Cook Political Report moves four Senate races toward Democrats, but GOP still holds the edge

The Cook Political Report shifted its ratings on four Senate races in Democrats' favor on Monday, moving contests in North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, and Nebraska leftward on the nonpartisan forecaster's scale. The move reflects what Cook's Senate editor Jessica Taylor called "an increasingly sour national environment for Republicans", though the report's own bottom line is […]

Reid and Feinstein's own words on birthright citizenship haunt Democrats as Supreme Court weighs Trump order

As the Supreme Court takes up the Trump administration's executive order on birthright citizenship, resurfaced video from 1993 shows two of the Democratic Party's most prominent senators making the same arguments Democrats now call unconstitutional, and worse, racist. The clips, captured by C-SPAN on September 20, 1993, feature then-Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada on the […]

Trump's single question to Dana White reshapes the UFC White House fight card

President Trump spotted something missing from the UFC's historic White House fight card, and it took him about five minutes to fix it. At UFC 327 in Miami on Saturday, Trump pulled promoter Dana White aside and asked a blunt question: "Why is Derrick Lewis not on the White House card?" Within the hour, Lewis […]

Manhattan DA opens investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell over sexual assault allegation at NYC hotel

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Saturday it is investigating an allegation that Rep. Eric Swalwell sexually assaulted a former staffer in 2024 at a New York City hotel, a disclosure that has already cost the California Democrat virtually every major endorsement in his bid for governor. Swalwell, who represents a House district east of […]

Reports suggest Whoopi Goldberg may be getting pushed toward the exit at 'The View'

Behind the scenes at ABC's long-running daytime talk show "The View," producers reportedly engineered a recent guest-host appearance by Elisabeth Hasselbeck with one goal in mind: friction. And according to unnamed sources, the maneuver may be part of a broader effort to ease Whoopi Goldberg, the 70-year-old moderator who has anchored the panel for close […]

Sen. Tim Sheehy walks away uninjured after emergency landing in Montana field

Sen. Tim Sheehy, the first-term Republican from Montana and former Navy SEAL, made an emergency landing in a field near Ennis, Montana, on Friday after the plane he was piloting suffered a mechanical engine failure. Neither Sheehy nor the co-pilot aboard was injured, NBC News reported. The Madison County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the 40-year-old […]

California's highest court halts Riverside County sheriff's ballot-fraud probe, orders seized materials preserved

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to stop investigating alleged fraud in a November 2025 special election and to preserve the more than half a million ballots his office had seized, a move that hands a temporary win to Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta and leaves the underlying fraud […]

DNA on shell casings ties teen suspects to murder of congressional intern, prosecutors tell D.C. judge

Two teenagers charged as adults in the fatal shooting of a congressional intern in Washington, D.C., have been linked to the crime by DNA found on shell casings recovered at the scene, government attorneys told a Superior Court judge during a status hearing Friday. The disclosure marks a significant step in the prosecution of a […]

Trump administration unveils 250-foot Triumphal Arch designs featuring golden eagles, lions, and Lady Liberty

The Trump administration filed official designs for a 250-foot Triumphal Arch in Washington, D.C., releasing a 12-page packet of renderings that show a gilded neoclassical monument unlike anything in the nation's capital, topped by a winged Lady Liberty figure flanked by bald eagles, with golden lions standing guard at each corner. The renderings, made public […]

California lawmakers grill state librarian as $1.1 million in Dolly Parton literacy funds goes unaccounted for

Two California state senators, one Democrat, one Republican, spent nearly three hours Tuesday tearing into the state's top librarian and a now-defunct nonprofit over more than $1 million in taxpayer money that was supposed to put books in children's hands through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Instead, the cash flowed to consultants, a marketing firm, and […]