Texas's Republican Senate candidate reportedly celebrated New Year's Eve with his girlfriend and two men facing federal fraud charges.

Big money, shrinking maps, and political gymnastics.

In partially repealing a Biden-era regulation that limited carbon emissions from power plants, Trump administration officials have misleadingly cast the prior administration’s policy as a threat to gr...

Every Republican who voted to bury the evidence for Trump is about to learn a hard lesson, three weeks before an election.

Pardons, pipeline promises, and $5,000 bait. Was this a campaign rally or an abuse of presidential power?

Midweek Meltdown

Good morning, I’m hearing from people on the ground today that the situation in Ukraine is getting worse fast.

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Also: what Ilhan Omar told the agents at her door, the Nobel winner Trump swears nobody’s heard of, and the county suing over his arch.

Good morning, this is Really American. It’s Wednesday, October 14th.

Even if Katie Zacharia wasn’t touted as a lawyer, and nobody can find where she passed the bar, Trump runs through press secretaries faster than any other president, so she was already doomed.

A recording from Joe Walsh's live video

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video depicting himself taming a tiger after the fatal mauling of a man in England, sparking criticism.

Launch of Russian ballistic missiles on Ukraine, with no US warning, coincides with outage of Starlink managed by Musk’s SpaceX

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban discusses breaking up Big Medicine, why he wants to abolish political parties, and how Ayn Rand shaped his views on capitalism. Today's guest is Mark Cuban, the bil...

A federal judge ruled that officials including Elon Musk and Kristi Noem spread false information to justify firing a FEMA official.

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U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued an injunction preventing CNN, Politico and MS NOW from being booted from the White House complex until the case is decided.

Representative Andy Harris was furious after the crowd laughed at him in the debate.

The climate is warming up faster than we can respond. According to a new report published Oct. 14 in the journal BioScience, “Earth’s climate system is moving deeper into uncharted territory.” The Sta...

Friday’s number is the final inflation report before November’s pivotal midterm elections, in which business owners and consumers have said they will be voting with their bottom line in mind.

ICE official, who was sleeping on man’s lawn and appeared ‘intoxicated’, faces felony charges, California police say

ALT: Volodymyr Zelenskyy володимир: Raised Fist

The U.S. president lashed out at Zelenskyy over Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.

The Republican Party’s midterm campaign has turned into a triage operation just three weeks out from November, as officials race to avert losses in a string of once-safe seats that they increasingly f...

Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

Election officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk.