Biden, 83, Cancer Spreading, Cuts Book Tour: 'Some Days Are Better'
Joe Biden is 83 years old, living with an aggressive prostate cancer that his own son says has spread into his bones, and he just told the country he can't do...
Elon Musk Calls Russell Brand's Rape Sentencing 'Unjust' Before Judge Speaks
Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth and the proud owner of a platform he insists is a bastion of truth, spent Monday morning telling the world that Russell...
AI Needs 17,000 Miles of New Gas Pipelines. Trump Told Regulators Not to Check Them.
The AI industry wants to build at least 98 gas-fired power plants to feed its datacenters, and that means almost 200 new pipeline projects spanning 17,000...
Democrats Won Big, Promise Not to Impeach, and Have a Stock-Trading Ban Ready
Republicans just got hit with the biggest midterm beating an incumbent party has taken in more than 50 years. They lost Senate seats they had held for decades....
Maine's Air Ambulances Fly 3,031 Missions a Year Because Hospitals Keep Closing
In 2025, LifeFlight of Maine flew 3,031 missions. That is one every three hours, around the clock, all year, and demand is already up another 10% this year....
Gen Z Lost Faith in Trump So Hard They Swung 60 Points in Texas
Two years ago, Donald Trump promised young Americans cheaper groceries, no new wars, and a crackdown on federal corruption. On Tuesday, voters under 30 handed...
Man Leaves 6-Year-Old Asleep Outside Target at 1 AM to Hold Spot for Pokémon Cards
A 35-year-old man in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested Friday after leaving his 6-year-old daughter asleep outside a Target so he could hold his place...
Florida Is the Last Red State Standing, and It Won by Under 3%
Republicans got dragged across the country on Tuesday night, and the one place still flying the MAGA flag was Florida, which pulled it off by less than three...
Trump Gets a 60 Minutes Sit-Down the Sunday After the Midterms
The first Sunday after the midterms, CBS is serving up a Democratic senator, a Republican congressman, a Democrat who just won her seat, and a preview of the...
Mike Johnson Quits GOP Leadership Hours After Losing the House
Hours after Democrats took the House, Speaker Mike Johnson gathered his staff on a Wednesday morning phone call and told them he will not stay on as Republican...
Indicted Rep Wins 86% of the Vote After Giving Birth Five Weeks Ago
Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is facing federal charges, gave birth to her second child on Oct. 1, and still won re-election Tuesday night with roughly...
Trump Predicts Cooper Will Win NC Senate Seat. 'It's Crazy,' He Adds
Roy Cooper is going to the United States Senate, and Donald Trump called it weeks ago, standing in front of a crowd in North Carolina while the guy he...
DOJ Promised a Judge Its 1,000 Poll Monitors Are Just 'Clerical Staff'
The Justice Department planned to send more than 1,000 people to polling places on Election Day, and the question a federal judge had to settle on the eve of...
Trump Voters Grade Him C-, F, and 'Scary' as Midterms Arrive
Eleven people who have voted for Donald Trump over the past decade were asked how they feel about the country one week before the midterms. They said "messy,"...
Becerra Was 'a Punchline' in January. Now He's Governor-Elect.
Xavier Becerra was an afterthought, a punchline, a candidate his own party quietly hoped would go away. Then the guy who was supposed to beat him imploded over...
Democrats Need Texas, Iowa and Ohio to Take the Senate. Yes, Really.
Control of Congress is on the ballot Tuesday, and the map reads like a prank. The Senate hangs on whether Democrats can win deep-red Texas, where Republicans...
Hegseth Fires 3-Star Over Leaks, Pentagon Calls Him a Hero, Then Retracts It
The Pentagon fired its top military planner, a Purple Heart recipient with 32 years in uniform, and its own Joint Staff spent a few hours thanking him before...
The Agency That Tracks Campaign Money Just Got Hacked, 7 Days Before the Midterms
The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system went dark at around 10 p.m. Eastern on Monday after reported hacking attempts, one week before the...
