Trump aides explore attaching president's name to Ford's Theatre  —  The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president's name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.  —  As President Donald Trump fights …

‘Dammit, something has to happen’: White House preparing plan for 90-day diesel exports ban  —  The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing …

Poll: Trump's approval hits a new low of 33% as Republicans sour; Democrats lead House vote by 10 with likely voters  —  This article reports results from the September 2026 Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll.  A methodology description is included at the end of this article.

‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues … In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes …

Stephen Miller's MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks  —  Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the “Office of Remigration”?  In case you're unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it's typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion …

Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment  —  The Scoop  —  Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as it digests Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking for fresh sources of cash.  Executives at the company have discussed asking Elon Musk to become part of a syndicate …

Dems urge Trump to seek AI deal with China  —  Democratic senators are pushing President Donald Trump to establish an agreement with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to mutually slow or pause artificial intelligence development.  —  A group of 17 senators sent a letter, shared exclusively with POLITICO …

EXCLUSIVE: ‘The New York Times’ Sued by Shareholders Over Biased Israel Coverage  —  The suit leans on a whistleblower account of a newsroom that ignored years of complaints about antisemitism and skewed reporting.  —  Upgrade to Listen  —  Shareholders of The New York Times filed a lawsuit …

Fox News Finds Itself at Odds With Trump on Press Ban  —  The home of Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham has joined rival networks in suspending its coverage of pooled presidential events.  —  Fox News's bond with President Trump is undeniable.  Prime time stars like Sean Hannity …

FBI investigating hacking group's claim of massive breach of agent info  —  ShinyHunters, a cyber-extortion outfit, said that it had hacked into the FBI's jobs portal and used that access to steal a major tranche of sensitive files.  —  The FBI said Wednesday that it is investigating …

Raman takes big lead over Bass in latest poll for L.A. mayor's race  — 6 min Click here to listen to this article  — The Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll represented the strongest showing yet for Nithya Raman, who trailed Karen Bass in almost every poll during the primary campaign and placed second to Bass in the June 2 primary.

Trump invites Putin to G20 in Miami, Rubio says  —  President Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the December G20 summit in Miami, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, the White House's latest effort to reintegrate Moscow into the world's diplomatic frameworks as its war against Ukraine drags on.

Cook nudges three Senate races toward Democrats  —  Senate races in Georgia, Kansas and South Carolina were reclassified with a nudge toward Democrats in the latest analysis from the closely watched Cook Political Report. … - Tighter races in Republican strongholds like Kansas and South Carolina …

It's “Underwear on the Outside” Time  —  Trump's continuing downward spiral into sundowning … In the 1971 comedy film Bananas a third-world nation's strongman announces his new policies: … Yesterday, addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, the president of the United States declared, among other things,

Collins: White House drops effort to politicize health research grants  —  The White House halted a planned executive order that would have put control over NIH research grants in the hands of political appointees  —  The White House has dropped a planned executive order that would put control …

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York  —  Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning.  Weinstein's sentencing for sexually assaulting …

Brett Kavanaugh's Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day  —  On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street.  When the officers arrived, they found a man …

Whites Only  —  On May 8, hundreds of civil rights protesters, carrying signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps” and “Hands Off Our Vote,” descended on Baton Rouge to oppose a plan by Louisiana's Republican-controlled legislature to dismantle one or both of the state's majority-Black congressional districts.

MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump.  We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now.  —  A Democrat threatening to flip red Texas and a murder trial that divided a jury are hot topics  —  Conservative podcasters appear to be losing interest in President Trump.

Portrait of an Anti-Anti-Trumper in Despair  —  The fire rises.  —  Gerard Baker—once upon a time the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal—had a remarkable essay in the paper yesterday.  —  Remarkable in its prissiness, foolishness, and cowardice.  —  Let's do two things today.

Rand Paul's bid to seek immunity for Fauci witness fails  —  Democrats turned back Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul's bid to take testimony from a former aide to onetime Covid czar Anthony Fauci on Wednesday, rejecting Paul's request to grant the woman legal immunity.

Republican who backs immigration crackdown says his family member shouldn't be deported  —  Former Maine governor Paul LePage, who is running for a House seat, said his son's father-in-law faces deportation.  —  A Republican House candidate in Maine who has made the border central to his campaign …

Federal Prosecutors Open Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein's Executors  —  Prosecutors have questioned Epstein victims about his longtime accountant and lawyer; both men have denied wrongdoing  —  Federal authorities have opened a probe into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer …

Republican Senate nominee said she was ‘embarrassed’ to be from the state she's now running to represent  —  Congressional news Senate election US elections Media  —  In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster …

Why Saudi Arabia's Houthi Problem Is Our Problem, Too  —  I'VE SPENT A GOOD PART OF MY professional life studying and fighting in the Middle East, and even I have found the latest developments between Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Houthis, and the United States difficult to follow.  It's a dog's breakfast.

The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood  —  The risk of bucking him is now outweighed by the risk of NOT opposing him.  —  ∙ Paid … One of the defining features of politics in this era is the iron grip Donald Trump has on the Republican Party.

KFF/AP Rural Voters Survey  —  Authors: Alex Montero, Shannon Schumacher, Julian Montalvo III, Ashley Kirzinger, and Liz Hamel  —  News Release: KFF/AP Survey Probes Rural Voters' Increasing Anxieties About the Rising Cost of Living, Including Health Costs, Heading into the Midterm Elections