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Scheme to turn blue wave into tsunami includes a candidate who isn't even a Dem

With less than 50 days until Election Day, House Democrats are adding new candidates to their top recruits list — including one who isn't actually a Democrat.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Tuesday that it is expanding its "Red to Blue" program, which offers candidates strategic guidance, staffing and fundraising help, to include Bill Hill, an independent running for Alaska's at-large House seat, along with Michigan Democrat Will Lawrence and Wisconsin Democrat Mitchell Berman, reported MS NOW.

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'Ugly' portrait of Trump secretly painted by George W. Bush — who won't let anyone see it

George W. Bush is reportedly sitting on a humiliating portrait of Donald Trump — one he painted himself and refuses to let anyone see — even as he stays publicly silent about the current president, according to a blistering new book.

Author Jacob Weisberg, the former Slate editor and CEO who once compiled the bestselling "Bushisms" books mocking the 43rd president's verbal gaffes, is now "taking aim at Bush's silence" in his latest work, "Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era." In an interview with The Intelligencer's Michael Calderone promoting the book, Weisberg said Bush belongs among Trump's enablers — not because of anything he's done, but because of everything he hasn't said.

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Trump humiliated as his enemies secure 'almost unprecedented achievement'

A lightning offensive by Iranian-backed Houthi militants along Yemen's Red Sea coast has handed Tehran fresh leverage in its economic standoff with Washington, giving Iran the ability to threaten a chokepoint even busier than the Strait of Hormuz.

The Houthis swept through the towns of Mokha and Dhabab last week and seized the island of Perim, cementing control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea, known as the "Gate of Tears," and notching a stunning strategic victory, experts told the Washington Post.

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Pentagon insider smears antifascists who unmasked Nazi terrorists later convicted by DOJ

Days after the State Department designated an Italian tech group as a terrorist entity, thousands of antifascist sites on its web hosting service wound up on a searchable online research tool described as an “anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa.”

Jennica Pounds, a Pentagon special government employee better known as Data Republican and the creator of the search tool, described the antifascist sites that she purported to expose as “a whole elaborate doxxing scheme that’s set to ruin people’s lives.”

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'Um what?' McConnell return comes with eyebrow-raising condition flagged as 'bigger' story

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) finally returned to the Senate on Monday after his nearly three-month health-related absence, though his return reportedly came with a strange condition attached.

McConnell has been absent from the Senate since his hospitalization in June, which the Kentucky Republican claimed was due to a fall. According to reports, he was found unconscious in his home and administered CPR, leading some to speculate his condition was far more severe than initially claimed.

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Top red state election official altered votes and deceived a judge: fired watchdog

A former top elections official is accusing Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins of changing local election results, trying to deceive a federal judge in a voting administration case and illegally using state funds to influence a St. Louis County election.

Nick La Strada, whom Hoskins fired as director of election integrity in May, made the allegations in a lawsuit filed Monday in Cole County. His attorneys said he sued because he could not keep quiet about the way Hoskins is running Missouri elections.

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'Glaring omission' in CBS star's softball interview with Hegseth laid bare by ex-staffers

The leadership behind the revamped “60 Minutes" newsmagazine was accused of falling down on the job after getting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to sit down for a one-on-one interview in the season-opening episode.

According to media watchdog Status, CBS News chief Bari Weiss personally secured the "sit-down" with the embattled Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, leaning on her friendly rapport with Hegseth's wife, Jennifer — "a former Fox News producer who has become a de facto Pentagon adviser."

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MAGA rep's astonishing smear of Dem stirs defamation fears: 'This is actual malice'

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) was accused of spewing defamatory statements Monday night after falsely accusing progressive activist Hasan Piker and Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of advocating for rape and Sharia law, respectively.

Speaking on Fox News’ “Hannity,” Luna falsely claimed that El-Sayed had “advocated for Sharia law” — the broad reference to religious law derived from the central text of the Islamic faith, the Quran — and also accused progressive activist Hasan Piker, who campaigned with El-Sayed, of advocating for sexual assault.

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Spitfire Alito dissent on GOP mail-ballot scheme a harbinger of what's to come: analyst

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was prepared to let the Trump administration strip millions of voters of their ability to cast mail ballots in the 2026 midterms — and when the court's majority stopped him, he lashed out at the judge who ruled against the government.

The Supreme Court on Monday evening rejected the Trump administration's third attempt to revive a U.S. Postal Service rule that would have forced states to submit to a new barcode-verification system for mail ballots, and then empower the agency to reject an entire batch of ballots over a single mismatch, reported Slate's Richard L. Hasen.

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Existential threat divides White House — as Trump fears a different AI nightmare: report

Even as President Donald Trump's own administration quietly splits over whether to rein in artificial intelligence, the president himself is not losing any sleep over warnings that the technology could wipe out humanity, delivering a familiar refrain that it is all merely a "hoax."

The rift has split his cabinet, according to The Atlantic. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are seen as open to regulation, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wants Washington to stay out of the way, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut ties with Anthropic, makers of Claude, after it refused to drop safeguards against mass surveillance and autonomous killing.

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Republicans at each other's throats over 'pretty damn disgusting' remarks from MAGA gov

Texas Republicans are turning on Gov. Greg Abbott, accusing their own party leader of pouring gasoline on a racism scandal instead of putting it out.

The firestorm started Sunday when Bo French, the GOP nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a photo of University of Texas football fans, "most of them people of color," writing that "the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined," according to Politico. The post appeared to target South Asian students and sent Texas Republicans into a panic over the damage it could do "down the ballot," including Attorney General Ken Paxton's struggling Senate bid and Abbott's own reelection.

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Don Jr's wedding under investigation after bombshell report on who paid for it

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is investigating a Russian oligarch's reported financial involvement in a celebration tied to Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.

Axios reported that Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) sent letters to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and to Trump Jr. himself seeking documents related to Umar Kremlev, the Russia-based president of the International Boxing Association, who ProPublica revealed had bankrolled hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for a May party in the Bahamas connected to the wedding.

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'Misguided' Trump admin shredded for rule that could yank tax credits from immigrant kids

Hundreds of thousands of US citizen children could lose access to key benefits as part of a Trump administration proposal to strip tax credit refunds away from immigrant families, including those with legal status.

In August, the US Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) proposed rules redefining four tax credits—the adoption tax credit, child tax credit (CTC), American opportunity tax credit, and earned income tax credit (EITC)—as “federal public benefits” under a decades-old welfare reform law, meaning that certain groups of noncitizens, not considered “qualified aliens,” would be ineligible to claim refunds from them.

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