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With immigration issues losing their "sting," Texas Republicans are ramping up efforts to target an "old enemy" in an effort to keep voters motivated: Islam.According to a report from The New York Times on Tuesday, "Republican officials and candidates in Texas have shifted their rhetorical attack lines" in recent months. While the party had put a heavy focus on issues surrounding the border with Mexico and immigration, it is now delving into Islamophobic rhetoric and targeting the state's increasing Muslim population, with language and rhetoric that "echoes" the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks."Ads for Senator John Cornyn of Texas have touted his fight

CNN data analyst Harry Enten sorts through revealing polls and surveys of American attitudes, looking for shifts, and his latest finding is an indictment of President Donald Trump from members of his own party. Speaking with Kate Bolduan on Tuesday, Enten explored patriotism among young Americans. His report comes after Olympians spoke out about their displeasure with how the U.S. government treats immigrants. Using Gallup Poll data, Enten said that in 2015, 71 percent of people under 35 were "extremely proud or very proud" to be American. That number today is at 36 percent. While Enten said that young Republican numbers hadn'

With Democrats having enjoyed a series of double-digit victories in late 2025 and early 2026 elections and President Donald Trump continuing to suffer from weak approval ratings in countless polls, Republicans are growing increasingly worried about November's midterms. GOP lawmakers have been reluctant to openly criticize Trump, but in an

Rep. Dave Min (D-Calf.) said that new revelations expose some conflicts in President Donald Trump's timeline about his relationship with trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Members of Congress have been working their way through the unredacted investigation files released by the Justice Department, which one senator said mentions Trump's name at least 38,000 times.Speaking to CNN, Min brought up recent reports from the Miami Herald that exposed conflictin

Judges are growing increasingly angry at President Donald Trump's administration as it casually throws aside laws and rules without consequences. Legal reporter Kyle Cheney wrote for Politico on Tuesday that the administration continues to nab people who've never committed a crime in their lives, throw them in cages and deny them a full range of Constitutional rights."But the Trump administration has slow-walked or outright defied judges’ orders demanding the release of people scooped up by Immigration and Customs

Editor's Note: This story and headline have been updated.New York Times columnist Michelle Cottle argued in a Tuesday editorial that President Trump’s ongoing effort to rename institutions after himself has one unexpected upshot, namely, it distracts the president from potentially more harmful actions.First, Cottle said that the renamings can be undone later, explaining that once Trump himself is no longer in political power, he will not be able to so easily intimidate his followers and other easily-pressured people to cede to his wishes."But do

Americans love dogs.Nearly half of U.S. households have one, and practically all owners see pets as part of the family – 51% say pets belong “as much as a human member.” The pet industry keeps generating more and more jobs, from vets to trainers,

Major global democracies like the U.S. and the U.K. have reached "new lows" in corruption amid Donald Trump's ongoing presidency, according to a report from The Guardian, with a "deterioration" taking place globally as well.The Guardian on Tuesday reported on the most recent findings of the Corruption Perceptions Index, a measure of the perceived public sector corruption in 182 countries based on input from "experts and businesspeople." Overall, the latest index found a global trend towards greater corruption, with 51 nations seeing their rating decline, compared to only 31 that saw it

During his speech at the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF) in January, President Donald Trump claimed that the U.S. economy has never been "hotter." And he insisted that the United States' North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies will be in a weak position if they don't fully embrace his economic policies.But Steve Rattner, a frequent economic analyst for MS NOW and a former U.S. Treasury Department official under the Obama Administration, has a radically different viewpoint. In an op-e

I’ve been talking into microphones since I did the morning news on WITL in Lansing Michigan in the late 1960s, and I’ve seen a lot of ugly moments in American politics. But every so often something happens that still takes your breath away, not because it’s surprising, but because it’s so painfully revealing.This latest racist stunt by Donald Trump — reposting a meme on his Nazi-infested social media site in which the Obamas’ faces are superimposed onto the bodies of primates in the jungle set to the 1961 song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens — is one of those moments.That a popular pro-Trump account on X created th