The lens of history can clarify the present. Emzari Gelashvili in a Washington Examiner op-ed compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-a-terre list to Stalin’s list of kulaks, which preceded Holodomor. The history of proscription lists is long, and the pattern is sharp: Proscription lists of targeted individuals historically have appeared when democracies were […]
A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama handed the Trump Justice Department a major victory over New York Democrats this week that is probably a preview of yet another victory when Boulder County, Colorado, faces producers in the Supreme Court this fall. New York engineered this fight in December 2024, when Democratic Gov. […]
Missouri launched an effort at the Supreme Court late Friday to restore its Republican-friendly congressional map, warning that a lower ruling invalidating it has unleashed “unprecedented chaos” on the midterms. “A federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri,” Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s (R) office wrote in its emergency application. Missouri’s new congressional map created a...
House Democrats see President Trump's embrace of data centers as a political gift, hoping the radioactive issue will help the party flip control of the chamber in November's midterms. The topic has emerged as a late campaign juggernaut given the sheer proliferation of data centers in a great many communities around the country, which has...
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top choice for the next Army secretary, is among at least four candidates being considered for the role, sources familiar with the process told The Hill this week. The field also includes at least two current officials — Marc Anderson, an assistant secretary of the...
The state of Florida wants to roll back a requirement that public and private school children receive four vaccines before enrolling. A proposed rule from the state's Health Department would allow students to attend school and enroll in daycare without first receiving hepatitis B, varicella (chickenpox), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. ...
Is Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed distancing himself from controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker? That’s the headline, but it’s not quite true.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she believes New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) will give a boost to her reelection campaign. “I think he’ll be helpful,” Hochul said Monday after Politico asked about the chance of the New York City mayor stumping for her. In a recent poll, Hochul led Republican Bruce...
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell (R) announced Monday he will file a temporary restraining order against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon amid his ongoing efforts to fund a private recount of the state’s gubernatorial primaries. His campaign said in a statement that Simon’s office had put Lindell “in an untenable position” by placing restrictions on...
Democratic governors are expressing their dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s Monday decision to lift a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s executive order restricting mail-in ballot voting. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill criticized the move as a “terrible decision” in a social media post. “States run elections, not Donald Trump,” she wrote. “I will...
President Trump’s approval rating for his second term has reached a new low, according to a new poll. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, the president’s approval rating hit 33 percent, a 14-point slide from the start of his second term, when it was at 47 percent, and a 4-point slide from about a month ago, when...
A man is facing federal charges over allegations that he impersonated a federal officer on several occasions and forged Chief Justice John Roberts’s signature on fabricated Indiana court documents. Joshua Culver was indicted last week in the Northern District of Indiana on four counts of falsely impersonating an officer of the United States and one...
Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman are neck and neck in a new survey, as voting concludes Tuesday to determine which Republican will be on the ballot in South Carolina's Senate race. The poll, which the Trafalgar Group conducted from Saturday through Monday, found that 47.9 percent of 1,031 respondents backed Graham, whom South...
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee argues that state governments must leverage their regulatory authority to advance affordable clean energy initiatives to counter the Trump administration's federal opposition.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who ran for president in 2016 and is considered a possible future contender for the White House, says the Republican Party has not coalesced around Vice President Vance as its 2028 nominee and needs to have a broader discussion about its direction after President Trump leaves office. Asked by MS NOW’s...
Two individuals have died from measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s Department of Health said Tuesday. Both individuals, who were unvaccinated, lived in Lancaster County. The state health department said in a release it will not identify the deceased to protect their privacy and that of their families. Their deaths marked the first measles-related deaths in...
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.), a centrist Democrat who frequently criticizes his party for catering to its left-wing base, is more popular among Republicans in Pennsylvania than the state’s GOP senator, Dave McCormick, according to a new poll. A New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Siena University poll of registered voters in Pennsylvania found that 73...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal judge in Massachusetts late Monday to lift a nationwide block on mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the November midterms. The DOJ wrote in a late-night filing that the Supreme Court’s ruling in a separate challenge to President Trump’s executive order “leaves no room for further dispute” in...
