Author: Molly Parks, Washington Examiner

The predictions for the Senate races in North Carolina, Ohio, and Alaska shifted further left on Tuesday, according to a forecast update from the University of Virginia’s Sabato’s Crystal Ball. The election forecaster shifted the ratings for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-OH) from “leans Republican” to “toss-up” on Thursday, while shifting…

President Donald Trump will virtually campaign on Monday night for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as the four-term senator looks to avoid a primary runoff in a crowded GOP field. South Carolina voters will take to the polls on Tuesday to cast their primary ballots in the state’s local, House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. Graham, who…

The White House Correspondents’ Association has officially rescheduled its annual dinner for July 24 after a shooting outside the doors of the originally scheduled dinner cut the event short on April 25. Weijia Jiang, WHCA president and CBS News correspondent, announced the rescheduled date in an email to association members, telling attendees that details on…

The girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, country singer Alexis Wilkins, has filed a defamation lawsuit against MS Now for a report the outlet published alleging Patel had ordered Wilkins’s security detail to give her friends a ride home. The outlet, formerly MSNBC, published a report in December 2025 based on three anonymous sources that…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a plan to recreate a Big Apple version of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, called the Commission on Government Efficiency. New York’s COGE will examine the city’s charter and figure out ways for Mamdani’s administration to cut costs, improve efficiency, and modernize the city’s government, the…

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple reports. Carroll has sued Trump twice. She first alleged he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s and second alleged he defamed her in his denial of the alleged sexual assault. Trump denies…

Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) is telling Democrats to “move on” from the 2024 presidential election, chiming in that he does not care whether or not the Democratic National Committee releases the contentious autopsy of the election loss. “My point is this: release it, don’t release it. I don’t care,” Moore told Politico in a sit-down…

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) confirmed that Virginia would use its current congressional map, drawn in 2021, rather than the Democratic-drawn map from the April referendum, in this year’s midterm elections. Spanberger’s confirmation that the state will retain its current map for 2026, consisting of six Democratic and five Republican districts, clarifies how the Democratic governor…

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) signed a bill just before Georgia’s legislative deadline, making several Atlanta-area elections nonpartisan, a move that could weaken the Democratic stronghold. The legislation, House Bill 369, switches all county offices, except the sheriff’s offices in Gwinnett, Fulton, DeKalb, Clayton, and Cobb counties, to nonpartisan elections. Though Kemp signed the bill into…