President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance took the stage hundreds of miles apart Thursday, offering Republican voters two different presentations of the MAGA movement as the party fights to preserve its congressional majorities. For Trump, the campaign trail remains a familiar production of political attacks, personal anecdotes, and theatrical flourishes. Vance, meanwhile, is […]

A federal judge on Thursday thwarted the Trump administration from enforcing a rule that would impose a strict version of work requirements for Medicaid recipients battling illness. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, sided with 25 Democrat-led states in their lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rule that critics […]

National Democrats are largely staying silent as Mary Peltola faces mounting scrutiny over an alleged scheme by campaign and party operatives to confuse Alaskan voters with a second “decoy” Republican candidate named Dan Sullivan, leaving the Democratic Senate hopeful with few public defenders as state officials investigate possible election law violations. And the few exceptions […]

The suspect accused of attacking Jewish demonstrators with two lit Molotov cocktails in Boulder, Colorado, last year pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and other charges on Thursday. Mohamed Soliman, a 47-year-old Egyptian national, entered his plea on nine federal counts of hate crimes, including one resulting in an elderly woman’s death, and three counts […]