Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert interviewed former President Barack Obama on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night. It was a prerecorded interview that took place at the yet-to-open Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois. Colbert’s interview with the former president comes a little over two weeks before the final episode of […]
Seven candidates vying to be the next California governor participated in a primary debate on Tuesday night that featured a lot more fiery exchanges and aggressive verbal attacks than previous debates. The debate was hosted by CNN and moderated by Kaitlan Collins and Elix Michaelson. Two Republicans, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and businessman and […]
Five incumbent Indiana Republican state senators lost their primaries to candidates backed by President Donald Trump and only one survived with one race yet to be called, capping the president’s retribution campaign in the state. Trump-backed candidates Trevor De Vries, Brian Schmutzler, Blake Fiechter, Tracey Powell, and Michelle Davis defeated state Sens. Dan Dernulc, Linda […]
The Council of the District of Columbia voted Tuesday to approve a long-term youth curfew measure, extending the police chief’s power to declare special 8 p.m. youth curfew zones through 2028. The approval could take months to take effect, as the measure still faces congressional review. The council did not choose to approve an emergency […]
Former Ohio state Rep. Derek Merrin secured the Republican nomination Tuesday night to take on Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) for a second time in hopes to unseat the longtime Democrat in a red seat. Merrin will face Kaptur, the longest tenured woman in Congress, in the November election. The Ohio legislature made the seat more […]
House Republicans are demanding records tied to an internal Metropolitan Police Department investigation after more than a dozen Washington, D.C., police officials were placed on leave amid allegations that crime statistics were manipulated to make the nation’s capital appear safer than it actually was. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight […]
Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy secured the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio on Tuesday alongside his running mate, state Senate President Rob McColley. Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur turned politician, entered the race as the clear front-runner but faced a challenge from a lesser-known candidate, northwest Ohio small business owner Casey Putsch, who cast himself […]
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) will face Democrat Sherrod Brown in November after Tuesday’s primary election results as part of a special election for the seat formerly held by now-Vice President JD Vance. Brown, a former three-term senator who was ousted in 2024 by now-Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), was projected by the Associated Press to win […]
Vice President JD Vance told a crowd at a rally in Iowa on Tuesday that his fraud task force found 186,000 dead individuals collecting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Vance traveled to Des Moines to appear at an event for Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), a vulnerable member of the House GOP majority. During […]
President Donald Trump is escalating his pressure campaign against Indiana Senate Republicans who broke with him on redistricting, taunting “long seated RINOs” and backing primary challengers ahead of Tuesday evening’s elections. “Good luck to those Great Indiana Senate Candidates who are running against people who couldn’t care less about our Country, or about keeping the […]
