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Meghan McCain criticized the prominence of cosmetic procedures among some Republican women in an X post on Monday, October 19, citing growing online scrutiny. Her comments followed backlash over Susan Dell's appearance at a White House event promoting President Donald Trump's investment accounts for children. Women's Wear Daily examined the reaction and revived discussion of the plastic surgery trend labeled "Mar-a-Lago face." New York plastic surgeon Dr. Ira Savetsky described it as an overfilled look with noticeably fuller cheeks and lips. Reactions to McCain's post were divided, with some users objecting to the focus on appearance and others.

Indiana Republicans spent much of fall and winter of 2025 in an open battle over an ultimately unsuccessful effort to redistrict Indiana’s congressional districts to replace the state’s only two Democrat-held seats with Republicans. Had the new map been passed, though, Indiana Republicans — not Democrats — could have seen their delegation in the House of Representatives wiped out after Tuesday’s midterms. The GOP would have found itself with at most just two members in the House, according to an analysis done by The Exponent. The analysis was conducted by taking preliminary precinct-level data from the Indiana secretary of state’s...

The Trump administration said Thursday that it deported a record number of illegal immigrants in the past year — with nearly a half-million people living in the US without legal permission forced to return to their homelands. About 60% of those removed since President Trump returned to office were charged with or convicted of a crime within the US ***The Thursday announcement did not provide detailed criminal statistics on the 483,200 removals in fiscal 2026,***The number outpaced the 442,640 deportations in the prior year, which included most of Trump’s first year back in power. Both years dwarfed the annual tallies...

According to ChainCatcher, U.S. President Donald Trump filed a disclosure on Aug. 21 this year reporting the sale of up to $1 million in Nvidia shares. Since the filing, Nvidia stock has fallen 29% to $160.64.

The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary vowed Wednesday that Tehran would not allow the removal of "even a single particle of enriched nuclear material" from the country, casting doubt on diplomatic efforts as the U.S. has long sought a peace deal that would see Iran give up its enriched uranium.President Trump has argued that he needed to launch the war with Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which the regime has always denied any intention of doing. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Tuesday that "crazy Islamists in Tehran will never ever...

“We will not rest until all of America’s great veterans can receive the care they so richly deserve,” President Trump said — a sentiment echoed by presidents of both parties going back decades. But for many veterans who come home seeking help with chronic pain, blast-wave brain injury, PTSD, depression, toxic burn pit exposure or moral injury, the reality can be a maze of bureaucratic indifference resulting in delayed or disjointed care. Veteran advocates dub it “institutional betrayal,” a term describing a rupture of trust when the institutions charged with caring for veterans leave them feeling dismissed or abandoned… And...

“Veterans Day is very different now,” said Charles Simmons, the father of Master Sgt. Tyler Simmons, who died in a refueling plane crash in Iraq in March. He added: “It takes on a whole different meaning because it’s come home. The bell tolls for thee.” Mr. Simmons said that he and his family “have a profound sense of pride” for all of his son’s accomplishments. But above all else, he said, there is “a profound hole in our hearts.” Mr. Simmons said his son died doing what he loved, but before his deployment in February he told his father he...

Republicans in the US ​House of Representatives ‌banded together on Tuesday to ​derail an effort ​to impeach Defense ⁠Secretary Pete Hegseth. The ​chamber voted 211 ​to 204 in favor of a motion ​to refer ​the impeachment charges to the ‌Republican-led ⁠House Judiciary Committee, effectively stopping the effort to ​impeach ​Hegseth ⁠sponsored by Kentucky Republican ​Representative Thomas ​Massie.

After replacing his former boss Susie Wiles as the White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller has urged the president to end the war in Iran. That war was undertaken with the idea of eliminating Iran’s nuclear research program but was incredibly unpopular with the American people. “Miller's pitch for the job, according to people who heard it, was that the president needed to wind down the Iran war, a conflict that the president's core supporters viewed as a betrayal,” said The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman in live updates. The war in Iran, launched by Trump along with close...

