Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) railed against his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, for bringing a “sham lawsuit” against him after a district court issued a temporary order forcing the governor to allow Hinojosa to inspect his communications with SpaceX founder and GOP donor Elon Musk. The legal battle ignited earlier this month after Hinojosa […]
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is suing a Maryland public school system, accusing it of secretly “gender transitioning” children without parental knowledge or consent. Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ policies allegedly deny parental rights by instructing school staff to abide by the student’s self-identified name, pronouns, and gender identity without notifying their parents, according […]
Longtime Manhattan U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was overseeing the trial of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, has died at 92. 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS, RESULTS AND ANALYSIS Hellerstein was nominated to the federal bench in 1998 by then-President Bill Clinton. The case will now be randomly assigned to another judge. […]
House Democrats are looking to an inaugural program to supercharge college voters in key races for the Nov. 3 elections and flip the script against Republicans this cycle after the youth vote in 2024 helped send President Donald Trump back to the White House. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has overhauled its college and university […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to campaign with President Donald Trump in Ohio on Thursday, expanding his role on the campaign trail as Republicans travel across the country to shore up support ahead of next week’s midterm elections. Trump is returning to Ohio for the second time this month, this time bringing Rubio […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Sometimes Donald Trump just can’t get out of his own way, particularly if there is a chance to get a laugh out of a rally crowd, which is what happened in Texas last night. Plus, we look at the MAGA Right’s read on the Brazilian election, and why […]
A strategist for Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) called upon James Fishback to leave politics entirely on Wednesday after the former Florida gubernatorial candidate admitted to lying about federal investigations into Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Mills. Less than two weeks before the Aug. 18 Republican primary, Fishback claimed he had obtained whistleblower information that suggested […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said President Donald Trump’s campaign strategy in deep red districts is to energize “low-propensity voters.” “[Midterm elections] are normally sleepy, but the one thing we do know is that President Trump has a tremendous power to fire up people,” York said Tuesday on The Hugh Hewitt Show. On […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon after she declined to directly call Cuba a dictatorship. “The fact that she couldn’t even answer that question and then puts out a statement later that was written for her, again, she’s not winning this election,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & […]
DETROIT — Inside the historic buildings that give Detroit its character, pressure on the city’s businesses is becoming harder to ignore. At Pure Detroit, where Brandon Haugabook works part-time in the landmark Fisher Building, he sees rising costs squeezing businesses and leaving customers with less money to spend. His work teaching drama to children through […]
