POLITICS

(Adam Herbets, The Center Square) Some of the biggest checks in California politics never touch a campaign account. Most of them were written because Gov. Gavin Newsom asked for the money, totaling more than $340 million. Elected officials are increasingly taking advantage of state laws that allow them to solicit...

(Headline USA) U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, said his former son-in-law, U.S. Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, should not be serving in the House and should “seek professional help” as Miller defended himself against allegations of domestic abuse in a live video on X on Sunday. Moreno, who has been publicly restrained...

(Headline USA) Ken Martin is in survival mode. Desperate to save his job as chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is avoiding media appearances, monitoring his critics' social media posts and refusing — at least so far — to make any substantive changes at his troubled organization. A half dozen state...

(Headline USA) Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after a car accident in Toledo on Sunday morning, her office said Sunday. Kaptur, 80, was a passenger in a vehicle headed to a church service “when the car she was traveling in was struck,” the statement from...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A newly resurfaced interview from 2023 shows that Francesca Hong, the frontrunner to win Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, has mental health issues. https://twitter.com/PeterBernegger/status/2083375592020320503 Following the withdrawal of former Lt. Gov. (and failed 2024 Senate candidate) Mandela Barnes, the socialist-aligned Hong was enjoying a decisive lead going into...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison. https://twitter.com/SchulteLaura/status/2083196716069609728 The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left cities where the destructive and disruptive occupation is openly encouraged by government officials. Investigative reporter...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Democratic party elites in Maine are facing more criticism over their sub-par vetting process amid reports that new Senate nominee Troy Jackson has sex with his cousin. https://twitter.com/magills_/status/2082969202046984276 After using a loophole in the primary process to swap out duly nominated Graham Platner, an alleged Nazi rapist,...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Drug paraphernalia is among the growing list of taxpayer-funded perks given to homeless individuals in California, according to an undercover investigation by journalist Christopher Rufo. Rufo’s investigation targeted the Skid Row Care Campus, an infamous public-private facility in downtown Los Angeles that provides services to the homeless. In...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A clip of Vivek Ramaswamy walking out on a libertarian youth convention tore through X this week, driven largely by a post from the account The Constitutionalist. The video catches Ohio's Republican nominee for governor watching a right leaning audience turn on him in the...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A senior Trump appointee stands accused of pushing a State Department colleague and vowing to beat him inside the agency's Washington headquarters, according to a formal complaint the Daily Mail obtained. Ali Motamedi, a special assistant to the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, says Gavin Wax...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) During the 13th cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second term, the president indicated he expects more back-and-forth strikes with Iran as he tells reporters he is “losing faith” in the Islamic Republic. The president expressed frustration with the Iranian regime, adding that “they do...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Marine Corps says the pilot of an F-35B stealth fighter is expected to live after ejecting from the jet before it crashed in California. The jet went down Friday near the Miramar air base in San Diego. A Marines statement called it a “Class A mishap.”...