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Vice President JD Vance speaks during a National Veterans' Small Business Week event, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, at JPMorgan Chase in Washington.

MAGA insiders believe Vance WILL run, but aren’t sure if he SHOULD run

Rob Crilly · November 9, 2026 12:42 pm

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles steps off Marine One as President Donald Trump, foreground left, walks to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, Oct. 30, 2026.

The inside story of Trump’s election night fury and Susie Wiles’s frantic battle to survive

A hat with the word 'VETO' on it sits on the Resolute Desk as President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, in Washington.

White House report card: Election marked rejection of Trump as a man, a policymaker, a commander in chief

A Kalshi chart is displayed on a Fox News election broadcast during an election night event with Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general and Republican US Senate candidate, not pictured, in Dallas, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Millions of Americans are casting ballots for the US midterm elections in races that will determine local issues as well as control of Congress, with all 435 seats of the House of Representatives and roughly a third in the Senate being contested.

The key to Kalshi’s election night success — and how a trader won more than $350,000

Political pundit Chris Cillizza and journalist Laura Trevelyan were providing an update to viewers at the Decision Desk HQ party when Kalshi called the South Carolina race for Annie Andrews, drawing gasps from the audience at Pubkey in Washington, DC.

Four parties and a funeral: How Kalshi and a duck owned election night in DC

Obama accused of wrecking Trump’s transition

Paul Bedard January 14, 2017 3:14 pm

Designer Inaugural ball dresses are for sale at Ella-Rue including this red Badgley Mischka for $795 seen in the window in the Georgetown area of Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Gouge: AirBNB rents for Trump Inauguration soar 1900%

Paul Bedard January 13, 2017 5:15 pm

M’mm M’mm Good: ‘Personal satisfaction’ highest in 16 years

Paul Bedard January 13, 2017 1:14 pm

President Barack Obama waves after the conclusion of his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Cheers, tears greet Obama’s last weekend in White House

Paul Bedard January 12, 2017 8:32 pm

US President Barack Obama looks over to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto attends a meeting with leaders of participating countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. Obama will close a three-nation, post-U.S. election tour the same way he opened it: by reassuring leaders from around the world that U.S. democracy isn't broken and that everything will be fine when Republican Donald Trump succeeds him next year. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mexico’s president rips Trump over wall, auto companies, NAFTA

Paul Bedard January 12, 2017 5:33 pm

Facebook is the king of social media, with more adults using it than any other page. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pew: Record 69% using social media, Facebook dominates

Paul Bedard January 12, 2017 4:52 pm

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., left, stands next to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as she stops in to greet workers at a campaign office for Wasserman Schultz, in Davie, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016. A new report shows coordination between the DNC and Clinton to spread dirt on Team Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Report: $412,000 DNC insider, Ukraine officials spread dirt on Trump

Paul Bedard January 12, 2017 3:27 pm

Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson, center, is flanked by former Democratic Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, right, who introduced him on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2107, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump nominee prep: 30 mock hearings, 70 hours, 2,600 questions

Paul Bedard January 12, 2017 1:25 pm

Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate oath of office to Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah as his wife, Sharon Lee, holds the Bible during a a mock swearing in ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, as the 115th Congress begins. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Utah Sen. Mike Lee would ‘absolutely’ be Trump’s Supreme Court pick

Paul Bedard January 11, 2017 10:51 pm

This file photo combination made from Aug. 6, 2015, photos shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and Fox News Channel host and moderator Megyn Kelly during the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena, in Cleveland. Trump is welcoming Kelly back from a vacation with a broadside of criticism, tweeting that he liked her show better when she was away. Trump has been attacking Kelly ever since her tough questioning of him during the debate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Poll: Megyn Kelly’s Fox viewers won’t follow her to NBC

Paul Bedard January 11, 2017 7:27 pm

The Wall: ‘I don’t want to wait, get it started,’ Trump says

Paul Bedard January 11, 2017 5:49 pm

Presidents as far back and Bill Clinton have promised to cut red tape, and failed. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)

9.7 billion hours required to complete 1 year of federal paperwork

Paul Bedard January 11, 2017 4:16 pm