President Donald Trump suggested he would modify plans for a large triumphal arch in the capital by including staging areas for U.S. military snipers and to launch drones.

The idea appears to be Trump’s latest attempt to sell the idea of building a towering arch, which has spurred questions about whether it would dwarf Washington, U.S.’s ...Read more

Friedrich Merz said he would stay put as German chancellor and conservative leader even after his party suffered its worst-ever result in a state election, as he moved to counter pressure mounting in his ranks for him to step aside.

The Christian Democratic Union won 5% of the vote in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday, ...Read more

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said on CBS Sunday Morning he’ll wait until the midterm elections — and after consulting with his wife and two children — to decide about a presidential run in 2028.

But during a book promotion later Sunday afternoon, Beshear said he was “no longer sure” what he told his wife after the 2024 ...Read more

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives posted their worst-ever result in a German state election, where exit polls showed his party with single-digit support in a northeastern Baltic coast region and trailing a far-left party in Berlin.

The Christian Democratic Union won 5.5% of the vote in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on ...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested he would modify plans for a large triumphal arch in the capital by including staging areas for U.S. military snipers and to launch drones.

The idea appears to be Trump’s latest attempt to sell the idea of building a towering arch, which has spurred questions about whether it would dwarf Washington, D.C.’s ...Read more

Friedrich Merz’s chancellorship has never been more at risk as two regional elections on Sunday threaten to destabilize his 16-month tenure as German leader.

In the Baltic coast state of Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, Merz’s conservative Christian Democrats risk missing the 5% electoral threshold to enter state parliament — which would ...Read more

President Donald Trump reads the polls, too.

Terrified of a “Blue wave,” he’s working furiously to keep Democrats at bay and democracy on the ropes. First, he promised $5,000 checks to all Americans — a flat-out bribe, payable if Republicans remain in power. Then Trump told cheering supporters to “cheat like hell!”

There’s no ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with democracy last week when it put a stop, at least temporarily, to President Donald Trump’s yearslong attempt to derail free and fair elections.

In an unsigned emergency decision, the court’s 7-2 majority (Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented) upheld an injunction and ruled that “...Read more

It’s a good time to own a TV station in South Florida, perhaps not such a good time for factual political discourse.

Candidates and super PACs are spending millions of dollars on stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach television markets to sell the purported virtues — or sound the alarm about the supposed shortcomings —...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed legislation to increase security for the state's voting systems and protect Californians' ability to cast ballots in an effort to guard against potential interference in the Nov. 3 election, including by the Trump administration.

Newsom pointed to the Trump administration's recent effort to restrict mail-in ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.

He rejected concerns that the quickly evolving technology may pose risks to humans as a hoax, comparing it to the alarm over climate change and the scandals that led to his...Read more

WASHINGTON — MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets.

CNN called the move “an illegal assault” on the constitutional rights of news organizations to report without hindrance from government and all three outlets ...Read more

It’s 45 days before an Election Day that will determine control of Congress for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s second term and 20 states are already mailing ballots to voters. That includes the hard-fought Senate contests in Texas, Michigan and North Carolina.

Tens of millions of Americans will have already cast their ballots ...Read more

MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets.

CNN called the move “an illegal assault” on the constitutional rights of news organizations to report without hindrance from government and all three outlets pledged to ...Read more

In a video shared to his social media platform on Friday, President Donald Trump reinforced his endorsement for Republican Stacy Garrity in her bid for Pennsylvania governor, while panning Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro as an incumbent “who does not have what it takes.”

“Stacy has been really special (and) has my complete and total ...Read more

Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding was already a bad look, coming amid America’s brutal affordability crisis and when gaping inequality is on the rise. But the news that it was largely funded by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev shifted this story from distasteful to dangerous. It is more concerning still that this is no isolated incident...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Almost every midterm election year, the question of whether Florida’s gubernatorial candidates debate each other on stage is, well, up for debate.

So far, 2026 is no different. With no televised debates scheduled and 46 days before Election Day, many are wondering if this is the year that Republican and Democratic nominees for...Read more

President Donald Trump declared Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “effective immediately,” an extraordinary escalation in his ongoing feud with the news media.

The action marks the latest salvo in a campaign against the press that has already won him multimillion-dollar settlements from two networks, ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Friday he intends to ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico and other news outlets from covering the White House, his strongest threat yet against a free press.

In a statement on Truth Social, Trump attacked the reporting of the three outlets which he described as “FAKE NEWS!”

“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — One of the candidates running in the race for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District had “hundreds of images” of child pornography, court records showed, and he entered a plea deal in his criminal case.

Brendan Gomez, a member of the Constitution Party, was charged with 10 felony counts of possession of child sexually ...Read more