The Supreme Court denied President Donald Trump’s emergency request to enforce mail-in ballot restrictions, the latest setback in his legal efforts. Though the court decided in the Trump administration’s favor regarding mail-in ballot restrictions, it won’t enforce them for the midterm elections. The administration had filed an emergency measure to try to enforce the restrictions […]
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda announced that NATO fighter jets shot down a drone in Lithuanian airspace, at a time when the alliance is increasingly on edge over spillover from the Russia-Ukraine war. Nauseda didn’t identify who the drone belonged to, but was quick to cast the blame on Russia. The Lithuanian Defense Ministry specifically thanked […]
MAGA Inc. expanded its campaign spending on races in Republican stronghold states on Monday, deploying Vice President JD Vance to Kansas to help Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS). Marshall’s race for reelection against Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton is considered likely Republican by the Cook Political Report. But it was upended last week by a New York […]
The Houthis continued their advance on Monday, seizing two more key islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, as the Saudis continued their appeals to the United States for further assistance. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received U.S. Central Command head Adm. Brad Cooper in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The […]
Alarm bells are ringing over the rapid development of artificial intelligence as Congress weighs the technology’s national security potential against risks posed by unregulated growth. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters that a meeting with top AI executives and the White House is in the works sometime soon. But the clock is ticking for […]
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) cast his first Senate vote since a June fall, releasing a Monday evening statement promising to “do my best to be present for tough votes when our Conference needs me.” His return to the Senate follows immense speculation, and conspiracy theories, about his health. Little was disclosed about his condition after […]
Gov. Andy Beshear’s (D-KY) political action committee is making a play in Kentucky’s open 6th Congressional District, investing a quarter of a million dollars in attack ad money against GOP candidate Ralph Alvarado. In Kentucky’s 6th District, which circles Lexington and its surrounding area, former state Sen. Alvarado and Democratic former federal prosecutor Zach Dembo […]
Former CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers told a federal judge on Monday that charges are looming in two investigations being handled by federal prosecutors in Florida, urging her to take the highly unusual step of ordering the government to preserve records before any indictment is made. Kenneth Wainstein, an attorney for Brennan, said his client […]
President Donald Trump’s push to impose new restrictions on mail-in voting before the November midterm elections is running into an increasingly unforgiving deadline as ballots begin moving through the mail and the Supreme Court weighs whether to allow the administration to proceed. A second federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing its new […]
Top Democratic strategists huddled in Washington, D.C. over the weekend to try to chart a path forward on one of the hottest political topics in the country: artificial intelligence. While President Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, vice president and likely 2028 Republican presidential nominee JD Vance have leaned into building America into a […]
