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  White House and DOJ considering arresting journalists over leaks and Stephen Miller is all aboard the plan: report The White House and Department of Justice have reportedly been discussing potentially throwing journalists in jail to reveal the identities of leakers and fresh White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is behind the plan. In an Atlantic report about the exit of Susie Wiles from her chief of staff role at the White House, it was revealed that a plan to jail journalists is in cons...

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  After the US midterm rout of Trumpism, the world struggles to trust America again For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast. The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive. Voters, Reeve saw online, had flippe...

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  ‘If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-all, I’m OK with it,’ says Medicare for all champion Abdul El-Sayed “Donald, if you’re watching, we’ll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American.” Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan who ran on a progressive platform with Medicare for All at its center, said Friday that he doesn’t care what the policy is called so long as it passes, even during Donald Trum...

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  Stephen Miller calls Trump GOP more popular 'than ever' in first CoS speech Donald Trump’s new White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, said the Republican Party is “more popular than ever,” just days after voters handed Democrats control of the House and Senate the midterm elections. Miller said in his speech that it was “the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump,” before adding: “If it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now.”...

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  Thomas Massie gives Pete Hegseth a choice: resignation or impeachment “There is one contingency in which I won’t reintroduce the articles of impeachment: Hegseth resigns,” wrote Republican Rep. Thomas Massie. Republican US Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said Wednesday that Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth, the most prominent cheerleader and architect of the Trump administration’s illegal war on Iran, will face an impeachment vote in the House of Representatives—unless he submits his resignatio...

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  ‘Duffy lied’: Air traffic controllers refute Trump Transportation Secretary’s ground stop explanation “I’ve spoken with 60 air traffic controllers tonight about what Sean Duffy said at the White House today,” said one journalist. “None of them are buying what he said.” Air traffic controllers are rejecting US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s explanation for Friday’s nationwide flight ground stop, raising questions about the Trump administration’s account of a communications failure that...

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  I’m a professor in Alabama. We’ve been banned from saying “Gulf of Mexico.” No, seriously! In academic discourse, use of the correct name is an important means of establishing professional credibility. For example, if within the fields of computer science and information science, a specific term of art, such as artificial intelligence, has gained widespread acceptance, the use of an alternative term—a term, like superintelligence, not widely accepted within the discipline—would seriously underm...

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  Democrats blast ‘dangerous’ elevation of Miller as refusal to learn from the election To congressional Democrats, Trump’s decision to promote aide Stephen Miller to serve as his chief of staff meant two things: an elevation of the aide’s extremist views and a refusal to heed the will of voters who delivered the left a historic victory. “Stephen Miller is the architect of Project 2025, which included the push for ‘unitary executive power’ that Trump used to enrich himself and his billionaire b...

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  Trump bought Nvidia stock as he helped chipmaker with change to export rule Trump purchased up to $5m of stock before revoking Biden-era rule that limited Nvidia’s ability to sell to China Donald Trump bought Nvidia stock worth millions of dollars as he made decisions on America’s China policy that would benefit the chipmaker, an analysis has found. In May 2025, Trump’s administration rescinded a Biden-era rule designed to prevent the most advanced US-made AI chips from being exported to Ch...

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  Marco Rubio ‘on resignation watch’ from Trump administration after midterms disaster Marco Rubio is on resignation watch from both sides of the Atlantic in the expectation he will quit to launch a bid to be the next US president, The Independent can reveal. Insiders say the US secretary of state and White House national security adviser is preparing for the race to be the Republican nominee in November 2028, with JD Vance currently his main rival. Even before the disastrous midterm results...

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  Pete Hegseth expands National Guard presence in DC The move suggests Donald Trump is doubling down on his claimed crime emergency in the nation’s capital after the election. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the National Guard to begin using boats, several dozen marked police cars, humvees and light medium tactical vehicles in the nation’s capital — an escalation of the troops’ presence that could further blur the line between their military and law enforcement role. It’s not cl...

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  Harmeet Dhillon, controversial head of DoJ’s civil rights division, steps down Dhillon is first high-level justice department official to leave after historic Republican defeat in 2026 midterms Dhillon is the first high-ranking justice department official to leave after the midterm elections in which Democrats took control of Congress. Democrats are expected to use that power to aggressively investigate executive agencies, including the justice department. Dhillon’s departure was first report...

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  Trump makes desperate push to erase his 34 felony convictions after midterm blowout The charges centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels A New York appeals court will be asked on Thursday to throw out Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The case made history in May 2024, when the verdict turned Trump into the first former, and now current, US president with a criminal conviction. The historic ruling did not stop him from r...

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  GOP kicks off bid to throw out votes in Mississippi Senate race The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials “separate and preserve” all provisional ballots cast in the midterms — the first step in a likely bid to throw out votes in the state’s extremely close U.S. Senate race*. The vote count is ongoing, and Democrat Scott Colom currently leads Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith ® by several hundred votes, with certification due by Nov. 13. His victory would represent a significa...

