A British jury has convicted comedian and actor Russell Brand of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. The defendant was being tried at London’s Southwark Crown Court. The jury deliberated for two days after the trial. Though the jurors returned a guilty verdict on Thursday, they acquitted Brand of two other […]
Russell Brand was convicted Thursday of rape and sexual assault charges on allegations dating back more than 20 years.
Comedian and Hollywood actor Russell Brand was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault Thursday morning as his weeks-long trial concluded. The post Russell Brand Found Guilty of Rape and Sexual Assault appeared first on Breitbart .
President’s lawyers will try to persuade appeals court to toss criminal trial verdict over $130,000 sent to Stormy Daniels Donald Trump’s legal team on Thursday plan to continue efforts to get his 2024 conviction in the hush money election corruption case thrown out. Attorneys for the US president will try to persuade a New York appeals court to toss the criminal trial verdict from May 2024, when Trump was found guilty on all charges of falsifying business records in the hush-money corruption scheme to influence his eventual victory in the 2016 presidential election . Continue reading...
The same Chinese chemical networks that flooded America with fentanyl precursors have found a new illegal product to sell: fake weight-loss injections. And their newest customers might be your kids. The real drug is retatrutide, known online as “reta.” Developed by Eli Lilly, it has shown remarkable promise in clinical trials. But no regulator in the world ...
MPs told it's crunch time for a decision on refurbishment amid warnings of a Notre Dame-style fire.
Leon Black filed a lawsuit against Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) on Wednesday, alleging the congressman defamed him by making statements related to the billionaire’s relationship with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Black, who helped found private equity giant Apollo Global Management, accused Garcia of making maliciously false statements, citing statements the ranking member of […]
An appeals court ruled in favor of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) pied-à-terre tax, which places a tax on certain second homes. This reserves a lower court decision that found Mamdani’s Department of Finance (DOF) violated the plaintiffs’ — a group of NYC homeowners — due process rights through its process of determining…
Democrats' midterm tsunami obscured a major polling miss: Surveys correctly anticipated a blue wave, but failed to capture its full force. Why it matters: Pollsters appear to have underestimated Democrats by a wider margin than they underestimated Republicans in 2016 or 2024 — even if they got the headline outcome right this time. By the numbers: Democrats are on track to win the national House popular vote by roughly 13 percentage points, compared with a final Silver Bulletin polling average of 8.9 points, according to an initial analysis by The Argument's Lakshya Jain . That roughly 4-point gap is similar to the 2020 polling miss that underestimated Republicans and larger than the average partisan errors in 2016 and 2024, though comparisons to presidential years are imperfect. The big picture: Pollsters entered the 2026 midterms having underrated Trump's support in three consecutive presidential elections. Their central challenge was accounting for Republican voters who might be missing from their surveys. Many polling organizations have sought to compensate by weighting results based on party affiliation or how respondents voted in previous elections. A Pew analysis found that nearly 70% of national polls used such political weighting in 2024. In an October analysis , The Washington Post warned that a collapse in turnout among Trump voters could cause polls calibrated to the 2024 electorate to underestimate Democrats. Tuesday's results raise questions about whether the industry's efforts to correct past polling misses contributed to a new one. Reality check: Some of the pollsters that projected the largest Democratic margins appear to have come closest to the final result. AtlasIntel placed itself first in a ranking of final national House polls based on its projection of the popular-vote margin. It's the second straight election where the pollster stood out for its accuracy. AtlasIntel's final poll showed Democrats leading by 14.1 points, just 0.3 points from th
A six-year-old autistic boy who wandered from his family home in Kentucky was found alive Tuesday with his small dog by volunteers on horseback, the child surviving three days and two nights in the wild mountainous terrain. The post VIDEO: Trail Riders Rescue Autistic Boy, 6, Who Survived Three Days in Rugged Kentucky Wilderness appeared first on Breitbart .
President Donald Trump’s global foes found ample reason to celebrate Tuesday’s punishing midterm results, with the Democratic victory set to benefit them in different ways. Trump made foreign policy a key focus of his two years with the trifecta, making no shortage of enemies worldwide. Democrats have openly pledged to use their powers granted by […]
It was a smart strategy
Voters wanted relief at the pump and the grocery store. Democrats won control of Congress Tuesday night and immediately told Republicans to lawyer up. Thirty-nine percent of voters listed the economy as their top issue, according to an NBC News exit poll. That same poll found that 88 percent of voters with financial concerns were […]
Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Black woman to serve as governor in any state in the country.
Both the House and Senate will be under Democratic control for the rest of Donald Trump’s term in office. Plus, the French Homer and Marge who found true love in real life Continue reading...
All of the political flyers found allegedly stolen and therefore not mailed were flyers for Republican candidates, The post Nolte: Kansas Postal Worker Indicted for Mail Theft, Including Republican Mailers Only appeared first on Breitbart .
