Musk Targets Transgender Issues in Key Midterm Senate Races
A political group for the world’s richest man, who is ramping up a midterm spending blitz, began running attack ads against Democrats in Texas, Ohio and Iowa.
Video: Trump Claims He Visited Ground Zero ‘Right After’ 9/11
During an event honoring victims who died on Sept. 11, 2001, President Trump tried to position himself close to the recovery efforts shortly after the attack. But first responders who were at ground zero and a biographer dispute his claims.
Supreme Court rejects Missouri’s request to use congressional map with extra GOP seat
The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri’s request to use a congressional map for the November midterm election that would have given Republicans a chance to flip a seat, a rare setback for the GOP’s effort to keep control of the House next year by eking out an advantage from its political boundaries.
Federal judge orders Missouri to proceed with GOP-friendly map after Supreme Court balked
By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Back-to-back court orders on Tuesday injected chaos into Missouri’s plans for this year’s midterms, with state officials and a group opposed to a GOP-friendly congressional map racing into multiple courts with less than two months before Election Day. A federal district court ordered Missouri to proceed with a congressional
Video: Opinion | The ‘Hyperpoliticization’ of American Politics
Anton Jäger argues on “The Ezra Klein Show” that we’re in a distinct era of “hyperpolitics” — where politics feels volatile, ubiquitous and intense, but is not securely attached to institutions and structures.
The Republican origins of Medicare for all
A plan that a GOP senator proudly championed in 1970 is today seen as radical.
US claims Chinese AI firms are carrying out ‘industrial-scale’ theft of trade secrets
Chinese artificial intelligence firms are committing “industrial-scale” theft of their American counterparts’ trade secrets to save money and bring the coveted technology to market faster, US federal agencies alleged Tuesday.
US targets multiple Iranian tankers near Kharg Island
The US targeted multiple Iranian tankers near Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, according to two US officials.
Tehran threatens vessels in Bahrain, Kuwait after US strikes Iranian tankers near Kharg Island
By Zachary Cohen, Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — The US targeted multiple Iranian tankers near Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, according to two US officials. One of the officials said US forces struck the Iranian tankers tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in response to attempted missile attacks on a
US strike sinks Iranian tanker, sparking retaliatory missile barrage at Jordan
(CNN) — The US military struck five Iranian tankers on Tuesday, sinking one, after Iran fired ballistic missiles at a US Navy warship, in a fresh escalation of fighting in