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Allocco to Newsmax: GOP Still Competitive for House

Republicans remain competitive in the fight for control of the House but will need nearly everything to go their way in the final four weeks before the midterm elections, pollster Patrick Allocco told Newsmax on Monday.

Accused Cornell Frat Brother's Lawyer: James Should Recuse

An attorney for one of the seven former Cornell fraternity brothers accused of raping a fellow student has called for New York Attorney General Letitia James to recuse herself as special prosecutor because of public statements she made supporting the alleged victim.

Israel Was Ready to Shoot Down FlyDubai Plane

Israel was prepared to shoot down a FlyDubai passenger jet after the captain was attacked in the cockpit, even with more than 150 Israelis on board, CBS News reported Monday, citing two Israeli sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

Ted Cruz Blasts Tucker Carlson Over Hitler, WWII Remarks

Sen. Ted Cruz rebuked Tucker Carlson on Monday's "Verdict with Ted Cruz" podcast, accusing the conservative commentator of defending Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany after Carlson's contentious interview with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Thune: Senate Has No Clear Path to Ending Clock Changes

The Senate is unlikely to act before the November clock change on legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent, despite President Donald Trump's renewed push to end the twice-yearly practice.

Supreme Court Declines to Hear 'Let's Go Brandon' Appeal

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Michigan school district's ban on shirts bearing the phrase "Let's Go Brandon," a veiled reference to a profanity-laced jab at former President Joe Biden.

Trump Heads to Nebraska as Republicans Defend Senate Seat

President Donald Trump arrived in Nebraska on Monday to rally Republicans and promote his economic record, taking his message of new investment and manufacturing to a state where farmers and truckers face sharply higher diesel prices and voters worry about inflation.

Bari Weiss to Remain CBS News Chief

Bari Weiss will remain editor-in-chief of CBS News while Mark Thompson will continue leading CNN under the new Skydance media company, Paramount announced Monday, ending speculation that Weiss could assume a broader role overseeing CNN as well.

Trump Says He'll Pay for Ads After Taxpayer Funding Pushback

President Donald Trump on Monday said that he would pay for television advertisements himself or with money raised from the MAGA political action committee ​after pushback over the use of taxpayer-funded television ads featuring him shortly ⁠before the midterms.

Sailors Offered $25,000 for Strait of Hormuz Runs

Sailors willing to haul crude through the Strait of Hormuz are being offered as much as $25,000 per round trip, with one Chinese crewing agency using the payout to staff a supertanker making repeated runs into the war zone.

Cuba, US Maintain Communication Channels but No Negotiations

Cuba and the United States have maintained "channels of communication" but are not engaged in any formal negotiations, Havana's top diplomat in Washington told Reuters, as the Trump administration pursues a pressure campaign against the Communist-ruled island.

Dr. Drew to Newsmax: Russian Plague Scare Presents Little Threat

Dr. Drew Pinsky told Newsmax on Monday that Americans should not be overly concerned about reports of a suspected pneumonic plague case in Russia, saying the bacterial disease can be contained and effectively treated with antibiotics.

PEN America: Nearly 12,000 Cases of School Book Bans

Nearly 12,000 instances of book bans were recorded in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year, the highest number recorded in a single year by free expression group PEN America.

Lutnick-Epstein Whistleblower Dies by Suicide

A British former executive who raised questions about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, according to The Banker.

Dem Socialist Valdez Pitches 'Trans Bill of Rights'

Democratic Socialist Claire Valdez, the Democrat nominee for New York's 7th Congressional District, said she wants the party to pass a "trans bill of rights" if Democrats regain control of the House.

US May Sanction Financial Institutions Doing Business With Iran

The US Treasury Department said Monday it was alerting foreign financial institutions that ​continue to do business ⁠with Iran or ​its financial sector that they ⁠may be sanctioned by Washington without advance notice.

Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Largest in Decades

Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, with nearly 3,900 reported cases, according to the CDC....

