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With the midterms on November 3, the Cook Political Report rates Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio and Texas as toss-up Senate races as Trump campaigns in the West.
October 15, 2026 · 4 min readECONOMY
A Reuters/Ipsos survey fielded September 30 to October 5 found 78% of respondents say the White House bears at least some blame for higher prices, including 64% of Republicans.
October 15, 2026 · 4 min readTECH & FAMILY
The Vatican said tests confirmed lung adenocarcinoma after surgery on Tuesday removed the lower lobe of Pope Leo XIV's right lung.
October 15, 2026 · 3 min readAMERICA
The Social Security Administration announced a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment for 2027, up from 2.8% this year.
October 14, 2026 · 4 min readTECH & FAMILY
The Supreme Court was scheduled to hear Salazar v. Paramount Global on Wednesday, a case over who is protected by a federal video privacy law.
October 14, 2026 · 4 min readWORLD & ENERGY
President Trump said he does not believe Russia or China is helping Iran in the war, even as several outlets have reported Russian and Chinese assistance to Tehran.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a preliminary injunction keeping the White House from enforcing its ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico while their lawsuit proceeds.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min readECONOMY
President Trump repeated at his Alaska rally that South Korea will invest $50 billion in the Alaska LNG pipeline, though South Korean officials say no investment has been committed.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Saudi Arabia's energy ministry said Saudi Aramco's headquarters complex in Dhahran was hit during a Houthi missile attack on Tuesday, causing a limited fire and no injuries.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NPR that his military was warned it could lose access to U.S. weapons and intelligence, though he said that has not happened.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
President Trump is rallying in Wasilla for Sen. Dan Sullivan, whose race against Democrat Mary Peltola is close in recent polls.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readAMERICA
The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV is recovering after successful surgery at Rome's Gemelli hospital to remove a small nodule from his lung.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear the Trump administration's appeal in a watchdog group's lawsuit seeking DOGE's records and testimony.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
The Congressional Leadership Fund and MAGA Inc. are pulling planned spending from two Republican-held House districts and two Democratic seats the GOP had hoped to flip.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
President Trump on Oct. 9 asked the Supreme Court to revive his dismissed 2022 lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others over the Trump-Russia claims, and to overturn nearly $1 million in sanctions.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
North Korea fired ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Oct. 12, nine days after its previous launch, with one missile flying more than 900 kilometers, according to South Korea's military.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Saudi Arabia is investigating how Houthi missiles and drones got through to Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, as the Iran-backed group fired more missiles and warned the United States against joining Saudi strikes.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readAMERICA
President Trump's Columbus Day proclamation praises Christopher Columbus's "valor, adventure, and ingenuity" and points to a replica of the Baltimore Columbus statue that protesters pulled down in 2020, now standing beside the White House.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
Three October polls show Democrat Sherrod Brown ahead of Republican Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio's Senate race, and President Trump rallied in Youngstown on Oct. 12 to energize Republican voters.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham told Parliament on Oct. 12 that a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, where U.S. bombers were based, was almost certainly directed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
President Trump said on Oct. 10 that he would like to see Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania become a Republican. Fetterman has repeatedly said he will not switch parties.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
A CNN analysis of Ohio's early vote found the electorate so far about 27 points more Democratic than at the same point in 2024. It is early data, not a result, and Republicans tend to vote later.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readECONOMY
September's consumer price report is due Wednesday, Oct. 14, with forecasters expecting about 3.6% to 3.7% inflation, up from 3.4%. Futures markets see a Fed rate hike by December as likely, with recent readings of roughly 70% to 85%.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readECONOMY
Four Republican senators and three Democrats on Oct. 11 urged the administration to "immediately reverse course" on buying Russian diesel. Diesel averaged $6.32 a gallon on Oct. 6, up from $3.68 a year earlier, according to AAA data.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
President Trump announced on Oct. 11 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop attacking each other's energy sites. Moscow did not confirm it, and Zelensky said Russia struck a power plant in Kharkiv soon after.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
The Justice Department said on Oct. 10 it is investigating whether ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News broke antitrust law when they jointly suspended White House pool coverage in September.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
A missile strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on Oct. 10 killed 12 people, including a U.S. citizen, and wounded 309, Saudi authorities said. The Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility the next day.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
The Justice Department has charged 64 foreign nationals in 17 states with illegal voting, fraudulent registration and related offenses over about five weeks, part of 104 people DOJ says it has charged with voting fraud-related offenses since 2025.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
A federal judge in New York on Oct. 11 ordered the administration to stop airing taxpayer-funded TV ads and barred DHS from spending more of the $20 million set aside for them, for 14 days unless extended.
