Voters in three states approved voter ID measures, while California rejected a billionaire wealth tax and Idaho turned down a proposal to expand abortion rights.
Democrat Scott Colom is set to become Mississippi's next senator after Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith conceded Wednesday, notching a major victory for his party in the ruby red state. "While this is not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters," she said in a video posted to...
Democrat Scott Colom has built on his lead in the closely watched Mississippi Senate race, now ahead of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) by nearly 4,500 votes, or about half a percentage point. The latest batch of votes came as heavily Democratic Hinds County wraps up counting its absentee and affidavit ballots. The county, which includes...
House Democrats are steaming after 11 colleagues missed a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth, allowing the Defense secretary’s Republican allies to defeat the measure this week. The debacle is leading to new calls for Democrats to tighten the ship when it comes to demanding attendance for floor votes. And it’s providing new fuel to a...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp revealed he has been criticizing President Trump “in private” over his handling of immigration and the administration detaining a record number of people throughout the summer. "Well, I'm really happy to hear the president, you know, in his words: ‘yeah, we kind of went too far," Karp told Politico’s Adam Wren....
Ohio Republicans passed legislation Tuesday easing restrictions on silencers and short-barreled firearms, moving to roll back certain state gun laws just days after Democrats swept last week’s midterm elections. The measure, which includes loosening rules on “sawed-off shotguns,” passed both chambers of the Republican-controlled legislature largely along party lines and is now awaiting the signature...
Democrats admit they fumbled Tuesday when they allowed House Republicans to block an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Now the question is whether the embarrassing misfire can be chalked up to one-off disorganization or is symptomatic of a larger problem. Among progressives, irritation goes beyond the specifics of the failure of the Hegseth...
Advocates for transgender Americans are trying to pick up the pieces and move forward after suffering significant defeats at the ballot box even amid last week's historic blue wave. Arizona, Nebraska, Washington and Colorado all passed measures seeking to bar transgender women and girls from female sports teams, showing troubles for trans rights even...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with an alleged Chinese spy is putting a microscope on the company's influence on AI chip policy in Washington and throwing new momentum behind a trio of bills aiming to place restrictions on chip sales abroad. Huang's disclosure of his affair with a Chinese businessperson, who U.S. officials concluded was...
Democrats on Capitol Hill are vowing to probe major banks with ties to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once their new congressional majorities become official in January. Those investigations, Democrats say, will provide insight into whether executives at financial institutions, such as JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America, were aware of or...
House Republicans on Tuesday tapped Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to lead their diminished conference in the next Congress, betting that a conservative spitfire — and onetime leadership nemesis — can restore the fight to a party battered by the midterms and scrambling for a path back to power. In brief comments right out of the...
Republicans and Democrats are showing rare unity in their calls for investigations into whether Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang compromised U.S. national security after admitting he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. The revelation surfaces a host of concerns that cut across committees related to intelligence, foreign relations and banking and finance, diving deep...
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said Tuesday she is “considering” challenging Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) in 2028, as more Democrats weigh bids to unseat the incumbent. “I’m going to be considering it,” Dean said in an interview with Politico. “I have been concerned about, really, two things, which is his family and his health … and...
