Hasan Piker, a controversial Twitch streamer and far-left activist who has supported several challengers against moderate Democrats, celebrated the victory of Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in a primary contest that pitted the 80-year-old progressive stalwart against a far younger and more centrist candidate.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, who has cultivated a relatively conservative reputation while representing Massachusetts for the past quarter-century, has defeated a well-funded progressive challenger.Patrick Roath, an attorney and one-time aide for former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, challenged Lynch from the left, outraising him by about $300,000. Lynch and Roath clashed over a number of issues on the campaign trail, namely immigration, healthcare, money in politics and housing.
The progressive push to unseat a veteran Democratic power broker fell short Tuesday, when Rep. Richard Neal defeated high school teacher Jeromie Whalen in Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District primary.Neal, 77, has represented western Massachusetts in Congress for nearly four decades and has built considerable influence as the top Democrat on the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.
A former Biden administration aide just won a crowded primary race in Massachusetts, setting up a glide path to the House of Representatives come November.Dan Koh came out first among six candidates to replace Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who ended his House tenure with a failed run for Senate against incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., that came to a conclusion Tuesday night.
House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark toppled two progressive challengers Tuesday in Massachusetts’ safely Democratic 5th Congressional District, surviving a primary fight that put Gaza and pro-Israel political spending at the center of the race.Clark, who won handily Tuesday night against fellow Democratic Party contenders Jonathan Paz and Tarik Samman, was first elected in 2013 during a special election and has held her position as House Democratic whip since 2022.
The Trump administration is preparing to ease federal fuel economy rules for cars and trucks, undoing stricter requirements adopted under former President Joe Biden.
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Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Princeton University professor and network contributor Eddie Glaude, Jr. said Republicans are “white supremacists.” Host Alicia Menendez said, “Michigan is the state that is paying the most of any state in the country because of
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Shocking video shows a knife-wielding woman — who stabbed two people in Times Square — charging at NYPD officers before being fatally shot.
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President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Iran could be “totally wiped out as a country” if it continued its attacks on U.S. forces, as Tehran launched a new ballistic missile barrage targeting American military facilities in Jordan following a wave of U.S. strikes on Iran.
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during a Breitbart News Fight Club Roundtable that he believes China is helping fund opposition to artificial intelligence data centers, while arguing that the country should consider the effects on the electrical grid and water resources without putting itself at a disadvantage in the competition over AI.
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He has reason to be optimistic.
An economic argument is not complete until it explains what economic freedom allows human beings to build.
The Supreme Court was right to sit out the dance between Trump and Congress over the ballroom renovations.
The Iran war, the China threat, and the perils of limited military advice.
The House of Representatives is back in town after not voting since July 23.But the House is only back for less than a week. And the Senate doesn’t even return until Monday, September 14.The first day of school, this is not.House members descending on the Capitol this week – then abandoning Washington for Labor Day is kind of like the third and final preseason game in the NFL.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) called for a “COVID reckoning,” saying officials involved in the government’s pandemic response must be exposed and held accountable.
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Monday that the coronavirus pandemic opened his eyes to the extent of corruption across the federal government.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to “move away from endless war” and find a resolution to his ongoing invasion of Ukraine during a meeting on Monday.
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President Donald Trump has struck deals with nine more pharmaceutical companies to slash drug prices for patients.
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House Republicans are teeing up a pair of bills this week to put Democrats on the record about where they stand on their party’s socialist insurgency.The House Rules Committee just advanced a resolution to condemn socialism during its Monday meeting, with no Democrats voting in favor of moving it forward. Democrats, in fact, criticized the resolution as a waste of time.Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
As the AI boom drives an unprecedented hunt for electricity, two states are taking sharply different approaches to assuage fears that Big Tech’s massive energy needs will raise Americans’ utility bills.New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s approach is to set statewide ground rules before large data centers connect to the grid.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.The resignation remains pending and has not been accepted by the White House, the official said.A source familiar with the matter told Fox News that Driscoll had raised concerns with the administration about the Army’s transformation and readiness, including his belief that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had hindered those efforts.
Vice President JD Vance urged Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed during a rally on Monday to focus on substantive policy issues instead of attacking his wife.”I actually think that the people of Michigan think it’s kind of weird when you talk about another guy’s wife,” Vance said at a metro Detroit rally organized by MAGA Inc., a super PAC aligned with the president.
Democrat Texas U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico is now openly campaigning on raising Americans’ taxes.
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Nagging doubts from an early adopter.
There is only so much Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent can accomplish by clever maneuvers to ease its associated costs and vulnerabilities.
Escalating interest payments have brought our day of reckoning into view.
We saw it in how she tried to live her life. Being a little more Dolly could help us all.
The author knows intimately that many of the people making a substantive difference deserve capes.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy on Sunday teased an upcoming announcement about the Trump administration’s fraud crackdown.In a post on X, Duffy said there would be “unprecedented fraud crackdown” announcement on Monday.”TOMORROW: UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD CRACKDOWN,” the secretary wrote.