New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for New Yorkers detained by the Israeli military in the West Bank to be released. Democratic House candidate for New York Brad Lander and a group of around 80 activists traveled to the West Bank during its olive harvest, during which they spoke with local Palestinians who had […]
The campaign arm of Senate Republicans unveiled Wednesday their own spin on Jeopardy! to criticize Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed ahead of his second debate later that day with GOP rival Mike Rogers. Republicans say the game, dubbed “Jihad Jeopardy” and offered on a new website, “exposes Abdul El-Sayed and his family’s extensive […]
GREENVILLE, North Carolina— As North Carolina Republican Jennifer Balkcom rallied with President Donald Trump to boost the state’s Republican congressional ticket this week, a pro-Trump super PAC pulled the plug on funding her race. The news broke that No Going Back PAC, a super PAC affiliated with Trump’s MAGA Inc. group, pulled $1.5 million out […]
Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman spent more than a decade arranging sham marriages for immigrants seeking legal status, collecting as much as $40,000 per couple and investing the proceeds in businesses and property in the Dominican Republic. Jennifer Gonzalez, 43, and five others were charged Wednesday with conspiracy to harbor immigrants, harboring immigrants, conspiracy […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, which is dominated by fraud of one kind or another. First up, we look at the scandal rocking the polling world today, and why it might be even more common than you realize. Then, we recap the life of a prominent fraudster whose pardon appeal has failed… It […]
Vice President JD Vance went after the Republicans criticizing an ad supporting Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy that features the mother of his opponent. Vance made the comments to reporters en route to a rally with Ramaswamy in Ohio on Wednesday. The vice president said that “whether the ad was appropriate or not is […]
The life partner of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson spoke out on the campaign attacks against her and her family on Wednesday in the wake of ads questioning her relationship with Jackson, who is challenging five-term incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Lana Pelletier is Jackson’s life partner, and the couple shares two children. They […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr warned broadcasters against airing fabricated election polls, saying stations could face regulatory scrutiny if they knowingly mislead viewers through false polling data. The warning follows an admission from Wedgewood Polls that it deliberately fabricated polling numbers in races across the country, raising questions about how news organizations vet political […]
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a loss on its emergency docket on Wednesday, declining to lift a lower court’s block on a new regulation for federal prisons that would stop providing inmates with transgender surgeries and procedures. The high court ruled 7-2 against granting the Department of Justice’s emergency petition to allow the […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York warned that Democrats plan to target Elon Musk and other political figures for possible corruption if they gain control of Congress. “We know that they, and because they’ve been very public about it, they plan a lot of investigations,” York said Tuesday on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. […]