Closing Bell Midterm Election Update Russia, China and Iran Harness AI for US Midterm Disinformation Learjet Parts Found Miles From Florida Crash Site, NTSB Says US Supreme Court Questions Arguments in Catholic Preschools’ LGBTQ+ Exclusion Case US Job Openings Jump to Four-Month High, Layoffs Decline (Source: Bloomberg)
Plus, Trump says the U.S. plans to cut off military aid to Israel by the end of the year, and some Learjet wreckage was found miles away from the crash site.
Plus, Trump says the U.S. plans to cut off military aid to Israel by the end of the year, and some Learjet wreckage was found miles away from the crash site.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to be a popular option to replace Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in the Senate should she win her race to become Tennessee’s next governor on Tuesday. Despite the Iran war, an UpOne Insights poll published on Tuesday found that Hegseth has a 72% favorability to 13% unfavorability rating in Tennessee. […]
A milquetoast brand of establishment politics
Republicans in the ruby-red state of Nebraska have found themselves on the back foot this midterm season as their opponents have made surprising gains in key races.
Democrats are seeing a narrow lead as voters head to the polls Tuesday, according to a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Monday, found that 46 percent of registered voters said they would back Democrats in congressional races, compared with 38 percent who favored Republicans. That margin narrowed from an 11-point Democratic advantage in a…
The rising cost of living and dissatisfaction with President Trump are the top concern for nearly half of voters heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released late Monday, found that 48 percent of registered voters ranked the cost of living as the most important factor in deciding their…
Found yourself at the polls but don’t have your wallet? Depending on where you live, you may still be able to vote.
Seven weeks. No correction. And “Jack Mehoff” is still on the list. As Michigan voters head to the polls on Tuesday, Jon Levine of the Washington Free Beacon checked in on the much-hyped “Jews for Abdul” roster The New York Times trumpeted back on September 17, and found the famous prankster’s name still sitting there, ...
Researchers have found that bad weather can deter certain voters.
Nearly two-thirds of California voters are worried that the Trump administration may try to halt the vote count early, according to a new poll that found disquieting levels of election anxiety on the eve of the midterms.
Data: AP via The New York Times and Axios research; Chart: Andrew Pantazi/Axios The first votes counted Tuesday night will almost certainly look redder than the final result, and control of the House and Senate could take days to settle. Why it matters: Early leads can create false impressions of who's winning and suspicion when those leads vanish. Election night is really election week. By the numbers: AP didn't call control of the House until seven or eight days after Election Day in each of the past three elections . The Senate was settled by 10:44pm on election night in 2018 and at 12:06am the next morning in 2024 . In 2022, it took four days , and in 2020, it wasn't called until Georgia's January runoffs , two months later. State of play: Republicans hold 53 Senate seats . Democrats need a net gain of four for a majority. The red head start: In every national election since 2018, the House and Senate votes counted by 9pm ET were 4 to 9 percentage points more Republican than the final result, an Axios analysis of AP and Edison Research vote counts found. It's mostly geography. Fast-counting Florida and other right-leaning states report first. At 9pm on election night 2022, Florida accounted for 40% of all Senate votes counted nationwide. By 11pm, more House races had been called for Republicans than Democrats in all four elections, including 2018 and 2020, when Democrats won the House. The tilt fades, slowly. At 6am Wednesday, the national House count was still 2 to 3 points more Republican than the final, largely because California, Washington and Oregon count for days. Data: Axios research; Chart: Andrew Pantazi/Axios Zoom in: Each state tilts its own way, depending on which ballots and which counties it counts first. States that count early and mail ballots first tend to start bluer than they finish. States that count Election Day votes first start redder. Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, Kansas and Iowa start blue. Sherrod Brown and Bernie Moreno were tied at 9pm in 2
Around the world, virtues such as compassion and kindness are gathering dust, like old hymn books in a long-deserted church Towards the end of the summer, the Tory-Reform defector Robert Jenrick authored an op-ed piece for the Daily Telegraph about the seemingly impossible economics of rising benefits bills because of mental ill-health. In his capacity as Reform’s Treasury spokesman, his task was to big up its plans to cut 25% of so-called welfare spending by 2030, and thereby tackle what he called the state’s “suicidal empathy”. Straight away, I wondered where this most opportunistic politician had borrowed that phrase from, and instantly found out: a book with the same title , published this year by the Canadian academic Gad Saad, whom the dust jacket describes as having particular expertise in “the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behaviour”. It comes with an endorsement from Elon Musk. “Western civilisation is doomed unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognised and actions are taken that are hard but necessary for survival,” says the world’s richest man. “All of Gad’s books, including this one, are great.” Continue reading...
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Monday to stop demanding that California election officials set aside ballots from roughly 20,000 people the Justice Department suspects may be noncitizens, delivering another setback to its election oversight efforts. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington found the administration likely exceeded its constitutional authority by […]
A federal judge on the eve of Election Day barred the Trump administration from demanding California officials set aside ballots from registered voters it suspects are noncitizens, finding the effort likely violates the Constitution. Why it matters: Courts had already rejected the Justice Department's attempts to force California to separate the ballots. Monday's ruling goes a step further, directly barring federal officials from making those demands even as DOJ turns to the Supreme Court to compel the state to comply. Driving the news: Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the Trump administration likely violated the Constitution by pressuring California officials to change how they count ballots. His order prohibits the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security from demanding officials set aside ballots or depart from existing state election procedures based on federal lists of suspected noncitizens. Boasberg found that the Constitution gives states and Congress, but not the executive branch, authority over election rules. The federal ban on noncitizen voting does not mean the administration can rewrite those rules. By the numbers: The DOJ claims it identified more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens on California's voter rolls. After Boasberg ordered DOJ to turn over its list, an expert found that at least 22 members of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights — all known U.S. citizens — were wrongly included. The expert found another 66 members were almost certainly on the list. Boasberg found the expert credible and concluded the list's errors posed a real threat to eligible voters. What he's saying: "The President evidently believes that it would be good public policy for more stringent procedures to be put in place," Boasberg wrote. "No matter how strong that policy case may be, however, it does not justify overstepping the bounds of the Executive Branch's limited constitutional authority in this domain." The White House r
Patients who improved their fitness while waiting for a transplant were about 50% less likely to die before receiving an organ, researchers found.
Federal prosecutors in Washington are battling court motions from three activists aimed at throwing out their guilty verdicts from an anti-deportation riot. Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pennell has scheduled a Nov. 24 hearing to review arguments about whether protesters Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla should get acquittals or new trials, court records […]
Santiago Schnell, who stepped down this week as provost of Dartmouth College, had built part of his public profile warning that universities weren't doing enough to fight AI cheating. An internal investigation found he'd failed to disclose his own extensive use of artificial intelligence, including in that very warning. The post Dartmouth Provost Who Warned About AI Cheating Resigns After Investigation of His Own AI Usage appeared first on Breitbart .
More Democrats believe socialism is better than capitalism, a pre-election poll from the Economist/YouGov found. The post Poll: More Democrats Say Socialism Is Better than Capitalism appeared first on Breitbart .
Former US representative, health secretary and state attorney general is a shoo-in after a stunning comeback victory in primary It was Tuesday, and the man poised to be the next governor of California wanted to talk about Donald Trump . Xavier Becerra had come to Guelaguetza restaurant in Los Angeles to talk about Trump’s attacks on voting in the state, but instead found himself answering questions about a presidential provocation of a different order. Continue reading...
A federal judge on Monday dismissed charges against two former FBI officials who were accused of lying to Congress about their involvement in the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop. Judge Zia Faruqui, a magistrate judge who sits on the federal bench in D.C., found no probable cause to support charges against Nikki Floris and…
A new poll shows President Trump’s disapproval rating reached a record high on Sunday, less than 48 hours before Election Day. The NBC News poll found that 60 percent of respondents do not approve of Trump’s job performance, a new high across both of his terms as president. His approval rating hit 40 percent. The…
Democratic Senate candidates are leading their Republican opponents in seven battleground states surveyed by the New York Times and Siena College, highlighting the political challenges facing the Republican Party on the eve of Election Day. The latest polling found Democrats ahead in races stretching from Texas to Alaska, including several states President Donald Trump safely […]
The Lancet medical journal has found that young men are too online, angry, and anti-social — and, in a newly published report, prescribes treating the “manosphere” as a “public health problem” akin to tobacco and ultra-processed food. In classic U.K. fashion, the researchers propose tighter content moderation and government-tuned algorithms to “promote positive messaging.” Credit ...
Last week's tragic train accident in Spain that killed 69 has further hindered the Spanish socialist government's chances to stay in power in the upcoming November 29 snap elections, a new published on Sunday found. The post Poll: Urda Train Tragedy Dents Spanish Socialists’ Chances in Upcoming Snap Election appeared first on Breitbart .
Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska and are effectively tied with Republicans in Iowa, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
Attorneys for an immigrant rights group on Saturday filed court papers revealing that their analysis found more than 40% of the people on the list do not appear in the state's voter file.
The court found the administration lacked standing to bring the suit. But there are also major substantive problems with Trump's position.
A former elementary school teacher who gave birth to a child fathered by her underage ex-student has pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct charges -- while her victim claimed he started the relationship and wanted her charges dropped. The post Teacher Who Had Baby with Student, 13, Pleads Guilty as Her Victim Defends the Relationship appeared first on Breitbart .
