President Donald Trump issued a Truth Social post on Monday morning casting doubts on the “honesty” of the 2026 midterm elections, less than one week after initially stating he would accept the results. “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest?” Trump wrote in his latest missive about the midterms. He went on to reprise grievances from past elections…
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In a “60 Minutes” interview that aired on Sunday evening, President Donald Trump admitted that Republicans’ massive defeats in the midterm elections resulted from widespread frustration with the war on Iran, as well as his immigration policies. Reiterating that he “was not on the ballot” — as if to suggest that support would have been higher for him personally — Trump said that Americans…
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The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked to President Donald Trump’s elder sons invested in its parent company, according to records and interviews. The contracts, one to screen for Ebola in several U.S. airports and the other to respond to disease outbreaks in the…
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While President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance blame Republicans’ losses in the midterm elections on their war on Iran — with Trump flippantly saying that the war “drove the gasoline up a little bit short term” — Tuesday’s results also represent a rejection of the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. In Texas, where Trump won a Latino majority in the presidential election in…
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On Monday, Alaska election officials filed a motion calling for the “immediate” dismissal of a lawsuit, brought forward last week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), that seeks to invalidate the state’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican candidate loses. The race features three main candidates. Democrat Mary Peltola is neck and neck in polls with incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R).
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In a Truth Social post on Thursday morning, President Donald Trump demanded that officials stop counting votes in the U.S. Senate race in Alaska, and that all votes for third-party candidates be given to Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan — disregarding thousands of votes that are yet to be counted as well as voters’ preferences in a possible instant runoff. The demand is highly unusual and…
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