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Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet in 2018. A new book alleges the United Arab Emirates paid Jared Kushner $50 million for helping push him out, which Kushner’s attorney denies.

An FBI whistleblower warned that Director Kash Patel’s rush to release the Jeffrey Epstein files could “destroy people’s lives” and feared that mistakes would be used to justify firing staffers, according to internal documents.

President Donald Trump's second administration has been tied to roughly $377 billion in alleged corruption, according to a tally released Tuesday by former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor, a prominent Trump critic.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a day off so troops can vote in the midterms, but experts say the move may come too late for some absentee ballots to arrive in time, and the troops who do vote may not be as solidly Republican as often assumed.

The recently hired chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose arrival gave agency scientists hope, is leaving after just six months.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in an “unprecedented confrontation” with Israel’s top military commander over an undisclosed military operation that officials feared could ignite a clash with Iran just days before elections, Channel 12’s Yaron Avraham reported.

A House seat in upstate New York held by outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) since 2015 is in danger of flipping to Democrats in next week’s election, and the New York Times reports the Republican nominee’s devotion to Donald Trump may be hurting his chances.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department raided a Beverly Hills mansion believed to belong to a billionaire who bankrolled former Rep. Eric Swalwell, Fox News and other conservative outlets first reported.

"This is what Corruptionland looks like: mounds of dirt, billions of dollars in taxpayer spending, and everything with Donald Trump's name and likeness on it."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior adviser for religious issues has a years-long trail of racist, homophobic and conspiratorial posts online, according to a CNN investigation. The little-known aide has become central to the Pentagon chief’s turn toward Christian nationalist rhetoric.

A week from today, Americans will head to the polls in an election that will determine the direction of our country for years to come.

The Bari Weiss-run CBS News deleted an online post Monday after Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon of Florida accused the outlet of a serious editorial failure for inaccurately claiming she dodged a question about Cuba.

Donald Trump Jr. went hunting in the Mongolian wilderness with the Putin-connected oligarch who helped bankroll his wedding, according to a new report, reigniting the firestorm over their relationship.

Jon Stewart spent part of his Monday monologue baffled by which half of Barack Obama's latest jab at Donald Trump sent the right into a tailspin.

President Donald Trump threw a fit late Monday night after U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes put another obstacle in front of his plans to renovate a public golf course in Washington, D.C.

A stunning electoral upset just lost President Donald Trump the "biggest prize" — as his allies abroad topple, a political expert told Raw Story on Monday.

Democrats are preparing for a doomsday scenario in which House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tries to keep their members from taking their seats if the party wins a majority next week, and one top Democrat has named the move that would set off alarms.

President Donald Trump's planned 250-foot triumphal arch would send a creeping darkness across the graves of America's fallen, stretching over more than 75,000 burial sites at Arlington National Cemetery in a year, according to a new analysis.

President Donald Trump's boast that the United States is making a fortune from the Iran war — even as Americans face high gas prices — has fueled a provocative theory from The New Republic's Michael Tomasky.

MS NOW's Jen Psaki opened her show eight days before the midterms by mocking Republicans' outrage over a joke former President Barack Obama made about President Donald Trump's gold-heavy White House renovations.

A political analyst spotted a disturbing scheme tucked away in the Department of Justice's lawsuit seeking to preemptively halt the certification of the state's Senate election.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) sparked outrage Monday after he used a slur to describe a Democratic Senate candidate.

A pair of GOP tried to defend President Donald Trump's White House renovations on Monday night, only for their remarks to instantly backfire.

A federal judge issued a blistering order Monday night concerning President Donald Trump's attempts to renovate the East Potomac Golf Course in Washington, D.C.

Fort Bend County Judge Daniel Wong, a Republican seeking a full term, is facing backlash over a campaign video featuring AI-generated Black "supporters" praising him for help with work, groceries and light bills, the Houston Chronicle reported.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department faced a wave of ridicule Monday after a federal appeals court rejected its emergency effort to intervene in California's election.

Former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah blasted President Donald Trump's Justice Department on Monday after former FBI Director James Comey was hit with a third round of criminal charges, calling the latest case part of a "pattern of harassment.

In a speech at Catholic University's law school, Justice Elena Kagan said the American public sees a troubling political system, and Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and legal commentator Madiba Dennie say that's a pointed warning about the Supreme Court itself.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department suffered a legal setback Monday after a federal appeals court ruled 2-1 against the administration's effort to force California to set aside ballots from more than 20,000 voters suspected of being noncitizens.

A crowd at a Republican rally in Montana groaned as Vice President JD Vance, campaigning for the party's midterm candidates, mispronounced the name of Helena, the state capital.

President Donald Trump lashed out at former President Barack Obama for overlooking "filth" after Obama mocked Trump's White House renovations as a Cheesecake Factory opened by a dictator.

President Donald Trump's team is preparing to discredit Republican election losses, a White House source told Raw America, warning that administration staffers are concerned about what could follow the midterms.

Vice President JD Vance's Montana rally was thrown off course Monday when a heckler began shouting from the crowd, setting off boos and "USA" chants as she was escorted out.

Republican candidates heading into next week's midterms drew less than a fifth of small-dollar donations to congressional campaigns, a haul election forecaster G. Elliott Morris called "just apocalyptic.

A Libertarian candidate for state Senate in North Carolina has been posting on X about what he describes as a police pursuit on Monday, hours after he wrote that he planned to end his life.

Former Democratic Rep. Max Rose shot down reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is eyeing a Senate seat in Tennessee, predicting on MS NOW that President Donald Trump will fire him as soon as the midterms are over.

A former Republican governor of South Carolina is backing the Democrat in the state's U.S. Senate race, teaming up with the Democrat who ousted him from office nearly three decades ago.

Republican campaigns and political groups have sharply slowed their spending at President Donald Trump's businesses in recent months as his approval rating has fallen, according to an analysis of federal campaign finance records.

Jaws dropped at new allegations against President Donald Trump and Attorney General Todd Blanche released by House Judiciary Committee Democrats in a new report on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

North Carolina was supposed to be the Republicans' backstop.

Attorney General Todd Blanche exposed his "criminal intent" to help President Donald Trump "steal the midterms" when he lashed out at a CNN host, a longtime legal journalist argued.