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A child’s broken collarbone, hypodermic needles, threats to knock a person’s teeth out, the words “daddy kill you” — these all appear in newly released documents a Trump-endorsed congressman believes will convince the public to vote for him.

Rep. Max Miller’s (R-OH) bid to save a reelection campaign — marred by his ex-wife’s accusations of abuse against her and their daughter — saw him on Sunday make public his child’s medical records, redacted police reports, audio recordings of personal conversations (one in which he denies recording) and images of his 2-year-old daughter’s body.

Under a never-before-tested Kentucky law, Monday could be the last chance to call a special election before the midterms to fill the seat widely believed to have been effectively left vacant by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for more than a month.

As an apparent insurance policy for this exact situation, Kentucky Republicans passed a law in 2024 preventing Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear from recruiting an interim senator to fill a vacant seat — as happens in most states. Instead, it requires a special election if the vacancy comes at least three months before the upcoming election.

WASHINGTON — U.S. senators from both parties are dismissing Elon Musk’s prediction that artificial intelligence will soon do away with the need for retirement accounts — a controversial view echoed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week.

“I don't think that's right,” OpenAI founder Sam Altman told Raw Story in between meetings with senators at the Capitol this week.

WASHINGTON — A Republican civil war is emerging over President Donald Trump’s stalled attorney general nominee, Todd Blanche.

President Donald Trump is now threatening to pull Blanche’s nomination until next year after retiring Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) continue to demand to see in writing Blanche’s promise that the Justice Department’s $1.8 billion weaponization fund is dead.

WASHINGTON — America’s in the midst of its worst measles outbreak in 35 years, but you wouldn’t know that from watching Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee rip into Dr. Anthony Fauci Wednesday over America’s COVID response.

“You lied to hundreds of millions of people amid the worst public health crisis in a century,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told Fauci. “You forced people to watch their loved ones die alone over the phone.”

Increased armed guards at U.S. Postal Service facilities may signal an effort by President Donald Trump to control the mail before the midterms, scholars and union leaders warn.

USPS plans to deploy more contracted armed security officers at 18 mail facilities across the country this month, according to internal agency communications reviewed by Raw Story.

ICE won’t rule out making arrests at polling places during the November midterm elections in the event of “an active public safety threat,” the Department of Homeland Security admitted to Raw Story.

The details of what would constitute such a threat were left vague.

WASHINGTON — It’s now been more than 40 days since Sen. Mitch McConnell’s given any legislative signs of life — at least believable enough ones to satiate his online critics, many of his Kentucky constituents and governor — but that’s par for the course in the senior-friendly confines of the U.S. Senate.

“What do you make of his extended absence?” Raw Story asked the second most powerful Democrat in the Senate.

WASHINGTON — In the wake of an inconclusive independent autopsy, Mississippi’s only Black U.S. Congressman says the FBI should get involved in the investigation into 18-year-old Nolan Wells’ mysterious death on the Fourth of July.

“Given Mississippi's history, it's very suspicious,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told Raw Story. “For a young Black boy to, basically, be with all white kids who are friends of his and come up missing and the fact that he was left on an island by the same people who went with him, it's just not adding up.”

CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and network leadership left network stations across the country scrambling after reversing course at least three times about whether or not to air President Donald Trump’s speech about election interference last week, an employee told Raw Story.

The staffer of a CBS affiliate, who requested anonymity due to employment concerns, told Raw Story that the network came down to the wire, changing decisions multiple times and sending conflicting messages to producers about if it would broadcast Trump’s speech about election interference and his continued false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe lent credence to President Donald Trump’s wild claims about Venezuelan election manipulation during his national address last week, hinting at plans for federal intervention in the midterm elections.

Ratcliffe’s statement, posted on X as Trump was winding up his speech on Thursday, cited intelligence “showing that Venezuela’s government had developed capabilities to manipulate electronic voting systems, raising serious concerns for U.S. election security.”