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The latest big win for Democrats in Virginia has the GOP grappling with its "growing fears of [a] midterm shellacking" in November, according to The Hill, sending the party into spin and damage control mode.On Tuesday, voters in Virginia approved a new congressional district map crafted by the state legislature, one that alters the current map to 10 Democratic-majority districts and one Republican-majority district, which could add four more Democratic seats in the House in November. This move was made in r

President Donald Trump's former White House communications director Mike Dubke said that it's clear Republicans messed up.Speaking on CNN's Thursday panel, host Audie Cornish began the segment by saying that it's clear the GOP has put itself in a difficult position for the 2026 election. On Tuesday, Virginia voters passed a ballot measure to redistrict the state in response to the Texas Republicans doing their own mid-decade redistricting to try to redraw maps to maintain a congressional majority. "So there's like a blame game in full swing. You got fingers being pointed every which way, mainly after this big redistric

After losing Tuesday’s closely watched redistricting referendum, Virginia Republicans are now shifting their focus to the courts, arguing the legal fight — not the ballot box — will ultimately determine whether the measure stands.That legal fight escalated late Wednesday, when a Tazewell County Circuit Court judge issued a new ruling halting implementation of the voter-approved amendment less than 24 hours after it passed.With nearly all votes counted by Wednes

After Donald Trump narrowly won the 2024 presidential election and began choosing nominees, it was obvious that the second Trump Administration would be much different from his first. Trump clashed with a long list of traditional conservatives he appointed during his first presidency, from Rex Tillerson (secretary of state) to John Bolton (national security advisor) to Jeff Sessions (U.S. attorney general). But the second time, he avoided such clashes by putting together an administration dominated by far-right ultra-MAGA loyalists. During a conversation published in the New York

Republicans in the Senate are pushing President Donald Trump to get any and all firings done soon, according to lawmakers who spoke with Politico, over concerns that new appointees might not be confirmed before the midterms."If you’re a Cabinet official thinking of pursuing a new professional opportunity, Senate Republicans have a request: Now’s the time to call it quits," Politico explained in a Thursday morning report. "The departure this week of Labor

On April 15, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth led a prayer session at the Pentagon. But instead of quoting from any recognised canon of sacred scripture, Hegseth’s prayer sounded unmistakably like Samuel L. Jackson’s “Jules”, a hitman character from Quentin Tarantino’s iconic 1994 film Pulp Fiction.In his interrogation of white-collar criminal Brett, Jules delivers a heavily embellished monologue that draws from, and expands on, Ezekiel 25:17. The scene climaxes, in typical Tarantino style, with the brutal murder of Brett and his colleagues.Hegseth’s version, which he said was recited by th

Over recent weeks, speculation has grown about US President Donald Trump’s erratic behaviour during the US-Israel war on Iran.While questioning Trump’s mental fitness for office, various commentators have suggested he has malignant narcissism, Alzheimer’s disease or

While the financing of President Donald Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom has been shrouded in mystery for months, government watchdog Public Citizen has obtained important new information about the project’s funding.Public Citizen on Tuesday unveiled a copy of the funding agreement the Trump administration has used for the ballroom project after months of legal wrangling that forced the group to file a lawsuit to compel enforcement of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request it made last year. As

Around this time last year, I talked to someone who prefers to be known by her handle on Bluesky: “The Angry Black Woman.” I interviewed her because she criticized a piece I wrote about Kamala Harris. Her criticism was so insightful that I wanted her to expound on it for readers and subscribers of the Editorial Board. She accepted my invitation and the result was, I think,

Tucker Carlson told the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that Trump is “a wonderful person. I know him well. By the way, the funniest person I’ve ever met in my life, actually. You can’t be funny without perspective or without empathy, which is true.”But on Tuesday, Carlson admitted that he’ll be “tormented” for a long time by his support for Trump in the 2024 presidential election and that “I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people.” Well, thank you, Tucker. I — an