by John Kasich | Nov 5, 2026 | elections, Opinion
Across the country, you could feel the anger and frustration bubbling up long before Election Day. There were signs people were tired of the chaos and the name-calling. They were disgusted by the meanness they saw coming from the Republican Party. They wanted the economy to get better, and many wanted an end to the war with Iran.
Too many Republicans in Washington had little to offer on the issues that concerned people most. What voters saw instead was blind loyalty to President Donald Trump. When Republicans lost the House and the Senate, it was a devastating blow, and they earned it.
When Republicans lost the House and the Senate, it was a devastating blow, and they earned it.
But for all that, this could actually be an exciting time to be a Republican. A party with a long and important history in this country has a chance to rebuild around the ideas and values that once drew people to it. I’m talking here about fiscal responsibility, which helps create the conditions for economic growth.
And to do that, the party had better make room for some of the loyal Republicans it left behind in recent years. I count myself among them.
I’m thinking of people who spent much of their lives working for what they understood to be conservative Republican principles and who, somewhere along the way, found themselves on the outside of a party they had helped build. These folks, including leaders like former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who has publicly criticized Trump and the Republican Party’s loyalty to him, have more to offer than their votes in the next
by Cleber Lourenço | Nov 5, 2026 | brazil, elections, Flavio Bolsonaro, JD Vance, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Meta, minerals, News, Polymarket, rare earth minerals, Social Media
On Tuesday, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino ordered the Federal Police to investigate suspected foreign financing of Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign. Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the runoff. The investigation will also need to determine whether any connection exists between political support for the senator and foreign interests in Brazil’s rare earth and…
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by Katheryn Houghton | Nov 5, 2026 | Children’s Health Insurance Program, health care, Hospitals, Medicaid, medicaid cuts, medical care, News, pediatric care, Trump Administration
Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation’s sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California. Depending on the hospital, pediatric units — which are separate from neonatal…
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by Jacqueline Alemany | Nov 5, 2026 | News
As Democrats swept control of Congress on election night, Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, had a warning: “Lawyer up.”
Some of America’s biggest companies already have.
After two years spent courting President Donald Trump, they are bracing for Garcia, who is in line to chair the committee, and the other Democrats who will wield subpoena power come January. Some that expect to land near the top of the target lists have quietly opened back channels to the party, according to lawyers and congressional investigators familiar with the matter — a hedge against the reckoning Democrats have spent the year previewing.
Every modern administration has resisted congressional oversight to some degree. But in Trump’s first term, the White House went further, refusing to comply with a string of House Democrats’ subpoenas and declaring that it would not cooperate with the 2019 impeachment inquiry at all. This time, Democrats may have found a workaround. Much of the information Congress wants now sits in the private sector, with companies that have left a paper trail with this White House. Publicly traded companies are regulated, answerable to shareholders and vulnerable to stock drops and reputational damage, putting them under particular pressure to cooperate.
Inside Washington’s white-shoe firms, lawyers who handle congressional investigations have started fielding panicked calls. “People are terrified of the reputational issues,” said a lawyer who represents clients that have already been the target of Democratic oversight and was granted anonymity to speak candidly about client strategy. “At the end of the day, a lot of corporations don’t believe there will be a blanket pardon — they believe there’s going
by Chris Walker | Nov 5, 2026 | brazil, Donald Trump, Flavio Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, News
Flávio Bolsonaro, a far right politician from Brazil who recently lost a narrow election against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has fled the country, and is reportedly set to receive visas from the State Department to remain in the U.S. for an indeterminate amount of time. Bolsonaro and his family left Brazil following his defeat and amid an investigation into his involvement in a money…
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