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3+ min ago (321+ words) The Republican Party is racking up loss after high-profile loss in 2025 off-year elections, with party insiders claiming they are "spooked" and "freaking out" about losses, particularly in once-safe red states, per a Friday report from The Hill. Speaking with The Hill, sources close to the Trump White House said that the underperformances and losses in "party strongholds" have members of the GOP increasingly concerned with the downward trend and what it portends as the 2026 midterms approach. "Republicans losing in Republican areas? That's a different story. I think that's got people freaking out," a former Trump White House staffer told the outlet. Another source, described as "close to the White House," suggested that GOP leaders were trying to ignore the problem and suggested that the Republican National Committee (RNC) is not doing enough to help these smaller races. "There's a lot…...

8+ min ago (317+ words) Intelligencer write Adam Kilgore says four years under President Donald Trump last time felt "like 40," but that was nothing "compared to his second administration." Kilgore said Trump is determined to tip the balance of power, but the midterms could potentially upset that. But "conversely," warned Kilgore, "if Republicans hold onto both congressional chambers, then all bets are off. Trump 2.0 would roll through its final two years with the president's more audacious legislative goals very much in sight and limited only by how much risk Republicans want to take in 2028." America could also get a full "MAGA makeover," said Kilgore. This could mean a country of millions fewer immigrants, with immigrant-sensitive industries like agriculture, health care, and other services struggling, a "fully shredded social-safety net feeding steadily increasing disparities in income and wealth between rich and poor," and cities "where armed…...

14+ min ago (1543+ words) Growing up in an ultraconservative Mormon family, Jennie Gage said, she was primed to become a Christian nationalist and supporter of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement " or MAGA. But about two years ago, at 49, Gage had a reckoning, realizing she had been "literally a white supremacist from birth," based on teachings from the Book of Mormon. Gage said she came to see Mormonism as "the OG Christian nationalist church." So, she flipped her life upside down, leaving organized religion and the Republican party. She now calls herself "a raging feminist," hosts a podcast, "Life, Take Two," and is a member of "Leaving MAGA," a nonprofit online community for former Trump followers who found themselves lost in conspiracies, losing friends, even committing crimes in the president's name. "I would have never said, "I'm white supremacist. I'm Christian nationalist," Gage…...

15+ min ago (433+ words) A Democratic lawmaker's "curious" theory about President Donald Trump's health forced an official White House denial. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) tweeted last week that the 79-year-old president is showing signs he's taking the Alzheimer's disease drug Leqembi, and The Daily Beast's Farrah Tomazin asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to comment on the congresswoman's evidence. When pressed on the topic Thursday, Leavitt claimed the president "is constantly shaking hands" because "the Oval Office is like Grand Central Terminal," and added that he takes aspirin daily, but the press secretary declined to answer specific questions about Trump's disclosure that he had undergone three cognitive tests. "I'm not a doctor, but I do think it's curious that [Trump's] drowsiness and visible bruising on his hands are consistent with known symptoms and side effects of Alzheimer's medications like Leqembi," Kamlager-Dove told the…...

16+ min ago (840+ words) There's no doubt about it at this point. President Donald Trump has great interest in what happens to CNN. CNN is a part of Warner Bros. Discovery. And, at the moment, WBD is in a tug-of-war between being sold to Netflix or being taken over in a hostile bid by Paramount. That sets up this interesting equation. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is involved in the financing to back the Paramount bid. Trump has a close relation with Paramount CEO David Ellison, who has reportedly told Trump he wants to make sweeping changes to CNN. And Trump really doesn't like CNN. Add up those two things and it equals Trump preferring WBD ends up under the control of Paramount and Ellison. In fact, the Netflix deal doesn't even include the WBD's cable networks such as CNN. The Paramount deal does, and…...

17+ min ago (1725+ words) David Stevenson in the yard of his home in Lewes, Delaware, September 2025. Greg Kahn/Canary Media Clare Fieseler1 minute ago This story was originally published by'Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the'Climate Desk'collaboration. David Stevenson stood in a circle of friends and colleagues in an Orlando, Florida, hotel lobby. Everyone but him wore a lapel pin that read "I " Fossil Fuels." You want one? asked a conference attendee, offering me the pin with a smirk. "It can be a souvenir." But Stevenson, then a policy director for the conservative think tank the Caesar Rodney Institute, had personally advocated for me to cover the event. He favored transparency and had no problem talking to me for hours about his primary political cause: making sure no offshore wind farms were ever built in US waters. Stevenson saw himself as an…...

17+ min ago (545+ words) Dilan Pinz'n, center, warms up with his teammates.Christie Hemm Klok When I first encountered 21-year-old Dilan Pinz'n back in April, he was sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field in Oakland, California, clad in cleats and a blue jersey, pondering his team's fate. Trump's deportations have ratcheted up players' anxiety: Some leave practice early or skip games to spend more time at home, where they feel safer. Pinz'n no longer does food deliveries at night, having spotted cars occupied by ICE officers. "The truth is, I'm scared because I don't want something to happen to me," he says. "I'm afraid with some of the stuff I see on the news or social media." Amid this atmosphere, the team plays a support role, helping assuage fears. Players might share job leads or remind each other about court dates, but…...

17+ min ago (796+ words) New citizens wave flags during a naturalization ceremony. Charles Krupa/AP Not long after the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington D.C., Elora Mukherjee found herself contacting her clients with bad news. Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrants" Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, needed to tell several asylum seekers that their applications had been put on hold'indefinitely. "These policies don"t just disrupt paperwork. They derail lives." Many of them had been "eagerly waiting for years to have an interview" in their cases, Mukherjee said. They hoped to finally be allowed to stay in the United States and freed from the fear of deportation, she said. But this pause "shattered" their "sense of safety and hope." "These are not narrow, targeted shifts," AILA"s executive director Ben Johnson said, adding that the "ripple effects" of these…...

17+ min ago (1573+ words) It's been a long road to ensure that testing on human subjects is ethical. AI could send us backward. If you're a human, there's a very good chance you've been involved in human subjects research. Maybe you've participated in a clinical trial, completed a survey about your health habits, or took part in a graduate student's experiment for $20 when you were in college. Or maybe you've conducted research yourself as a student or professional. If you want to conduct human subjects research, you have to seek Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. IRBs are research ethics committees designed to protect human subjects, and any institution conducting federally funded research must have them. It's not 1979 anymore. And now AI is changing the way people conduct research on humans, but our ethical and regulatory frameworks have not kept up. You have over two…...

25+ min ago (601+ words) The 156-day trial, the most high-profile use of Beijing's draconian national security law, is set to come to a close. By Alastair McCready and News Agencies Hong Kong's High Court is set to hand down a verdict in the case of pro-democracy campaigner and media mogul Jimmy Lai next week, bringing an end to his lengthy national security trial. Lai's verdict will be delivered by a three-judge panel in a hearing that begins at 10am local time (02:00 GMT) on Monday, according to a court diary notice seen on Friday. Founder of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, Lai, 78, is charged with foreign collusion under Hong Kong's national security law, which Beijing imposed following huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019. He previously pleaded not guilty to two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces, as well as a third count…...