DOJ Details Election Charges Against 16 Noncitizens

The Department of Justice outlined Monday election-related charges involving 16 noncitizens, the latest in a series of cases as the Trump administration steps up prosecutions involving illegal voting and voting registration.

Nasdaq Notches Record High Close

The Nasdaq notched a record high close on Monday, lifted by Nvidia and Microsoft, as investors focused on a dip in oil prices and looked ahead to quarterly earnings reports.

Fmr Anthropic Researcher Doubles Down on AI Warnings

Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic researcher who quit the artificial intelligence company after warning that rapidly advancing AI may potentially wipe out humanity, doubled down on his concerns during a New York City Council hearing on regulating the technology, the New York Post reported.

White House Bars Politico From Air Force One

The White House barred news outlet Politico from traveling on Air Force One on Monday, keeping the outlet from serving as the print pool representative on President Donald Trump's trip.

Democrats Map Plans to Reverse Trump Actions After Midterms

Democrats are preparing an expansive effort to reverse or restrict some of President Donald Trump's signature policies and executive actions if they regain control of Congress in the November midterm elections.

El-Sayed Once Praised UK Democracy Over US

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed once argued that Britain's democratic system is superior to America's, writing in a 2010 opinion piece that the Brits gave ethnic minorities and disadvantaged communities greater political power.

Plea Hearing Set for Fmr CIA Officer in Gold Bar Case

A former CIA officer, whose home allegedly held 303 gold bars valued at $40 million, is due Tuesday in federal court, where a judge is scheduled to take up a plea agreement, NBC News reported, citing court records.

Trump to Unveil Diesel Relief Measures

President Donald Trump is expected to announce executive actions Monday aimed at reducing high diesel costs that have become a growing political problem for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, Politico reported.

Trump: Blown-Up, Closed Refineries Driving High Gas Prices

President Donald Trump on Monday blamed the loss of refineries in Russia and the policies of Democrat-led states for higher gas prices. "What's driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because Record Numbers of Barrels are coming out now," he said.

Trump Order Sets 180-Day Clock to Speed Vets' Benefits

President Donald Trump has given the Department of War and the Department of Veterans Affairs 180 days to set up the technology and policies needed to permanently share service members' personnel and medical records, a step aimed at speeding veterans' access to care.

Russia Quarantines Dozens After Siberian Lab Death Sparks Plague Fears

Russian authorities are keeping dozens of people in quarantine and nearly 200 others under medical observation after a Siberian laboratory worker died of unexplained pneumonia, raising fears of pneumonic plague despite official denials of a confirmed infection.

Texas Town Wants $2.3 Million for Flock Records

A Texas town demanded $2.3 million upfront from a privacy advocate seeking public records about its use of controversial Flock Safety surveillance cameras, The Texas Tribune reported.

China Shutters Nearly Quarter of Banks

China has closed nearly a quarter of its banks in an attempt to shore up its financial system, according to multiple reports. Beijing oversaw a record 670 bank closures in 2025, almost all involving rural lenders.

GOP PAC Plans $14 Million for Kansas Sen. Marshall

The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republican leadership, plans to spend $14 million in Kansas to support Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan. The group has reserved $62 million in additional advertising in recent days across several Senate races.

Report: Sens. Warren, Hawley Probe Insurers' No-Pay Claims

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., are pressing six of the nation's biggest home and auto insurers to explain why a rising share of claims end with no payment, according to an exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal.

Obama to Campaign With El-Sayed in Michigan

Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month, lending his support to the progressive nominee after a bruising Democrat primary exposed divisions within the party.

Dem Ad Targets GOP Rep. Crank Over Epstein Files

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released an ad Monday in which relatives of Virginia Giuffre, the first Jeffrey Epstein victim to go public, accuse Republican Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado of refusing to meet with them.

Top Cases on Supreme Court's Docket

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a series of important cases during its new term that begins on Monday involving issues such as President Donald Trump's immigration policies, assault-style rifle bans, Big Oil's financial liability for climate change, Republican-backed ...

