
The Hill - 4 hours 58 min ago
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on Wednesday criticized Vice President Vance's online post where he blamed the war in Iran for the Republican Party's defeat in the midterms. "Last night, the American people delivered a crystal-clear message about the mismanagement of this war, and what it has done to our pocketbooks," Slotkin wrote in a post...

NBC News - 5 hours 1 min ago
President Donald Trump cemented the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority through three appointments. NBC News' Lawrence Hurley details what Democratic control of the Senate means for the judicial appointees the president can make.

The Guardian - 5 hours 16 min ago
For a decade, good-hearted citizens witnessed horrors and insisted: This is not America.' Finally, the conversation has shifted For the past 10 years such brutally discouraging years in the United States we've been hearing good-hearted citizens put forth something they believed to their bones. "This is not America," they would insist as federal agents shot people on city streets, as immigrants were called rapists and animals, as Donald Trump and his cronies stuffed their own pockets...

The Hill - 5 hours 38 min ago
President Trump said Thursday morning he intends to keep Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his current role, but acknowledged it would be easier to confirm someone new to lead the Pentagon before Democrats take control of Congress next year. The president told ABC News's Jonathan Karl that he has "every intention" for Hegseth to remain...

CNBC - 5 hours 50 min ago
Democrats in Congress could impose tougher rules on crypto and investigate President Donald Trump, ushering in a tougher era for the industry.

Variety - 6 hours 10 min ago
Jimmy Kimmel predictably roasted U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican party in his late-night monologue on Wednesday following the Democrats’ big win in the midterm elections. In what’s been coined a “blue wave,” the Democratic party took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday’s elections, and also flipped governorships […]...

The Guardian - 6 hours 16 min ago
Trump is still president, and we don't know where things will go from here but sometimes it just feels good to see some terrible people have a terrible time The last couple of days have been very bad for Donald Trump. Of course, in Trump's usual style, he is denying that the Republican loss at the midterms has anything to do with him but we all know it does. While I fear the Democrats will not use this decisive moment to exercise some ambition and take meaningful action, the goings-on of...

TMZ - 6 hours 31 min ago
Melania Trump is no fan of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration deportation policy, and she has complained about it to close advisors over the past year, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported that the First Lady…...

The Guardian - 6 hours 33 min ago
President's lawyers will try to persuade appeals court to toss criminal trial verdict over $130,000 sent to Stormy Daniels Donald Trump's legal team on Thursday plan to continue efforts to get his 2024 conviction in the hush money election corruption case thrown out. Attorneys for the US president will try to persuade a New York appeals court to toss the criminal trial verdict from May 2024, when Trump was found guilty on all charges of falsifying business records in the hush-money corruption...

The Guardian - 6 hours 40 min ago
European far-right leaders quick to distance themselves from US president and stress their own priorities Europe live latest updates US midterms live latest updates The historic Republican defeat in the US midterm elections has forcibly reminded Europe's far-right leaders of their perennial Donald Trump dilemma: they may love his nativist agenda, but the man himself is a toxic electoral liability. Since his re-election in 2024, European populist leaders such as Marine Le Pen in France and Giorgia...

The Guardian - 7 hours 42 min ago
Criticism of US-Israel war on Iran seen as huge factor in Democrats' sweeping victory. Plus, a spiky customer steps into a North Carolina bagel store Good morning. Donald Trump has accepted the results of the US midterm elections as the system held up against attempts at election interference. His administration had waged an aggressive effort to sow doubt about the results in advance, but the worst fears have not been realized. "It was essentially too big to rig," an unnamed Trump adviser...

The Hill - 8 hours 2 min ago
In today's issue: How the midterms affect the Iran war Johnson to stand down as leader Outstanding Alaska, Mississippi ballots GOP gerrymandering backfires The Democratic sweep that stunned much of Washington on Tuesday night could drastically shorten President Trump's runway to end the war in Iran, which even he conceded was...

NBC News - 8 hours 3 min ago
President Donald Trump is deflecting blame for his party's sweeping midterm losses even as Vice President JD Vance says it was the Iran war that cost his party. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.

The Guardian - 9 hours 16 min ago
Polling done for the Guardian shows plummeting support from a former key constituency of Donald Trump's base Polling conducted by the Harris Poll for the Guardian before the election shows just how angry voters were and points to one key reason Republicans lost so badly: plummeting support from rural voters, once a key constituency of Donald Trump's base. Over the summer, 95% of Americans indicated they believed there was an affordability crisis , particularly because of steep gas and grocery...

The Guardian - 9 hours 16 min ago
Senior leaders say party will be united' in focus, but progressives call on party to take radical action Progressive Democrats have declared that significant US midterm election wins across the country are as much a repudiation of their own party's political establishment as of Donald Trump's presidency. After a string of left-wing candidates scored stunning victories from Texas to Michigan, senior Democratic leaders have stressed the party's new representatives in Washington will...

The New Yorker - 9 hours 17 min ago
Donald Trump's war of choice with Iran a strategic debacle that has hurt ordinary Americans is at the heart of a historic rebuke to his Presidency and his party.

ABC News - 10 hours 1 min ago
Two and a half years after a jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felony counts in his hush money case, the president's lawyers are seeking to have the verdict overturned.

The Guardian - 10 hours 17 min ago
A Democratic sweep has changed Washington's balance of power. But from gambling legislation to stadium subsidies, both parties have helped build the system that enriches American sports' billionaire owners Before a single vote was cast this election cycle, the technocrats and oligarchs who own American sports had already voted. Pro sports owners put more than $100m into this cycle, according to Front Office Sports. But Tuesday night was a referendum not just on Donald Trump and Maga policies...

Rolling Stone - 10 hours 18 min ago
"Last night Americans treated Donald Trump like he was the East Wing of the White House," Jimmy Kimmel quipped...

The Guardian - 11 hours 17 min ago
Democrats' success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich life for billionaires could become much more difficult The photo of Silicon Valley centi-billionaires at Donald Trump's inauguration Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, front row and side by side now looks like a hitlist for a blue Congress hellbent on making life difficult for billionaires. The picture symbolized at the time the bending of the knee by the richest men in the world to its most powerful, a symbiosis of...

The Guardian - 11 hours 17 min ago
Administration had waged aggressive bid to sow doubt about midterms results but worst fears were not realized In the months leading up to the midterm elections, Donald Trump's administration waged an aggressive effort to sow doubt about the results, intimidate voters and election officials, and signal they would use the power of the federal government to challenge the electoral process. But when the results came in Tuesday night, revealing a massive blowout for the GOP, Trump did something almost...

Huffington Post - 11 hours 40 min ago
The conservative website mocked the president's newfound status.

Huffington Post - 12 hours 26 min ago
Just one sticker was all it took to make a powerful statement about Donald Trump's political fortunes following the 2026 midterms.

The Guardian - 13 hours 16 min ago
Guardian analysis shows how tumbling approval ratings may have hurt candidates backed by US president Track live results from all 50 states Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats' blue wave' Dozens of Republican candidates directly endorsed by Donald Trump lost their US midterm election races, according to analysis by the Guardian, raising questions over the power of the president's support. In past elections, Trump's endorsements have been coveted. In...