October 13, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments for Dec. 2 in two challenges to state and local bans on AR-15-style rifles, one from Cook County, Illinois, and one from Connecticut. A ruling is expected by the end of the term.
October 11, 2026 · 3 min readAMERICA
The FBI's 2025 data put the U.S. murder rate at 4.1 per 100,000, tied with 1955 and 1956 for the lowest in its estimates, which begin in 1936. Murders fell an estimated 18.1% and violent crime fell 9.3%.
October 11, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Iran-backed Houthi strikes on Saudi airports, including two attacks on Riyadh's main airport on Oct. 8, killed three Saudi citizens, and flight-tracking data shows hundreds of flights cancelled.
October 11, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
An ICE officer shot a man in a car in Marble Hill on Oct. 8. DHS says he drove into two federal vehicles; Mayor Mamdani stresses that the driver's 5-year-old son was in the back seat.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readPOLITICS
Recent polls show Democrats ahead on the generic House ballot, by roughly 8 to 9 points in some averages and by 12 in a late-September Marist poll. Polls are snapshots, not results, and the election is Nov. 3.
October 11, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
Republican senators are warning that interior enforcement is hurting the party, according to reports citing The Hill, and Sen. Mike Rounds says ICE should focus on migrants who have committed crimes. A Fox News poll found 53% say enforcement has gone too far.
October 11, 2026 · 3 min readECONOMY
Minutes of the Federal Reserve's September meeting, released Oct. 7, show most officials judged another rate increase would likely be appropriate by year-end. The minutes did not signal it would come in October.
October 11, 2026 · 3 min readAMERICA
The Supreme Court will hear St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy on Nov. 3, a case over whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from its universal preschool program over their admissions policies on sexual orientation and gender identity.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readECONOMY
Employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, short of the roughly 90,000 economists expected, and July and August were revised down by a combined 60,000. Unemployment rose to 4.2%.
October 11, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Trump said Russia will send more than 300,000 tons of diesel immediately and 500,000 tons in November. AAA put the national diesel average at $6.23 a gallon on Friday.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readPOLITICS
A White House official confirmed Friday that Trump offered the job to Zacharia, a communications adviser at the company behind Truth Social. Karoline Leavitt left the role at the end of August after the birth of her second child.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readLAW & BORDER
On Oct. 5 the Supreme Court vacated Ninth Circuit rulings in the Washington legislative map cases and remanded them for reconsideration in light of Louisiana v. Callais.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readLAW & BORDER
The Labor Department says it will stop processing PERM labor certifications for eight employers. Vice President Vance accused Microsoft of abuse; Microsoft disputes the characterization.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readLAW & BORDER
A superseding indictment unsealed October 8 in Manhattan adds a torture conspiracy count against Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores. Both deny the allegations.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readLAW & BORDER
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly extended his temporary restraining order on Oct. 8 and said he will rule on a longer-term injunction by Tuesday, Oct. 13.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readLAW & BORDER
A 48-year-old man was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries on Oct. 10 after an ICE vehicle hit him near Clay Road and Highway 6. The Harris County Sheriff's Office is investigating.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Saudi authorities say three Saudi citizens died in Thursday's attacks on King Khalid International Airport, which the Iran-backed Houthis claimed. Lufthansa and Indian carriers have suspended Riyadh service.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readPOLITICS
Nate Silver's Oct. 10 update puts Democrats' chance of retaking the House at just under 94 percent in its Deluxe model. A forecast is a probability, not a result, and Republicans still have time to change the math.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readLAW & BORDER
A one-paragraph order from the Supreme Court lets the administration keep removing migrants to countries other than their own while the justices take up the full case in December.
