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Eighteen days from now, Americans will vote in a midterm election that could redraw the balance of power in Washington. And if you ask the people with actual money on the line, the 2026 midterm predictions point in one direction: a Democratic House is close to a done deal, while the Senate remains a genuine … Read more
Katie Zacharia is out as White House press secretary after just seven days on the job, a stunningly brief tenure that makes her the shortest-lived top spokesperson in modern White House history. Multiple news outlets, including The New York Times, CNN and Fox News, reported on Friday, October 16, 2026, that Katie Zacharia is “transitioning … Read more
The Presidential Records Act faced its most serious legal challenge yet on Friday, October 16, 2026, as a federal appeals court in Washington heard arguments on the Trump administration’s claim that papers created in the White House belong to Donald Trump personally — not to the American people. Three judges of the U.S. Court of … Read more
President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he won Minnesota three times across his three presidential campaigns, telling Newsmax in an extensive White House interview that the state’s voters gave him victories that were never counted. The startling assertion came as Trump laid out plans to campaign in Minnesota before the November 3 midterm elections to … Read more
The Trump ballroom donor leak has ripped open one of the White House’s most closely guarded secrets. On Thursday, October 15, 2026, The Washington Post published a bombshell investigation based on a leaked internal fundraising spreadsheet that names every major donor behind President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom — and the numbers are staggering. According … Read more
The Trump sues California showdown escalated into open legal warfare on Thursday, October 15, 2026, when the Trump administration filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to bar California from counting mail-in ballots cast by 20,000 people the federal government claims are “likely” noncitizens. The Justice Department wants those ballots set aside in next month’s … Read more
The Oregon school shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend has left the nation reeling. On Thursday afternoon, October 15, 2026, a 16-year-old gunman stormed the elementary school and opened fire, killing three young children and a teacher before being stopped by an armed civilian who followed him into the building. Two more people … Read more
President Donald Trump has canceled a plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, overruling Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a rare public disagreement that ended less than a week of bipartisan fury. The decision means Hasan — the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 … Read more
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to a new low — and this time, the bad news comes from Fox News. A new Fox News national poll puts the Trump approval rating at just 36%, with 64% of registered voters disapproving, marking the lowest job approval the president has ever recorded in the network’s … Read more
The US inflation September 2026 report delivered the worst possible news for the White House at the worst possible time. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said on October 14 that consumer prices rose 0.6% in September, lifting the annual inflation rate to 3.7% — up from 3.4% in August and above the 3.6% pace economists … Read more