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President Donald Trump is in a rock and hard place with a valuable Florida constituency, reports Politico.Miami’s Cuban American community is keeping the heat on Trump to oust the regime in Cuba, but Republicans appear terrified of another war on the heels of a hotly unpopular attack on Iran, which has ballooned inflation and gas prices in time for the midterms.“Cuban opposition activists, especially in South Florida, h

President Donald Trump rarely faces dissent from his Republican Party members in the House and Senate — but this is an election year, and Trump’s polls are doing big damage to his GOP buddies.U.S. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) is one such Republican who does not represent a "safe" seat in a bruising 2026 midterm. Bacon holds a highly competitive swing seat in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes the urban area of Omaha. He managed to nab a narrow 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent victory in 2024 largely thanks to suburban support.

Atlantic reporter Neil Flanagan says there are many reasons to consider President Donald Trump’s gold-dripping ballroom design a visual affront, but the offense goes much further than overwrought tacky displays of taxpayer-funded wealth.“Foregrounding the infrastructure that keeps the presidency safe undermines the democratic symbolism of the White House,” said Flanagan. “

Two Southern Republicans are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s recent proclamation to redeploy 5,000 U.S. troops out of Germany.Punchbowl News reporter Anthony Adragna posted on social media that Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) — both Armed Services GOP chairs — deeply oppose the removal.Trump announced the move in retaliation after

For years, researchers have claimed that men’s friendships are shallower and less emotionally supportive than women’s, a pattern called the “gender friendship gap.” But new research from PsyPost suggests this is more a problem with white men than other races.A study published in Sex Roles finds that the gender friendship gap appears to be more a thing with the same race behind the

A former diplomat on Saturday detailed a glaring hole in President Donald Trump’s recent threat against Germany, noting the fate of troops in the European nation rests solely in the hands of one person — and they’re not named Trump.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany, “to be completed over the next six to 12 months,” Reuters’ Phil Stewart reported.The move comes amid increased tensi

Michael Feinber, former assistant special agent in charge of the FBI, lobbed an undeniable warning to President Donald Trump’s interim AG during his pursuit of Trump’s enemies: Trump won’t always be there to save you.Blanche served as Trump’s personal defense attorney before Trump appointed him over the DOJ. But years after Blanche failed to protect his boss from being convicted of illegal hush-money payments to a sex industry worker, he is now repeat prosecuting fo

Frustrated by European allies' response to his war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) altogether. Many Trump critics, in response, are saying that Congress needs to play a role in handling U.S. involvement with NATO — and that Trump, under the U.S. Constitution, doesn't have the authority to pull the U.S. out of that alliance by himself without Congress' input. And some of Trump's MAGA allies are using the Unitary Executive Theory, a far-right legal doctri

The Wall Street Journal reports ruby-red Iowa is looking a lot less ruby as fertilizer prices and gas bills catch up with the state’s agrarian constituency.“Iowa, a state that always plays an outsize role in U.S. politics because of its traditional early spot in presidential nominations, wasn’t supposed to be a political battleground this year,” reports WSJ writer John McCormick. “It backed President Trump by 13 percentage points in the 2024 election, and all six members of Iowa’s congressional delegation are Republicans. … Despite that history, nonpartisan analysts rate the state’s race for governor and two of its four U.S. House contests as tossups that either party could win in November.”

Right-wing media darling Tucker Carlson recently spoke with the New York Times in a far-reaching interview that touched, in part, on his sharp criticisms of President Donald Trump — including his suggestion that the president might, in fact, be the Antichrist.Speaking with reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Carlson argued he has “not” mused on his show about whether Trump is the Antichri