2-Year-Old Boy Dies in Frankfort, Illinois Domestic Homicide

A 2-year-old boy was found unresponsive and later declared dead in a Frankfort, Illinois home Tuesday, in what police are calling a domestic homicide. Frankfort officers responded to the 22700 block of Brook Stone Court shortly after 4 p.m. following a 911 call from a 17-year-old girl, who was actively performing CPR on the toddler …

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JD Vance Torches Abdul El-Sayed for Attack on Wife Usha

JD Vance publicly warned a Michigan Democratic Senate nominee to stop targeting his wife. The vice president, speaking at a metro Detroit rally organized by MAGA Inc., a super PAC closely aligned with President Donald Trump, went directly after Abdul El-Sayed. Vance accused El-Sayed of crossing a serious line by dragging second lady Usha Vance …

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33 House Democrats Break With Jeffries, Back Israel Boycott Bill

Thirty-three House Democrats voted with Republicans Thursday, handing party leadership a stinging defeat. The bill passed 237 to 169, with 33 Democrats crossing the aisle to join nearly all Republicans in supporting the measure. Only two Republicans voted no, Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio. The legislation targets federal funding for …

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Cenk Uygur’s Chair Collapses Live on Air During Fiery El-Sayed Defense

Cenk Uygur’s chair collapsed under him live on air mid-argument on Piers Morgan Uncensored. The Young Turks founder was deep into a heated exchange defending Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed when the seat gave way. The on-air mishap capped a segment that had already spiraled into a full-volume shouting match. Uygur appeared on the …

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AFT President Randi Weingarten Calls for Boycott on Target Over ICE Silence

Randi Weingarten is urging shoppers to stop spending money at Target because the retailer won’t condemn ICE. The president of the American Federation of Teachers posted a video directing parents and educators to take their back-to-school shopping elsewhere, specifically to unionized competing stores. Her reasoning is straightforward: Target has not publicly opposed federal immigration enforcement …

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Trump’s Indiana Purge Works: Six Republican Incumbents Lose Primary Races

Six sitting Indiana Republican senators lost their primary races after Donald Trump backed their opponents. That is the bottom line from Indiana’s May 2026 primary, where Trump’s endorsements carried enough weight to end the political careers of six GOP incumbents in a single night. The results made clear that his threats against Republican state lawmakers …

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum Breaks Ground on New DC Triumphal Arch

After more than 125 years of waiting, Washington DC is finally getting a triumphal arch. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced this week that excavation work for the United States Triumphal Arch will begin within the next two weeks. The project, also referred to as the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, will be built …

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Fox News Cuts Ties With Maria Bartiromo After 12 Years

Fox News abruptly ended its relationship with anchor Maria Bartiromo on Thursday, closing out more than 12 years at the network. The company, which operates both Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, offered no reason for the split. A spokesperson kept the statement brief: “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 …

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Lindsay Clancy Jury Sends Fourth Note After 35 Hours of Deliberations

The Lindsay Clancy jury has now sent four notes to the judge after logging roughly 35 hours of deliberations across six days. The latest note landed Thursday afternoon in Plymouth Superior Court, where Judge William F. Sullivan is overseeing the murder trial. The specific contents were not disclosed publicly. The note pulled Plymouth County District …

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Trump Tells Crowd Melania Hates His Y.M.C.A. Dance, Then Does it Anyway

Melania Trump reportedly hates watching her husband do the Y.M.C.A. dance. President Donald Trump told a crowd in South Carolina exactly that, then proceeded to do the dance anyway. The admission drew laughs from the audience and became one of the more memorable moments from his August 21st rally at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. …

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Father of Disabled Girl Blasts Democrats Over Sanctuary Policies

A five-year-old girl was struck by an illegal alien driving an 18-wheeler in June 2024. That child is Dalilah Coleman. She is now seven years old and permanently disabled. Her father, Marcus Coleman, is done staying quiet. Coleman went on the offensive against congressional Democrats, holding them directly responsible for what happened to his daughter. …

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Republicans Lead Democrats on Generic Ballot in New Harvard-Harris Poll

Republicans now lead Democrats 51 to 49 among likely voters, according to the latest Harvard-Harris poll. That two-point edge may sound modest, but the trajectory behind it tells a bigger story. In March, Democrats held a four-point lead in the same poll’s likely-voter measure. By July, that margin had shrunk to two. In August, it …

