Senator Susan Collins of Maine announced Tuesday that she will vote against President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, making her the first Senate Republican to publicly oppose the pick and leaving Blanche with almost…
A Democratic official is avoiding her own party’s convention — and her reasons demand serious attention. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, the first Jewish person ever elected to that office in the state, has announced she will not attend the…
The pre-Trump Republican establishment isn’t dead. It’s just waiting. Vice President JD Vance has the clearest path to Donald Trump’s eventual endorsement for 2028, but a significant faction of the GOP — one that never accepted Trump’s remaking of the…
A city long comfortable calling itself progressive is now being asked whether it means it. Ann Arbor, Michigan — a university town that has reliably sent Democrats to office for a quarter century — is hosting one of the most…
A 15-year-old arrested following a deadly shootout at a crowded food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle was carrying a ghost gun equipped with an extended magazine, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes announced at a news conference Tuesday. The weapon, a…
The Everglades restoration is one of the most ambitious environmental projects in American history. A federal-state partnership under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan is working to revive the natural water flow across South Florida’s interconnected ecosystems — a landscape that…
Troy Jackson walked into the Maine Democratic Party convention in Bangor on July 26, 2026, winning 566 of 571 delegate votes to become the party’s U.S. Senate nominee. By the time he walked out, Republicans had already launched a six-figure…
A federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan reveals how a Trump administration sting operation — built on less than three dollars’ worth of alleged violations and no recorded evidence — stripped a Bronx bodega of its food stamp authorization, cutting off…
When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped before reporters Thursday to defend the Trump administration’s civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, she reached for a familiar refrain — “America first” — and in doing so, ignited a wave of…
While President Donald Trump’s courtroom defeats dominate the news cycle, the Supreme Court is methodically pursuing a far more consequential agenda — one that legal scholars warn will fundamentally reshape American constitutional law for decades to come. University of Chicago…