Between the Bloc and a hard place  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  AT TRUMP'S TABLE: The most coveted seats in MAGA world were occupied at Mar-a-Lago on Friday evening by new chief of staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife …

60 Minutes Transcript: Donald Trump, the 2026 post-midterm elections interview  —  This past Tuesday, President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered an extraordinary midterm repudiation - losing not just the House and Senate, but statewide offices in red states, from Texas to Kansas to South Carolina …

House Democrats plan more prominent placement for Jan. 6 memorial plaque  —  Democrats intend to find a more prominent location to display a memorial plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — which Republicans currently have relegated to the basement of the building.

Trump says he was just kidding about making UFC's Dana White his press secretary  —  President Donald Trump said Sunday he was only kidding about making UFC boss Dana White his next White House press secretary after announcing on social media he had offered his close friend the job.

Joe Biden to scale back book tour as cancer ‘slows me down’  —  Biden, 83, said Sunday he would no longer “be able to do as many conversations about my book as I'd hoped” ahead of the release of his memoir, “Promise me, America.”  —  Former President Joe Biden signaled he will have to scale …

Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts to Screen for Ebola and Other Diseases  —  XpresTest has years of experience conducting disease screening in U.S. airports but has never worked with Ebola or provided biosecurity services abroad.  It's “a new thing for us,” the company's CEO said.

Here Are the Difficult Options Trump Is Weighing to Resolve the War in Iran  —  There are no good choices facing President Trump as he tries to find a way out of the deeply unpopular conflict.  But there are choices.  —  The public split last week between Vice President JD Vance …

Elizabeth Warren is ready to go big against corporate America  —  Brace yourself for the most progressive — and aggressive — Senate Banking Committee chair in decades.  —  Elizabeth Warren, the longtime Wall Street antagonist poised to take over the Banking panel next year …

Scoop: Mamdani's bid for 2028 kingmaker  —  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani can't be president, so he's trying to be the next best thing: a progressive kingmaker for 2028.  — Mamdani has been meeting privately with union leaders, urgently talking up the need for a labor-aligned …

Republicans eye Florida's “alligator people” for 2028  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is positioning himself for a presidential run.  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is running away from the idea of his own campaign for the White House. … - Before Tuesday's midterm Republican wipeout …

Trump explains $3B net worth jump in ‘60 Minutes’ interview: 'You should've had stock'  —  President Trump has insisted there is a simple explanation for him becoming more than $3 billion richer on paper since the start of his second term.  —  “You should've had stock,” Trump told “60 Minutes” …

Blanche threatens to investigate congressional Democrats.  It's unclear for what  —  Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday he plans to investigate congressional Democrats — but he couldn't specify what crime they had potentially committed.  —  Blanche's comments came …

The Texas Miracle  —  Democracy's biggest win in a night of big wins … On March 23, 2026, the Conservative Political Action Conference — which is to the global right what the Comintern once was to international communism — held its fifth annual meeting in Budapest.

Democrats *already* have started winning  —  Elections have (immediate) consequences. … Following his brutal drubbing in the midterms, practically the first thing Trump did was double down.  —  The White House announced that the largely ineffectual Susie Wiles was stepping down as chief …

How Mississippi Reached the Verge of Electing a Black Senator  —  The echoes of history surround Scott Colom's final push toward victory, but assembling the coalition that propelled him took hard work after many Democratic misses.  —  On Tuesday morning, Angela Lewis got off her overnight shift …

The Evangelical Vote Will Return in 2028 … Fans of liberal democracy, including those of us who follow religion, are right to be buoyed by this week's results.  Unlike in 2020, Americans resoundingly rejected not just MAGA candidates, but the bigoted, fear-mongering tactics that have sadly proven successful over the last ten years.

Iowa House speaker: Special session “not on the table”  —  Second in a series interpreting the results of Iowa's 2026 state and federal elections.  This original reporting and analysis first appeared at Bleeding Heartland and is shared here as part of the Iowa Writers Collaborative.