and Oklahoma headed to the polls Tuesday for primary elections, with D.C. using ranked-choice voting for the first time and Oklahomans deciding whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour by…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READHillary Clinton said June 15 that Joe Biden's decision to seek a second term was "a terrible mistake" that cost Democrats the 2024 presidential election, arguing that a genuine Democratic primary would have produced a nominee capable of…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READWashington DC voters went to the polls Tuesday in a mayoral primary to succeed term-limited Mayor Muriel Bowser, with Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George and former prosecutor Kenyan McDuffie emerging as the leading candidates in a…
2026-06-16 · 3 MIN READGeorgia Republicans will hold primary runoff elections Tuesday in marquee races for U.S. Senate and governor, with voters also deciding nominees for lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and several congressional and legislative…
2026-06-15 · 3 MIN READNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is campaigning for Democratic socialist candidates in two congressional primary races, seeking to extend his influence beyond City Hall and reshape the city’s Democratic Party. The June 23 primaries pit…
2026-06-14 · 3 MIN READVice President JD Vance said he will discuss a potential 2028 presidential campaign with his wife, Usha, after the 2026 midterm elections, adding that he believes President Donald Trump will be "very supportive" of whatever he decides.
2026-06-14 · 3 MIN READAhmad Vahidi, commander in chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has emerged as the dominant figure shaping Tehran's hard-line stance in negotiations to end the war with the United States, according to Iranian, Arab and…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READA federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore removed plaques and exhibits at national parks, ruling that the White House was "telling half-truths" about American history. U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley gave officials…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READDemocrat Eric Jones advanced to the November ballot on Friday in a Northern California congressional district, where he will face fellow Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson in a contest that pits a younger challenger against a veteran incumbent.
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READPennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is pursuing a moderate, pragmatic approach that distinguishes him from other potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders, but his centrist brand faces questions about its viability in a party seeking a…
2026-06-13 · 3 MIN READMaine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner won this week's Democratic primary after Gov. Janet Mills suspended her campaign, securing the party's nomination despite a growing list of controversies including a tattoo recognized as a Nazi…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READThe FBI raided the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on Thursday, seizing computers and phones in what board members and elected officials described as a coordinated attack on voter registration efforts ahead of the…
2026-06-12 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump has nominated Jay Clayton, the former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and current U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to serve as director of national intelligence, the White House…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READA nonprofit fund linked to prominent election deniers with ties to President Donald Trump sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that ran misleading advertisements in swing states ahead of the 2024 election, according to tax…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READVoters in the north-west England constituency of Makerfield go to the polls on June 18 in a by-election that could determine the fate of the UK's prime minister. The contest pits Labour candidate and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham…
2026-06-11 · 3 MIN READDemocratic women in Maine who opposed Republican Sen. Susan Collins's vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court now face a painful choice in the November Senate election. The Democratic nominee, Graham Platner, won the primary…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READA new study of campaign contributions exchanged among U.S. House members from 2009 to 2022 found that senior lawmakers and party leaders overwhelmingly act as givers rather than receivers, and that Democratic and Republican networks…
2026-06-10 · 4 MIN READGraham Platner, a Marine combat veteran and oyster farmer whose campaign has been marked by a series of scandals, won Maine's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating the party establishment's preferred candidate, Governor Janet…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READVoters in Northern California's Shasta County approved Measure B, a ballot measure that would require local elections to be held in person on a single day and restrict absentee balloting, putting the conservative rural county on a…
2026-06-10 · 4 MIN READLt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson advanced to a June 23 runoff in South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday, while Rep. Nancy Mace finished a distant fifth and was eliminated. Sen. Lindsey Graham…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump is moving forward with plans to install Bill Pulte, a political loyalist with no national security experience, as acting director of national intelligence, a move that has drawn bipartisan criticism and threatens the…
2026-06-10 · 3 MIN READLt. Gov. Pamela Evette, endorsed by President Trump, and Attorney General Alan Wilson are headed to a June 23 primary runoff in South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial race after neither candidate secured a majority in the five-way…
2026-06-09 · 3 MIN READPresident Trump’s cultural influence appears to be fading, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday. The president was booed by New York Knicks fans at Game 3 of the NBA Finals, artists have withdrawn from a Washington…
2026-06-09 · 4 MIN READVoters in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina headed to the polls Tuesday in primary elections that could reshape November's general election matchups. Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner was poised to win his party's…
2026-06-09 · 3 MIN READPresident Trump and his allies are escalating allegations of election fraud in California, claiming the state's vote-counting process is "rigged" as mail ballots continue to be tallied days after the June 2 primary. There has been no…
2026-06-09 · 4 MIN READThe Senate voted 47-52 on Friday against advancing legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as five Republicans joined most Democrats in blocking the measure over constitutional concerns and…
2026-06-08 · 4 MIN READPrimary races across the U.S. have devolved into bruising political knife fights, with incumbent-on-incumbent battles, AI-generated attack ads, and candidates exploiting name confusion to gain an edge. The Wall Street Journal identified…
2026-06-08 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Friday after host Kristen Welker repeatedly pressed him for evidence to support his unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 presidential election and…
2026-06-07 · 4 MIN READArmenians voted Sunday in a parliamentary election that will help determine whether the country continues loosening ties with Moscow in favor of closer cooperation with the West. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his governing Civil…
2026-06-07 · 4 MIN READFive months before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats are well-positioned to reclaim the House and possibly the Senate, but primary candidates remain deeply divided over how to craft a message that resonates with a skeptical electorate,…
2026-06-06 · 3 MIN READCalifornia Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui advanced to the November general election ballot on Friday after fending off a primary challenge from a younger Democrat, Sacramento City Council member Mai Vang.
2026-06-05 · 3 MIN READChinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea next week, state media in both countries reported Friday, marking his first trip to the isolated state since 2019.
2026-06-05 · 3 MIN READSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrat Xavier Becerra advanced to the California governor general election on Friday, after winning the largest share of primary votes. Becerra, the former U.S. health secretary and state attorney general, leaned on…
2026-06-05 · 3 MIN READThe FBI on Friday fired five analysts connected to the creation of a 2023 intelligence memo that warned of a potential threat from Catholic 'violent extremists,' their attorney said, the latest wave of personnel actions under Director Kash…
2026-06-05 · 3 MIN READRuby Duncan, a welfare-rights activist who led a 1971 protest into Caesars Palace that halted gambling and later founded the community organization Operation Life, died April 26 in Las Vegas at age 93, her family confirmed.
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