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House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks tells Bloomberg This Weekend that affordability would be Democrats’ top priority if they take control of the House, alongside restoring health-care benefits and conducting oversight of the Trump administration. Speaking with host David Gura, Meeks says companies involved in importing Russian diesel could face congressional scrutiny and predicts Hakeem Jeffries would become speaker if Democrats win the majority. (Source: Bloomberg)

Seven people were shot, one of them fatally, Friday night around 8:30 p.m. at a Halloween store in Fairfield, California's Solano Town Center. The post Gun Control Fail: Seven Shot at a California Halloween Store appeared first on Breitbart .

Just ahead of Election Day, Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) leads his independent challenger Dan Osborn, a new survey of the Nebraska Senate race shows. The New York Times/Siena University poll shows Ricketts leading Osborn by 6 points, 49 percent to 43 percent, respectively, among likely Nebraska voters. November’s election is the second cycle in a…

Artificial intelligence is becoming a political issue for the first time in this year’s midterms, with much of the voter backlash focused not on the technology itself but on the data centers needed to power it. Communities from Michigan to Texas are raising concerns about electricity costs, water use and the broader impact of AI on jobs and local economies. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says data centers have become a proxy for wider fears about AI. (Source: Bloomberg)

Tech stocks in late October caught the cold that for months has been a drag on the corporate bond market.

The administration’s efforts have raised concerns among experts about potential disruptions after election day Donald Trump is waging a brazen effort to interfere with voting in this year’s midterm elections, escalating concerns that the federal government will try to slow down certification of election results – a strategy that could create chaos when the new Congress is seated next year. Experts are certain the administration’s efforts to subvert America’s elections will not work. And some have bemoaned “fearmongering” about far-fetched scenarios that are unlikely to go anywhere in court. Continue reading...

Las elecciones de medio término van camino a ser las más caras de la historia, pero los anuncios políticos en español se desploman pese al creciente peso del voto latino.

Marc Elias is back. The notorious Democratic lawyer who played a critical role in the 2016 Russia hoax is again in the news. His law firm has been identified by the New York Times as part of the expanding scandal involving Democratic effort to confuse voters in Alaska with a decoy candidate named Daniel J.…

The US midterm elections are on track to be the most expensive ever, with ad spending set to top $11 billion, but the share being directed toward Spanish-language advertisements is shrinking dramatically, even with Latino voters seen by both parties as a critical swing group.

Polling data remained at issue after the recent Brazil, Serbia and Wisconsin elections markets were upset by supposed long shots.

In January 2009, then-President Barack Obama had no sooner assumed office after handily defeating the Republican nominee, John McCain, when opposition to his overreaching agenda galvanized a center-right movement. At the suggestion of CNBC editor Rick Santelli, whose live, on-air rant of Feb. 19 of that year perfectly captured the spirit of the opposition, the […]

Wars rarely begin when nations are fully prepared to fight them. They begin when political leaders would prefer more time, military planners want more forces, and logisticians need more ships, aircraft, ammunition, and supplies. That is precisely why the United States and its allies should revisit an old but highly practical concept: Ships Taken Up […]

Donald Trump and the GOP are wildly unpopular going into the midterms, but they have few scruples about interfering in election results. Leftists should be prepared to operate in a broad front with liberals and others to stop that from happening.

An Oregon-based group poured nearly $475,000 into D.C.'s foie gras ban as part of a strategy to "storm the nation" with local ballot campaigns.

The latest developments come amid allegations, first reported by The New York Times, that Democrats recruited a spoiler candidate in the toss-up U.S. Senate race.

The joke's not on Dem.

The lawsuit was the latest move to stave off pressure from the Trump administration to pursue its unsubstantiated claim that noncitizens are voting en masse.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says the case against Rep. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi (D-MN) is “large” and involves multiple people, pushing back on claims that the Trump administration is targeting the Democrat congresswoman for political reasons. “This is a large case that we have presented to the DOJ,” Mullin said in an interview with Fox ...

The United States on Friday said it had agreed to sell hundreds of U.S.-made Patriot interceptors to Ukraine, after the country’s president pleaded with Washington to boost his depleted weapons supply. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has long pressed the Trump administration to sell Patriot interceptors, which are a valuable component of Kyiv’s air defense against […]