Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) struggled to answer a question about artificial intelligence as he took the debate stage for the final time before the Massachusetts Democratic primary. Markey, 80, will face Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), 47, in the Sept. 1 Democratic primary. Moulton has positioned himself as a younger, more viable alternative, casting the race […]
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) is seizing on Democratic state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott’s attempt to distance herself from her past vote against a ban on biological boys playing in girls’ sports with a new ad campaign. Nunn’s ad seeks to highlight Trone Garriott’s voting record on transgender issues just two weeks after the […]
The ticking time bomb that is the national debt just crossed the $40 trillion mark and could spark a fiscal crisis that could throw the economy into disarray, spiking unemployment and exploding inflation. Republicans and some centrist Democrats have long sounded the alarm about growing debt and deficits. The debt first crossed the $1 trillion […]
It would be unusual if conservative commentator Scott Jennings left the CNN studio for the White House briefing room as President Donald Trump’s next press secretary, but not unprecedented. When Pat Buchanan returned to the White House to serve as communications director for President Ronald Reagan in 1985, he had already been a top pundit […]
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 […]
