Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed battle in Michigan's Democratic senate primary as progressive and establishment wings clash over party direction.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who has increasingly bucked his party in recent years, went after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for his endorsements of former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and current Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. On Saturday, Sanders held a rally alongside El-Sayed and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in Detroit. Both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez,...
President Trump on Sunday called on Congress to add Iran to a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill to honor the bill's late author, former Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The bill, first introduced in April 2025, has seen recent momentum after having been stalled in Congress while Trump seeks to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin to...
The reignited Iran war is raging after the U.S. military launched retaliatory attacks Saturday in response to Iranian strikes that saw two service members killed in Jordan. President Trump called the deaths "a very sad thing," saying "they were in service of our country." Meanwhile, the president's Thursday primetime speech — when he revisited his...
President Trump on Saturday said the deaths of U.S. service members in Jordan is “a very sad thing.” “We hate to see it happen. They were in service of our country. And they, every one of them will never allow, they’ll fight to the death. But never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Trump...
Victims’ stories can sometimes illuminate policy failures and inspire meaningful reforms. But compelling stories are no substitute for careful, non-partisan analysis.
Sen. Jon Ossoff is going on offense against President Trump, emerging as one of the Democratic Party’s most aggressive critics on elections — an issue that hits close to home for the Georgia Democrat. Ossoff won his seat in the Senate in a runoff election held on Jan. 5, 2021 — a day before the...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kicked a hornet’s nest with his move this week to test troops’ testosterone levels. Hegseth argues the effort, to become part of the military’s periodic health assessment for troops over 30, will ensure the optimal performance and long-term health of warfighters. But medical experts say Hegseth's rationale for the directive isn't...
Tech employees in Silicon Valley are increasingly finding themselves at odds with industry executives, who are spending millions to push for light-touch AI regulation. The latest disagreement is playing out in a new political spending fight between OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees and the firm’s co-founder and president Greg Brockman. A group of current and former OpenAI...
Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce that was distributed to 27 states after federal health officials linked the lettuce from its supplier in central Mexico to the spread of an “explosive diarrhea” parasite. Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked shredded iceberg lettuce from a single...
The U.S. military unleashed airstrikes against Iran on Saturday evening in retaliation for Tehran hitting two military bases in Jordan a day prior, during which two U.S. service members were killed, the U.S. Central Command announced (Centcom). The new wave of strikes began at 6 p.m. EDT in what U.S. officials said was an effort...
The White House's World Cup task force head defended Argentina's national soccer team after they displayed a banner asserting the country's territorial claim to the Falkland Islands, long a source of tension with the United Kingdom, after their semi-final win over England. Executive director of the White House’s World Cup task force Andrew Giuliani said...
Ontario premier Doug Ford on Saturday blasted the criticism leveled at the Canadian government by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans over its handling of raging wildfires as “totally unacceptable.” “We’re trying to get through this,” Ford told reporters during a press conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario, calling the rhetoric coming from some in...
President Trump used his primetime address on Thursday night to revive his claims of foreign interference in U.S. elections, making headlines as lawmakers weigh the fallout from his push to overhaul the nation’s voting system. During the address, Trump claimed that China allegedly obtained hundreds of millions of U.S. voter records while seeking to interfere...