OpenAI's Altman Defends Broad AI Access, Says Worth the Risks

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday said society should accept some risks from artificial intelligence in exchange for its benefits, drawing a philosophical distinction with rival Anthropic as the companies move toward stronger safety oversight.

Ken Paxton: Little Control Over Texas Senate Campaign

Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton privately complained that he has little control over his campaign's messaging despite running as a Washington outsider, according to audio obtained by Politico.

Sen. Marshall Slams Dem Hamilton in Tight Kan. Senate Race

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., has accused Democrat challenger Adam Hamilton of being out of touch with the state's rural economy as the Republican incumbent faces a closer-than-expected reelection contest in traditionally conservative Kansas.

AG Blanche: Armed Poll Monitors Claim 'False'

Accusations that President Donald Trump was considering sending armed federal agents to monitor polling places amounted to "fearmongering, false statements," Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

Sailors Offered $25,000 for Risky Hormuz Oil Runs

Persian Gulf oil producers are paying as much as $40 million per tanker trip to keep crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz as attacks on commercial vessels continue during the Iran war, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dies at 84

Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois, whose congressional career was later overshadowed by a criminal case that exposed allegations that he sexually abused teenage boys while working as a high school wrestling coach, has died.

Russia Quarantines Hospital in Siberia After Plague Researcher Dies

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an "unknown" cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week. Russian authorities said they found no evidence ...

Dems Expand House Targets Deep Into Trump Country

House Democrats have expanded their election targets to include six districts President Donald Trump won by an average of 16 percentage points or more in 2024, according to Politico.

Futures Edge Lower Under Pressure From Bonds

U.S. futures are falling as sustained pressure from the bond market and the release of the Federal Reserve's latest minutes capture much of the attention on Wall Street to start the week.

Saudi-Led Coalition Says It Is Bombing Houthis

Forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government began a major offensive Monday against the Iranian-backed Houthis rebels on the country's Red Sea coast, under an intensified air campaign by the Saudi-led coalition. The offensive came just after the rebels said they had...

US Army Tests Counter-Drone Tech at Mexican Border

The U.S. Army is testing counter-drone technology in the US-Mexico border area, seeking to sharpen its defenses against the growing threat of drone use by cartels and emulate the rapid battlefield innovation happening in Ukraine's war with Russia. At Falcon Peak, a U.S....

FBI Arrests Woman Accused of Spying on Taiwan Leader's Family

The FBI arrested a woman at Los Angeles International Airport as she was leaving the country and accused her of spying on the Taiwan president's family for China. Wanying Zhang, also know as Heather, surveilled the Taiwanese president's son...

Ukraine Claims Strikes Hit Half of Russia's Refineries

Ukraine said that its long-range strikes have neutralized more than half of Russia's oil refining capacity, hampering Moscow's ability to supply its forces during its 4 1/2-year-old invasion.The Defense Ministry said Sunday that recent strikes on refineries in cities...

Biden Reportedly Considered Cutting Arms to Israel

Former President Joe Biden considered cutting off U.S. weapons to Israel after an April 2024 Israeli airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, but an imminent Iranian attack interrupted those plans, former adviser Brett McGurk told CBS News.

WH Monitors Suspected Plague Outbreak in Russia

The White House is monitoring reports of a suspected plague case in Russia after a laboratory worker died and nearly 200 people were placed under medical observation, Axios reported Sunday.

Pro-Trump Bolsonaro Leads in Brazil Election, Runoff With Lula Set

Brazil's deeply divided presidential election headed to a runoff Sunday, with conservative Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro leading left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as more than 100 million votes were counted in one of Latin America's most closely watched elections.

More Tankers Hit as Iran Restates Hormuz Terms

At least two tankers were struck in waters near Oman and Iran over the weekend as Tehran warned it would not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its conditions for ending the war with the United States are met.

Report: Iran Diplomats 'Kicked Out' of US

Two members of Iran's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly were "kicked out" of the United States after failing to comply with a State Department order to leave the country, Axios reported Sunday.

