Two years ago, a champagne cork went flying on the Federalist Society convention stage as panelists toasted recent Supreme Court wins. A celebratory mood was still on display at this year’s annual gathering of the conservative legal movement, but those feelings were mixed with shock from Democrats' midterm victories. "On election night, there was a congressman...
GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) called on his party's congressional leadership — House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) to "step up to the daggum plate" Saturday morning, urging the pair to pass legislation funding air travel infrastructure updates in light of Friday's nationwide ground stop. “We know that it...
Microsoft confirmed its services are fully restored as of Saturday after the tech company faced a massive global outage impacting its platforms earlier in the week. “We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” the company wrote in a post...
Italy announced Saturday it is handing Meta an $887 million fine for using photos and videos from Android users’ Facebook galleries without specific consent. Investigators found Facebook had enabled a “get suggestions from gallery when browsing” feature by default and requested access to users' personal photo library through a single permission notice, according to a...
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) called on Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s Commerce secretary, to step down over reports the cabinet member shielded Nvidia from federal oversight — accusations which emerged after the tech giant's CEO resigned this week. Jensen Huang stepped down from Nvidia's chief role Thursday after claims came to light of his reported...
A group of Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged Frank Bisignano, the CEO of the IRS, to answer for why the agency has delayed publication of data that shows how much money owed by taxpayers wasn't paid on time. The lawmakers wrote in a letter to Bisignano that the IRS not yet releasing its tax gap...
Public school closures are accelerating across the country, and voters in several states have a chance to speed up or slow down the process on Tuesday. Closures are largely determined by school board members and affected by a district's funding situation, which itself is downstream from state legislatures and governors' mansions. With school board seats...
There are no shortages of storylines to watch as the historic 2026 midterms draw to a close. The GOP is on defense as election forecasters, like Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), predict Democrats have an 82 percent chance of flipping the House and a 62 percent shot at winning the Senate. A gloomy economy, President Trump's...
Democrats are expecting to win big on Election Day, but disagreements are already erupting among them over how aggressively to target President Trump for what they say are abuses of power and corruption. Democratic lawmakers and strategists are divided over whether to push another impeachment against Trump. Senators and leaders in the House are generally...
This week’s midterm elections feature a handful of races involving former athletes, coaches or sports media personalities who are hoping to secure victory at the ballot box and bring their experience on or around the field of play to a role in government. Tuesday’s elections come at the end of a midterm cycle in which...
Rising cancer rates and their potential link to farm pollution are causing a crisis in Iowa, throwing uncertainty into the midterm elections in the state that has shifted ruby red in recent years. Iowa suffers from the second-highest rate of new cancer cases in the U.S. and it’s one of the few states where the...
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) on Sunday called Rep. Haley Stevens's (D-Mich.) interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, where she defended her endorsement of former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in Michigan's Senate race, "one of the most painful interviews I've ever watched." Cooper, after a tense exchange with Stevens about why she changed her mind to endorse...
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) on Sunday defended her endorsement of Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R) over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in a tense interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. Stevens, who lost to El-Sayed in a bitter primary, had assured Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) in a phone call Saturday night that she supported El-Sayed after the...
Democrats are edging out their Republican counterparts in seven competitive Senate races ahead of Tuesday’s election, though the majority of them show statistical ties between the two parties, according to new polling. Polling released by The New York Times and Siena University on Sunday show Democrats holding an 11-point lead in the Michigan race, a...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sunday said there's a chance that there could be a massive Democratic victory, or a "blue tsunami," on Election Day, and that there is momentum behind the party to reclaim one or both chambers of Congress. "It could be that blue tsunami, but you make that legitimate and obvious...
Rep. Haley Stevens’s (D-Mich.) last-minute decision to endorse former Rep. Mike Rogers (R) over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race has outraged Democrats while giving Republicans welcome headlines and a glimmer of hope that they can flip the battleground seat. Democrats spewed anger over the move by Stevens, who joined Rogers at a...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said he would stop further funding for U.S. military action in Iran amid growing voter dissatisfaction with the ongoing war effort. “I would stop the funding. The House and the Senate should stop the funding for any further actions in the Iran War. That's what we did to stop the Vietnam...
President Trump on Sunday said he would "love to have" Rep. Haley Stevens join the Republican Party after she endorsed Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R) over the nominee, her former Senate Democratic primary opponent Abdul El-Sayed (D). Reporters spoke with the president outside Air Force One, flanked by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Interior...
The intersection of religious and LGBTQ rights lands — again — on the Supreme Court’s docket Tuesday. The justices are set to decide whether Colorado can require preschools that receive public dollars to admit the children of same-sex couples. “It seems like there's short shrift being given to religious liberty in the state of Colorado,”...
