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Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) bid to become Tennessee’s next governor is leaving a potential opening for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is viewed as one of the top oversight targets in the next Congress if House Democrats take the majority. Hegseth, a former Army National Guard Major, is interested in the open Tennessee Senate seat,…
A recently published found associations between certain maternal health conditions during pregnancy and autism diagnoses across racial and ethnic groups, underscoring how much remains unknown as the Trump administration searches for a cause of autism. Researchers from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine published a study earlier this…
A Biden-appointed judge late Friday ruled that the Trump administration exceeded its authority by threatening to prosecute state and county officials who do not comply with its election integrity efforts. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson barred the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security from pressing local election officials to purge registered voters, withhold their ...
State Rep. James Talarico lobbied the Biden administration to create a federally funded corps of abortionists and to convert federal buildings into abortion clinics in Texas. Talarico called women “our neighbors with uteruses,” and said that there are six sexes. He argued during a legislative hearing that “denying a child’s gender identity” — that is, […]
On Oct. 27, the anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome, the dictator’s great-grandson Romano Floriano Mussolini surged forward from his position at far-right back to score his first goal in Italy’s Serie A league for Lazio, the Rome club whose fans traditionally feel that Benito’s goals were, when you think about it, sadly misunderstood, […]
Americans vote on November 3 in midterm elections that could see Republicans lose control of Congress, endangering US President Donald Trump's legislative agenda. Under the US Constitution, elections are organized by the respective states – but that has not halted US President Donald Trump from trying to wield his influence ahead of the vote.
Incumbent Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan’s campaign account on X was temporarily suspended Friday night for purportedly violating the platform’s rules against inauthentic accounts, days after a report that Democrat operatives recruited a same-name challenger to confuse voters in Tuesday’s election. The account, @DanSullivan_AK, has since been restored. .@SenDanSullivan’s (the real one) campaign account on ...
President Donald Trump joked Friday that his voice was operating at just 49.2% after what he described as 28 consecutive days of campaigning, as he prepared for two more rallies Sunday in Iowa and Kansas. “Twenty-eight days in a row of this crap is a lot,” Trump said at a Florida rally, explaining that he had ...
The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened at the end of September in South Los Angeles, after a more than eight-year construction process and failed attempts by the Star Wars creator who funded it to site it in Chicago or San Francisco. George Lucas, who co-founded the museum with his wife, Mellody Hobson, spent […]
The Democratic candidate for Senate has led in polls. But because it’s Texas, he remains the underdog.
Voters see Dan Osborn, the independent seeking to unseat Senator Pete Ricketts, as more like a Democrat than an independent, a Times/Siena poll found.
Facing backlash over inflation and anger with the president, Republicans have turned to an onslaught of baseless claims about Democratic candidates.
Dan Osborn trails by six points, and voters don’t seem to buy that he’s truly independent from Democrats.
A priest at a church I attend told me this story, and I’m passing it along with the details changed just enough to protect the innocent, although I think we both know that nobody is innocent. It happened last week, before evening prayer, which is one of the small services Episcopalians call, with our unflagging […]
Three foreign nationals have been charged with illegally voting in the 2024 federal election and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship on Tennessee voter registration applications, federal prosecutors announced Friday. The defendants, one man and two women, are citizens of Jamaica, Honduras, and Trinidad and Tobago, according to court documents cited by U.S. Attorney Braden H. Boucek ...
None of the firms that struck deals to avoid crippling executive orders are publicly involved in the major legal efforts to check the Trump administration’s attempts to meddle in the midterm elections, a review by The New York Times shows.
The ghost stories, dating back to the 19th century, are fitting for a building where the past rarely stays dead.
In its push to clear out people who live on the street and are mentally ill, the Trump administration is targeting legal protections that cover a much bigger population.
