Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) finally filed her overdue financial disclosure this week, capping a rough stretch for the Colorado Republican, and one veteran money-and-politics reporter says it shows she’s “broke.”Boebert filed the report Thursday, two days after The Washington Sun reported she had miss…
Month: September 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a message to armed services members in blue cities that’s prompting outcry about bringing politics into his role.On Friday, Hegseth posted a video to his official Secretary of War X account with the headline, “TO OUR WARRIORS—MAKE SURE TO VOTE!” However, onli…
Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée has used her ambassadorship to promote one foreign firm while keeping its paid lobbyist at her side.Kimberly Guilfoyle, whom President Donald Trump named ambassador to Greece, has repeatedly pressed Balkan governments to work with Aktor Group, The Wall Street Journal re…
A federal judge pushed James Comey’s arraignment and trial into 2027 while his motions to throw out the case still await a ruling.U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan granted the delay in an order filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.The order moves th…
The prospect of “nuclear genocide” hangs over Iran after President Donald Trump weighed at the United Nations whether to “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly,” experts warned.National security analyst Joseph Cirincione made that case Friday in an essay for New Lines Magazine.”When he a…
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has held his administration in contempt for deporting a 19-year-old asylum seeker to El Salvador a second time, in violation of three court orders, Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney reported Friday.In Friday’s order, U.S. District …
The 2026 election could become Republicans’ “worst midterm” of the century, with President Donald Trump polling worse on several measures than he did before the GOP’s massive losses in 2018, according to a new CNN analysis. CNN analyst Aaron Blake also compared this year’s bruising numbers for Repub…
Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton has yet to debate his Democratic opponent despite multiple invitations to do so, and on Friday, he was nudged again with a stinging voicemail left by Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico.“Hey Ken, it’s James. I’m calling to invite you to a debate on Fox New…
The University of Maine has contradicted a key claim Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ campaign made while defending her relationship with a defense contractor.ProPublica reporter William Turton revealed Friday that the university disputed Collins campaign manager Steve Abbott’s account of Navatek’s wo…
President Donald Trump keeps reaching for the same two words when his projects and decisions face legal scrutiny: national security.In a new analysis on Friday, The New Republic staff writer Matt Ford argued that the defense has spread from Trump’s White House ballroom to a proposed monument — and n…