Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier upset a top House Democrat during New York’s Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday night, notching a significant victory for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who threw his weight behind her in the race. Avila Chevalier, 32, defeated Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), 71, in a shocking […]
New York voters in four competitive districts selected Republican nominees Tuesday night to take on Democratic incumbents as the GOP tries to hold on to its razor-thin House majority. Due to several rounds of redistricting over the years, there are only a handful of competitive congressional districts in the state. Two of them are on […]
Micah Lasher won the competitive Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), holding off Assemblyman Alex Bores in New York‘s 12th Congressional District. Lasher led with 39% of the vote to Bores’s 35% with 85% of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press. He prevailed over a crowded field that also featured […]
Democrat Cait Conley won the right to challenge Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Tuesday night, winning a crowded House primary in New York’s 17th Congressional District. Conley, an Army veteran, received 51.5% of the vote when the race was called at 9:44 p.m. She was competing against a field of four other candidates, but her […]
Maryland state Del. Adrian Boafo emerged as the winner in the crowded Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Tuesday night in Maryland’s 5th Congressional District. The Democratic primary race for the deep-blue seat east of Washington, D.C., saw $12.5 million spent by outside groups, making it one of the most expensive […]
A California federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden drew backlash Tuesday evening after issuing a nationwide injunction blocking Trump administration policies that allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests at immigration courthouses and expanded the amount of time immigration detainees can be held in short-term detention facilities. U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts of […]
Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th Congressional District on Tuesday evening after Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed him. With 42% of the vote counted as of Tuesday evening, Lander took 62.8% of the vote compared to Goldman’s 37%, according to the […]
Authorities began installing fencing and cameras around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as President Donald Trump alleges vandals have been destroying the administration’s multimillion-dollar renovations at the site. Workers began erecting a chain-link fence around the pool’s perimeter on Tuesday evening, alongside overhead cameras installed by the pool’s edge, which can be seen in a […]
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has won the Republican nomination to be the state’s next governor, positioning him to take on Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson in the general election. Wilson defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in the Republican primary runoff after the two candidates advanced from the seven-candidate June 9 primary. With 9% […]
The House of Representatives gave the final green light to a bipartisan housing bill designed to boost housing supply, legislation designed to alleviate the cost-of-living woes suffered by many families. The House voted 358-32 to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Tuesday after the Senate passed the legislation on Monday evening. The […]
