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Wisconsin and Minnesota primaries next to feature progressive clash with Democratic establishment
Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election, increasing the pressure on a Democratic establishment that has spent the year on its heels. The primaries come a week after Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s divisive and costly U.S. Senate…
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Pete Hegseth ridiculed as he botches impression of dead senator: ‘Worst of all time’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted an impression of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Monday during a ceremony to rename Joint Base Charleston in the South Carolina Republican’s honor — but quickly admitted he’d botched it. “I’ll never forget his accent. He sat there and he said, ‘gentlemen,’” Hegseth said at the ceremony, shifting into…
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Top Mamdani aide should answer for what he knew about Dem power broker’s rape case: attorney
A top aide to Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing questions over what he knew about a notorious rape case against a powerful Democratic Party insiderwho became a sex offender. Attorney Carrie Goldberg said she wants to grill Mamdani’s First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan related to her claims by her client Elizabeth Crothers that she was…
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Jessie James Decker’s request for baby No. 5 makes husband Eric flee
Consider that a hard pass. Eric Decker jokingly fled from his wife, Jessie James Decker, when she asked him to have a fifth child. “Texted my husband asking to have another baby,” she wrote atop an Instagram Reel of him lounging lakeside on Sunday. Eric Decker fled from his wife, Jessie James Decker, when she…
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‘I’ll never bow down’: Montana Democratic Senate nominee refuses to pave way for independent
Montana’s Democratic Senate nominee on Monday refused to drop her campaign to clear the way for an independent candidate, setting up a crowded race that is likely to help Republicans win in November. Alani Bankhead made certain with hours to go before Monday’s deadline that she would not step aside to give independent Seth Bodnar…
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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra names tranformative new music director
SALZBURG, Austria — With the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel heading off on a brief tour to London and Edinburgh, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra steps in Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl with an all-Mozart program. Mozart has long been a specialty of LACO. And it so happens that the orchestra is using the Mozartean…
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Unsatisfied Trump slaps more demands on Iran as peace talks flounder
President Donald Trump appended a new demand to his list of conditions for ending the Iran war. The 80-year-old president laid out demands Monday for compensation from Iran in response to its Supreme National Security Council secretary, who insisted that the U.S. compensate for war damages and end its sanctions as a condition for reopening…
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Trump eases off strikes on Iran, bets sanctions will reopen Strait of Hormuz
President Trump signaled he’s prepared to let economic pressure on Iran build rather than launch fresh military strikes to force a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, even as the Islamic Republic reiterated that the conditions still aren’t in place to allow free passage through the key waterway. “We are just watching Iran with its…
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Major ruling comes down after Trump declares ’emergency’ to hide financial records
A Trump-appointed federal judge green-lit a legal maneuver that could shield President Donald Trump’s financial records from disclosure. U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman of the Southern District of Florida issued the ruling in Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC. The ruling came one day before a court-ordered deadline that would have forced…
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Trump goes unmentioned but not ignored as Clinton, Bush and Obama step up as essayists on presidents
When George W. Bush wrote an essay this year about another president named George, he avoided mentioning the one named Donald. So did Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The three ex-presidents joined a roster of historians and authors in contributing to the In Pursuit project, a 250th-anniversary series that had each writer produce an essay…