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  Trump suffers another legal blow as judge freezes $36 billion 'punitive' fine machine A federal judge has put the brakes on the Trump administration’s revived program of massive civil fines against immigrants, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security likely broke the law by slapping people with enormous penalties without checking whether they actually did anything to deserve them. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr., an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, granted a s...

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  Most Americans support switch to Medicare for all health insurance Most Americans now favor government-paid health insurance for all, according to a ‌new poll, as voters across party lines see major healthcare reforms as a priority less than a month before midterm elections to decide control of the US Congress. Two-thirds of US adults — up from 53% in 2020 — said they are in favor of universal US health insurance often referred to as “Medicare for all,” according to a poll conducted by health...

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  Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors. The Trump administration declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms, blocking monitors from the regional security group for the first time in more than two...

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  Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book

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  Trump is clearly trying to buy votes with taxpayer money Donald Trump is ramping up his efforts to use taxpayer money and resources to help Republicans win the 2026 midterm elections. And it’s not at all subtle. At last month’s Republican midterm convention, he severely pushed the envelope by promising every adult US citizen $5,000 if Republicans hold both the House and the Senate. That was already stunning — to offer voters money for a specific outcome. But Trump has only continued pushing...

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  People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

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  Pete Hegseth’s Air Force Academy speech backdrop draws scrutiny: ‘Accidental Nazi is just not a thing’ An angular eagle behind the defense secretary departed from the Pentagon’s established branding. Critics saw echoes of the Third Reich. A reimagined “Department of War” logo displayed behind Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a recent speech drew immediate comparisons to Third Reich iconography. Speaking to Air Force Academy cadets on Saturday, Hegseth stood in front of a monochrome logo fo...

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  Democrats edge out, neck and neck with Republicans in 5 key Senate races: Polls Senate Democratic candidates are edging out or polling neck and neck with their GOP counterparts in five competitive Senate races this cycle — the latest indicator that Republicans are facing a tough midterm environment in even more traditionally redder areas, according to new surveys of the races. Polling released by The New York Times and Siena University on Saturday found Democrats leading by 6 points in the Te...

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  Zohran Mamdani says 'you have to luck out in some big way' to achieve the American Dream now—and many people see better odds of winning the lottery In an interview on Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend, Mamdani warned that if the American Dream is just an ideal that’s out of within reach, then people may start to give up. The democratic socialist compared it to legendary NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s observation during the rise of fascism in Europe, saying people turned away from...

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  Trump posts GOP lawmaker’s phone number amid spat over Daylight Saving Time Donald Trump railed against Sen. Tom Cotton in a series of posts on Saturday, accusing the Arkansas Republican of holding up a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent and encouraging people to call the senator at his cellphone number.

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  Vance tells Americans not to ‘gripe about all the little things’ as prices soar Vance tells Sean Hannity that Democratic ‘arsonists’ will reverse Trump’s successes even as he admits his own administration needs more time JD Vance laid out the Trump administration’s best case for a Republican victory in the midterm elections on Thursday, returning to his role as the White House’s great communicator. But instead of empathizing with Americans’ economic pains and fears about the future, the vice...

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  Trump announces $90 payments for seniors on Medicare ahead of midterm elections for premium costs Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums. The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after the president last month said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. He has...

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  Trump's $500 Obamacare 'rebate' checks land in prime political battlegrounds Donald Trump’s administration is sending $500 payments to nearly 1 million Americans this week, in a move that strategists say could potentially influence races that may ​determine whether his Republicans maintain control of Congress in the November midterm elections. The White House says the payments are a refund for what it describes as excessive fees charged to people ‌who purchase health insurance thro...

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  Samuel Alito says he is considering retirement & could hand Trump another nomination Alito, 76, is one of six conservative justices on the nine-person Supreme Court The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative lean wouldn’t change if Alito retired and Trump nominated a new justice. But Alito’s retirement would allow Trump to appoint a fourth justice to the court. Alito was nominated by then-President George W. Bush in the fall of 2005 and took his seat on the bench in January 2006. Trump has la...

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  Trump officials abandon effort to investigate election threats, experts warn Credible threats appear to have been overlooked as administration focuses on unverified claims of voter fraud The Trump administration has abandoned key security bodies meant to investigate direct threats to US elections by foreign actors and domestic terrorists, according to former officials and a recent report. While administration officials have been actively focused on unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter...

