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A stunning electoral upset just lost President Donald Trump the "biggest prize" — as his allies abroad topple, a political expert told Raw Story on Monday.
Democrats are preparing for a doomsday scenario in which House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tries to keep their members from taking their seats if the party wins a majority next week, and one top Democrat has named the move that would set off alarms.
President Donald Trump's planned 250-foot triumphal arch would send a creeping darkness across the graves of America's fallen, stretching over more than 75,000 burial sites at Arlington National Cemetery in a year, according to a new analysis.
President Donald Trump's boast that the United States is making a fortune from the Iran war — even as Americans face high gas prices — has fueled a provocative theory from The New Republic's Michael Tomasky.
MS NOW's Jen Psaki opened her show eight days before the midterms by mocking Republicans' outrage over a joke former President Barack Obama made about President Donald Trump's gold-heavy White House renovations.
A political analyst spotted a disturbing scheme tucked away in the Department of Justice's lawsuit seeking to preemptively halt the certification of the state's Senate election.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) sparked outrage Monday after he used a slur to describe a Democratic Senate candidate.
A pair of GOP tried to defend President Donald Trump's White House renovations on Monday night, only for their remarks to instantly backfire.
A federal judge issued a blistering order Monday night concerning President Donald Trump's attempts to renovate the East Potomac Golf Course in Washington, D.C.
Fort Bend County Judge Daniel Wong, a Republican seeking a full term, is facing backlash over a campaign video featuring AI-generated Black "supporters" praising him for help with work, groceries and light bills, the Houston Chronicle reported.
President Donald Trump's Justice Department faced a wave of ridicule Monday after a federal appeals court rejected its emergency effort to intervene in California's election.
Former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah blasted President Donald Trump's Justice Department on Monday after former FBI Director James Comey was hit with a third round of criminal charges, calling the latest case part of a "pattern of harassment.
In a speech at Catholic University's law school, Justice Elena Kagan said the American public sees a troubling political system, and Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and legal commentator Madiba Dennie say that's a pointed warning about the Supreme Court itself.
President Donald Trump's Justice Department suffered a legal setback Monday after a federal appeals court ruled 2-1 against the administration's effort to force California to set aside ballots from more than 20,000 voters suspected of being noncitizens.
A crowd at a Republican rally in Montana groaned as Vice President JD Vance, campaigning for the party's midterm candidates, mispronounced the name of Helena, the state capital.
President Donald Trump lashed out at former President Barack Obama for overlooking "filth" after Obama mocked Trump's White House renovations as a Cheesecake Factory opened by a dictator.
President Donald Trump's team is preparing to discredit Republican election losses, a White House source told Raw America, warning that administration staffers are concerned about what could follow the midterms.
Vice President JD Vance's Montana rally was thrown off course Monday when a heckler began shouting from the crowd, setting off boos and "USA" chants as she was escorted out.
Republican candidates heading into next week's midterms drew less than a fifth of small-dollar donations to congressional campaigns, a haul election forecaster G. Elliott Morris called "just apocalyptic.
A Libertarian candidate for state Senate in North Carolina has been posting on X about what he describes as a police pursuit on Monday, hours after he wrote that he planned to end his life.
Former Democratic Rep. Max Rose shot down reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is eyeing a Senate seat in Tennessee, predicting on MS NOW that President Donald Trump will fire him as soon as the midterms are over.
A former Republican governor of South Carolina is backing the Democrat in the state's U.S. Senate race, teaming up with the Democrat who ousted him from office nearly three decades ago.
Republican campaigns and political groups have sharply slowed their spending at President Donald Trump's businesses in recent months as his approval rating has fallen, according to an analysis of federal campaign finance records.
Jaws dropped at new allegations against President Donald Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche released by House Judiciary Committee Democrats in a new report on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
North Carolina was supposed to be the Republicans' backstop.
Attorney General Todd Blanche exposed his "criminal intent" to help President Donald Trump "steal the midterms" when he lashed out at a CNN host, a longtime legal journalist argued.
A MAGA lawmaker crusading to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her citizenship refused to spare first lady Melania Trump and Elon Musk from his sweeping deportation push.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) used a Wall Street Journal op-ed this weekend to tear into President Donald Trump's approach to Russia, and buried at the end was a warning that Trump's end-of-year agenda could hang in the balance.
Podcaster Megyn Kelly was called out by a former friend and Fox News colleague for sneering at actress Christina Applegate, who recently learned that her illness is not multiple sclerosis (MS).
House Judiciary Committee Democrats on Monday released a 52-page staff report accusing President Donald Trump of being "an active participant" in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women in the 1990s, and accusing his Justice Department of covering it up.
Embattled Vivek Ramaswamy's bid to keep Ohio's governorship in Republican hands suffered another body blow over the weekend due to his ugly attack on his opponent, Amy Acton.
U.S. forces in the Middle East are ready to launch major new military operations against Iran "within 96 hours of receiving" an order from President Donald Trump, and that order most likely won't come until after the midterm elections.
In his longest Truth Social post ever, Trump called his dinner with Bill Maher “a waste of time.” In the same post, he wrote, “Overall, I thought it was a good meeting.”
A senior Republican campaign official is warning that Democratic attack ads centered on Jeffrey Epstein could depress Republican turnout next Tuesday, Politico Playbook reported Monday.
A push to end women’s right to vote, which began as a trolling joke, is gaining ground on the right, Salon’s Amanda Marcotte writes. A pastor tied to Pete Hegseth supports repealing the 19th Amendment, and says Hegseth invited him to preach at the Pentagon.
All an MS NOW host could say was "wow," after watching a supercut of Donald Trump droning on before an almost silent Georgia crowd at a rally this weekend compared to former President Barack Obama firing up loud and excited crowds in Michigan and Ohio.
President Donald Trump all but shut down illegal border crossings, and in a South Texas county that helped power his 2024 comeback, that success is now turning into a political problem for Republicans, The Washington Post reported.
The Republican Party was accused of shielding South Carolina Senate candidate Darline Graham (R), who is barely campaigning for the election next Tuesday according to former DNC chair Jaime Harrison.
A group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers is launching a new organization to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that they say President Donald Trump's Justice Department is ignoring.
Bombshell report flags possible crime in Trump DOJ’s Epstein ‘cover-up’
John Oliver spent a chunk of his Sunday night Last Week Tonight broadcast puzzling over a noise that came out of President Donald Trump's mouth at a South Carolina rally, and jabbed that it wasn't produced by a human.
A former beauty pageant contestant who previously said she fought off a sexual advance from President Donald Trump in 1993 now says he raped her.
Forensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee said Sunday that the judge in Donald Trump's New York criminal case should have ordered a "hospital-level evaluation" of him before sentencing.