Kathleen Culliton

A recent “political earthquake” just shattered the hopes of those seeking to make a quiet fortune with Donald Trump’s help — and yes, they include the president’s family, political experts contend.

The official ouster of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić by a group of politicized students foretells dark times ahead for developers in Trump’s orbit, Professor Vesko Garčević, a former ambassador from Montenegro in the Balkans, told Raw Story.

“An autocratic leader is toppled,” Garčević, who wrote a book called Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce?, said. “This is a blow for people who wanted to make a profit.”...

A stunning electoral upset just lost President Donald Trump the "biggest prize" — as his allies abroad topple, a political expert told Raw Story on Monday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's runoff victory Sunday against Flávio Bolsonaro, the far-right son of a former president imprisoned for staging a coup, delivered a stinging blow to Trump's plans, Berea College Professor Carlos G. Poggio told Raw Story.

"Lula’s victory represents a significant defeat for Donald Trump and [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio," Poggio, a Brazilian political scientist, said in an email. "Brazil was the biggest prize in the conservative tide sweeping Latin America." ...

A bombshell documentary has accused the late Sen. Lindsey Graham of having intercourse with three male sex workers, including one who said he was just 17 at the time.

The film, called The Closetocracy and made by an activist group called Swamp Watch, which claims to exist to "expose the political class," was uploaded to a website called The Lindsey Files Thursday.

It includes in-depth interviews with the three workers....

A blue-collar union ironworker thinks he might just be able to topple a Republican incumbent Congressman with millions of dollars to spend on his own campaign.

Why? Because the Republican is Rep. Max Miller.

Tensions are mounting in a reliably GOP district as voters grapple with the decision to back either Brian Poindexter, an untried Democrat with misdemeanor charges on his record, or Miller, a man accused of breaking his 2-year-old daughter’s collarbone and repeatedly assaulting his ex-wife, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). ...

The stakes couldn’t be higher.

The U.S. is ensnared in an escalating war with Iran, inflation is crushing America's poorest citizens, masked immigration agents are "vanishing" tens of thousands and, in their effort to do so, have taken American lives.

Democrats are laying the groundwork to impeach President Donald Trump — but if they're going to convict him in 2027, they've got to at least win back the Senate on Nov. 3. ...