via The Hill News — Whether the Republican leadership wants to admit it or not, they have a growing perception problem with working-class and disenfranchised Americans.

via Home - CBSNews.com — Many Americans say they're frustrated with the economy in recent polling. President Trump is campaigning in reliably red states as November elections draw near. Aaron Navarro has what you need to know.

via The Hill News — President Trump on Friday morning thanked the Israeli plumber, Yaniv Hayoun, who intervened after a pilot stabbed his co-pilot and attempted to crash a Flydubai flight this week. In a video message shared on Truth Social, the president praised Hayoun, saying he “did an amazing job.” “He’s my kind of guy,” he continued. “He can…

via The Hill News — If you think people should be able to hold corporations accountable in court, you should pay attention.

via The Hill News — The Trump administration’s ongoing discussions with Russia to end the Ukraine war now include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives tied to the lead U.S. negotiators, according to new reporting from The New York Times. U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have been engaged in…

via US news | The Guardian — President’s popularity has plummeted in solidly Republican state – will his presence at midterm rallies help or hinder? Kelly Savage-Radich grew up in a Republican-supporting Ohio family and voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. But today the mother of three, who lives in a Montgomery county suburb of Dayton, is facing the prospect of having to sell one of her family’s vehicles due to the high cost of gas. Her grocery bill has gone up about $100 a week. She lays the blame squarely at the Trum

via US news | The Guardian — Black voters reveal a generational divide, with younger voters drawn to the Democratic Socialists of America, and older voters focused on what can realistically be achieved One of the most heated debates in the Democratic party is how left it should go – especially after a year that has seen several democratic socialists win their primary races. Moderate Democrats worry that left-wing candidates will struggle to win general elections, while progressive voters want fresh solutions to healthcare a

via US news | The Guardian — President says payments, to be sent in early October, are meant to offset cost of monthly insurance premiums Donald ⁠Trump has said the US government will send a one-time $90 payment to more than 20 million Americans enrolled in Medicare , the ⁠health insurance program for ⁠elderly people, ​to help offset the cost of their monthly medical insurance premiums. The president said on social media late on Friday that the ⁠payments would come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which he said was given

via The Hill News — President Trump is taking his red state campaign blitz to Ohio Saturday evening after making stops in Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama over the past few days. Trump is slated to speak at 7 p.m. in Vandalia, a city within a congressional district where a Republican is holding a decisive lead in his House reelection bid.…

via Home - CBSNews.com — President Trump said Monday that the largest steel plant in U.S. history will be built in Iowa. It touched off a week of debate.

via US news | The Guardian — The US defense secretary who hates ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’ has announced an Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon Apart from money and McDonald’s , there’s nothing Donald Trump seems to love more than a “ big, beautiful” wall . The government is currently spending billions of taxpayer dollars to fulfill the president’s fantasy of lining the US-Mexico border with 30ft steel bollard walls and high-tech surveillance. What the Trump administration is apparently not so keen on is the wall

via - Democracy Docket — Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their families to cast ballots. The post Hegseth urges military to vote as Trump administration makes it harder for them to cast ballots appeared first on Democracy Docket .

via - Democracy Docket — Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. The post USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time appeared first on Democracy Docket .

via Home - CBSNews.com — Reducing fuel-efficiency standards will raise prices at the pump and produce more harmful emissions, according to environmentalists.

via The Hill News — President Trump said Friday that he will not ban exports of diesel after the Group of Seven (G7) major economies announced that they would release fuel from their stocks. “Europe has a lot of diesel, and they’re going to be making a major world contribution, and so are we, and we’re not going to be…

via The Hill News — Republicans are struggling with how to thread the needle on immigration ahead of what is expected to be a bruising midterm season in which many voters have soured on the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement. But the party has spent two years championing policies that resulted from President Trump running on “securing” the border, including a…

via US news | The Guardian — As the Illinois governor seeks a third term, his growing national profile has fueled speculation about a possible White House bid Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midterm election When Donald Trump returned to power, 20 long months ago, some state leaders wrung their hands, worrying what explicit resistance might cost their citizens – and their careers – during the second term of a vengeful president. JB Pritzker was not among them. Two days after Trump’

via The Hill News — President Trump criticized the appointment of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) as a special prosecutor investigating the Cornell University rape case, arguing people “won’t get a fair shake” with her in the role. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) appointed James to the case. James previously investigated and sued Trump, and the two…

