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Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat [...]
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite [...]
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All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid. [...]
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court. [...]
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions [...]
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In one exchange, Ramaswamy claimed, “Politics, sometimes, it’s a tough sport,” and said the goal is to “point out where [...]
The veteran strategist claimed the wholesale company is “historically the most democratic corporation in America.” [...]
The president also added that Rove, who helped run two winning presidential campaigns, “doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” [...]
CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski highlighted a litany of troubling past “jokes” from Republican Georgia Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins. [...]
The police officer who shot and killed Kohen Wiley, 1, when he fired into a moving vehicle while responding to [...]
“It’s really sort of fascinating, you know, to see Trump when the facts are about to come out,” former White [...]
Rick Taylor has spent 28 years collecting tickets from every game of Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632-game streak -- and needs [...]
Located near the Magnificent Mile, The Hand & The Eye offers three floors of immersive illusions, fine dining and secret [...]
The Duchess of Sussex said she distanced herself from him years ago to protect her children. [...]
An oil spill from a tanker was detected off the UAE coast of Umm Al Quwain, the United Arab Emirates [...]
The Steelers face the New Orleans Saints in the French capital on Sunday. [...]
The president claimed his Atlantic renaming idea led to a conversation with Google CEO Sundar Pichai. [...]
The president painted a bleak picture of what’s to come if Democrats win control of Congress. [...]
He can’t. But he might try anyway. [...]
The NBA superstar needed just a handful of words to brush off the president’s latest broadside. [...]
The two-time Oscar winner urged Americans to vote early. [...]
Pete Souza slammed Donald Trump with some very telling throwbacks. [...]
The arch is among the president’s pet construction projects. [...]
The New York City Council passed the bill following a tourist’s death this summer. [...]
A court document says Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms [...]
The younger sister of Stephen Hubbard, the U.S. citizen freed after spending more than four years in a Russian prison, [...]
Airbnb guests may soon have fewer chores to tackle before checking out. [...]
The deal allows Zuckerberg to pay a potentially huge billionaire tax that is on the ballot in California without losing [...]
Investigators say Brian Sguros found a man dead during a 2022 welfare check and allegedly took over the man’s home [...]
The president decried Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine for suggesting the controversial ad be taken down. [...]
Kohen Wiley’s family said Thursday they do not believe the shooting was justified after reviewing videos from officers’ body-worn cameras. [...]
The Emmy-winning actor died Wednesday of natural causes, his family said in a statement. [...]
This isn’t the first time the Falcons have faced Nazi comparisons for their logos. [...]
The president’s repost failed to detail a notably awkward exchange between him and the first lady. [...]
Brian Kilmeade said the “embarrassing” compliment from Steve Witkoff makes him look “naive.” [...]
“I’m so angry by all this division in our country mainly caused by the Republican Party and their lack of [...]
The ad features Democrat Amy Acton’s estranged mother. [...]
“I’m not going to go any further than that,” the former House speaker told the Fox News host. [...]
The tech trillionaire lashed on X following reports of potential investigations by Democrats following the upcoming midterms. [...]
The Michigan Republican candidate dropped the post in a debate where he questioned El-Sayed’s loyalty to America. [...]
“Obviously, I can’t continue to live there,” the Minnesota Democrat told MS NOW’s Chris Hayes. [...]
The push came after governments in Europe and elsewhere took websites offline as a precaution on Wednesday while website operators [...]
The fraternity was told that it “presents a substantial risk to members of the university community.” [...]
Tennessee Titans coach Robert Saleh confirmed that defensive tackle Jordan Elliott was released after the incident. [...]
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes paid tribute to the defensive end. [...]
“That’s great, Mr. Trump. I’d like to report a theft.” [...]
The president lost it with the CNN journalist. [...]
Iron Maiden’s retired drummer Nicko McBrain said the president and his “cronies” should all be in jail. [...]
The vice president’s speech took a turn. Again. [...]
It was something between a gag and a belch. [...]
The president appeared to take great delight in the altercation. [...]
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. [...]
Federal officials provided no explanation, but advocates praised the ruling. [...]
Ramaswamy has refused to apologize for the ad and said he would spend more to promote it. [...]
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The “Fourth in the Nation Matanza Rally” is testing the appetite for a more Latino-specific cultural touchstone to round out the presidential candidate event rotation. [...]
The move by the Justice Department to try and preemptively block Alaska’s Senate results if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses stunned officials in both parties. [...]
An ambulance in New York City now takes an average of 13 minutes to reach someone in life-threatening distress. [...]
Democrats are warning their party not to get too bullish about a big House majority. [...]
A new POLITICO Poll shows that even some of the president’s most loyal supporters are willing to put winning first. [...]
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker. [...]
The president is trying to save his longtime friend and golf buddy Jay Feely, who’s locked in a tough race against Democrat Amish Shah. [...]
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The figure is a record for the group and includes roughly $29 million in the first two weeks of October. [...]
GOODBYE HORSES: New York City isn’t horsing around anymore. The City Council voted overwhelmingly today to abolish the Big Apple’s horse carriage industry, handing a historic win to animal rights activists who’ve pushed to end the tourist attraction for decades. The vote doesn’t mean the industry sunsets overnight, though. The bill enacting the ban — which passed the Council with 40 yays, 7 nays and 2 abstentions — allows the roughly 200 carriage drivers who shuttle tourists around Central Park to continue operating until June 2028, when the industry will be reined into a legal halt officially. Council Speaker Julie Menin, who started making the legislation’s passage a priority over the summer, told reporters before the vote that the carriage horse-related June death of Romanch Mahajan, an 18-year-old Indian tourist, was the last straw. But she also cited a long record of horses dying in the streets as part of the reason for the bill finally crossing the finish line. “This has been a long time coming,” she said. Mayor Zohran Mamdani — who initially withheld support for the measure over labor protection concerns — got behind it earlier this month, sealing the deal for it to become law. He hasn’t yet set a date for signing the bill. Mamdani came on board after the Council modified the bill to give drivers pathways into other lines of work, and the phase-out [...]
POLITICO watched all the key Senate and gubernatorial debates so you didn’t have to [...]
Wedgewood Polls admitted that it had made up its survey results. Some candidates say those faked numbers killed their campaigns. [...]
America’s Heartland sows doubt in the GOP lead image [...]
INTIFADA FLARE UP: One of New York City’s most prestigious public high schools is facing backlash because a school-based socialist youth group co-signed a social media post declaring “Intifada Until Victory!” The Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter of Stuyvesant High School — along with YDSA chapters at Hunter College, the New School, City College and Lehman College — all signed onto an Oct. 8 Instagram post that accused the Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City chapter of silencing student activists who wanted to protest Mayor Zohran Mamdani over Israel. The groups accused the democratic socialist mayor of betraying the Palestinian cause and blasted his decision to keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in her position, referring to her as a “Zionist billionaire.” The term intifada — which refers to violent uprisings against Jews in Israel — is viewed by many Jews as a call to violence against them. Moshe Spern, president of United Jewish Teachers — an advocacy group representing Jewish teachers and students across the city — is demanding the posts be removed immediately and that the YDSA group provide a public apology to the school community. “NYC public schools have seen hundreds of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents since October 7, 2023,” he wrote in an email yesterday to Stuyvesant Principal Seung Yu and New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels. “When a school-recognized club amplifies this rhetoric, it [...]
The GOP has a midterm messaging problem. Ramaswamy isn’t helping lead image [...]
President Donald Trump and his unpopular brand may drag the candidate for governor down with the moderate and independent voters. [...]
Across key Senate battlegrounds, Republicans’ cash advantage hasn’t led to an equally large amount of advertising time. [...]
BLAKEMAN’S (LACK OF) ENERGY PLAN: GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman continued to hammer Gov. Kathy Hochul on rising energy costs today, promising to slash utility bills in half if he’s elected. The Republican, however, still has not offered up a policy proposal on how he’d go about doing that. “Kathy Hochul increased our utility rates 48 times in four years,” Blakeman said in upper Manhattan this morning. The Washington Heights press conference, which included former Gov. George Pataki, was heavy on rhetoric and relatively light on details. Afterward, Blakeman’s campaign would not spell out how exactly he plans to cut consumer utility costs and did not respond to a request for clarification about his claim that Hochul increased utility rates 48 times. (While the state’s Public Service Commission has approved increases in major utility rate cases during Hochul’s tenure, those hikes have been less than what the utilities requested.) “Donald Trump’s puppet, Bruce Blakeman … wants data centers raising your costs and said Trump was doing an ‘amazing job’ after he jacked up utility bills.” Hochul campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said in a statement. “Two weeks from irrelevance, here’s what Blakeman won’t tell you: Governor Kathy Hochul delivered a billion dollars in energy relief, ten billion in tax relief, and made data centers pay for the energy they use.” The Nassau County executive described meeting the owner of a Bronx diner [...]
The promise comes two weeks before Election Day — and the payments could still face a fight ahead in Congress. [...]
Stripping tax incentives from tech companies rated as one of the top tax priorities in the midterms, according to the POLITICO Poll. [...]
Republicans are sweating what a four-way ballot and ranked-choice tabulation with a same-name rival could mean for Sen. Dan Sullivan’s reelection bid. [...]
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The Illinois governor is boosting candidates in early states and cultivating relationships with Black and Hispanic officials ahead of a possible 2028 run. [...]
Retiring Republican Senator warns GOP: Trump's coalition may not last lead image [...]
Echelon Insights’ Patrick Ruffini told POLITICO he thinks polling is overstating Democrats’ chances of flipping Senate races in historically deep-red territory. [...]
Ohio returns as a bellwether lead image [...]
Democrats’ main super PAC is dark in Georgia this week. And both sides didn’t spend last week either. [...]
Bobby Pulido is trying to flip a district that’s slipped from Democrats. The Tejano singer might be the answer to winning culturally conservative Latino voters. [...]
Warnock is testing a “new kind of Southern strategy” for the Democratic Party. [...]
The senator in an interview with POLITICO declined to put distance between himself and President Donald Trump. [...]
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