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Eileen Higgins is set to become Miami’s first Democratic mayor since 1997 and the first woman ever to lead the city, after Tuesday night’s victory over Trump-backed Republican candidate Emilio Gonzalez to replace term-limited incumbent Mayor Francis Suarez (R). Higgins and Gonzalez were back on the ballot this week in a runoff race after neither…

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) fiercely defended Democrats’ push to redraw congressional maps in Maryland — saying he expects the issue to take on new importance if Republicans succeed at redistricting in Indiana. In a podcast interview on The New Republic’s “The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent,” the Maryland Democrat addressed the resistance from Maryland Senate…

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Wednesday introduced a bill that would pull the United States out of the NATO alliance. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she would co-sponsor the bill, while Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has introduced companion legislation in the upper chamber. “NATO is a Cold War relic. We should withdraw from NATO…

President Trump on Wednesday afternoon welcomed business leaders to the White House for a roundtable discussion. The event comes a day after Trump touted his economic agenda in Pennsylvania. It was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. EST. Watch live above.

CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday pressed Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) about remarks made last year in a Vanity Fair article, when she said the way Latinos talk about immigration reminds her of the “slave mentality.” “The immigration thing has always been something that has perplexed me about this community. It’s basically like, I fought…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is giving remarks Wednesday afternoon after the nation’s central bank made its final interest rate decision of 2025. The committee responsible for setting borrowing costs cut the baseline interest rate to a range of 3.5 to 3.75 percent, a reduction of 0.25 percentage points. It marks the third drop since…

Only one American woman in politics, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, made Forbes’s 2025 list of most powerful women. Wiles, the White House’s first female chief of staff, is ranked 66th on the Forbes list, behind figures like pop star Taylor Swift, television host Oprah Winfrey and General Motors CEO Mary Barra. But…

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed Wednesday that it reached an agreement to purchase Boeing 737 planes for deportation proceedings. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said on the social platform X that the planes will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “operate more effectively, including by using more efficient flight patterns.” McLaughlin added…

The European Union has hit Elon Musk’s X with millions of dollars of fines, and conservatives are very angry about it — in my view, they’re right to be upset. 

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) on Wednesday unveiled an expanded target map for statehouses after notching key wins in the 2025 elections. Democrats are hoping to capture the majority of both chambers in the Arizona and New Hampshire legislatures, while seeking to flip in total about 42 statehouses. The campaign arm has invested $50…

House lawmakers will convene Wednesday afternoon for debate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2026. The mammoth defense spending bill advanced through the House Rules Committee late Tuesday, despite some GOP pushback over some compromises made with Democrats. The $900 billion NDAA is $8 billion more than President Trump requested in…

A majority of Americans who said grocery prices are hard to afford blamed the Trump administration for putting them in that situation, according to a new poll. The Politico Poll, conducted in mid-November, asks those who said grocery prices are “difficult” or “very difficult” to afford who they thought is most responsible: 55 percent said…

In 2018, the president denied using the term to deride Haiti and African nations, but changed his tune at a rally on Tuesday night.

The MS NOW host reminded supporters of President Donald Trump that he won’t be in office forever and argued that the tide of public opinion is already turning.

The podcaster even threw in a Trump impression for good measure.

Foreign tourists to the U.S. could be required to disclose the past five years of their social media activity if a Tuesday rule proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is approved. “In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and…

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) said on Wednesday she filed articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him “the biggest self-created threat to our health and safety.” “RFK Jr. has got to go. Today, I introduced Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office. RFK Jr. has turned…

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 sex-trafficking case can be unsealed. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York, in a four-page decision, cited a law passed last month requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release files related to the late convicted sex…

President Trump went after The New York Times late Tuesday over “seditious” reporting about his health. “The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am ‘slowing up,’ am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that…

Two U.S. military fighter jets flew over the Gulf of Venezuela amid President Trump’s continued pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.  Two U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter planes flew over the gulf in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, spending over half an hour in the area, according to Flightradar24 data.  The training flights appear to…

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander (D) on Wednesday launched a bid to challenge incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) — months after losing the party primary for the city’s mayoral race.  “I’ve spent my life organizing my neighbors to win big fights — stopping evictions, building new housing, desegregating our schools, protecting immigrants from ICE…

President Donald Trump went on an anti-immigration tirade by calling Somalia “filthy.”

American Soybean Association President Caleb Ragland on Tuesday said farmers would need more than President Trump’s $12 billion relief package to overcome losses from new trade policies. “This is a Band-Aid on an open wound. And, again, we’re thankful that there’s something that will help keep some farms in business, but what we truly need…

The “Last Word” host on Tuesday said that “there is nothing more” the president could do “to prove that he absolutely does not care.”

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said his controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was “somewhat successful” in a new podcast episode. “We’re a little bit successful, we were somewhat successful. I mean, we stopped a lot of funding for — that really just made no sense, that was just entirely wasteful,” Musk said on a Tuesday…