Man With Large Knife Gets Near Israeli Opposition Leader on Election Day
A large knife fell out of a man's clothing while he walked toward Yair Golan, the leader of Israel's main left-wing party, as Golan was out mobilizing voters...
Man Behind Congress Anthrax Scare Wrote His Own Return Address on All Four Envelopes
Matthew Unglesbee, 36, of Quincy, Illinois, allegedly sent white powder to four members of Congress with a note reading "ha ha." He also, according to the FBI,...
Democrats Form 'Task Force' to Stop Trump From Stealing Midterms
Congressional Democrats are forming a task force to protect this year's midterm results from meddling by President Trump or his allies. Let that sink in. One...
DOJ Charges Comey a Third Time Over 2016 Leak; Trump Says He 'Doesn't Know Much About It'
The Justice Department is trying to prosecute James Comey for the third time, and the president's explanation of why is that Comey is a "dirty cop." Asked...
Wes Moore Wants to Gerrymander Maryland. 42% of His Own Democrats Say No
Wes Moore is going to cruise to re-election in Maryland next week. The part that's keeping him up at night is a ballot question asking his own party's voters...
Pennsylvania Senate GOP Held Child Abuse Survivors' Bill Hostage for Voter ID
Pennsylvania's Republican-run state senate has once again let a bipartisan bill for child sexual abuse survivors wither, after trying to bolt it to a voter ID...
12 People Shot at Homecoming. Suspect Is 15. Florida Calls It 'Near Campus.'
A homecoming game at Florida A&M University ended with 12 people wounded by gunfire on a Tallahassee street, and the person police have charged with it is 15...
Trump Hires a Biden Aide to Sell Gaza Plan to Congress He Might Lose
The Trump administration's Board of Peace just hired a veteran of the Biden White House to win over Congress and Washington's think tank crowd. That is a...
GOP Nominee Used a Dead 8-Year-Old's Mom's 911 Call in an Attack Ad
Rick Jackson, the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, ran an attack ad built around photographs of a murdered 8-year-old girl and her mother's anguished...
Epstein Is Out of the News Cycle and Survivors' Lawyers Are Not Buying It
Jeffrey Epstein's name has quietly slipped off the midterm campaign trail, shoved aside by gas prices, grocery bills, AI panic, and whatever Donald Trump did...
Trump Lets Hunters Lure Alaska Bears With Doughnuts, Then Shoot Them
The Trump administration has officially approved the use of bacon, doughnuts, and meat scraps to lure bears into the crosshairs on federal land in Alaska. The...
GOP Congressman Vanishes for 3 Months, Misses 100 Votes, Still Calls the Press Thing a 'Narrative'
Tom Kean Jr. had a $2.4 million war chest, a Trump endorsement, and a district drawn to protect him. Then he went missing from Congress and public life for...
White House Gives Politico 48 Hours to Retract Stories or Face 'Consequences'
The White House counsel's office sent Politico a letter on Monday giving the outlet 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories about alleged staff drama, or...
Trump Tells Kansas Voters He'll Only Fix Fuel Rules 'For Him' If Marshall Wins
Donald Trump stood in front of a Kansas crowd and said he would make year-round E15 fuel permanent if Sen. Roger Marshall wins, but if Democrat Adam Hamilton...
Anonymous Fed Warns of 'Red Flags With Yellow Stars' Over Upstate NY Chip Plant
An unnamed federal official told the New York Post that Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed chip plant near Utica has "red flags here with some yellow stars," a joke...
Man Allegedly Told Facebook 'Where's Our Shooter?' Then Posted His Own Rooftop Map
A 24-year-old man in Clearwater, Kansas, is in federal custody after allegedly posting a series of public Facebook comments threatening to shoot Donald Trump...
Supreme Court Tells Trump 'No' on Trans Prison Care, Explains Nothing
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to let the Trump administration yank hormone therapy from transgender people in federal prison, and it did so in one...
