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Democrats are hinging their hopes of retaining the Senate majority on voters’ disdain for so-called “carpetbaggers.” As Senate Democrats fight to keep several vulnerable incumbents from losing tough races in swing states across the country, their campaign arm and state parties are homing in on Republican candidates’ traits and biographies over policies. “It’s a time-honored direction for campaigns to go, …

Vice President Harris mourned the Palestinians who were killed in a successful Israeli hostage rescue operation this weekend during an address delivered Saturday. The Israeli operation retrieved four hostages who were taken into Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7. Harris, speaking before the Michigan Democratic Party, celebrated their retrieval but spent more time lamenting the deaths of Palestinians killed in …

An Ohio state lawmaker proposed legislation that would require rioters to pay for damages they caused while breaking the law. This comes amid protests on college campuses and in front of government buildings in Ohio, and across the country, as anti-Israel demonstrators demand ties be cut with Israel in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Senate Bill 267, which is …

LAS VEGAS – FIRST ON FOX: Former President Donald Trump has made a major endorsement in what is expected to be one of this year’s most closely watched Senate races. Trump announced Sunday in a post on Truth Social that he would be backing former U.S. Army Captain Sam Brown to take on Nevada’s incumbent Democrat Sen. Jacky Rosen in …

President Biden has won the Democratic presidential caucuses in Guam, according to the Associated Press, based on party results from the U.S. territory in the western Pacific Ocean. After five months and more than 100 primaries and caucuses, Saturday’s Democratic caucuses in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands bring to a close the 2024 presidential nominating season. “The Party is …

A Yale Law professor suggests there is another strategy former President Donald Trump’s legal team could pursue to limit the impact of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case on the 2024 presidential election, after a New York jury found the former president guilty of 34 felony counts of falsified business records. In a newly-created podcast, titled Straight Down the Middle, …

FIRST ON FOX: A former top intelligence official gave a one-word answer when asked if he would retract the letter he signed along with 51 other former officials warning Hunter Biden’s infamous “laptop from hell” was Russian disinformation. James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, signed the heavily scrutinized letter just weeks before the 2020 …

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday declined to testify about his prosecution of former President Donald Trump to House lawmakers next week. In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., Bragg’s general counsel, Leslie Dubeck, said the district attorney has “scheduling conflicts” that will keep him from appearing before Congress. However, Dubeck indicated that Bragg may …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he and fellow Democratic leaders in the state legislature are attempting to negotiate a Proposition 47 reform measure off the November ballot, according to local reports, but Republican leaders affirmed their support for voters to determine if parts of the initiative should be repealed. Prop 47, which was approved by voters in 2014, …

The discovery of the potential for thousands of tons of lithium to be extracted annually from wastewater generated by fracking in the Marcellus Shale leaves proponents of a green energy future at a crossroads, Republicans said Thursday. A University of Pittsburgh study suggested processing byproducts from natural gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale basin could potentially meet nearly half of …