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — Lawsuit alleges NHTSA contravenes its congressional mandate to set fuel-economy standards at 'maximum feasible' .

via World news | The Guardian — Green conference enters its second day, while Tories prepare for theirs on Sunday Good morning and welcome to the UK Politics live blog where cost-of-living issues are top of mind as diesel surges past £2 a litre for the first time. That’s a 40% increase since the start of the year, meaning the cost of filling up an average family car is now £110, nearly £32 more than before the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran in late February. The eight-months long war now has choked off key global shipp

via Home - CBSNews.com — Troy Jackson is boosted by those looking for change, while Collins peels off some Trump disapprovers.

via Robert Reich — Friends, Today, Heather and I take a hard look at the allegations over what occurred in a Cornell fraternity and explore why they’re sending tremors across America. Do they have anything to do with Trump’s toxic masculinity, the misogyny of his regime, and the male-dominant underpinnings of neofascism? With a culture of impunity fostered by Trump? We also look at the question of accountability in general and examine some of the other ways Trump and the manosphere — including the AI bros and the

via The Hill News — Former Florida Rep. David Rivera (R) was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Friday for his undisclosed role in a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign on behalf of the Venezuelan government under the first Trump administration. Rivera, a longtime friend and former roommate of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has been in federal custody without bond…

via World news | The Guardian — Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup ‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of election Shortly after his controversial speech to the United Nations general assembly in September, Donald Trump gathered a dozen like-minded Latin American leaders and boasted that rightwing candidates had won all seven presidential elections held in the region since he began his second ter

via The Hill News — President Trump brushed off questions Friday over whether he jumped the gun in announcing that South Korea would fund a natural gas pipeline in Alaska, which South Korean officials have said is still under discussion. “Well, I didn’t jump the gun. I mean, they were there, and they were represented,” Trump told reporters before departing…

via - Democracy Docket — In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election […] The post GOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails again appeared first on Democracy Docket .

via PBS News Hour - The Latest — In our news wrap Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the state Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to take over the Cornell University rape case, the U.S. is sending an additional aircraft carrier to the Middle East as President Trump weighs further action against Iran and this year's Kennedy Center Honors will take place at Washington, D.C.'s Capital One Arena.

via PBS News Hour - The Latest — David Brooks of The Atlantic and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump hitting the campaign trail in a string of reliably Republican states, GOP vulnerabilities heading into the midterms and the administration's strategy on artificial intelligence.

via US news | The Guardian — When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data In the early hours of Saturday 22 February 2025 the following email landed in the inboxes of the entire US federal workforce: From: HR hr@opm.gov Continue reading...

via The Hill News — {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story How did the beltway take Trump’s AI accord? In a deep dive, The Hill’s Julia Shapero and Mallory Wilson examine how Trump’s “self-policing” AI accord is landing in Washington as concerns mount over the tech’s safety. © Alex Brandon, Associated Press While Trump says industry officials can self-police,…

via The Hill News — Justice Samuel Alito said his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 alongside the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices, took “courage.” In a preview for his interview with CBS News, Alito was asked if there was a particular decision that took courage. “Well, the leading example is Dobbs [v. Jackson]. I think that required…

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — Crude oil prices eased after G7 leaders bowed to US President Donald Trump’s demand to release oil and diesel reserves.

