Michael Alfonso, the son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, announced Wednesday that he is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 7th district. Alfonso is the grandson of Cuban citizens who fled their home country for the United States at the end of the Cuban Revolution. In his announcement video, he says his parents moved to the […]
President Donald Trump first brought up the idea of a 2028 Vance-Rubio ticket privately about six months ago, Vice President JD Vance revealed Wednesday. Vance said Trump mentioned the ticket idea during a private lunch between the two officials, noting that he has “joked with” Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the concept since his […]
The Kremlin‘s special envoy, tasked with smoothing economic quarrels with the White House, has maintained that peace is on the horizon in Ukraine despite a disastrous tour of the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s special presidential representative for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, was asked at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia whether there […]
Following the Republican-controlled Senate’s rebuke of his tariffs, President Donald Trump appears to be losing leverage in trying to get some Senate GOP detractors to comply with his agenda. On Tuesday, Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined Democrats in opposing Trump’s national emergency […]
The full bench on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will review the legality of President Donald Trump‘s federalization and deployment of the National Guard to Portland, tossing out the short-lived win that a three-judge panel on the court had handed the president last week. The full appeals court announced in a […]
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger counts more billionaires, Washington, D.C.-based donors, and out-of-state residents among her financial supporters than Republican nominee Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, public records show. Just 47% of donations to Spanberger’s gubernatorial campaign came from Virginia residents as of the end of September, according to public records compiled by the Virginia […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois beef producers express frustration over President Donald Trump’s plan to expand beef imports from Argentina, a move he says will lower grocery prices but that many warn could hurt U.S. farmers already struggling with tight margins. Talking with reporters last week, Trump defended the plan as a short-term measure to stabilize […]
(The Center Square) – Less than a day after authorizing a strike, hundreds of Minneapolis teachers demonstrated outside the district office. Teachers rallied for higher pay, smaller class sizes, and what they called fair pay for adult educators, while the Minneapolis Public School District says it has already met most of the union’s demands and […]
(The Center Square) – There are 472 bond measures on local ballots statewide totaling a minimum of $90,247,334,088 in new debt, according to Nov. 4, 2025, records list in the Texas Bond Review Board (TBRB) public database. This total excludes current debt obligations for principal and interest on debt taxpayers already owe – meaning, taxpayers will […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA) Proposition 50, the ballot measure designed to approve the Democrat-led agenda to redraw California‘s congressional map, is poised to pass next week’s special election after supporters raised millions of dollars in donations. Democrats have rallied in full force behind Newsom’s redistricting ballot measure, raising significantly more money than Republicans who oppose […]
