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Parents, teachers, childcare workers and community members hold up handmade signs during a press conference at Nokomis Daycare Center in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Somali daycare CEO tied to fraud scandal wins Minnesota House seat

Mia Cathell · November 10, 2026 6:00 am

Thune.

Thune forges ahead with leadership elections despite calls for post-midterm reckoning

Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH)

Republicans to choose between Scalise and Jordan as minority leader

Trump and Boozman.

Trump calls on Senate to confirm remaining 25 judges amid Arkansas senator friction

Thomas Massie

Massie sees ‘high probability’ Hegseth resigns before Democratic hearings

Motorcyclists ride along a road cracked by earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela, a day earlier, Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Javier Campos)

US military ‘surging forces’ to Venezuela for earthquake relief efforts

David Zimmermann June 25, 2026 11:36 pm

A portion of the approximately 3.5 million pages of public records of the Epstein files are on display at The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, Tuesday, June 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Judge orders DOJ to unredact Epstein files related to Trump and ‘torture video’

David Zimmermann June 25, 2026 8:36 pm

FILE - Shotsie Buck-Hayes sits beside defense attorney Edward Lavado in the General District Courtroom during a preliminary hearing in Danville, Va., Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Man who lit Virginia councilman on fire sentenced to 40 years in prison

David Zimmermann June 25, 2026 8:17 pm

JD Vance and Dick Nixon

Vance lists four things he has in common with Nixon: ‘Sounds like JD Vance’

David Zimmermann June 25, 2026 6:50 pm

Justice Samuel Alito.

Alito rules ‘spirit of aloha’ does not override Second Amendment in Hawaii gun case

Jack Birle June 25, 2026 6:22 pm

Tom Kean Jr., GOP candidate for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, arrives at his election night party.

Tom Kean to hold fundraiser same day he returns to Congress after three-month hiatus

David Zimmermann June 25, 2026 5:55 pm

Kelsey Grammer could run for office

Kelsey Grammer meets with Trump at White House amid talk of run for office

Max Grinstein June 25, 2026 4:57 pm

Although "assault weapon" has no formal definition, most guns that would be thought of as assault weapons are types of rifles.

Judge blocks Virginia assault weapons ban days before it takes effect

Claire Carter June 25, 2026 4:38 pm

Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander arrives with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for an election night watch party Tuesday, June 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Socialists poised to make trouble within the Democratic Party: Byron York

Kiara Moore June 25, 2026 4:35 pm

In this photo taken on June 2, 2018, a health worker checks people's temperatures as they disembark a plane at the airport in Kinshasa, Congo.

White House requests $1.4 billion from Congress to fight Ebola outbreak

Rena Rowe June 25, 2026 4:21 pm

Democrat Brad Lander approaches microphones outside a federal court in New York on Thursday, June 11, 2026, after a judge exonerated him on a misdemeanor obstruction charge stemming from an immigration protest last September. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)

Blakeman admits comparing Lander to concentration camp guard was ‘too strong’

Molly Parks June 25, 2026 3:35 pm

President Donald Trump walks from the stage after speaking at the opening of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington.

Trump claims he drew at least 45,000 people to his America 250 rally

Naomi Lim June 25, 2026 3:29 pm