A federal judge has scheduled a March 2027 trial date in the antitrust lawsuit challenging Paramount Skydance‘s proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, setting the stage for a courtroom battle over what would be one of the largest mergers in Hollywood history. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the trial to begin March 2 […]
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson defeated Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson on Tuesday in Michigan’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, clearing the way for her to defend term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s blue seat. Benson defeated Swanson with 84.7% of the vote compared to Swanson’s 15.3%, according to the latest poll count from the Associated Press. Benson […]
Former Missouri Rep. Cori Bush’s comeback bid fell flat Tuesday night, as Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) fended off her primary challenge in a sharp blow to the socialist movement. Bush, backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, lost to Bell in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District in a close race seen as a bellwether for shifting […]
Republican Mike Rogers secured the GOP nomination for Michigan‘s open Senate seat on Tuesday as he was unopposed in the primary, setting up a closely watched general election matchup that could determine control of the chamber. Rogers, a former FBI special agent who later chaired the House Intelligence Committee during seven terms in Congress, entered […]
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested an armed man outside Trump National Golf Club in California on Sunday, just days before President Donald Trump was to attend a Republican National Committee dinner at his venue. The suspect, identified as 38-year-old Jeanine John Taele, was spotted by plainclothes federal agents who observed odd behavior and […]
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) praised lawmakers Tuesday after the General Assembly approved a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the state’s congressional redistricting process, framing it as a necessary response to Republican-led efforts in other states to redraw congressional maps. The proposal, approved during a rare summer special session, would place before voters in November a […]
Democratic primary voters picked their nominees on Tuesday for three battleground House seats in Virginia that are likely to determine control of the lower chamber in the 2026 midterm elections. Democrats’ hopes of expanding their House majority in Virginia took a major hit this spring after the state’s Supreme Court struck down a Democrat-backed mid-decade […]
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) will vote “no” on Todd Blanche‘s nomination for attorney general, narrowing his path to confirmation in a chamber where Republicans can only afford to lose two GOP votes. Collins announced her decision the same day Blanche narrowly advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She is running for reelection in a […]
President Donald Trump returns to California on Tuesday for the first time in more than a year, breathing fresh life into one of the country’s fiercest political rivalries as he and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) renewed their battle over the economy, immigration, crime, and competing visions for the future of the Golden State. Trump will […]
Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) said that the unredacted photo of his 2-year-old daughter that was publicly shared in a Dropbox folder “is being taken very much out of context.” The photo, a part of files Miller and his team shared to social media amid allegations of domestic and child abuse, was uploaded after the congressman […]
