Voters rejected the “billionaire tax” in California — but approved a variety of other taxes, especially at the local level. It was a remarkable result in an election in...
Maryland landowners have rushed to the Supreme Court to ask the justices to step in and halt a power company's attempt to survey their land in preparation for transmission lines the residents say will be used to build more power-sucking data centers in the metropolitan region.
The push to oust Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is gaining momentum, with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is poised to become House speaker in January, saying he's a "hard yes" on an impeachment resolution slated to come up for a vote as soon as this week.
After Stephen Miller was selected as White House chief of staff, his wife, conservative influencer Katie Miller, said she is stepping back from her podcast on Sunday. “I make every decision based on what’s best for my children and our family. With @StephenM taking on this new role for President Trump, I’ve decided to stop...
Democrats’ sweeping victory Tuesday has scrambled conventional wisdom around the 2028 Senate map. Emboldened party leaders see the world as their oyster and are looking ahead to expanding their majority with a map where suddenly anything seems possible. “Some of the very same states where we won this election will offer new opportunities to...
Confident in their odds of flipping the House, Democrats are eyeing ways to curb the powers of the presidency. The effort is not likely to result in any significant reforms while President Trump remains in office and controls the veto pen. But Democrats, who have long accused Trump of abusing his executive authority, want to...
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) recent hints that he intends to remain GOP leader even if Republicans lose the House have rattled the party’s leadership outlook and raised fresh new questions about the GOP’s future heading into the next Congress. Most House Speakers in recent decades have stepped out of Congress after losing the gavel. And...
Student loan advocates see next week’s midterms as an opportunity for further oversight and potential reversals of policies from the Trump administration that have delayed or denied debt relief and increased monthly payments. Democrats have the potential Tuesday to retake the House and Senate, possibly creating a friendlier environment for student loan borrowers after...
President Trump looks to be facing a major rebuke from voters as the clock ticks down to the midterm elections. Yet, even as Democratic hopes rise, there are also nagging fears within the opposition party about its chances of taking the Senate, in particular. The overall dynamics are plainly bad for Trump and his party....
South Carolina’s surprisingly competitive Senate race poses one of the clearest tests of President Trump’s continued sway over Republican voters, as his popularity sinks across the political spectrum. He’ll return to the state for the second time in two weeks Thursday, seeking to boost South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham (R), who he backed in a...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) criticized rapper Nicki Minaj on Wednesday, saying President Trump's rallies were “poisoning” the artist’s mind. “Maybe she oughta get outside and get offline a little more,” Hochul told reporters. “And stop going to Trump rallies, it’s kinda poisoning your mind.” The Empire State governor was responding to a post...
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as a “genius” Wednesday while revealing that Russia has been in contact with the billionaire as the country works to develop a rival satellite internet network. Putin made the remarks during a summit with African leaders in Moscow, where Maksut Shadayev, Russia’s digital development minister, briefed...
Federal prosecutors asked a judge Tuesday to reject a request from more than a dozen news organizations to immediately unseal the search warrant for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) Washington, D.C., home, saying it could jeopardize the ongoing criminal investigation. A heavily redacted filing signed by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) called for the “truth” from former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) amid what she said was a “pattern of lies and coverups” following reports the Democrat’s campaign recruited one of her midterm opponents to “ballot-stack.” “While some may try to write this off as just how politics works now, ballot-stacking should have...
The fiance of Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) said this week he would support GOP candidate Mike Rogers over Stevens’s former Democratic primary rival, Abdul El-Sayed, in Michigan’s Senate race. In an interview published Wednesday, Jason Turkish accused the Democrat of using antisemitic language on the campaign trail. “We have never seen a candidate for U.S....
Allegations that Mary Peltola’s (D) campaign was involved in recruiting “spoiler” candidates to siphon votes from incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) shook up the Alaska Senate race Wednesday. Peltola's campaign and national Democrats denied any involvement, but Republicans responded sharply, accusing her of deliberately lying to Alaskans. President Trump accused Peltola of election interference and...
Democrat David Crowley has slightly widened his lead over his GOP opponent, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.), in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial contest, according to new polling released Wednesday. The Marquette University Law School Poll found that 51 percent of likely voters in Wisconsin backed Crowley, a 2-point increase from last month, while 44 percent of likely voters...
Nonprofit leaker collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published data Wednesday on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, some of whom are working in the intelligence community. The collective did not identify the source who leaked the personnel information, referring to the unnamed individual instead as the “Department of Peace.” “This dataset...
