A group of Senate Democrats is demanding that Dr. Mehmet Oz reveal whether his agency coordinated with far-right activists pushing a baseless conspiracy theory that left-wing groups are stealing the votes of nursing home residents.

Eight senators, including Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Alex Padilla, Ron Wyden and Cory Booker, wrote to Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, asking him to “urgently” rescind a July memo and restore the agency’s 2020 and 2024 guidance on helping nursing home residents vote, reported WIRED.

“This is as low as it gets,” Warren told WIRED. “The Trump administration’s unfounded allegations of election fraud are inspiring election denial groups to harass nursing home residents and staff.”...

Mississippi Democratic Senate nominee Scott Colom says President Donald Trump’s visit to the state is a sign that Republicans are worried, and he’s using it to raise money.

“Just a few nights ago Donald Trump got on stage at his Mississippi rally, where he immediately started spreading hate and lies about me and this campaign,” Colom wrote in a fundraising email sent Wednesday.

Trump held a rally Monday at Crossroads Arena in Corinth to boost Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), whom Colom is trying to unseat in a race that has tightened in a state Republicans usually take for granted....

President Donald Trump risks reviving an Espionage Act prosecution over his alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago as his Justice Department lays the groundwork with its fights to beat a deadline in a case against former FBI Director James Comey.

Comey’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden in a court filing Tuesday to throw out the charges, which prosecutors filed as a criminal information, a charge they can sign without a grand jury. Prosecutors argue it meets the 10-year deadline Congress set for Espionage Act crimes.

That same deadline covers Trump, whose Espionage Act charges for keeping classified documents rest mostly on files the FBI seized on Aug. 8, 2022, CNN reported. If prosecutors win against Comey, the next Justice Department to weigh charges against Trump would have an easier time beating it....

A Florida congressional district that the Republican-controlled legislature carved out to add to the GOP’s House total could end up in Democratic hands because the Republican candidate is barely campaigning.

According to the Washington Sun, Republican House candidate Casey Askar, a wealthy pizza franchise owner and entrepreneur, lives about a 5-mile drive outside the district he is running in. It’s one of four seats Florida Republicans redrew to favor their party.

Askar’s home "is an extravagant mansion where he cannot be seen, isolated behind a massive gatehouse," which the Sun's Oriana González said could "serve as a metaphor for his campaign" in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District. He isn’t especially visible there either, he has spent a lot of his own money, and he still might lose to Democrat Pia Dandiya, a former educator and Apple lobbyist....

A former Defense Intelligence Agency staffer’s warning that Americans need to start preparing for a crisis has caused a stir with observers, and they can’t agree on whether to start stockpiling or roll their eyes.

Farijah “Doc” St. Clair is head of technology and intelligence at the risk firm Crisis24. He wrote on X that “something is brewing” and that Americans’ “window to prepare, even with the basics, is closing.” He warned that “you will be on your own” in a national-scale crisis, urged people to prepare quietly and even “feign poverty,” and closed with: “It’s going to get rough.”

Some readers took the warning seriously....

I’ve been talking to MAGA supporters for years, and here’s why some are sticking with Trump — and others are not

Audience members cheer as President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign rally at Crossroads Arena on Oct. 26, 2026, in Corinth, Miss. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Alex Hinton, Rutgers University - Newark

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are cratering. Even his Make America Great Again, or MAGA, diehards have reservations.

This fact was evident to me when I attended MAGA rallies in three states on Oct. 24-25, 2026. One was a Turning Point USA get-out-the-vote event outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Along with a few dozen America First stalwarts wearing white “America the Beautiful” caps, I sat on a wooden table under a small picnic pavilion listening to speakers such as MAGA activist Scott Presler and Trump-endorsed U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser. Meuser reeled off MAGA talking points, including the supposed threat posed by transgender athletes and bathroom use, immigrant voter fraud and the “billionaire anarchist George Soros.”...

A key moment has a former Trump White House insider thinking a damning new report on Jeffrey Epstein probably holds up.

Sarah Matthews, a deputy White House press secretary in Trump's first administration, said on Tuesday's episode of "The Bulwark Daily" that first lady Melania Trump's "weird random press conference" earlier this year is the "most convincing piece of evidence" that the House Judiciary Committee Democrats' report is "probably accurate."

Host Tim Miller, a former Republican strategist, opened the show by reading from the report's executive summary, which states that "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women during the mid to late 1990s."...

Michigan Republican Mike Rogers appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday was panned on MS NOW Monday morning for being a waste of time because he just sucked up to Donald Trump.

It was so bad that “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough refused to share any clips from it and said he would have pulled the plug immediately after it began if it had been on his show.

Speaking with host Kristen Welker, Rogers, who is facing Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed for a seat in the Senate representing Michigan, ducked questions about Donald Trump — specifically his tariffs — while also attacking “you guys on the national press,” calling a question about whether he considers himself “MAGA” as “disgusting.”...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department asked a judge for a delay that would keep the warrant for the unusual raid on the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) secret through the midterm elections.

Lawyers in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office asked Chief Judge James Boasberg in a motion filed Wednesday to push back the deadlines for answering three requests to unseal the warrant records.

Neither of the two timelines the government proposed would release the records before the election on Nov. 3....