Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate for a congressional seat in Northern Kentucky, Ed Gallrein, defeated the president’s nemesis and longtime GOP House member Thomas Massie in one of the most expensive primaries on record.

With 72% of the vote counted, Gallrein had about 54% to Massie’s 46%, Decision Desk HQ reported.

Gallrein’s ...Read more

The federal government is suing Minnesota to block a new state law that prohibits Minnesotans from making bets on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.

Minnesota is the first state in the country to outlaw the popular platforms that allow users to bet on the outcomes of a wide range of real-world events, from who will win the NBA ...Read more

Democrats need to address voters’ growing populist resentment towards billionaires and the threat of artificial intelligence to automate jobs out of existence, which will dominate the 2026 and 2028 election cycles, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.

Newsom spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C., at the Center for American Progress,...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Northern Kentucky Republicans embraced President Donald Trump’s choice for Congress on Tuesday, advancing GOP primary challenger Ed Gallrein to the Nov. 3 general election and rejecting seven-term U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, whom Trump targeted for defeat.

The Associated Press called the race shortly before 8 p.m. Eastern time...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis could face a possible censure and loss of privileges from the Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday night after a formal complaint about his reduction of Tina Peters’ prison sentence caught fire early this week.

Hundreds of Democratic elected officials, volunteers and voters have asked the state party to formally ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department would get a new influx of funding to investigate child exploitation cases, including to identify victims of sexual abuse material online, under the GOP budget reconciliation bill.

The $108.5 million added in a substitute amendment Tuesday would support hiring additional investigators and forensic ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans used a hearing Tuesday to push the Trump administration to file lawsuits challenging congressional maps in California, Illinois and other Democrat-controlled states in the wake of a Supreme Court decision rolling back the Voting Rights Act.

The hearing comes weeks after the Supreme Court’s six-justice ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory over the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday as the agency he has long reviled was barred by the Justice Department from continuing any “known and unknown” probes into his tax returns.

The one-page agreement signed Tuesday by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche adds to a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Attorney General Dave Sunday appealed a Commonwealth Court ruling that struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on public funding for abortion and recognized “a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy” in the state constitution.

The case now heads back to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where three justices previously signaled ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As he campaigns for Congress, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho has touted himself as the region’s defender against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

“When Donald Trump and ICE wanted my office to help their lawless raids, I said ‘Hell no, not on my watch,’” Ho said at a candidate ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday spurned four-term Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and endorsed his primary challenger, Ken Paxton, the firebrand state attorney general who has been indicted and impeached and has positioned himself as a Trump-inspired disruptor.

“Ken Paxton has gone through a lot, in many cases, very ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The fundraising arm for congressional Democrats said this week it plans to steer additional resources to Rep. Darren Soto, whose Central Florida seat is imperiled after Florida leaders redrew the heavily blue district into one that strongly favors Republicans.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said it has ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif — There was a second where Democrat Howard Hersh believed the handwritten, friendly postcard urging him to vote for two Democrats in the June 2 primary for governor when it arrived in his Nevada City mailbox last month.

“Momentarily, anyway, until I realized it was a scam that would invalidate my vote,” Hersh wrote in an...Read more

WASHINGTON — Shortly after attorneys for President Trump moved Monday to dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over claims it had leaked his personal tax returns, the Justice Department announced that a settlement in the case would be used to create a $1.776-billion fund for other victims of “weaponization and...Read more

The day before Kentucky’s May 19 primary election, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made a final pitch to voters on why President Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate Ed Gallrein is the “no-brainer” choice for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District.

Speaking to a crowd of around 150 people at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel at the...Read more

President Donald Trump earlier this year bought as much as $680,000 in stock of Eli Lilly, the maker of blockbuster obesity drugs, as the agencies he oversees undertook an agenda that largely benefited the company.

On May 14, the federal government released ethics disclosures revealing a list of stock and bond trades made on Trump’s behalf ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — National Democrats are jumping in to protect incumbent U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor as she faces an uphill battle for reelection in a redrawn congressional district that is now red-leaning.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that Castor is a new member of its “frontline” program for vulnerable Democratic ...Read more

Days after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Feb. 28, 2026, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez denied American forces the use of the Naval Station Rota and the Morón Air Base – installations that had hosted U.S. troops for more than 70 years.

“We are a sovereign country that does not wish to take part in illegal wars,�...Read more

The first half of 2026 has been a chaotic time for U.S. foreign policy: new tariffs, threats to annex Greenland, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the struggle for control of the Strait of Hormuz.

As a researcher focused on the values and rhetoric of American presidents, I study how presidents and their ...Read more