Artificial intelligence company Anthropic filed paperwork Monday to go public, setting the stage for what could become one of the largest initial public offerings in history as Wall Street prepares to invest in one of the industry’s biggest players. The San Francisco-based company, known for its Claude AI chatbot, submitted a registration statement to the […]
Japanese prosecutors on Sunday indicted a U.S. Marine on a charge of robbery and causing death in the killing of a 39-year-old woman in Okinawa earlier this month. Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, is accused of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, with a telephone cord and stealing her backpack at a hotel in Naha, Okinawa, […]
Democrats have leaned into outrage surrounding Jeffrey Epstein to whip up voter sentiment, spending over $36 million on Epstein-related ads in the 2026 midterm elections, according to an AdImpact analysis cited by Politico. Epstein has become a central theme as part of the midterm cycle, with candidates often trading accusations over who was somehow connected […]
A Justice Department survey released Monday found substantial declines in violent crime and property crime victimization in 2025, with the Trump administration crediting the decreases to its efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and gang violence. The National Crime Victimization Survey, conducted annually by the Census Bureau and published by the Justice […]
President Donald Trump’s push to redraw congressional districts has forced incumbents across the country to adjust their reelection campaigns, with some Democrats facing more Republican-friendly constituencies and several Republicans confronting new Democratic-leaning districts. The redistricting battle has affected candidates in multiple states through maps enacted by legislatures, approved by voters, or imposed through court action. […]
When Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) stumbled into a sports gaffe, confusing the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes during a congressional hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith in September, millions viewed the moment on social media. As she pieced together the blunder in real time, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who is running for governor […]
ELON, North Carolina — Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is on the cusp of flipping the open Senate seat in the Tar Heel State next month. Cooper has led wire-to-wire over Republican opponent Michael Whatley, maintaining wide polling and fundraising leads and forcing key GOP super PACs to pause spending in the race to focus […]
The 2026 midterm elections are set to become the most expensive on record, as Republicans pour cash into battleground races to defy history and maintain control of Congress. Political advertising spending for this year surpassed $10 billion in October, marking an all-time high, according to media tracking group AdImpact, driven by record spending in states […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America. With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan— Abdul el Sayed turned his Sunday rally appearance with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) into a roast of his Republican Senate rival Mike Rogers and President Donald Trump. El Sayed mocked Rogers for appearing to lose his earpiece during a Sunday morning television interview after Kristen Welker of NBC’s Meet the Press asked […]
