Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who won reelection in Long Island County earlier this week, threw cold water on Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-NY) newly launched 2026 campaign against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) reelection bid. Blakeman, a possible Republican contender for next year’s gubernatorial race, doubted Stefanik’s chances of beating Hochul based on her limited appeal […]
A federal appeals court ordered a local Ohio school district to dismantle a policy banning the use of biological sex pronouns to refer to transgender students in a ruling on Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sided 10-7 in an en banc ruling with Defending Education, a parental rights movement group that […]
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he ordered the Department of Justice to investigate meatpacking companies that he said are artificially inflating beef prices, reflecting his broader affordability agenda. In a Truth Social post, Trump said meatpacking companies are driving up beef prices “through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation” and promised to […]
Senators appeared no closer on Friday to a resolution that could end the longest government shutdown in history, as lawmakers were prepared to remain in Washington for a rare weekend session. Tensions flared between the parties as the otherwise mild-mannered Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) traded barbs with Democrats. Republicans categorized a counteroffer from […]
The Mexican authorities thwarted an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Israeli Ambassador to Mexico Einat Kranz-Neiger earlier this year. Unit 11000 of Iran’s Quds Force initiated the plot at the end of last year, and the plot was active earlier this year, but was thwarted over the summer, according to Axios. “The plot was contained […]
Republicans are crying foul in the New Jersey gubernatorial election, viewing an influx of nearly 500,000 new Democratic voters with skepticism. The landslide Republican loss in New Jersey was one of the biggest surprises of Tuesday night, as Republican strategists had viewed the race as the more promising gubernatorial race compared to Virginia. The scale […]
President Donald Trump again attacked the filibuster on Friday, listing sweeping policy changes and dangling the prospect of midterm election victories his party could secure if Senate Republicans moved forward with dismantling the delay tactic. Trump has revived his past calls to abolish the filibuster during the government shutdown, calling on GOP lawmakers to nuke […]
The Kremlin shot down rumors that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had been sacked, calling the reports “completely untrue.” Speculation began to swirl around the veteran foreign minister this week when he was notably absent from a meeting on Wednesday with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council. Sources told Russia’s Kommersant special correspondent, […]
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Friday, Daily on Energy, readers! We have a jam-packed newsletter for you to close out the week looking at the news around the fallout of the latest sanctions on Russian oil and the upcoming lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet 🇲🇽 🏔️🛢️. COP30 kicks […]
Former President Barack Obama appeared in a live taping of Pod Save America on Thursday, celebrating the Democratic victories in Tuesday’s elections. Obama flexed his political influence in the 2025 gubernatorial elections, successfully stumping for Govs.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) in the lead-up to Election Day. He drew massive crowds in Newark, […]
