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The good, the bad and the unruly from over two dozen candidate debates

With less than two weeks until Election Day, most statewide debates have come and gone. Democrats tried to paint their Republican opponents into corners over loyalty to President Donald...

Retirees Shouldn’t Get Bigger Raises Than the Workers Who Fund Them

For the sake of fairness and fiscal propriety, cap Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustments at...

Parties put Supreme Court on the ballot in contentious midterm battle for control of Congress

They aren't elected, but the nine Supreme Court justices are poised to help sway voters this November in the bitter fight for the Senate majority.

Trump administration declares seven civil rights guidance documents unenforceable

The Department of Justice and the Education Department are withdrawing enforcement reliance on multiple federal civil rights guidance documents covering issues that include racial discrimination in student discipline and affirmative action.

White House ditches courtroom battle over student loan forgiveness program

The Trump administration dropped its legal fight over a student loan forgiveness program that has been popular among a variety of public service employees.

Inside the monthslong federal investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar

Scott Johnson, a retired Minnesota attorney and co-founder of Powerline Blog, first began looking into Omar in 2016.

5 hottest midterm battlegrounds two weeks out from Election Day

In today’s issue: Election Day is fast approaching with voters now able to cast early ballots in many states throughout the country. Polls are continuing to show Democrats poised for a strong performance two weeks from today, but how much they can gain is still up in the air. All eyes are on a handful...

Why can’t I afford life? Boomer prosperity is masking a weak economy.

So which party has a better plan for addressing this problem and getting you a fair shot at the American Dream? The bad news is, the answer is "neither."

How Democrats could make Trump’s Education Department overhaul much harder

Democrats are preparing to use all the tools at their disposal to halt the dismantling of the Education Department (ED) if they win the House or Senate in November. President Trump, like many other Republicans, has long called for the department to be abolished, and his administration has slashed its workforce and created interagency...

Democratic super PAC hammers GOP over trans bathroom focus 

A Democratic super PAC is hammering Republicans over their focus on transgender issues as GOP candidates in battleground races invoke culture war issues against their Democratic opponents in the final stretch of the midterm cycle.   Progress Action Fund released a new ad on Tuesday, first shared with The Hill and part of an ad...

Corruption charges once propelled MAGA. Now they may doom it 

You can find the origins of the MAGA movement, now hurtling toward its rendezvous with the midterm electorate, in many places. The most obvious, straight-line antecedent is, of course, the Tea Party revolt of 2009 and 2010. The bipartisan backlash against the bailouts of Wall Street and Detroit fused with the conservative outrage at ObamaCare...

JB Pritzker is turning midterm money into potential 2028 leverage

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) may be trailing some of his potential 2028 Democratic presidential rivals in the early polling of the race.  But as he mulls a White House bid, the billionaire governor is leading the midterms money war, pouring millions of dollars into Democratic campaigns. It’s a move that could pay political dividends for...

The Memo: Trump plan for golf course becomes battle over court’s power

A battle over a Washington golf course has turned into a fiery showdown over the powers of the Trump administration to do as it wishes and the power of the courts to constrain it. At issue is the East Potomac Golf Links, an unglamorous but busy municipal course roughly 2 miles from the White House....

GOP Rep. Fitzpatrick vows to hold any US officials who limited Starshield ‘fully accountable’

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) revealed Monday that he would be speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about his country’s loss of access to Starshield, the military version of SpaceX’s Starlink internet, vowing to hold any U.S. officials who limited the application “fully accountable.” In a post to social media, Fitzpatrick said he would speak with...

El-Sayed: Ohio State owes Vance a refund

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed brought up a Midwestern college rivalry in an attack against Vice President Vance. During a recent town hall on CBS News, Vance said that he had seen “what Abdul El-Sayed says about the war in Iran.” “I see he — criticizing decisions that the president has made, the military's...

Zelensky rolls the dice on combative Trump pressure campaign

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is making a high-stakes bet that a combative public pressure campaign targeting President Trump — in coordination with his allies in Congress — will push the president to reverse course on concessions to Russia. Zelensky, under intense strain from relentless Russian strikes and depleted air defenses, has lashed out at Trump...

Saudis postpone investment conference until 2027 amid fighting with Houthis

The Saudi government has postponed its annual investment conference — known colloquially as “Davos in the Desert” — to next year, after the Iran-backed Houthi rebels carried out multiple deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia earlier this month. Organizers at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute postponed the 10th edition of the conference, which was set...

Trump establishes new women’s health divisions 

Presented by {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare PRESENTED BY The Big Story Trump establishes new women's health divisions President Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating new executive offices dedicated to bolster research into women's health, crediting first lady Melania Trump for pushing the issue. © AP Photo/Alex Brandon “Today we’re taking historic action to...

Trump calls on New Mexico to change its name to ‘New America’

President Trump called on New Mexico to change its name to “New America” following his decision to alter the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario to include “America.” “New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America. We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America,” the president wrote...

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