“The White House on Wednesday declassified information claiming the FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was acting as an asset for Russia when he fired FBI Director James Comey, a theory an administration official said was not backed up by evidence,” CBS News reports. “The official said the investigation, known as Oxford Comma, […]

Nate Silver: “Abdul El-Sayed leads Haley Stevens by only 1.4 points in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate with 95+ percent of the vote counted in Michigan. The margin is narrow, but when there aren’t a lot of votes left, will be hard for Stevens to make up. El-Sayed has been declared the winner by […]

“Iran’s leadership has made a high-stakes calculation in its showdown with President Trump: maintaining control over the Strait of Hormuz is a nonnegotiable red line,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “By asserting authority over a critical waterway for global crude-oil flows, Tehran is betting that its ability to inflict pain on the American economy is […]

Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) dropped his re-election bid early Wednesday after the House Ethics Committee recommended his censure over sexual harassment issues, Axios reports.

“The Democratic establishment couldn’t get some of its candidates over the line. The party’s rising left wing couldn’t win some key races. Republicans in two red states couldn’t convince voters to change election rules to make their party stronger,” Semafor reports. “Tuesday’s primaries refused to settle into one of the storylines written in the weeks […]

“Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s slugfest of a Democratic Senate primary, clinching the nomination in a close race over Rep. Haley Stevens and establishing a Midwest beachhead for a progressive left on the march this midterm cycle,” NBC News reports. “El-Sayed overcame a nearly $65 million onslaught of outside money and an establishment that had […]

“Democrat William Lawrence, a co-founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement, has won his party’s primary in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District — a big victory for the insurgent left that also sets up a dramatic general election contrast with Republicans in a crucial battleground seat,” NBC News reports.

“Speaker Mike Johnson broke days of silence on explosive allegations of domestic abuse by Rep. Max Miller, calling for investigations to play out as Miller’s former father-in-law, a GOP senator, calls him unfit for office and Republican operatives fret about losing his Ohio House seat,” Politico reports. Said Johnson: “I haven’t spoken to Max about […]

“A domestic drama involving a House lawmaker and his former father-in-law, a U.S. senator, has shocked Capitol Hill and prompted escalating accusations with both personal and political consequences,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The messy back-and-forth between two Ohio Republicans—Rep. Max Miller and Sen. Bernie Moreno—briefly took over Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s weekly press […]

“Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, a vulnerable Democrat running for re-election, plans to tap a longtime Republican and former mayor of a Phoenix suburb to serve as her running mate,” the New York Times reports. “John Giles, a former mayor of Mesa, Ariz. is expected to be announced in the coming days as Ms. Hobbs’s […]

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) threatened Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) — his former father-in-law — with “exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter” in a CNN interview. He appears to be alluding to unverified whispers that Moreno is gay.

“Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have required state Supreme Court justices to be popularly elected rather than appointed by the governor, dealing another setback to Republican lawmakers trying to overturn a decision that established a constitutional right to abortion,” the New York Times reports. “That ruling in 2019 has preserved […]

“Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) was projected to once again defeat Cori Bush (D) in the Democratic primary and retain his seat in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

“The Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, the party’s most divisive and costly this year, headed for a consequential outcome Tuesday night in a race that will answer whether a progressive and socialist groundswell has reached a political battleground,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The fight between Abdul El-Sayed, a former local public health official, and […]

“Maryland lawmakers took a first step toward redrawing their congressional map during a special session on Tuesday, passing a constitutional amendment that could open the door for Democrats to pick up the only Republican seat in the state’s nine-member congressional delegation ahead of 2028,” NOTUS reports. NBC News: Democrats put redistricting amendment on Maryland’s midterm […]

“Missouri’s Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said Tuesday that he wouldn’t certify a referendum seeking to undo the state’s new GOP-drawn congressional map, arguing that the effort was unconstitutional,” NBC News reports. “The announcement is set to further fuel the legal battle over the new map Missouri lawmakers approved 11 months ago that carved […]

Voters are going to the polls in five states to choose who will face off in November’s midterm elections. The focus is on the Michigan Senate race, but there are hundreds of contests on the ballot. Here are the poll closing times: Virginia: 7 p.m. ET. Kansas: 8 p.m. ET Michigan: 8 p.m. ET Missouri: […]

“Rep. Max Miller insisted that he will continue to seek reelection to his Ohio House seat as he battles domestic abuse allegations, comparing himself to President Donald Trump in refusing to yield to calls to step aside,” Politico reports. Said Miller: “People have asked me, what are you going to do? Are you going to […]

“Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved to within a single vote of winning confirmation to lead the Justice Department, but his path narrowed after Maine Sen. Susan Collins, one of three remaining Republican holdouts, announced Tuesday evening she will vote against his nomination as it finally heads toward the Senate floor,” NOTUS reports. Axios: […]

The Economist: “For years the world has feared that Iran has been pursuing nuclear arms. Five months of war have taught the country’s rulers they were already in possession of a formidable weapon.” “Geography and firepower give them de facto command of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and […]

“President Trump’s angry claim on Monday that Iran was being ‘unbelievably duplicitous’ in its dealings with the United States was just the latest sign of his struggle to understand his rivals in Tehran,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Trump considers himself a master of sizing up and exploiting his adversaries. But Iran’s leaders have […]

The Economist: “Running as an independent is sufficiently difficult that, at least historically, few politicians have deemed it wise to do so. Independent candidates lack the campaign infrastructure of an established party and, in many states, must collect more signatures to earn a place on a ballot. However aspiring politicians now face a shifting set […]

“The vast majority of people in ICE custody have no criminal conviction, and residing in the U.S. undocumented is typically a civil, not criminal, offense,” Wired reports. “Yet once the DNA profiles of detained people enter the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, law enforcement agencies across the country can compare them against evidence […]

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s pick for Army chief of staff is in jeopardy because of objections from Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and other Republican senators,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Hegseth has been pushing to nominate Gen. Christopher LaNeve, who has served as acting Army chief of staff since Hegseth in April fired the former […]

“Donald Trump’s administration has paid out about $100 billion in tariff refunds since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its use of emergency powers to levy duties on its trading partners earlier this year,” the Financial Times reports.

“After racking up a series of high-profile wins this summer, the left looks ascendant in blue America,” the New York Times reports. “In open Democratic congressional primaries this year, candidates endorsed by progressive-left groups like Our Revolution, Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America have won nearly one-third of contests in places where Kamala […]

“The reports of President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s dead working relationship have been greatly exaggerated,” Fox News reports. Said Thune: “I’ve heard from him twice this morning already. He called me over the weekend, and so there, you know, we talk, I don’t bother him, I’m not calling him every day.”

“Jeanine Pirro had had it up to here with Doug Burgum. The famously voluble U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia strode into the Oval Office late Monday with her future on the line and the interior secretary, whom she privately called an incompetent liar, in her cross hairs,” the New York Times reports. “A […]

“Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and his family promised back in May to help American families bond during vacation season. The plan: The Great American Road Trip, a new online television show starring, well, the Duffys—Sean, his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children,” The Bulwark reports. “The idea is that the Duffys would drive […]

“Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders he is planning to roll back abortion access even in states that have laws protecting it,” NewsNation reports.