Politics

‘It could be quite a brutal evening:’ GOP braces for some once-unthinkable losses

Republicans are bracing for a brutal election night, convinced they’re set to face some previously unthinkable losses in deep-red Trump territory as key battleground races hang on a knife’s edge.Ho...

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Josh Shapiro’s Midterm Gambit Could Set Him Up for 2028 — Just Don’t Ask If He’s Running

In a side room of a historic railway station in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro took off his glasses and wiped his eyes. I’d been teeing up a question about the geographic diversi...

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‘Folks are nervous’: Congress and K St expect Trump to come out firing after midterms

Voters are expected to send a very clear message on Tuesday that they want the U.S. to stop fighting wars — on the military and economic front. President Donald Trump is unlikely to listen.Trump st...

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RFK Jr.’s making a lot of friends in Iowa

For a guy who says he doesn’t plan to run for president again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is spending an awful lot of time in Iowa.This week, he rallied with supporters of his Make America Healthy Again...

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Trump turns defense into midterm campaign pitch — never mind Iran

Most Republican candidates don’t want to talk about the Iran war. Instead, the president and his allies are pitching a different security message to voters — the economic benefits of American milit...

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Poll: Americans don’t trust polls

This just in, according to new poll results: Americans don’t trust polls.Only 25% of Americans said political surveys correctly estimate votes, according to a new POLITICO Poll, conducted by PF Glo...

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Democrats Haven’t Thought Far Enough Ahead on Iran

Democrats are hyping up their plans to pressure President Donald Trump to abandon the Iran war if they gain power in the midterms.They are far more quiet when it comes to another question: What’s t...

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How AIPAC and AI Spent Their Money This Midterm Election

It’s a superlative achieved again and again: The current election cycle is the most expensive on record, according to AdImpact, likely to be surpassed only by the next one. North of $...

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Airbnb is spending big to shape LA politics ahead of Olympics

LOS ANGELES — For Airbnb, the gold medal game in the 2028 Summer Olympics is on Tuesday.Since last year, the home-sharing giant and its nonprofit arm have spent at least $12.6 million building infl...

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Trump said he'd close a DC golf course. His lawyers now agree.

The Trump administration will in fact shutter a historic golf course in the nation's capital next month, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court late Wednesday in the latest round of sparr...

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'Contrary to law': Judge strikes down Trump admin's definition of 'medically frail' in Medicaid work requirements

A federal judge in Boston sided on Thursday with a coalition of 25 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s requirement that states for...

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Pentagon plans for death of Trump’s record military budget

The Pentagon is quietly preparing for a $400 billion cut to President Donald Trump’s military budget, as officials realize the president’s record-breaking request is effectively dead.The administra...

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Anti-Muslim provocation could deter community from US midterm elections, advocacy group says

Anti-Muslim provocation could deter community from US midterm elections, advocacy group says Submitted by MEE staff ...

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Permitting backers want Senate to rack up vote count to send message to the House

Backers of the Senate's sweeping permitting bill are setting a high target for its performance in its first vote — a bar that could depend on painstaking negotiations involving tribal politics and ...

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Trump administration renews bid to block 20,000 California ballots after court rebuke

An election worker places a ballot into a ballot box in Boyle Heights on Tuesday. (Ronaldo Bolanos/Los Angeles Times)Soon after a federal judge in Los Angeles sharply rejected a Trump administratio...

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Charlie Kirk’s final endorsement is on the ropes — despite his group’s big push

Turning Point USA has gone all-in to make GOP Rep. Andy Biggs the next governor of Arizona, their top priority of the cycle.It appears they will come up short.Biggs was the last candidate Turning P...

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Election Night at The Atlantic: Live Special November 3 at 9 P.M.

The Atlantic will host “Election Night at The Atlantic,” a live-broadcast special episode of its flagship podcast Radio Atlantic, on Tuesday, November 3 from 9 to 11 p.m. ET, bringing together many...

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The Cabinet Secretary Democrats Are Ready to Run ‘Out of Town’

Many Democrats have a post-midterm dream that goes something like this: Pete Hegseth, the push-up-loving, beardo-mocking former Fox News host who has led the Pentagon for almost two years with bomb...

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ActBlue's woes not over as top Republican predicts potential DOJ charges over foreign cash controversy

A top House Republican leading the investigation into ActBlue is warning that Democrats' main fundraising platform could potentially face criminal charges.Committee on House Administration Chairman...

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The House race putting Big Tech’s political standing to the test

Democrats are testing whether backlash to Big Tech can become a defining political force heading into 2028, as anxieties over artificial intelligence, data centers and surveillance converge with sp...

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Hochul courts Jewish voters with Mamdani in her corner

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul is campaigning with New York City’s socialist mayor and she’s making in-roads with Orthodox Jewish leaders in communities that backed her GOP opponent four year...

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