Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has quietly walked back its own numbers weeks after he publicly dismissed reporting that challenged them.The Washington Post reported Saturday that the Defense Department late Friday raised the official count of troops who have died during U.S. operations ag…
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Even Trafalgar Group, a pollster known for its Republican-friendly results, now has Democrat James Talarico leading Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race.Trafalgar’s chief pollster, Robert Cahaly, released the survey on Saturday. Talarico leads Paxton 47.1 percent to 43.6 percent, with Libertarian Ted…
Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon is fundraising off Vice President JD Vance’s attack on her, and she isn’t backing down.“The Vice President of the United States flew into Florida and told a cheering crowd that I don’t belong in America,” Nixon, the Democratic nominee, wrote in a fundraising emai…
Nate Silver has been tracking Donald Trump’s approval rating since the start of his second term, and one thing about the trend stands out to him. It just keeps going down.“Kind of striking how persistent the decline in Trump’s approval rating has been,” Silver wrote on X on Saturday.“There’s been me…
The Trump administration says it hasn’t decided what to do with the historic D.C. golf course President Donald Trump wants to rebuild. That isn’t stopping it from cutting down hundreds of the course’s trees, and critics are furious.National Park Service crews begin another major round of cutting Sat…
A Republican operative working on battleground races offered a bleak verdict on whether President Donald Trump can still turn things around for his party.This operative, who was granted anonymity to speak freely, told Politico in a report on Saturday that Trump has no moves left to reverse Republica…
President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary appears to have tried to scrub parts of her online past before taking the role.Katie Zacharia, named to the post Friday, has a “sordid online history” she seemingly worked to wipe from view, The Bulwark reported Saturday.Zacharia previously se…
A Trump Cabinet member’s wife drew backlash with a claim about children killed in war that critics branded an “outrageous lie.”Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, whose husband Sean Duffy serves as President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary, claimed Saturday that Ukraine has killed “a million …
Donald Trump this week, once again, dangled his $5,000 bribe for voters, provided they let Republicans win the mid-term election. In his sick mind, Trump believes that the American people are just as corruptible and lawless as he is, willing to be bought for 5,000 foul-smelling smackers.Bribery has …
A slow-rolling change buried in President Donald Trump’s signature law is hitting Americans’ wallets right as Republicans need their votes most.Politico reported Saturday that changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, pushed through in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are taking effec…