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Ken Paxton; John Cornyn; Jen Psaki.

This Senate primary just became the one to watch

Jen Psaki

Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins at her election night party on Dec. 9, 2025 in Miami, F.L.

Why Democrats’ mayoral win in Miami is bad news for Trump

Philip Bump

Olivia Nuzzi.

RFK Jr.’s escape from accountability in the Olivia Nuzzi scandal is no accident

Eric Garcia

Emil Bove, US Court of Appeals judge for the 3rd Circuit, during an event on inflation in Mount Pocono, Penn.

Judicial misconduct complaint filed against Bove after attending Trump rally

Jordan Rubin

President Donald speaking.

Trump veers off-message in economic speech, calls affordability a ‘hoax’

Julianne McShane

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during the 2025 New York Times Dealbook Summit in NYC.

The unsubtle subtext of Gavin Newsom’s ‘culturally normal’ comment

Nicholas Mitchell

Donald Trump; Nicolás Maduro.

U.S. military seizes oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says

Erum Salam

The New York Times building in NYC.

Trump sees reporting about his age and stamina as ‘seditious, perhaps even treasonous’

Steve Benen

US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump claims he can produce evidence to bolster his 2020 election conspiracy theories

Steve Benen

MS NOW senior political and national reporter Jacob Soboroff, left, speaks with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani vows to resist Trump’s ‘cruel and inhumane’ immigration crackdown

Allison Detzel

Protestors demonstrate inside the rotunda of the Missouri Capitol Building in Jefferson City, M.O.

Missouri activists just took a big step toward stopping their state’s Trump-backed congressional maps

Ja'han Jones

Lindsey Halligan; Alina Habba.

Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan aren’t the only ones

Lisa Rubin

President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with farmers in the White House on Dec. 8, 2025.

It doesn’t take a mathematician to see Trump’s $12 billion farmer bailout doesn’t add up

Hayes Brown

Juan Orlando Hernández speaks during a press conference.

Trump stumbles into an important contradiction on pardon for drug trafficker

Steve Benen

U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet in the Oval Office on June 5, 2025.

Traditional U.S. allies move further away after seeing Trump’s security strategy

Steve Benen

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport

Trump’s unsubtle reversal on his ‘s—hole countries’ comment

Steve Benen

President Donald speaking.

Trump veers off-message in economic speech, calls affordability a ‘hoax’

Julianne McShane

National guards stand in front of the entrance of the Metropolitan Detention Center as demonstrators gather in front of it following federal immigration operations in Los Angeles, CA.

Judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles

Erum Salam

Alina Habba.

Alina Habba’s new job in Trump’s Justice Dept. isn’t much better than her old one

Steve Benen

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on July 29, 2025, in Championsgate, FL.

Florida AG files suit against medical groups over gender-affirming care

Ja'han Jones

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon during a White House press briefing on Nov. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Education Department reaches deal to end the last Biden-era student loan repayment program

Erum Salam

Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins speaks to supporters

Democrats score big wins in Florida and Georgia, as the GOP’s election woes continue

Steve Benen

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) discusses rising health insurance premiums

Millions of Americans face health care crossroads as subsidies expire

Arielle Hixson

Elon Musk on May 30, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House.

Elon Musk says he would not lead DOGE if he had to do it over again

Julianne McShane

Justice Elena Kagan sits between Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Justice Kagan knows why the Supreme Court majority wrongly supported Texas’ redistricting effort

Michael A. Cohen

International travelers at Logan International Airport in Boston, Mass.

CBP considers requiring tourists’ social media history to enter U.S.

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Fed Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.25%

Klobuchar slams Trump calling affordability a ‘hoax’: ‘People’s bills don’t lie’

U.S. seizes sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

Judicial misconduct complaint filed against Emil Bove

Sen. Rosen calls for Hegseth to resign: ‘It’s murder, it’s a war crime’

Dems celebrate two overnight election wins as GOP works on affordability messaging

The American Dream is no longer attainable, say a majority of voters in new polling

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Understand Today’s News

  1. Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez is escorted by the police to be extradited to U.S.to face charges of taking bribes from drug traffickers at Honduran National Directorate of Special Forces on April 21, 2022, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

    Trump’s pardon of Honduras’ former president gives away the game

    Zeeshan Aleem

  2. Donald Trump and media personality Megyn Kelly at Trump's campaign rally in Pittsburgh, P.A.

    Megyn Kelly’s shocking viral comments mirror a broader MAGA obsession

    Anthony L. Fisher

  3. President Donald Trump at the White House.

    The cruel consequences of Trump’s casual use of the R-word

    Eric Garcia

  4. Framed portraits of President Donald Trump flank an image of former President Joe Biden's signature and an autopen along "The Presidential Walk of Fame" at the White House.

    The dangerous strategy at the heart of Trump’s nonsensical autopen obsession

    Barbara McQuade

  5. Afghan refugees disembark from a U.S. Air Force aircraft in Spain after an evacuation flight from Kabul on Aug. 31, 2021.

    There’s a bill to improve Afghan vetting and resettlement. Congress hasn’t passed it for three years.

    Kristen L. Rouse

  6. Lane Kiffin stands behind a podium at a press conference at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, L.A.

    The fallout from Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss departure will be felt for years to come

    Jason Page

  7. Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, T.N.

    Trump’s pardon of a former Honduran president boils down to a cryptocurrency play

    Philip Bump

  8. U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino sits in the driver's seat surrounded by media and protesters.

    Greg Bovino’s blatant lying to a judge crossed a line — even for MAGA supporters

    Austin Sarat

  9. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    RFK Jr.’s latest anti-vaccine move will cause untold harm to autistic Americans

    Eric Garcia

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