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Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed argued that parents should stop trying to “protect” their daughters from males on their sports teams and in their intimate spaces because they’ll be corrupted by the internet anyway. El-Sayed made his shocking argument during a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, just two days before voters head to ...
Gulf states fear another US-Israeli attack on Iran could unleash an even more destructive war across the region. US President Donald Trump has ruled out fresh strikes before Tuesday’s US midterm elections. Bloomberg's Onur Ant breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)
Artificial intelligence emerged as a major issue on the 2026 US midterm campaign trail, with opposition to data centres drawing supporters across partisan divides united over ecological worries, increased utility bills and business interests outweighing citizen concerns. Georgia, the top US market for data centre construction, has been on the front line of the struggle.
By leveraging free-market principles, Congress can create a more efficient, innovative, and effective defense sector.
A new lawsuit challenges the administration’s tariff war against an ally.
Progressive skepticism toward AI development undermines the Democratic Party’s affordability message going into the midterms.
Despite the US president’s ratings being at rock bottom, undoing his legacy will be difficult, not least because the Democrats are in disarray The stats and polling all suggest one thing: the Republicans are set for a hammering in the midterms. Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any US president going into a midterm election since Harry Truman. And it’s still dropping. The Democrats are projected to win by a margin of 11 percentage points , the largest swing by any party in almost 20 years. It is possible that the Democrats flip the Senate and secure a large majority in Congress. Those majorities would make a material difference, perhaps finally establishing oversight of the policies Trump has brought in during his second term: immigration enforcement, trade disputes, gutting the federal workforce, the Iran war, to say nothing of his own family’s corruption. The tide seems to be turning, and one question is on everyone’s mind: is the Trump era really ending? “Nobody wants to jinx it,” wrote David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times, but: “All the signs we have suggest that, historic or not, these midterms are likely to mark the end of a political era.” What that gives way to is a much more complicated picture in which the US will be delivered from Trump himself, but remains a country riven and undermined by what he has unleashed. By the time he is gone, Trump will have been president for eight years, and a toxic force for more than 12. That is a long time even for a normal politician. Under one who shatters norms and forces himself into the centre of everything, Trump’s effect is as if he were president for decades. Continue reading...
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Sarah J. Maas, J.R.R. Tolkien, and whose fantasies we take seriously.
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Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, once told a group of prominent lawyers that his government will need to embrace a militant-style democracy to restore the rule of law after eight years of nationalist rule.
Sunday, during an appearance on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) defended her decision to endorse former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) over her party's U.S. Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed. The post ‘A Weight Off My Shoulders’: Haley Stevens Defends Mike Rogers Endorsement in Combative Interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper appeared first on Breitbart .
She vowed to back El-Sayed. Days before the election, she shocked her party by backing a Republican instead.
Likely voters who decided which candidate to support only recently in seven key Senate races favor Republicans despite an overall Democratic advantage, according to a new poll released Sunday night. “There are still some undecided voters, and voters who decided only in the last month favored Republicans by a nine-point margin,” according to the New […]
BBC's Nada Tawfik visited Detroit, Michigan where the party spat unfolded.
"The Democrats don't even think you're worth a used condom, but that's about where you are," Carville, 82, said of Stevens.
