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Following numerous victories for Democrats in last night’s elections, prediction markets are showing more favorability for Democrats to regain control of the House of Representatives in 2026. Prediction market Kalshi now projects that the Democratic Party has a 69% chance of winning the House next year, compared to Republicans’ 31% chance. Numbers for Democrats are up significantly from the estimates on Election Day, which gave the Democratic Party a 59.5% chance of winning compared to Republicans’ 40.5% chance. Off-year elections are often seen as a barometer of the country’s pulse on the current leadership. After several resounding victories, Democrats are...

BOSTON – A Malden, Mass. woman has been arrested and charged for threatening to kill federal agents who were engaging in lawful immigration enforcement. Bethany Abigail Terrill, 37, was charged with threatening a United States official. Terrill will make an initial appearance in federal court in Boston at 1:30 pm, today. According to the charging documents, federal agents were supporting Immigration Enforcement and Removal Operations in effecting the administrative immigration arrest of individuals in the area of Malden District Court. It is alleged that the agents encountered Terrill outside of Malden Court for reasons unrelated to the agents’ activities. It...

Officials removed the staff member who called Charlie Kirk’s assassination “fair” in a personal social media post from GW’s internal directory, marking his apparent departure amid a wave of schools firing and suspending employees over posts related to Kirk’s killing. Anthony Pohorilak, who served as the Mount Vernon Campus’ assistant director of academic initiatives, is no longer listed on the University’s directory as of Wednesday — days after Fox News reported that he wrote “no thoughts, and no prayers” about Kirk’s assassination in a post on his personal Facebook account. Pohorilak’s apparent departure comes as faculty and staff across the...