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(Headline USA) Elon Musk, the world's only trillionaire, has quietly become the biggest known donor in this year's midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress. The numbers, first reported by the New York Times ahead of this week's federal...

(Headline USA) Chuck Schumer has won and lost Senate majorities since becoming Democratic leader a decade ago. But this year’s midterm elections could be his most important yet, with some in the party having said he needs to step down and make way for a new generation. Schumer, who has...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, has denied rumors that he was at a mental hospital earlier this month. Talarico addressed the issue Sunday in an interview with local NBC reporter Phil Prazan, attributing his recent nine-day absence to having the flu....

(José Niño, Headline USA) On Monday, the Justice Department announced charges involving 16 people in election related cases across the country, including alleged illegal voting by noncitizens, fraudulent voter registration, multiple voting, and an alleged attempt to cast a deceased person’s ballot. The cases span at least 10 federal districts...

(Headline USA) A bipartisan group of six senators on Sunday called for President Donald Trump's administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices. Trump shocked lawmakers when he announced on social media Friday that he...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) A majority of American voters are concerned with socialist candidates running and possibly winning political office, according to a new poll. The Center Square Voters’ Voice poll found that 55% of American voters are concerned about Democratic Socialist candidates running for and winning elected office...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that Russia and Ukraine agreed to halt attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure, repeating a claim he made nearly a month ago that turned out not to be true. “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia...

(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Russia to supply millions of tons of diesel to the US and global markets.  The announcement came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Washington’s approach to negotiations with Moscow. “I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with...

(Headline USA) An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said. It's the latest example of AI models acting in unintended ways and manipulating government and other websites during tests. In a report Friday, Anthropic also disclosed...

(Headline USA) Pope Leo XIV on Saturday declared capital punishment ''inadmissible" as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad. In a post on X, the American pope quoted the revised Catholic teaching on capital punishment...

(Headline USA) Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike, 50, was discharged from the hospital and is back at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the women’s prison where she was housed for 30 years,...

(Headline USA)U.S. Homeland Security officials said Friday that immigration officers feared for their lives when they shot a man driving with his young son in New York, wounding him and sparking protests in the city. Local police released surveillance camera and body camera footage of the chaotic moments before and...