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The Republican Party seems to be winning the redistricting wars as the 2026 midterm elections approach, but a legal expert on Sunday compared the GOP's efforts to an own goal that will likely haunt them going forward.

So far, the Republicans have gained about seven seats in Congress through mid-cycle redistricting as states like Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee have redrawn their maps. The Center for Politics at the University of Virginia estimates the party could gain as many as 10 total seats, even as Democrats attempt to counter the GOP's moves with new maps of their own.

A prominent Evangelical reverend stunned political analysts and observers on Sunday with his speech during President Donald Trump's "Rededicate 250" prayer event at the National Mall.

The Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the late preacher Billy Graham, spoke via a pre-recorded video at the prayer event, describing America as a country that has become "morally rotten" and "completely sick with sin." He mentioned issues like "transgenderism" and "opening women's locker rooms to men" as a couple of examples.

Much has been written about President Donald Trump’s tendency to fudge the truth, with The Washington Post having tracked more than 30,000 individual false or misleading claims made by the president during his first term – but nearly 16 months into his second term, Americans by the millions are largely disregarding Trump’s words entirely, one columnist argued on Sunday.

“Trump’s credibility gap endangers our national security,” wrote attorney, columnist and former television host Alan Scott Bolden in an op-ed published Sunday in The Hill.

Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director turned vocal Trump critic, is offering a window into what he says is President Donald Trump's secret psychological weakness — and it's not what most of the commander-in-chief's critics think.

In a lengthy post on X published Saturday, "The Mooch" argued that observers who can't fathom how Trump rose to the presidency are missing one key thing: they've never been in a room with him.

A U.S. official’s statement to Axios published on Sunday has a number of journalists bracing for impact, several of whom accused the Trump administration of “misleading” the American public in a “deplorable” attempt to “justify” a U.S. invasion of a sovereign nation.

Axios’ report claims that Cuban leaders had recently discussed plans to “attack” the United States and its assets abroad using military drones, with Axios’ Marc Caputo citing an anonymous U.S. official as the source of the claim.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was asked Sunday by Fox News’ Shannon Bream whether he had a message for Black voters in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last month and subsequent GOP gerrymandering blitz – which has disproportionately impacted Black Americans – and his answer left onlookers dumbfounded.

In late April, the Supreme Court effectively gutted a provision in the Voting Rights Act that was designed to prohibit racially discriminatory voting policies – namely, the drawing of congressional district maps. In the weeks since, Republican-led states have raced to redraw their own maps ahead of the midterm elections in such a manner as to benefit the GOP – and in most cases, at the expense of Black voters.

Just ahead of making his appearance at a national prayer event at the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump issued yet another genocidal threat against Iran on Sunday, warning the Middle East nation that if its leaders didn’t “get moving fast” on agreeing to a deal, there would soon be nothing “left of them.”

“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

Renowned international security expert Robert Pape issued a dire warning on Sunday that an irreversible “critical point” had been reached in the U.S. war against Iran, one that risks sparking global shortages and economic disruptions on a scale not seen in decades.

“Two months ago, I warned that the Iran war was not simply creating an oil price spike. It was creating the conditions for shortages, supply disruptions, and eventually economic contraction,” Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, warned in an analysis published Sunday on his Substack. “That transition is now beginning.”

Iconic Democratic strategist James Carville gave President Donald Trump a backhanded compliment on Sunday in response to the president’s controversial remarks last week – remarks, he contended, that were perhaps the “greatest” presidential gaffe in U.S. history.

Standing on the White House lawn last Tuesday, Trump admitted that, when it came to decisions related to his unpopular war against Iran, he did not take Americans’ financial situations into account.

A grim new CBS News/YouGov poll showing President Donald Trump bleeding support over his handling of the economy set off a wave of reaction online on Sunday — with pollsters and pundits alike pointing to what one Washington correspondent called "rancid numbers" for Republicans heading into the midterms.

The survey found two-thirds of Americans say Trump's policies are making the economy worse, with most describing themselves as "frustrated" or "angry" about his economic approach. Trump's overall approval has slipped to the lowest point of his second term, and even Republicans are souring on his handling of inflation, where his GOP approval has cratered to 63% — well below his 89% mark on immigration.