DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s Democratic Senate nominee Josh Turek slammed Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) during their first debate by highlighting Hinson’s role in passing Republican cuts to Medicaid spending through last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Turek emphasized several times during the debate that Hinson voted in favor of a $1 trillion reduction […]
President Donald Trump’s Texas rally for Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton was repeatedly interrupted by protesters on Wednesday, drawing loud boos from the crowd and sharp jeers from the president. Trump was forced to stop several times during his speech to supporters in San Antonio after multiple hecklers in the crowd caused a kerfuffle, leading […]
Students at Cornell University are staging a seven-hour sit-in protest over concerns that campus leadership mishandled an investigation into an alleged gang rape in 2024. As of around 3 p.m. Wednesday, roughly 80 students gathered inside a campus dining hall for the “Zero Day” protest, vowing not to spend any money at the institution, and […]
The campaign of Janelle Stelson, the Democrat challenging Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) in Pennsylvania’s battleground 10th Congressional District, denied Wednesday that an alleged illegal immigrant who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after allegedly exposing himself in public was associated with her campaign. Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe, a 35-year-old Nigerian national, was arrested Sept. 27 on one […]
Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife are expected to face new charges related to their alleged role in the torture of U.S. citizens, officials said Wednesday. The Trump administration captured Maduro from Venezuela in a dramatic military operation in January, bringing the Venezuelan dictator and his wife to the United States to stand […]
Prosecutors announced on Wednesday they will seek the death penalty for former Marine Nigel Max Edge after he was charged with killing three people at a North Carolina bar in a mass shooting last year. Edge faces three counts of first-degree murder, among other charges, after he was accused of piloting a motorboat up to […]
President Donald Trump is joining Republican Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton on Wednesday evening for a rally in San Antonio. The rally is set to begin around 7 p.m. Trump’s effort to boost Paxton in Texas comes as the attorney general is battling to fend off a spirited challenge from rival James Talarico in the […]
Maine Senate nominee Troy Jackson is riding a political high following his first debate against Sen. Susan Collins, finally gaining the viral momentum his campaign has struggled to capture since he became the Democratic nominee in July following Graham Planter’s withdrawal. On Tuesday night, Jackson faced Collins in the first debate between the rivals, using […]
A candidate for Congress in Arizona on Wednesday said she was raped in August as she repaired campaign signs. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, the Democratic candidate for the state’s 8th Congressional District, said she was sexually assaulted around 2 a.m. on a Friday evening that month in a parking lot as she carried out her nighttime routine […]
A federal judge in New York heard arguments Wednesday on whether to dismiss the case against an Army soldier accused of using classified information about the operation to capture Nicolas Maduro to win more than $400,000 on Polymarket. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett questioned lawyers about the government’s charges and the legal basis for applying […]
