Abdul El-Sayed. Democrat candidate for U.S. senate Abdul El-Sayed dodged questions about traveling to California last week to attend a fundraising event at a home owned by the Soros family during an appearance Monday on Fox News. Martha MacCallum pressed El-Sayed about his previous calls to take "money out of politics" and how that squares with accepting fundraising from the family of a multi-billionaire investing titan. "Here you are in L.A. with the Soros family. So my que

Convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad. President Trump has approved execution by firing squad for the jihadist who carried out a mass shooting in 2009 at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas, that left 12 unarmed U.S. service members dead, a civilian dead and another 32 wounded. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced the decision in a post on X Monday evening. "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trum

Former special counsel Jack Smith. The special counsel who led multiple investigations into President Trump while he was running for a second term in office was seen on video over the weekend wearing a 'No Kings' T-shirt, prompting a sharp response from a White House official. Jack Smith was seen wearing the shirt in videos and photos posted on social media while attending a so-called "power to the people" concert in Maryland on Saturday. "Jack Smith is a scumbag who was the

Actress Debra Messing. In past election cycles she's supported the likes of Hillary Clinton and Cynthia Nixon and heavily opposed Donald Trump, but in 2026 longtime Democrat Debra Messing is throwing her support behind the Republican in the race for New York governor. According to The New York Post, Messing, best known for her starring role in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, appeared at a recent fundraiser for Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County Executive taking on incumbent Gov.

A U.S. B-1 bomber leaving RAF Fairford air base in England. The U.S. Air Force hastily removed B-1 bombers from Royal Air Force Fairford air base in England over the weekend amid continuing concerns of an Iran-backed terror attack against the installation, a week after six arrests were made after an apparent terror plot against the base was foiled. According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. pulled all 12 of the B-1 bombers kept at RAF Fairford for operations during the I

Hero pilot Smit Machchhar speaking with Narendra Modi, India's prime minister. The 38-year-old captain who was at the controls of a commercial jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday when he was repeatedly stabbed by his co-pilot mid-flight spoke out from his hospital room about the terrifying ordeal. Smit Machchhar, in a video conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that was released early Friday, said he was intent on saving the lives of the more than

Charles Barkley. Hall-of-Fame former NBA player Charles Barkley, who was known during his playing days for his power dunks, threw down a couple of thunderous dunks on modern Democrats Thursday during an interview with Chris Cuomo, calling out the party for its extreme rhetoric. Sir Charles, as he was known during his illustrious NBA career, seemed incredulous with some of the talking points that are commonly parroted by the DSA wing of the party, which has largely high-jacke

President Trump. President Trump said in an interview with Time magazine that he regrets three of the Supreme Court justice nominations he made because they have "voted against me too often." Trump's comments came in a wide-ranging interview published on Thursday. He was asked about a negative remark he'd made recently about justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, three justices he nominated during his first term. "Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them

CNN's Harry Enten. A raft of polls four weeks out from the midterm elections paint the picture of a blue wave coming on November 3, but is that portrait just a mirage? CNN data guru Harry Enten revealed in a segment on Wednesday that polling in certain battleground states have a history of overestimating Democrats' performance in elections during the Trump era. The polling Americans are seeing that suggests Republicans are set to lose control of the House and could lose contr

A day after Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced a vote on a bill that would have required photo ID to vote in federal elections and banned members of Congress from buying individual stocks while in office, Democrats voted in lock-step to block the bill. The bill needed 60 votes to pass and won 53 yea votes -- all from senate Republicans. The 47 Democrats in the senate all voted against the measure. In addition to requiring Americans to show photo ID when voting in fe

Radar path showing when flight plunged in mid-air. A horrifying scene unfolded in the cockpit of a commercial flight from Dubai to Israel Wednesday after the plane's co-pilot stabbed the captain while in the cockpit as part of an apparent attempt to hijack the plane, leading the plane to temporarily nosedive. The jet landed safely in Saudi Arabia after passengers intervened. According to multiple reports, a fight ensued in the cockpit and the co-pilot stabbed the captain rep

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. A state Supreme Court judge in New York on Tuesday sided with angry New York City residents who sued the city over Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new and highly unpopular pied-à-terre tax on second homes, telling the mayor that the rollout of the tax was botched. Mamdani's administration vowed to appeal the ruling and continue handing out tax bills. Wayne M. Ozzi of State Supreme Court on Staten Island wrote in his ruling that the city was "arbitrary" and "

Senate Majority Leader John Thune. U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday he plans to hold a vote on the chamber floor on Wednesday that will contain at least one component of the SAVE America Act, which President Trump has for months been pushing the Senate to pass, along with a provision banning insider trading by members of Congress. "The first of which would be a photo ID law coupled with a ban on insider trading -- something that's broadly supported by the

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Jimmy Kimmel. ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel welcomed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday night's show, to kick off a week of shows in the Big Apple for longtime TV personality who's reportedly in his final year at ABC. Not surprisingly, Mamdani's visit to the show was nothing but a love-fest, with Kimmel mostly fawning over Mamdani, asking the mayor to text Trump a selfie of the two of them and, of course devoting a portion of the segm

Michael Desronvil. The controversial holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial has spoken out in a video statement, the first remarks those following the case have heard directly from him rather than from his lawyer or family members. In a brief video statement given to Fox News, the juror called for the focus of the case to be put back on the three victims of the heinous crime and credited his faith for helping him through what's been a difficult time. Michael Desronvil

Pollster Frank Luntz appearing on CNN. Longtime pollster Frank Lutz said Democrats and pundits shouldn't underestimate the power of President Donald Trump as the midterm elections approach, and suggested Trump could swing the races in a way that would allow Republicans to hold on to both the House and Senate. While many polls and projections look grim for Republicans about five weeks out from Election Day, Luntz acknowledged the historical disadvantage Republicans face as wel

Edward Paltzik, the lawyer for Michael Desronvil, the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case. The attorney for Michael Desronvil, the holdout jury in the Lindsay Clancy triple-homicide case that ended in a mistrial earlier this month, spoke out in his first television interview, saying his client had "zero doubt" that state prosecutors in Massachusetts proved Clancy was guilty of murdering her three young children. Edward Paltzik spoke with Kayleigh McNenany in an interview

U.S. Senate candidate Adbul El-Sayed. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running against Mike Rogers for a Michigan seat in the U.S. senate, regularly refers to himself as a doctor or physician on the campaign trail and on social media, however he's not a practicing medical doctor, is not licensed as a doctor, and, at best, is a doctor in the Jill Biden sense of the word. According to The Detroit News, El-Sayed has boasted that if elected in November, he would become the only Democ

President Trump delivering a prime-time address to the nation on election integrity in July. The Supreme Court on Friday dealt President Trump a win in his election integrity push, issuing a ruling that will allow the Trump administration to go ahead with a plan to use a federal voter database ahead of the midterms elections. The nation's top court overruled a federal judge in Washington who had blocked the federal voter SAVE citizenship verification database -- meant to weed

President Xi Jinping and President Trump accompanied by their wives and translators. President Donald Trump pressed China president Xin Xinping over his continued support for Iran during the Chinese leader's state visit to the White House, according to David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Speaking with Joe Kernen on CNBC Friday, Perdue said Trump made it "very clear" to Xi that any help for Iran was "totally unacceptable." Perdue said both he and the president made it