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Lindsay Clancy Defense Demands Juror Removal Over Reasonable Doubt Dispute

A juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial is refusing to follow the court’s definition of reasonable doubt, according to the defense. Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s attorney, stood before Judge William Sullivan on Thursday and demanded that the juror be removed from the panel. The request came after the jury foreperson reportedly raised the alarm inside …

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Iran Accuses the U.S. of War Crimes While Backing Civilian-Killing Proxies

Iran filed a formal war crimes accusation against the United States at the UN Security Council this week. The Islamic Republic, long designated by the State Department as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, accused Washington of striking a wedding in Hormozgan province. Tehran claims the strike killed four civilians, including a four-year-old child. …

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Eric Swalwell’s Wife Reportedly Leaves as FBI Probe and Scandal Mount

Eric Swalwell’s wife has reportedly stopped wearing her wedding ring. That quiet detail may be the most telling development yet in the collapse of the former California congressman’s public and private life. By multiple accounts, Brittany Watts and Swalwell are living separately after nearly a decade of marriage and three children together. Newsmax hosts have …

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Lindsay Clancy Jury Remains Deadlocked After Judge’s Final Push

The jury deciding Lindsay Clancy’s fate still cannot agree, even after a judge’s formal push to break the deadlock. On Tuesday, Judge William Sullivan read the jury a Tuey-Rodriguez charge, a legal instruction designed to encourage deadlocked panels to keep trying. They went back in. By Wednesday, they still had not reached a verdict. The …

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Caitlin Clark Makes World Cup Debut, Calls Playing for USA a Special Honor

Caitlin Clark will make her first major senior international tournament appearance at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Berlin. The 24-year-old Indiana Fever guard is joining Team USA as it defends its World Cup title, and she is not taking the moment lightly. Clark grew up watching the American national team compete on the …

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Republicans Lead Democrats in Generic Ballot, Harvard Poll Shows

Republicans hold a two-point lead over Democrats among likely midterm voters, a new poll shows. The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll for August, released Wednesday, found 51 percent of likely voters backing Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, compared to 49 percent for Democrats. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.1 percentage points. The picture …

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Two Minneapolis Officers Shot Responding to Eviction Disturbance Call

Seven people were shot at a Minneapolis apartment building after officers responded to an eviction dispute. The shooting happened at 15 East Grant Street in Minneapolis’ Loring Park neighborhood. Police were called to the building after reports of a disturbance involving a resident who had been evicted earlier that day. Gunfire broke out around the …

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Coast Guard Jet With Markwayne Mullin Aboard Makes Emergency Landing

A Coast Guard jet lost an engine mid-flight Wednesday with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on board. The aircraft, a C-37A, the military version of the Gulfstream V, was carrying Mullin and other senior officials when its right engine failed. The pilot immediately declared an emergency and diverted to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside …

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U.S. Mint’s Trump Commemorative Coin Crashes Federal Website at Launch

The U.S. Mint’s website crashed Wednesday under demand for a Trump commemorative coin. The site buckled within minutes of the coin going on sale, routing buyers into a virtual waiting room with waits reported between 20 minutes and a full hour. Thousands of Americans rushed to purchase the commemorative dollar coin bearing President Trump’s portrait, …

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Trump White House Calls Out 10 Senate and House Democratic Votes

The White House released a list of ten Democratic votes it says put Americans at risk. The document, dropped on Wednesday, compiles roll call votes cast by House and Senate Democrats across a range of policy areas. The White House framed them as a pattern, not a collection of isolated decisions. Taken together, the list …

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Ed Markey Crushes Seth Moulton in Massachusetts Senate Primary

Ed Markey beat Seth Moulton by nearly 30 points in Tuesday’s Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary. The race was called by the Associated Press and Decision Desk HQ roughly 30 minutes after polls closed. With more than 95 percent of votes counted, Markey pulled 571,246 votes, or 64.8 percent. Moulton received 309,870 votes, 35.2 percent. Markey …

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John Sununu Takes First Poll Lead Over Chris Pappas in NH Senate Race

John Sununu now leads Chris Pappas in New Hampshire’s open Senate race, a first in public polling. A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll puts former U.S. Senator John Sununu ahead of U.S. Representative Chris Pappas by two points, 45 percent to 43 percent. The survey tested a hypothetical general election matchup for New …

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