President Donald Trump is set to hold his final event before the midterm elections in Washington at the newly reopened Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday at 2 p.m. The event marks the close of the president’s busy month of crisscrossing the country in an attempt to boost GOP candidates. The president traveled to more […]
The Kennedy Center named the 2026 lifetime achievement honorees who will be recognized at the 49th Kennedy Center Honors ceremony at Capital One Arena next month. Singer-songwriter Paul Anka, record producer and composer David Foster, actor Andy Garcia, playwright David Mamet, and singer Barbara Mandrell are the five honorees announced by President Donald Trump and […]
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital after suffering a stroke, a leading cause of disability for adults in the United States. Murphy, 53, was taken to a local hospital on Sunday, where physicians said he was experiencing a stroke, Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, told reporters. It is unclear how […]
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to intervene on Monday in its fight over California’s voter rolls, seeking an emergency order separating mail ballots associated with more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens one day before Election Day. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to order California to set those ballots aside immediately while […]
Washington Examiner columnist Guy Benson said Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s unsavory history may be hurting his chances in his Senate race against “youth pastor” Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. “Part of the reason why it’s so close is because Paxton does have a lot of baggage, and some of it is messy,” Benson […]
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Former President Bill Clinton offered an eleventh-hour endorsement on Monday of Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor who is running in Georgia’s competitive gubernatorial race against Republican businessman Rick Jackson to replace term-limited Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA). With less than 24 hours until Election Day, Bottoms’s campaign released a video […]
A 20-year-old Florida woman who earned her private pilot’s license before graduating high school was identified as the co-pilot of a jet that plunged from the sky and crashed into a residential area Sunday, killing everyone on board. Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, who grew up in Palm Beach County, Florida, was serving as co-pilot on a […]
Welcome to Monday’s Washington Secrets. Today we catch up with Roger Marshall, who is fighting for his political life in Kansas. He believes he can win and, like many Republicans, he says his private polling looks very different than the public numbers. So we also dive into some of the surveys, and some of the […]
Washington state officials said Sunday that a resident died of bird flu, marking the first death in the United States from the virus this year. Officials said a Yakima County resident died after being exposed to the avian influenza at a dairy with infected cattle. The individual had underlying health conditions, according to the Yakima […]
All states aside from North Dakota require voters to register before voting, but a significant number allow registration on the same day that voting takes place. States with same-day voter registration lean toward Democrats, but it isn’t limited to blue states. By Ballotpedia’s account, of the 21 states offering same-day registration with little or no […]