via The Hill News — Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and U.S. special envoy, is pushing back on a CNN report alleging his private equity firm had ties to a company heavily involved in Israel’s military. “CNN published a deeply misleading story and headline suggesting that my diplomatic work in the Middle East somehow benefited investments in Israeli defense companies,”…

via US news | The Guardian — The justice and treasury departments said they sent $2m to Hamas through charities and cryptocurrency, while six people were arrested across the US and France The Trump administration on Friday unveiled sanctions against three individuals allegedly related to the Islamist militant group Hamas and against two charities based in France while also announcing six arrests – actions that the government called an “extraordinary counter-terrorism work” to expose “a sophisticated, multi‑year financing ar

via Home - CBSNews.com — A third U.S. aircraft carrier is heading to the Middle East along with thousands of troops. CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan reports and Matt Kroenig, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, joins to discuss the war.

via Home - CBSNews.com — In a possible blow to the Trump administration's efforts to charge noncitizens with voting, a judge has dismissed a case against a Jamaican national accused of illegally voting, finding the law she was charged under is unconstitutional.

via Home - CBSNews.com — This week brought a flurry of announcements from the Trump White House desperate to alter savagely sour assessment of the economy and the president's performance. Major Garrett breaks it all down.

via - Democracy Docket — Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. The post Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority communities appeared first on Democracy Docket .

via Home - CBSNews.com — Sen. Ted Cruz speaks with Tony Dokoupil about the Protect College Sports Act, the upcoming midterm elections, the latest approval ratings for President Trump and more.

via NBC News Top Stories — NBC News senior national political reporter Sahil Kapur joins Meet the Press NOW to explain how effective Congress has been since President Trump returned to the White House.

via BorderReport — An analysis of government data by a think tank finds the Trump administration has cut legal immigration by 96% for those coming from majority-Muslim countries this second term.

via Home - CBSNews.com — President Trump continued his extended midterm campaign in support of fellow Republicans on Friday with a stop in deep-red Mobile, Alabama. Weijia Jiang has the details.

via The Hill News — Justice Samuel Alito said he “thought about” retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of his last term following speculation about his potential retirement this year. In an interview with CBS News, chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford asked Alito if he considered retiring in the face of “some pretty intense pressure from Republicans” who…

via US news | The Guardian — Plan to install barriers through popular national park sparked outrage from advocates and politicians alike A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from expanding the border wall and other security infrastructure across the Big Bend region of west Texas, where contentious plans to build roads and vehicle barriers through a popular national park have led to furious backlash and public protests. US district judge Kathleen Cardone’s ruling after a Friday hearing in El Paso

via BorderReport — Operation Lone Star is still in effect today but its future is possibly on the line with the upcoming midterm elections. Abbott's Democratic opponent, State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, has criticized the policy in the past.

via US news | The Guardian — Kevin Warsh’s predecessor had been investigated over cost overruns related to central bank renovation project The US ⁠justice department is not reopening a criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell ⁠for cost overruns ⁠related ​to the central bank’s building renovation project, a department spokesperson said on Friday. Attorney general Todd ⁠Blanche – in comments to Bloomberg News , which first reported the development – said he has not ruled out ⁠continuing to look i

via The Hill News — President Trump will hit his next stop on the red-state campaign blitz Friday, rallying voters in Alabama as Republicans face a difficult final month before the midterms. Trump is expected to stump alongside Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who is running for governor, and other GOP candidates as the party looks to boost enthusiasm in its…

via NPR Topics: News — Democratic lawmakers, veterans and concerned citizens gathered in Memorial Circle to protest the arch Trump wants to build there. Their hopes lie primarily in a lawsuit and next month's midterms.

via PBS News Hour - The Latest — When the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday, the justices will kick off a new term featuring cases on climate change, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty.

via US news | The Guardian — Convicted offender among 20,000 people removed from list after state supreme court ruling on Sora registration law Larry Nassar , the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics physician convicted of sexually abusing girls and women over a period of decades while claiming to provide medical treatment, has been removed from Michigan’s sex offender registry thanks to a legal technicality. Thousands of other offenders were also taken off that list after a court ruling involving how the sta