GOP-Linked PAC Spends $1.58M Boosting a Socialist Whose Campaign Says Stop
A brand new super PAC with a name like a Hallmark card has dropped $1,581,354 to promote a socialist candidate who has about one-ninth of that in his own...
Trump Aides Told CISA to Secretly Hack a Voting Machine. Then They Fired the Hackers.
A few months into Trump's second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security asked the nation's election cybersecurity agency to secretly...
Teens Pilot Mustachioed Robot to Grope 16-Year-Old on Livestream
Two teenage boys in Cologne, Germany, allegedly steered a humanoid robot in human clothes and a fake mustache up to a 16-year-old girl, had it touch her...
Trump Fat-Shames Woman Just Punched in Face at His Ohio Rally
A woman in a "Release the Epstein Files" shirt got punched in the face and grabbed by the hair at Donald Trump's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, while a crowd...
NATO Threatens to Destroy 'Anything and Everything' While Trump Waives Russian Oil Sanctions
NATO's top military commander stood in Warsaw on Monday and promised to destroy "anything and everything" that supports a Russian attack on allied territory....
Trump 'May' Join Saudi War After Airport Strike, Will 'Take a Look' at Midterm Timing
A missile hit a Riyadh airport terminal and killed 12 people, and the president of the United States responded on his way to a campaign rally in Tennessee by...
Trump Teases 'Big Surprises' From Project 2025 Guy, Won't Say What
The President of the United States stood in front of a crowd in Maryland, pointed at the architect of Project 2025, and promised "big surprises coming up in...
Trump Says 'Let Them Take Out Los Angeles' as a 'Very Small Price'
At a campaign rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, President Donald Trump looked out at a crowd and said of Iran, "They can take out a city. Let them take out Los...
America Just Joined Russia and Belarus in Banning Election Monitors
For the first time in more than two decades, international election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will not be...
Hegseth Spoke Before a Stiff-Winged Eagle Straight Out of the Third Reich's Playbook
Pete Hegseth stood before Air Force Academy cadets on Saturday in front of a Department of War logo that does not appear in the Pentagon's own branding guide....
Trump Tells Nebraska Crowd to Let Iran 'Take Out' LA and San Diego
Standing on a stage in Grand Island, Nebraska, President Trump told a cheering crowd that Iran could "take out a city," and then picked which ones. "Let them...
Vance Calls Cruz's 2028 Run 'Really Obvious,' Cruz Says Vance Is 'Insecure'
Two men who both want to be president in 2028 spent this week publicly insisting they are absolutely not running for president in 2028. JD Vance told NBC News...
GOP Hiding Abortion Bans, Iran War Endgame, and Medicaid Cuts Until After You Vote
The Trump White House has been quietly telling the Justice Department to slow-walk abortion restrictions until after November. That's not a leak. That's a...
Karl Rove: My Party Is Being Taken Over by Nazis
Karl Rove, the man who built the modern Republican Party one gerrymandered district at a time, stood in Austin this weekend and said his own party is being...
The U.S. Has Thalidomide Survivors. It's Only Acknowledged 17 of Them.
The United States government has spent six decades telling thalidomide survivors they don't exist. The survivors, many of them now in their sixties with...
Trump Told Voters to Pretend He's on the Ballot. They Did.
Donald Trump looked at the 2026 midterm map and told voters to treat it like he was personally on every ballot. Republicans across the country are now...
Kamala Explained Algorithms With Flowers and Fox Lost Its Mind
Kamala Harris went on a podcast, explained how social media algorithms trap people in content bubbles, and used a flower analogy to make it accessible. Sean...
JD Vance Was the Anonymous Source the White House Used to Ban CNN and Politico
The Trump White House banned CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the building, in part because they published anonymously sourced national security information from...
Grandma's Body Stuffed in Suitcase, Dropped at Fire Station
Two people walked into a Wichita fire station on September 16, dropped off a suitcase, and told firefighters there was a body inside. Inside was Lorretta...