Republicans are blasting Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola (D) over reports her campaign recruited one of her midterm opponents, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., to counter incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan’s (R) reelection bid. The New York Times reported Wednesday Peltola’s campaign directly attempted to recruit someone with the same name as her GOP opponent — allegations…

Labor movement leader Dolores Huerta, who founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) alongside Cesar Chavez, has died at age 96, her family said Wednesday. “We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved mother, Dolores Huerta, has passed away today at the age of 96,” her family wrote on Instagram. “As you can imagine, this…

Failed Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in the U.S. after fleeing his home country following the election results. Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami on Wednesday, after the State Department extended them visas, The Associated Press reported. Brazil’s Supreme Court had ordered Bolsonaro’s passports to be returned as he was under investigation…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing backlash for comments he made about Arabs while at a campaign stop in Michigan. “There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win the Fields prize, they don’t win the Wolf…

Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) and Democratic Senate hopeful Annie Andrews are deadlocked in the Palmetto State race with less than a week before Election Day, according to a new survey. The New York Times/Siena University poll, released Wednesday, shows both candidates with 48 percent support among likely voters in South Carolina — which has not…

Nonpartisan election forecaster Sabato’s Crystal Ball is shifting more than a dozen House races toward Democrats in the final week of the campaign, another sign of a worsening political environment for Republicans. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a division of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, has moved dozens of races toward Democrats in recent weeks,…

The State Department will issue visas to Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro and his family to permit them to enter the U.S., a senior State Department official told The Hill. The move comes after reports that Bolsonaro had left Brazil and was bound for the U.S. following his runoff presidential election loss. Brazil’s Supreme Court had…

There are just a handful of days until the final votes will be cast in the 2026 midterms. Tens of millions of voters across the country have already cast ballots for Senate, House, governor, state legislature and other critical races that will determine the future of President Trump’s agenda. In the Senate, Democrats must flip…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is professing confidence in his party’s position with just one week to go until the 2026 midterms, despite polling showing Republicans are in a tough spot. Johnson told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Monday that he believes polls showing big leads for Democrats are underestimating Republicans. “I think it’s [polls are]…

Former President Obama poked fun at President Trump’s various Washington, D.C., renovation projects during a campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was stumping for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and Senate candidate Sherrod Brown (D). In his speech, Obama zeroed in on the changes Trump has made to the White House during his second…

Former President Obama took aim at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his perceived focus on soldiers’ appearances and testosterone levels during a campaign stop in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday while campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. The former president’s speech went after several Republican figures and recent scandals,…

Former President Obama poked fun at several Trump administration figures and scandals during a campaign stop in Cleveland on Saturday while stumping for Ohio’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton as well as former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who’s hoping to win back his seat in the upper chamber. The former president ribbed his successor’s administration…

President Trump’s former campaign manager is joining a growing list predicting midterm doom for Republicans, highlighting recent allegations of government corruption as a key reason. Bill Stepien, who managed Trump’s 2020 campaign and had a stint as White House political director in the president’s first term, told CNN’s Abby Phillip that recent scandals in the…

The NFL closed its fan zone in Paris Saturday due to intense street protests, but the New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers are still set to play the league’s first game in France Sunday, despite President Trump suggesting it push the face-off back. Fans received a notification through the NFL’s “OnePass” app that the “NFL…

Bill Maher, a left-leaning comedian and talk show host, told former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt he actually likes President Trump’s proposed ballroom in the East Wing, despite frequent criticism from Democrats. “I don’t give a s— about any of this. I like the ballroom. America does need a ballroom,” Maher told Leavitt in…

World renowned chef José Andrés is entering the battle over Washington’s proposed ban on foie gras, a delicacy which animal rights activists have called cruel. Andrés responded to a proponent of the ban, labeled as Initiative 86 on D.C.’s ballot, in a post to the social platform X — appearing to argue serving the French…

Federal authorities arrested a government contractor and charged him with leaking classified national defense information, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday. FBI investigators have accused 42-year-old Ian Brinksman, an employee of a third-party company which provided services to a government agency, of leaking national defense information to his girlfriend, who writes an online…

Republican commentator Scott Jennings took a swipe at Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) for using a controversial campaign ad featuring his opponent’s estranged mother. The ad, which Ramaswamy’s campaign is now spending $4 million to broadcast statewide, features Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, accusing Acton of being a “liar” her whole…

Iranian plots to target and kill U.S. officials in the Middle East have “substantially increased,” according to a declassified intelligence memo dated Friday, with these efforts reportedly reaching “advanced stages.” The warning, addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, came days after the State Department ordered the departure…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered Cubans a discreet CIA partnership opportunity in a Friday social media post, saying “now is the time” for those looking to “create positive change” in the Caribbean country. “The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change…