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Maine’s Republican nominee for governor was caught on audio revealing plans to ask for federal agents to be stationed at polling locations during the upcoming midterm elections - an idea critics quickly blasted as “deeply alarming” and “likely illegal.”

Bobby Charles told supporters at an Aug. 20 Maine Young Republicans event that he would ask White House border czar Tom Homan to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. Marshals to voting locations, according to audio obtained by The Associated Press.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent facing felony assault charges for shooting a Venezuelan immigrant through a duplex door could walk free from Texas custody as soon as Thursday, after a federal judge sided with Gov. Greg Abbott over Minnesota in an unusual interstate legal fight.

U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee, ruled Wednesday that Minnesota hadn't proven Abbott acted improperly by refusing to act on the state's extradition request for agent Christian Castro, reported The New York Times. Under Texas law, defendants can only be held on extradition warrants for 90 days — a window closing just as the ruling came down.

Republican primary voters in the nation’s reddest state appear to have had enough of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus after they “annihilated” its candidates in the recent primaries.

That’s according to conservative Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who argued Wednesday that Wyoming’s results crushed the conservative narrative that establishment Republicans are out-of-touch “RINOs.”

President Donald Trump is hammering his own voters with what one analyst described as a "triple whammy" resulting from his renewed trade war with Canada.

Trump renewed his passion for trade wars this week when he announced new tariffs on Canadian goods and relaxed rules to allow more than 300,000 metric tons of foreign ground beef to enter the U.S. market. Both moves have roiled Republican voters, especially those in rural areas, according to Chuck Todd, host of the "Chuck ToddCast" podcast.

A resurfaced video shows White House aide Natalie Harp professing an intense, almost mystical devotion to President Trump years before she ever entered his orbit, deepening questions about one of Washington's strangest relationships.

The unearthed video of Harp, whose obsessive ties to Trump have been increasingly under scrutiny and earned her the name "the human printer" for how often she gives him good news clippings, was detailed by Jonathan Last's reporting in The Bulwark on Wednesday.

President Trump's escalating trade fight with Canada is about to make one of the most basic household necessities more expensive, as Canada prepares retaliatory tariffs on toilet paper and hundreds of other American goods.

The news was reported by The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

An outraged Democratic senator announced Wednesday that he was heading directly to Danbury, Connecticut, after accusing federal immigration agents of targeting parents at school bus stops and deliberately waiting until their children were gone to make arrests.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) sounded the alarm in a post on X as local reports of increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity spread across several Connecticut communities.

A Tampa event featuring Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended abruptly on Wednesday as he was pressed on a $1 million donation from a kratom company that federal prosecutors had stopped pursuing.

Kennedy was pressed by a reporter about ties to the company selling the potentially addictive substance at Tampa Bay Boulevard Elementary School roundtable with Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL).

Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor sounded the alarm Wednesday after hundreds of federal immigration officers were reportedly pulled from their regular duties and secretly reassigned to scrutinize voter rolls ahead of the midterm elections.

Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff who anonymously blew the whistle on the first Trump administration, wrote in a new piece on Defiance.news that officials had repeatedly assured lawmakers that DHS had “no plans” to station immigration officers at polling locations.

President Donald Trump is again demanding that Roger Clemens be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame, blasting the voters who have kept his golfing partner out of Cooperstown over allegations the pitcher has always denied.

In a Truth Social post, Trump complained that Clemens is missing from the Hall "all because a bunch of jealous people with far less Talent, voted that he shouldn't be there." He closed with a swipe at the sport itself: "No wonder Baseball is in trouble!"

A federal judge in Texas struck down a 2023 state law restricting drag shows on Tuesday — and invoked Dolly Parton to illustrate why the ban was unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner, a Ronald Reagan appointee, found that Texas Senate Bill 12 improperly restricted speech in violation of the First Amendment, reported NBC News, in a ruling that came down the same day the country music legend's death was announced.

The Trump administration is facing a fresh legal challenge from Democratic attorneys general in 23 states over the president’s plan to give the U.S. Postal Service unprecedented control over mail-in voting.

The states are seeking an emergency order blocking a Postal Service rule issued Friday that would allow the agency to help establish voter lists and withhold ballots from voters the administration deems ineligible, Politico reported.