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President Donald Trump dances at a campaign rally at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Lubbock, Texas.

Trump can’t resist roasting his affordability pitch with $5,000 burger joke

Rob Crilly · October 28, 2026 11:30 am

MAGA broadcaster John Fredericks holds a press conference with the D.C. Republican Party.

Yes, there are Republicans in DC. And they’re mad about taxes

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic Ohio Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, in Cleveland.

Obama’s Cheesecake Factory zinger misses the point again

Iowa House candidate Joe Mitchell greets President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Sioux Gateway Airport, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, in Sioux City, Iowa.

White House report card: Rallies, grievances and rising oil prices

Vice President JD Vance speaks as Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, listens during a news conference on the Fraud Task Force inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Washington.

Why you will be hearing a lot more about fraud before Election Day

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., right, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., clashed on immigration.

Sessions barks at Schumer: ‘It is amnesty!’

Paul Bedard March 16, 2016 3:24 pm

A person on the audience holds up an image of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters and takes photos during a campaign event at the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, March 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Hillary says it: ‘Trump could be president’

Paul Bedard March 15, 2016 10:21 pm

Some police officers, left, turn their backs in a sign of disrespect as Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks as others, at right front line, stand at attention, during the funeral of New York Police Department Officer Wenjian Liu at Aievoli Funeral Home, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Liu and his partner, officer Rafael Ramos, were killed Dec. 20 as they sat in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, later killed himself. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Poll: NYPD vs. De Blasio, 95% cops call mayor ‘poor’

Paul Bedard March 15, 2016 10:07 pm

In this Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, photo, flowers and American flags honoring the victims of the attack on Dec. 2 are placed outside the Inland Regional Center where the fatal shooting took place in San Bernardino, Calif. At the IRC, Christmas never came. The staff was still gearing up for the holidays on Dec. 2, the day 14 people were massacred on the center's gleaming campus. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut)

Immigration turf war delayed probe of San Bernardino terror attack

Paul Bedard March 15, 2016 6:10 pm

Col. James F. Harp, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center chief of staff, releases a tortoise. (Photo: Marine Corps)

Marines to spend $50M moving 1,100 turtles, $45,454 EACH

Paul Bedard March 15, 2016 4:45 pm

Donald Trump was surrounded by Secret Service during a rally in Dayton, Ohio, last weekend. AP Photo

Secret Service OKs protests, a ‘First Amendment right’

Paul Bedard March 15, 2016 4:10 pm

President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with audience members as Spike Lee, center, and Rev. Al Sharpton stand by at the National Action Network conference Friday, April 11, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Julia Xanthos, Pool)

Sharpton to defend Obama’s legacy from those who would ‘disrespect him’

Paul Bedard March 15, 2016 1:18 pm

Jeers greet military police as they attempt to disperse demonstrators outside the Conrad Hilton, Democratic Convention headquarters hotel Wednesday, August 29, 1968. (AP Photo/RHS)

Call: Move GOP convention to Salt Lake City, Virginia Beach, home of SEALs

Paul Bedard March 15, 2016 1:18 pm

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., right, waves to the crowd with "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, left during MSNBC's Hardball College Tour at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa. in 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mainstream Scream: Chris Matthews calls the Obama ‘thrill’ the best since JFK

Paul Bedard March 14, 2016 6:39 pm

Jerry Falwell, Jr., left, president of Liberty University, guides Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to his seat during a campaign event at the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City, Iowa, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Religious leaders hit for endorsing Trump, overlooking his ‘sins’

Paul Bedard March 14, 2016 4:32 pm

Former Commerce Secretary Don Evans with two Chinese boys he has mentored over 14 years, Li Hao, left, and Li Fan, right.

Don Evans’ secret to U.S.-China relations: ‘Go West,’ and a touch of love

Paul Bedard March 14, 2016 3:31 pm

ICE: 124 illegal immigrants released from jail later charged in 138 murder cases

ICE: 124 illegal immigrants released from jail later charged in 138 murder cases

Paul Bedard March 14, 2016 1:08 pm