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  Massie says he has enough signatures to force vote on Epstein files Representative Thomas Massie, who pushed for the original Epstein Files Transparency Act, has a new bill he’s going to force through the House. “When we return next week, we’ll get 218 signatures for Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which guarantees a vote,” Massie wrote Thursday on X. “Survivors will be able to get their own records, State Attorneys General can prosecute crimes, and we can take the DOJ to court for keeping...

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  Haley Stevens triples down on Rogers endorsement after El-Sayed’s victory Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) on Wednesday tripled down on her endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race, where Democrat Abdul El-Sayed took victory after a bitter midterm battle on the campaign trail. Rogers lost to El-Sayed, receiving 45.48 percent of the vote to El-Sayed’s 52.52 percent, according to The Hill’s election partner Decision Desk HQ as of 1:15 p.m. EST on Wednesday. Stevens began a...

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  Top Democrat tells Trump and Republicans to ‘lawyer up’ after US midterm defeats Robert Garcia, set to become oversight chair, vows to take on president while Senator Ron Wyden signals ‘subpoenas’ Robert Garcia, the Democratic congressman set to become the next chair of the oversight committee of the House of Representatives, had two words for Republicans on Tuesday evening: “Lawyer up.” Garcia issued his statement as a blue wave appeared to take hold across the country after voters cast th...

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  Elon Musk’s nearly half a billion dollars in midterms spending was a flop The tech billionaire set spending record as he poured $446m into campaigns for failed Republican candidates Elon Musk set a record for election spending this year after pouring nearly half a billion dollars into backing Republicans in the US midterm elections. It turned out to be a poor investment. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO contributed at least $446m to Republican-aligned Super Pacs and groups over the course of the el...

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  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rejects special session to undercut incoming Bottoms Outgoing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ® rejected a special session aimed at undercutting incoming Georgia Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms (D). “I will not be calling a special session of the Georgia General Assembly in order to curtail executive branch powers or debate redistricting changes,” Kemp wrote in a statement, according to CBS News. “The voters of our state have spoken.” “As long as I’m governor, we will always...

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  Resounding wins for Democrats a wholesale rebuke of Trump’s MAGA movement Democrats of all stripes declared victory on Tuesday night in clearest sign yet voters have had enough of Trumpism No single Democratic coalition can claim victory after Tuesday’s resounding midterm results – all parts of the Democratic coalition can. Their wins were so sweeping, so resounding, that factional divisions fail to explain them. This year, the most important thing Democrats had to be to win was, simply, no...

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  Republicans quickly turn against Pete Hegseth after midterms rout Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader. Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin bl...

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  Democrat Sherrod Brown wins Ohio Senate race in major blow to Republicans Brown makes successful return to US Senate after voters reject Republican incumbent Jon Husted Democrat Sherrod Brown will return to the US Senate, as Ohio’s voters rejected the incumbent Jon Husted in a significant defeat for Republicans. Brown’s bid for a comeback after being ousted from the seat he held for 18 years in 2024 became one of the marquee contests of this year’s midterm elections, and a key test of wheth...

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  Josh Turek wins Iowa 2026 Senate election, CBS News projects, flipping seat for Democrats

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  Democrats win Senate majority

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  Adam Hamilton flips Senate seat blue in Kansas Adam Hamilton, a Democrat and pastor, is projected to win the Senate race in Kansas, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), all but ensuring a Senate majority for his party. Hamilton will unseat incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall ® and flip a seat that was once expected to be safe for the GOP. He will be the first Democratic senator from the Sunflower State since 1939.

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  Minnesota voters leave ‘I Voted’ stickers at memorial sites for Alex Pretti and Renee Good Residents are sending a clear message about the violent deportations taking place across the US this midterm cycle Minnesota voters left “I Voted” stickers on memorial sites for Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, the two US citizens killed by federal immigration officials earlier this year. Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Minneapolis, Minnesota...

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  Gov. Greg Abbott concedes to Gina Hinojosa in stunning Texas upset Democrat Gina Hinojosa pulled off a stunning upset in the Texas governor’s race Tuesday, after three-term Gov. Greg Abbott ® conceded the race.

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  Amy Acton defeats Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio governor’s race Democrat Amy Acton is projected to flip the Ohio governor’s mansion, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), after a controversial ad from Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy roiled the closing days of the race.

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  Keisha Lance Bottoms wins the Georgia governor’s race, flipping the office for Democrats NBC News projects that Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, defeated billionaire Republican Rick Jackson in the contest to succeed Gov. Brian Kemp. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has won Georgia’s race for governor, NBC News projects, defeating Republican Rick Jackson and flipping control of the battleground state office for the first time in 24 years. Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta and a former B...

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  Jon Ossoff wins reelection in battleground Georgia