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  Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major MAGA donors Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentagon defense board raises conflict-of-interest concerns By installing the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to advisory roles in a Pentagon project about the future of warfare, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, bestowed extraordinary influence on two of Maga’s most significant campaign donors – and both men own companies that benefit from federal...

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  Trump administration's quiet move makes it harder for some US citizens abroad to vote, lawsuit says The Democratic National Committee on Thursday filed a lawsuit alleging that Donald Trump’s administration secretly changed a postcard used by U.S. citizens overseas in a way that makes it harder to register to vote. The lawsuit contends that the Department of Defense made the change by declaring an emergency, which allowed it to eliminate a specific box on the form. That box is typically ch...

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  Trump doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterm elections Donald Trump deflected responsibility for misleading Americans about the length of the Iran war, dismissed low poll ratings as “fake numbers” and refused to rule out the possibility of declaring a state of emergency before the midterms, in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine. When confronted with questions about the length of the Iran war, the US president blamed the media for reporting his remarks in which h...

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  Early voting data shows emerging signs of a Democratic advantage in the midterms Election Day is still a month away, but more than 700,000 Americans have already voted across at least 30 states. There are signs emerging of the advantage Democrats have in motivating their voters – a trend that’s played out in polling all summer long. In several states with key Senate or governor races this fall, Democrats make up a larger share of voters requesting ballots so far than they did at this point in...

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  As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’ Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public A poll taken mid-June by Rad Campaign, a digital marketing agency, and Women Who Tech, an advocacy organization for female entrepreneurs, showed that about 71% of respondents worry about AI-generated deepfakes and disinformation affecting elections, while...

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  Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’

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  Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem files for divorce from her husband of 34 years Noem, who was tasked with leading Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown from January 2025 to March 2026 and previously served as South Dakota’s governor, is seeking a divorce from Bryon Noem in their home state. The two married in May 1992 and have three children. The filing, submitted to the court in April but posted online on Monday, comes after questions arose earlier this year about the nature of...

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  Democrats to probe lucrative Trump family business deals if they win midterms Corporate donors to Donald Trump’s ballroom and participants in business deals brokered by Trump family members are expected to be among the first targets of investigations if Democrats take control of the House or Senate ​in November’s midterm elections, multiple Capitol Hill staffers, lawmakers and attorneys told Reuters in recent days. Control of either chamber would give Democrats subpoena power and funding to b...

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  Trump personally helped orchestrate taxpayer-funded ads promoting himself and his policies, source says Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Two Trump advisers familiar with the ads said that they were being created in-house by the White House video team — which is part of the communications team, resp...

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  John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’ Social and news media commenters seize on senator’s gaffe, with some characterizing it as a Freudian slip With speculation about whether he may defect from the Democratic party swirling around him, US senator John Fetterman described himself seemingly unintentionally as a “lifelong Republican” during a fireside chat in Texas over the weekend. Fetterman made the comment when someone listening to him speak with CBS News politic...

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  Texas Republican called for public execution of Democratic leaders – report Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements online Bo French, a Texas Republican running to lead a powerful state agency, has a history of making controversial social media posts, including calling for the public execution of Democratic leaders, according to a recent investigation from CNN’s KFile team. French, who is running to lead Texas’s railroad c...

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  Talarico leads Paxton by 5 points in Texas Senate race poll A new poll shows Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico leading Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ® by 5 points over a month before the November midterm elections. The Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR) poll released Friday showed Talarico with 49 percent support from voters and Paxton with 44 percent support, with 3 percent saying they are undecided. This new poll is the second in a monthly series of polling results rele...

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  House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. The undertaking is as robust as it is daunting, spanning several House committees. With majority power comes bigger budgets and staff, and the ability to investigate, subpoena and potentia...

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  Republicans fear North Carolina and Georgia Senate races are slipping from their grasp Some Republicans are growing worried that two key Senate races once considered critical to holding their majority are slipping from their grasp. In more than a dozen interviews with campaign officials, senators and operatives, there is recognition that North Carolina and Georgia are looking less competitive than the party once anticipated and that decisions need to be made soon about whether to keep investi...

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  She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her. Inspired by female conservative influencers, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes.” A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame. She’d done everything she thought men expected of women on the far right, so when the hatred came for Amy Dangerfield she felt so depressed she could barely stand. She’d moved from Australia to the United States in 2017 with a dream...