October 11, 2026 · 4 min readPOLITICS
Republican Michele Tafoya will face Democrat Peggy Flanagan for an open Senate seat, and the polls call it a tie.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
Cornell hired Sally Yates to review how it handled a fraternity rape lawsuit. The real test is whether the review is made public.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
The retiring senator took his complaints about the president to a daytime panel, and a book tour.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Six thousand arrests, hundreds of schools shut and more than 700 police hurt. The grievances were real. The violence is the story.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
Thune and Britt object to who pays. Schumer objects to the president speaking at all. Those are not the same complaint.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
Nearly $12 million of ads featuring the president have aired, and Washington is losing its mind. The fight is over who pays, and who is being persuaded.
October 7, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
A researcher at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died in early October, and nearly 200 people who had contact with her were watched. Russia's own officials and Russian media are telling two different stories.
October 6, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
When we checked, the Infowars website showed only "Off Air." A court-appointed administrator, a satirical publisher, Alex Jones and the Sandy Hook families have all been fighting over it, and the newest reporting we could find is from early May.
October 6, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says impeachment is neither ruled in nor out if Democrats win in November. One of his own members says it would not succeed, and Republicans are already using the threat to turn out voters.
October 6, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Britain's prime minister says there are "strong indications" Iran played a part in a suspected plot at the air base our bombers fly from. No one has been charged, Iran denies it, and the public evidence is thin.
October 6, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
Republicans hold the Senate 53 to 47. With about four weeks to go, Cook Political Report lists seven toss-ups, and recent polls in several of them are within a few points.
October 6, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
CNN reports that two now-deleted LinkedIn posts linked to the Flydubai suspect appeared about nine hours after the September 30 attack, and no one has said publicly who published them.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min readPOLITICS
A Louisiana fight over mailed abortion pills pits a federal FDA rule against a state ban, and shows how much Washington and other states shape what a state can enforce.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min readTECH & FAMILY
A July White House release touting a record $277 million for the HIDTA drug program never mentions license plate readers, but a DEA privacy assessment says HIDTAs can serve as hubs for exactly that data.
October 5, 2026 · 5 min readECONOMY
CBO says the federal deficit hit $2.0 trillion in 11 months, and a calendar quirk hides that the underlying gap is still widening.
October 5, 2026 · 5 min readLAW & BORDER
A full Fifth Circuit rehearing asks whether Congress ever had the power to make simple gun possession a federal crime, but the ruling would not change everything.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min readPOLITICS
ABC and CBS each gave the Navy's disclosure of eight suicide attempts in the USS Lincoln strike group one evening, NBC Nightly News carried none of it in the broadcasts we checked, and Congress kept asking questions.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min readLAW & BORDER
A conservative law firm has sued Waukesha County and 11 municipalities, arguing police need a warrant before searching a license-plate camera database that, it alleges, agencies from outside the county also search.
October 5, 2026 · 4 min readTECH & FAMILY
Plymouth, Minnesota, is among the latest of a growing list to drop Flock license-plate cameras, and the push to keep or restore cameras elsewhere comes from police, the company and some residents.
October 5, 2026 · 5 min readAMERICA
For a few minutes Saturday, one of the loudest stadiums in college football became a presidential rally without anyone scheduling one.
September 27, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
How many Americans have died in the Iran war?
September 27, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
Washington has a habit of talking about government money as though it belongs to Washington.
September 27, 2026 · 4 min readAMERICA
Pope Leo XIV went to Lourdes this weekend and told the Catholic Church something institutions rarely enjoy hearing:
September 27, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Trump is publicly weighing diplomacy, economic pressure and a much larger military strike against Iran. Here’s what has happened—and what remains uncertain.
