On Tuesday 7 Nov 2028, in one of the largest turnouts in US election history, Americans will vote in US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) President of the United States, alongside his running mate, Congresswoman (and Retired USN Admiral) Nancy Stewart Lacore (D-SC) as Vice-President. Their winning campaign platform:
Anthropic has introduced Claude to Google Meet with a new product called Claude Meetings. The AI joins video calls, listens to discussions, and helps teams turn conversations into tasks during a meeting.
A ship that was once the fastest in the world and is longer than the Titanic has intentionally been sunk off the coast of Florida, turning into the world's largest artificial ocean reef. The SS United States spent nearly 30 years docked in Philadelphia before it was moved to Florida, where it will become a home for sealife and an underwater attraction for marine enthusiasts. Read more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it brought 348 enforcement actions in fiscal 2026, the fewest cases since 1991, according to a Reuters review of agency statistics. The agency's actions were down from 456 a year earlier, as the Wall Street watchdog said it levied nearly $1.1 billion in fines and other financial remedies. That was the lowest level of penalties it has imposed since 2008, on a non-inflation-adjusted basis, according to the Reuters review of figures published on the SEC's website.
Dozing off in your armchair in the middle of the afternoon is one of life's simple pleasures. But depending on how often you find yourself doing it, those daytime naps could be a warning sign of worsening cognitive health, research suggests.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today released a majority staff report titled, "A Review of the Federal Government's Mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Criminal Investigations." The report culminates the Committee's 15-month investigation, which included 19 transcribed interviews and depositions with key witnesses, the release of documents from the Department of Justice and the Epstein estate, and an extensive review of financial records.
If there was one obvious conclusion from Democrats' sweeping victories in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, it seemed to be that the Republican effort to redraw congressional districts in their favor backfired.
But, says one expert, it would be misleading to say that gerrymandering did not work at all in this election
"The White House's top lawyer sent a letter of warning to incoming House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., on Wednesday, claiming that the Democrats' promise to investigate the Trump administration "may cross the line into blatant criminality."
White House counsel William Scharf wrote Garcia a three-page letter to "remind" him of the constitutional limits of congressional investigations, "which you and members of the new Congress have evinced a clear intent to transgress."
The letter, obtained by PBS News, accuses Democrats of "abusive and capricious threats" against President Donald Trump and members of his administration."
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ACKSON, Miss. (AP) " Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Colom's narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations, and it will echo through the country as well.
The outcome adds to a decisive midterm rebuke of President Donald Trump, whose party suffered defeats in several Republican-controlled states, and it will bolster some Democrats' argument that their future runs through the American South.
Democrat Scott Colom is now projected to defeat Cindy Hyde-Smith for Mississippi's U.S. Senate seat.
I spent years on a Virginia school board, and I've experienced firsthand the teachers' union's far-left ideology. This week, the group declared its beliefs out loud. The Virginia Education Association (VEA) issued a press release on November 4, 2026, celebrating voters' "approval of constitutional amendments protecting reproductive freedom, securing marriage equality, and automatically restoring voting rights" to felons. It even admitted to supporting the legislation that put the amendments on the ballot. What do those Democrat-led amendments have to do with public education? The VEA's answer is that these issues "matter to our members and school communities."
The nation's 250th birthday is an invitation to consider what made the American experiment unique in the first place. At a time when Americans increasingly disagree about our nation's history, identity, and founding principles, that question lies at the heart of today's debate over American exceptionalism. Too often, the conversation begins with a misunderstanding of the meaning of "exceptional." Many believe it implies that America is inherently superior. Others reject the idea of exceptionalism altogether, arguing that the United States is simply another nation. According to the American Enterprise Institute's America at 250 survey, 32% of Americans believe the United States is "just another country whose political system is not better or worse than other countries." Yet America is exceptional in the literal sense of the word.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Alexander Darchiev, Russia's ambassador to the US, abruptly up and died Wednesday at the age of 66. The diplomat had headed the Russian Embassy in Washington DC -- a front for Kremlin espionage -- since March 2025. No cause of death was immediately announced; the ministry only wrote that Darchiev "passed away suddenly." In March 2025, ICC-indicted war criminal Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Darchiev as ambassador -- a man known for his public denunciations of the West -- following Dummkopf Trumpf seizing power on 20 Jan 2025. Darchiev also once served as Russia's ambassador to Canada where the RCMP certainly kept a wary eye on him in Ottawa.
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With data centers cropping up around the United States, the cost of the energy infrastructure on which they rely, and who pays for it, are among the country's most debated economic and political questions. A new study finds that in 2025, the rising energy costs associated with AI data centers landed hardest on lower-income, rural households, which bore disproportionate shares of the financial burdens compared with the data centers themselves.
"We love our veterans," Trump said during an Oval Office photo op shortly after his inauguration. "We are going to take good care of them." Days after that pronouncement, a memo leaked showing the administration was considering sweeping job cuts at the agency. "Things need to change," warned Doug Collins, Trump's new VA secretary, in a video message to staff. Six months after Trump entered the White House, the VA had 3,800 fewer doctors, nurses and other "mission critical" staff than it did at the start of his term, according to the department's own data. While the losses made up a small percentage of overall employees, the drop compounded longstanding shortages " and contrasted sharply with a hiring spree under President Joe Biden that had begun to address them. Many of the front-line workers who quit in Trump's early days have never been replaced. Instead, the VA has eliminated thousands of open positions, including doctors, nurses and other providers.
Anti-Israel demonstrators surrounded Joe Biden's entourage as the family left the university, shouting "Genocide Joe," "Blood on your hands," and "Shame on you."
