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  • California Democrat flips final House seat, dealing Republicans narrow majority

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  • Democrats flip seat in California's Central Valley in nation's final outstanding House race

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  • Opinion: Michael Ian Black: What I Found Out About Trump Supporters by Making Them Laugh

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  • Republican Austin Theriault ends recount, conceding to Democratic US Rep. Jared Golden

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Austin Theriault on Wednesday ended a recount in his congressional race in Maine and conceded to Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, bringing to an end the closely watched contest a month after Election Day.

  • Opinion - Democrats, forget ‘resistance’ and focus on ‘betrayal’

    There are a few things Democrats can do right now to drive down support for the GOP agenda and position ourselves to start winning again.

  • Trump Opening Sprint Imperiled by Slim Final GOP House Tally

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  • MAGA Meltdown as Trump Considers DeSantis to Replace Hegseth

    Some in MAGA Nation are upset that Donald Trump is considering Ron DeSantis to replace Pete Hegseth as his pick for defense secretary—both because the Florida governor once ran a primary campaign against the president-elect and also because he has so far been unwilling to make Trump’s daughter-in-law a senator. Trump’s mulling of DeSantis comes as Hegseth, the former Fox News host who Trump controversially chose to head the Department of Defense, has faced accusations of sexual assault, infideli

  • Trump cites Biden pardon in asking NYC judge to toss Stormy Daniels hush-money case

    NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s attorneys have asked the judge who presided over his criminal hush money case to dismiss the indictment and vacate the jury’s guilty verdicts — arguing their client is a victim of the same “raw politics” President Joe Biden cited in pardoning his son, Hunter, according to filings made public Tuesday. “President Biden argued that ‘raw politics has infected this process ...

  • Fox News loses bid for Smartmatic voting-tech company's records about Philippines bribery case

    Smartmatic won't be required to give Fox News a trove of information about U.S. federal charges against the voting machine company's co-founder over alleged bribery in the Philippines, a judge ruled Thursday.

  • Alex Cooper Says Trump Campaign Reached Out About Going on ‘Call Her Daddy’

    Alex Cooper, host of the raunchy yet hugely popular podcast Call Her Daddy, revealed Wednesday Donald Trump‘s campaign had reached out about a potential interview ahead of the election, but she decided to feature Kamala Harris instead. During a wide-ranging interview event at the DealBook Summit in New York City, Cooper said that both major-party candidates had approached her show about being interviewed, according to Variety. “We had a Zoom call with Trump’s team,” she said, but added: “I wasn’

  • Sarah Silverman: ‘No one’ wants to hear from celebrities on politics

    Comedian Sarah Silverman said she did not campaign during the 2024 election cycle because, in part, she sensed “no one” wanted to hear from celebrities. “I was on the road with this tour, for one thing,” Silverman said in an interview with The Minnesota Star Tribune, when asked why she wasn’t more involved the Trump…

  • ‘Long way to go’ for Tories to return as political contenders, says Mel Stride

    The shadow chancellor said he was optimistic about the party’s future under Kemi Badenoch, who he described as an ‘interesting’ individual.

  • Former Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown to testify on Indian interference allegations

    Former Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown will testify later today before a parliamentary committee investigating claims that India has meddled in Canadian politics.His appearance comes just a few days after Radio-Canada reported, based on confidential sources, that agents of the Indian government attempted to derail Brown's 2022 Conservative Party leadership run.Sources told Radio-Canada that Brown's national campaign co-chair, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, allegedly was

  • Trump picks Kelly Loeffler to lead Small Business Administration

    President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced former Sen. Kelly Loeffler as his pick to lead the Small Business Administration.

  • MSNBC Chief Rashida Jones Mulls Exit After Trump Win, Ratings Crash | Report

    The exec led the liberal-leaning cable news channel to its first ratings win over CNN on election night The post MSNBC Chief Rashida Jones Mulls Exit After Trump Win, Ratings Crash | Report appeared first on TheWrap.

  • US concerned about potential interference in Romanian election

    BUCHAREST (Reuters) -The U.S. voiced concern about potential foreign interference in Romania's presidential election after the declassification of documents showing the country was a target of "aggressive hybrid Russian attacks" during a period of three consecutive ballots. Having previously polled in single digits, pro-Russia ultranationalist Calin Georgescu surged to victory in the first presidential election round on Nov. 24, causing widespread surprise in the European Union and NATO member state. Documents declassified by Romania's top security council on Wednesday showed Georgescu was massively promoted on social media platform TikTok through coordinated accounts, recommendation algorithms and paid promotion.

  • Tight race for the North Carolina Supreme Court is heading to another recount

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The very close election for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat heads next to a hand recount even as election officials announced a machine recount of over 5.5 million ballots resulted in no margin change between the candidates.

  • What happened to Sinn Féin? Ireland’s opposition fails to make electoral breakthrough

    After making impressive gains in 2020, Sinn Féin was tipped to finally make it into government this year. It’s failure to do so will prompt an internal shake up.

  • Opinion - The Democrats’ misogyny trap

    Blaming misogyny not only is sure to turn off millions of voters — even worse, it is likely to prove toxic when it comes time to select the Democratic nominee in 2028.