Climate change gets a rare day in court as 15 Canadian youth accuse the federal government of violating their constitutional rights by failing to adequately address the country’s role in global warming. Although thousands of similar cases have been filed across the globe, legal experts said this long-awaited case is arguably the most consequential to reach trial. The lawsuit is the latest in…
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AI data centers are unpopular for good reason: they drive up utility costs for communities, crowd out everything from schools to family farms, and they’re bad for our health. But these data centers are also a financial crisis in slow motion. The AI ecosystem is built on mountains of debt taken on not only by tech firms like Meta (which borrowed a record-breaking $25 billion in late 2025 to…
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In the wake of Tuesday’s “blue tsunami,” media attention has focused on the places where Democrats won most unexpectedly — Texas, Kansas and South Carolina — with Mississippi and Alaska still to be determined. Indeed, the Democrats’ victory on Tuesday was so broad and so complete that we could spend time on any number of political battlegrounds where Republicans were routed.
But one state and one politician are not getting nearly enough attention: Pennsylvania and its governor, Josh Shapiro.
On Tuesday, in arguably the most important swing state in the country, Shapiro didn’t just coast to re-election, he led Democrats to one of the most impressive political victories in the country.
In the gubernatorial race, Shapiro won more than 60% of the vote, defeating his opponent, state Treasurer Stacy Garrity, by 22 percentage points.
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By comparison, no other swing state Democratic gubernatorial candidate came within 9 points of Shapiro’s margin of victory. Shapiro even scored a bigger win than Democratic gubernatorial candidates in solid blue states like New York and Connecticut — and he did it in a state that just two years ago voted for President Donald Trump and saw a Republican senator knock off an incumbent Democrat.
The downballot story in Pennsylvania is even more impressive. Democrats flipped four House seats, two by double digits. For years, moderate Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick seemed to dodge raindrops by consistently winning re-election in a swing district. On Tuesday, he lost by roughly 5 points.
Even more important for Pennsylvania residents, Democrats flipped the state Senate, which will give the party
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The day before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump stood at the Reflecting Pool and insisted his remarks had nothing to do with the vote. The day after, he gave reporters a construction update from the site of his White House ballroom.
In between, his party suffered what one Republican called a near “extinction-level” event. Democrats won Senate races even in historically conservative Texas, South Carolina and Kansas. One White House official described the outcome as “the worst-case scenario.”
Trump remains convinced the problem was bad candidates, even though he handpicked many of them. Inside the White House, some see the problem closer to home. Current and former officials, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told MS NOW that staffers are exasperated, though not surprised, that the president won’t accept responsibility. They are also frustrated that even as his party headed into a rout, his attention was on his construction projects.
With two years left in Trump’s term, some are looking for the exits, and his allies worry about a White House that is struggling to keep its people, recruit new ones and keep the president focused on his agenda.
“In this current trajectory, there’s no shot this is salvageable,” one former White House official, who remains in touch with current staff, said of Trump’s MAGA agenda. “What is the president’s focus these last two years? It’s probably renovations.”
The Reflecting Pool and ballroom projects, both costing more than $600 million, have been a particular source of frustration, and at times confusion, for staff across the White House.
“The president’s attention is all over the place,” said another former White House official who remains close to the