(The Center Square) – Candidates hoping for a spot on the 2026 primary election ballots are expected to line up Monday outside the Illinois State Board of Elections in Springfield. Monday is the first day of the filing period for Democrats and Republicans seeking state and federal offices in Illinois. Candidates often arrive early, hoping […]
President Donald Trump has chosen a replacement to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission after the White House pulled his previous nominee, who faced opposition from Republican-aligned cryptocurrency investors. Mike Selig, chief counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force, was tapped as the new CFTC nominee, White House AI and crypto czar […]
(The Center Square) – One year out, Nevada’s pocketbook-focused 2026 gubernatorial election is neck and neck between two established and popular candidates. Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford slightly trailed Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo in a recent poll that highlighted the divided state of Nevada politics – and gave insight into where the election could be […]
Vice President JD Vance mocked New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Saturday for claiming his Muslim aunt felt unsafe on the subway after the 9/11 terrorist attacks because she wore a hijab. “According to Zohran,” Vance posted on X, “the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris floated the possibility of running again for the White House in 2028, making her strongest statement to date about a future presidential bid after losing to President Donald Trump last fall. “I am not done,” she told the BBC in an interview set to air on Sunday. “I have lived […]
President Donald Trump on Friday called for the prosecution of several Biden administration officials who, according to “conclusive” documents, approved Operation Arctic Frost, an investigation related to Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In a Truth Social post, Trump named former FBI Director Christopher Wray, former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former Attorney […]
President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday he is “open” to meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un during his Asia tour. The two men haven’t met face-to-face since June 2019, when Trump became the first sitting president to step into the communist country. “I’d be open to it, 100%. I got along very […]
This week’s White House Report Card finds the nation and our graders split over President Donald Trump as he travels to Asia for back-to-back trade and economic meetings. Driving the divide are the reactions to Trump’s swift removal of the East Wing to make room for a $350 million ballroom and his administration’s expanding military […]
A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump a legal victory on Friday in his lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register over a 2024 poll that he claimed constituted “brazen election interference.” Trump’s case will now land in the Iowa state court instead of federal court. The United States Court […]
President Donald Trump inched one step closer to embracing Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA) in her quest to defeat former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger to succeed the term-limited Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) when he told reporters he supports the “Republican candidate” in the Virginia gubernatorial race. But his refusal to even mention Earle-Sears’s name as […]