US Rushes to Remove Bombers From UK's RAF Fairford Amid New Threats

The United States rapidly withdrew all 12 B-1 bombers from a key air base in England over the weekend after commanders received new warnings about a possible Iran-backed plot targeting the installation, according to U.S. officials. The unusual withdrawal from RAF Fairford ...

Hassett Disputes Accuracy of Negative Polling on Economy

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett insisted to CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that he doesn't believe in recent polls that show the public's negative feelings about the economy.

Serb Separatist Dodik Declares Victory in Bosnia Vote

Bosnian Serb nationalist politician Milorad Dodik has declared victory for his party in an election in Bosnia on Sunday that was shaped by economic pressures, the prospect of the Balkan nation joining the European Union, and ethnic tensions that have divided the country ...

Pike Still Unconscious After Botched Execution

Christa Pike has remained unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital in the four days since her failed execution in Tennessee, and her prognosis might not be known for days more, one of her lawyers said Sunday.

US Marine Arrested for Alleged Killing of Woman on Okinawa

Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and killing of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, the latest criminal case on the southern island where the heavy American troop presence has remained a sensitive issue.

Church Closings Spark Debate Over 'Tsunami' Forecast

A recent CNN report warning that 100,000 U.S. churches could close within a decade is drawing pushback from researchers whose own tracking shows a far narrower gap between Protestant church closures and new openings.

Trump's Judges in Their 30s Outnumber Biden's and Obama's

President Donald Trump has appointed 31 federal judges in their 30s at the time of appointment across his two terms, with at least two more nominees in that age group pending, far more than his predecessors, a Politico analysis of government data found.

TPUSA Chapters Draw Criticism for Hosting James Fishback

Turning Point USA campus chapters are drawing fire for giving former Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback speaking platforms amid criticism of remarks condemned as racist and antisemitic and accusations that he has used college appearances ...

Britain's Far-Left Green Party Declares 'Zionism Is Racism'

The UK's left-wing Green party on Sunday voted to define Zionism as racism at the party's annual get-together, drawing sharp backlash from British Jewish groups and the Israeli government.Members of the Green party, which has five MPs in Britain's 650-seat parliament and...

2 Shot Dead, Dozens Injured at Block Party Shooting in Southern Ga.

Two people were shot to death in a hail of gunfire and nearly three dozen others were injured at a homecoming weekend block party early Sunday morning in southern Georgia, according to state law enforcement officials. More than 1,000 people were gathered at the site, and ...

Poll: Latinos Favor Democrats 59%-35% for Congress

Latino voters, a group among whom President Donald Trump made gains in 2024, now favor Democrats over Republicans 59% to 35% for control of Congress, according to a poll released Sunday by NBC News and Spanish-language network Telemundo.

Musk Says He Will Rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI, following US President Donald Trump's push to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial ​intelligence.""Yes, we will make that change," he replied to a ⁠user on X...

Campus Drug Fears Spur Calls for Narcan, Test Strips

Federal prosecutors have charged a father and son in an investigation into the deaths of two University of Mississippi students, as colleges from Mississippi to Cornell University confront dangerous drugs and calls for greater access to overdose-reversal medication.U.S....

Justice Alito Frets Over Future of US Supreme Court

Justice Samuel Alito warned Sunday he was worried about the future of the US Supreme Court due to what he called an extreme level of public rhetoric and pressure over its rulings.The court in recent years has issued decisions that rocked US society to its core: eliminating...

Supreme Court to Kick Off Term with Bid by Big Oil to Toss Climate Suits

The US Supreme Court begins its new nine-month term on Monday with arguments in a major case involving a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to scuttle a lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change.It...

Battleground Democrats Break Ranks on Transgender Sports

Democrats in multiple battleground races are breaking with their party and publicly opposing transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports, a strategic pivotdriven by Republican attacks that bruised the party in 2024.

Trump Picks John Coale as Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that lawyer and current Belarus envoy John Coale, who has been credited with the release of hundreds ​of prisoners, would be his special presidential envoy for hostage ⁠affairs.Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned ​15...