3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (445+ words) Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman made a surprise appearance at the RNC. In a pre-recorded video, Fetterman introduced Pennsylvania’s Republican Senator Dave McCormick as his “great friend,” pledged to work with President Trump and took a swipe at the surging…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (292+ words) The Republican Party kicked off its first-ever midterm political convention on Wednesday in Dallas, Texas. At least 33 House Republicans and several others locked in tight Senate races opted to skip the two-day event, which comes with President Trump’s approval ratings…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (434+ words) Iranian media is reporting several explosions rang out early this morning in coastal areas of southern Iran. The apparent U.S. attacks came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned it would target oil tankers docked in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (260+ words) The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a sweeping overhaul of the 2030 census, proposing to no longer count immigrants without green cards or ask about race and ethnicity. The proposed regulation would also bar the census from asking about sexual orientation....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (212+ words) In Missouri, a pair of court rulings has thrown planning for November’s midterm elections into chaos. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to allow Republicans to use a Trump-backed map gerrymandered to target Democratic Congressmember Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (192+ words) The Postal Service’s inspector general says it will review a whistleblower’s warning that the Trump administration’s new mail-in voting rule could result in thousands of legal ballots being discarded. The new rule would require states to hand over lists of…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (241+ words) The Trump administration has renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots ahead of November’s midterm elections. The request followed a U.S. district judge’s decision to extend an order barring the Postal Service from carrying…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (110+ words) Trump's Cabinet Democracy Now! You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else. Watch Democracy Now!'s coverage of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks. “Genuinely Terrifying Prospect”: Greenwald on Palin, Giuliani & Bolton Serving in Trump’s Cabinet - Sep 6 Chicago,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (360+ words) Ahead of the November midterm elections, Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third. Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, will have just 224 polling sites for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (416+ words) An anonymous federal whistleblower has warned that the Trump administration’s new system for handling mail ballots through the U.S. Postal Service is untested, fatally flawed and likely to lead to a “catastrophic failure” if it’s implemented…...