August recess typically offers a prime time for party leaders to barnstorm the country in support of their candidates in battleground races. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have had a quiet recess amid discontent from their respective bases. Thune and Schumer are unpopular, according to a CNN […]
International markets are rattled by global events. That was made clear by the Aug. 18 widespread global selloff of U.S. Treasury securities, raising 30-year yields to roughly 5.34%, the highest level since 2007. There are several causes for the rising investor anxiety. This includes renewed conflict in the Middle East, along with a continued guessing […]
If Democrats are headed for a significant wave in November, one of the best places to measure its size may be a congressional district that, on paper, should be safely Republican. Virginia’s 5th Congressional District stretches from the academic milieu of Charlottesville into some of the state’s most conservative communities, creating a stark political divide […]
A Democratic-sponsored California ballot measure aims to salve a long-festering political wound for Team Blue. Voters in the Nov. 3 midterm elections will decide whether to significantly alter California’s recall election law, a statute that’s been on the books since 1911 but wasn’t deployed successfully in a governor’s race until 2003. When voters chose to […]
The national average price for regular gas increased to $4.11 per gallon on Friday, continuing a week of increasing fuel costs at the pump. Friday’s price point is an increase from Monday when the average cost for a gallon of regular gas in the United States was $4.07. It is also an increase from a […]
Ex-Virginia Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria promised constituents more than four years ago that she planned on relocating to the state’s 2nd Congressional District, where the former Democratic congresswoman is running again in 2026, after an earlier census-triggered redistricting cycle placed her primary residence outside its borders. But a Washington Examiner review of city property records […]
A small moment in Hulu’s riveting new series Furious reveals the depth of the show’s preoccupation with female revenge. Investigating a crime scene with an officer who is also her abusive former boyfriend, FBI agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) secures a pair of blood-stained scissors and hands them over to her ex. Yet, just for […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Heavy rain and winds pounded the Northeast U.S. on Thursday as storms tore through a beach on Long Island, stranded dozens of people in their cars in New Jersey and knocked out power in parts of Delaware’s capital city. Photos and video shared on social media show debris thrown in the air and […]
President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to overturn sanctions arising from his settlement with the IRS and Treasury Department, as a new brief on the docket is drawing attention to an unusual punishment imposed on one of his personal attorneys. Trump filed his latest response over U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’s order to the U.S. Court […]
Ben Jones, known to millions as the country boy mechanic Cooter Davenport in the 1980s television series The Dukes of Hazzard, died on Aug. 9. His wife said on social media that Jones suffered a heart attack in his home in Washington, Virginia, while waiting to watch an Atlanta Braves baseball game. They were his […]