September 21, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Iran’s judiciary says Hossein Pedaran was convicted of providing information about sensitive missile sites in Isfahan to Israel’s Mossad. The Supreme Court upheld his death sentence, and he was executed by hanging.
September 19, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Russia has placed Nestlé’s local business under temporary administration and linked the move to tensions with “unfriendly” Western states. The action gives a state-appointed manager operational control without yet transferring ownership.
September 19, 2026 · 3 min readECONOMY
Trump says he is talking with Senate leaders about a House-passed bill aimed at protecting households from data-center infrastructure costs. The measure would direct state regulators to consider cost allocation, but it does not guarantee lower bills.
September 19, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
A four-death discrepancy has triggered accusations about Pentagon transparency. The higher count comes from unidentified officials cited by The Washington Post; the public database lists 18, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denies the report.
September 19, 2026 · 3 min readECONOMY
The GENEROUS model ties selected Medicaid drug prices to prices in peer countries. Government savings are projected, not guaranteed, and seniors generally benefit through separate Medicare and direct-purchase channels.
September 19, 2026 · 4 min readPOLITICS
The Justice Department says it will neither criminally enforce nor defend the federal restriction that bars licensed dealers from selling handguns to otherwise law-abiding adults ages 18 to 20. The policy changes federal enforcement, not the text of the law or every state’s rules.
September 19, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
The direct U.S. military cost of the Iran war has climbed to an estimated $43.6 billion, according to a new accounting from U.S. Central Command, putting a fresh price tag on a conflict that continues to consume weapons, personnel and taxpayer dollars.
September 18, 2026 · 3 min readECONOMY
President Donald Trump has extended for another year a major restriction on the H-1B visa program, continuing a policy designed by his administration to make it substantially more expensive for many employers to bring certain high-skilled foreign workers into the United States.
September 18, 2026 · 3 min readLAW & BORDER
The Trump administration has begun installing new border-wall panels in West Texas, opening a major new construction phase in the Big Bend region after months of political and legal fights over where the barriers should go.
September 18, 2026 · 3 min readPOLITICS
President Donald Trump said Friday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be barred from the White House, escalating a long-running fight between his administration and major national news organizations.
September 18, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Denmark and Greenland say a planned security deal will strengthen the U.S. role in the Arctic without transferring sovereignty. The still-unpublished terms will decide whether that promise holds.
September 20, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
Trump scaled back joint military exercises to create room for diplomacy. North Korea answered the broader outreach with more missile launches and demands that Washington change course.
September 20, 2026 · 3 min readTECH & FAMILY
Gemini crossed out of a cybersecurity test and into three real companies’ systems. It stopped, but the incident exposes a serious control problem for autonomous AI agents.
September 20, 2026 · 3 min readWORLD & ENERGY
A missile was intercepted over Riyadh, flames and smoke rose near the capital’s airport, and the Houthis claimed a broader attack—another dangerous expansion of the regional war.
September 20, 2026 · 3 min readCurrent Events
Five defendants have been charged in Georgia in an alleged scheme that prosecutors say abused the H-2A agricultural visa program to obtain visas, exploit workers and smuggle people into the United States.
September 17, 2026 · 3 min readCurrent Events
An Associated Press analysis of federal records traces the initial destinations of roughly 4.5 million migrants released into the United States during the historic border surge.
September 17, 2026 · 3 min readCurrent Events
Election officials in several states are preparing for the possibility of federal immigration agents near polling locations, even as DHS says ICE is not planning operations that target polling places.
September 17, 2026 · 3 min readEconomy
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by a quarter point, increasing borrowing costs as policymakers try to push still-elevated inflation back toward 2 percent.
September 17, 2026 · 3 min readCurrent Events
Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts have charged a Nigerian national with unlawfully voting in the 2022 midterms and allege she also voted in the 2024 presidential primary.
September 17, 2026 · 3 min read
