President Trump says a decision on Iran is coming. After meeting his national security advisers, he put the choice in the blunt terms he prefers. “Now we will make a decision,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. “Do we want to go further? I would rather not destroy the rest of the […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Republican colleagues Wednesday he will not seek a leadership post in the next Congress. In a dear-colleague letter obtained by Axios, he wrote that after three years as speaker, “the time has come for me to give [my family] more of the attention and presence they so richly deserve.” He […]
Nithya Raman is projected to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, unseating one-term incumbent Karen Bass. Decision Desk HQ called the race Wednesday; The Hill reported Raman ahead by about 26,000 votes, roughly 3 points, with mail still counting. That is a projection, not a certified result. But if it holds, the nation’s second-largest […]
Vice President JD Vance spent Wednesday telling Republicans what they already felt in their guts: the Iran war cost them Congress. “The reason we lost is the war,” he wrote on X. “The president himself said so last night.” President Trump called that “largely true.” Then he said he would do it again. That is […]
Democrats won the House on Tuesday night. Within hours, the man in line to run its main investigative committee had a message for the White House, and it wasn’t about grocery prices. “Lawyer up,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said in a two-word statement also posted on X. Garcia is the ranking Democrat on the House […]
Washington, D.C., has its first democratic socialist mayor. Council member Janeese Lewis George won Tuesday with 126,932 votes, or 84.0%, according to the DC Board of Elections’ unofficial results. Independent Rhonda Hamilton took 10.3% and Statehood Green Robert L. Gross 3.6%. She succeeds Muriel Bowser on Jan. 2, 2027. She was not alone. In Providence, […]
Abdul El-Sayed will be the first Muslim to serve in the U.S. Senate. The Associated Press called Michigan’s open-seat race for the Democrat at 2:27 a.m. Wednesday. With 96% of the expected vote counted, he led Republican Mike Rogers 52.4% to 45.6%, a margin of about 325,600 votes. The seat belonged to retiring Democratic Sen. […]
On a night when Democrats flipped Texas, Florida held. Republican Rep. Byron Donalds won the governor’s race, and Sen. Ashley Moody kept the U.S. Senate seat she was appointed to in January 2025. The Florida Division of Elections shows Donalds with 4,132,112 votes (50.02%) to Democrat David Jolly’s 4,024,180 (48.71%), a margin of about 108,000 […]
Texas did not just wobble on Tuesday. It flipped. The Associated Press called the governor’s race for Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa over three-term Gov. Greg Abbott, making her the state’s first Democratic governor in more than 30 years. Former teacher James Talarico beat Attorney General Ken Paxton for the open U.S. Senate seat, the […]
If Democrats take Congress today, President Trump already knows what he will do. “I guess I’ll become Mr. Veto,” he told Miranda Devine on the New York Post’s Pod Force One, the Post reported. “I’m not going to let them ruin it.” He described the plan in plain terms: “They’ll be sending stuff up. You […]
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