The Los Angeles mayoral race heads toward a likely runoff as Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman make final pitches before Election Day on Tuesday.
Marxist influencer Hasan Piker defended the Singham-funded activist network at a New Jersey ICE protest and dismissed federal scrutiny of his Cuba travel.
Billionaire healthcare executive Rick Jackson and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones are projected to advance to a runoff in the Republican primary for Georgia governor, according to Decision Desk HQ. Jackson and Jones notched spots in the June 16 runoff as the two top vote-getters in the GOP race to succeed Gov. Brian Kemp (R), beating Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state,...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is projected to lose his Kentucky House primary race to President Trump-endorsed challenger Ed Gallrein, according to Decision Desk HQ, a major victory for the president in his bid to oust Republican lawmakers who openly defy him. Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL and farmer, was projected to win the GOP primary...
Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) is projected to win the Republican primary for Senate in Kentucky, putting him on a glidepath to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R), the longest-serving Senate leader in history. Barr defeated former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron in a competitive primary that marked the first race without McConnell on the ballot...
Senate Democrats pressed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday about a cross-country road trip he recently took with his family and filmed for an upcoming reality TV-style series commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary. “It doesn’t smell right,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) told Duffy during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Department of Transportation’s (DOT)...
Democratic attorneys general in more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday filed suit against the Education Department over new limits set to go into effect for graduate student loan borrowers. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland, states that the new limits will strain the healthcare workforce by discouraging students from...
Roughly 5 million people could lose coverage from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace this year after the enhanced premium tax credits expired in 2025, according to the latest analysis from KFF. Last year marked four consecutive years of record growth in enrollment from the ACA Marketplace, due in large part to the enhanced premium...
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are planning to move ahead with legislation that would make "springing forward" permanent across the U.S. Matthew VanHyfte, a spokesperson for the committee’s Republicans, told The Hill that the panel plans to notice on Wednesday evening a full markup of the bill that will “list the legislation that includes...
A manager of one of President Trump’s golf courses has served as an unofficial adviser on the renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, an Interior Department spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. David Schutzenhofer helped recruit Greenwater Services for a $1.7 million no-bid contract with the Trump administration to install a permanent purification system in the...
Vice President Vance took to the White House briefing room Tuesday in what was a decidedly more subdued manner than that of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s unruly turn at the podium. Vance sought to tame reporters teaming with questions, pointing at some randomly and other times studying a chart to decide who to call...
If you are one of the millions of Americans hitting the road during the Memorial Day weekend, you may want to plan carefully to avoid being trapped in holiday weekend gridlock.
Anthropic and the Pentagon squared off Tuesday in a federal appeals court, where the artificial intelligence firm faced an uphill battle in convincing three Republican-appointed judges that Secretary Pete Hegseth’s supply chain risk label violated the law. Lawyers for the Defense Department and Anthropic faced intense questioning from a three-judge panel in the D.C. Circuit...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) predicted that the GOP will maintain its majority in November in comments made Tuesday following President Trump's endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a closely watched Senate GOP primary. The president announced his support for Paxton on Truth Social, choosing him over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, a...
President Trump’s decision to endorse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn, who was widely seen as the stronger general election pick, is roiling the Lone State State’s bitter primary battle days one week before the run-off election. The call was a remarkable break by Trump from the Senate GOP establishment that caught...
