Adding to the polling industry’s growing list of problems is a company that has admitted to releasing fake polls as a “social experiment” to see what kind of impact the misinformation could have. The problem is this is exactly what many skeptics think normal pollsters are up to when the polls miss in key races, […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) may not have announced a 2028 campaign yet, but California activists and interest groups are already treating him like a presidential candidate — and increasingly taking their fights with him beyond the state’s borders. With Newsom entering the final months of his governorship, groups battling him over labor, artificial intelligence, transportation […]
President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to ridicule the projected election loss of Alex Vindman to Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, on Tuesday night in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary. “SleazeBag Vindman loses tonight to a Radical Left Lunatic. How cool is that???” Trump posted. […]
A former Minneapolis-area prosecutor is facing a slew of criminal charges after allegedly submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid out of a commercial sex house she had transformed into an assisted living facility. Andrea Leigh Sampson was charged with 13 counts of promoting prostitution and 13 counts of generating profits from commercial prostitution as part of […]
Republican Mike Rogers is making a play for Jewish Democrats in his battleground Michigan Senate race and is, to at least some degree, making gains against Democratic rival and staunch Israel critic Abdul el Sayed. Rogers, the close ally to President Donald Trump who narrowly lost in 2024 to now-Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), is deploying […]
President Donald Trump is proud of his endorsement record, in which his preferred candidate has won nearly every time, but there’s one notable candidate he has not formally endorsed for reelection this year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is contesting his seventh nonconsecutive term as Israel’s prime minister this October, but Trump has yet to […]
The Trump administration unveiled this week a new process that could allow some people long barred from owning firearms to seek restoration of their federal gun rights. Attorney General Todd Blanche finalized the Federal Firearm Rights Restoration rule on Monday, reviving a statutory process that has been effectively dormant since Congress defunded the Bureau of […]
The Democratic Socialists of America are planning “Reading Groups” in the Washington, D.C., area that include a study of recent “Riots and Uprisings.” Members and nonmembers can join the Metro DC DSA chapter this fall for readings and discussions on mass protests worldwide, including California and Minnesota‘s anti-deportation riots, according to the group’s materials and […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket. The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday. The Falcon rocket’s upper stage plowed into the moon at 5,400 mph (8,700 kph) on Aug. 5 after […]
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola advanced from Alaska’s crowded primary Tuesday, setting up the next phase of one of the most closely watched Senate battles of the midterm elections. Sullivan and Peltola emerged from a 16-candidate field under Alaska’s nonpartisan primary system, in which candidates from all parties compete on […]