It was epochal and marks a new era in our political history. And for once everyone rushed to name clearly what happened. The morning after the 2026 midterm elections, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was searingly blunt. For the Republican Party it was “close to an extinction level event.” Its effects will “reverberate for the next decade or more.” “It was a Watergate-level repudiation,” said Ted Cruz, soon to be Texas’ lone Republican senator, on a podcast. Ronna McDaniel, Republican National Committee chairman in the first Trump term, told Fox News on Wednesday the election wasn’t only a Democratic wave, it...

As Republicans see electoral losses across the country, about 74 percent of voters said the Iran war was a “crucial or major” factor in their vote for Congress, and Democrats won 63 percent of those voters, according to NBC exit polls. Only 26 percent said the war was a “minor factor or not a factor,” 70 percent of whom voted Republican and 28 percent of whom voted Democrat. The divide on the war became even greater when voters were asked whether the Trump administration made the “right decision” or “wrong decision” on “military action against Iran. Overall, 37 percent said...

Republicans are trailing Democrats in seven key Senate battlegrounds, including longtime GOP strongholds Texas and Kansas, according to a poll released Sunday, just days before the midterm elections. The New York Times/Siena poll found Democratic candidates leading in five states currently represented by Republican senators — Alaska, Kansas, Maine, Ohio and Texas — while the race in Iowa is virtually tied. In Michigan, the only Democratic-held Senate seat surveyed, the party's candidate holds a double-digit lead. Don Levy, executive director of the Siena Research Institute, said the results suggest Democrats could capture control of the Senate, though he cautioned that...

Donald Trump is secretly asking close advisers about whether Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine should be fired after the midterms, even as he weighs restarting the bombing of Iran.The president has been quizzing allies on the performance of his defense secretary and his Joint Chiefs chairman, the two men who assured him the war would be wrapped up well before the midterms, according to the Atlantic. *** As Republicans face the real possibility of losing the House and Senate, Trump has concluded the Iran war would be partly to blame and trained his attention on the advisers who promised...

Democrat Troy Jackson leads Republican Sen. Susan Collins by 5 percentage points in the final YouGov poll before Tuesday's midterm elections as Democrats seek to flip one of the nation's most closely watched Senate seats. The survey, conducted Oct. 26-29 among 1,503 likely voters, showed Jackson leading Collins 52% to 47%. That marks a shift from YouGov's previous Oct. 1 survey, which showed the candidates tied at 50%. The latest survey shows Jackson improving his position compared with YouGov's earlier October poll. Recent polling underscores just how close the contest has been. A CNN/SSRS survey showed Jackson leading Collins 49%...

Election Day is fast approaching, and many candidates for office are busy doing everything they can to convince any remaining undecided voters. And then there are Democrats running in New York City Districts 7 and 13, areas so blue that candidates for Congress don't need to campaign at all. Darializa Avila Chevalier is running in the 13th District. Claire Valdez is running in the 7th District. They're both members of Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA. "We're still encouraging folks to go out. Early voting has already started. Election Day is Nov. 3," Avila Chevalier said. The district she's running...

Kansas: Hamilton is ahead of Republican Sen. Roger Marshall 50% to 47% in an Emerson poll and 54% to 44% in a Washington post survey (updated Oct. 30).Texas: Democratic state Rep. James Talarico leads Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton 49% to 43% in a CNN survey and 49% to 47% in a Texas Southern University/YouGov poll (updated Oct. 29).Maine: Democrat Troy Jackson is ahead of GOP Sen. Susan Collins 49% to 45% in the CNN poll (updated Oct. 29).Michigan: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leads former Rep. Mike Rogers 49% to 42% in the CNN survey (updated Oct. 29).New Hampshire: Democratic Rep....

On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Truth Social signed Bloomberg, Susquehanna International Group, and Jump Trading to provide faster access to President Donald Trump's posts for up to $100,000 monthly.The Truth API service provides subscribers a millisecond timing advantage, allowing software to read and execute trades in thousandths of a second to react instantly to market-moving presidential announcements.Clients pay between $60,000 and $100,000 monthly, while Trump Media has lost about $1.76 billion since 2024 and shares have fallen more than 50% this year, driving the company to monetize its platform.Intercept Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued in August,...

With litigation threatening to derail President Trump’s plans for a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, two of his top aides on Wednesday submitted sworn statements to a federal court claiming that the arch was needed for national security purposes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, contended that even though national security was never invoked in the initial proposal for the arch, the project was now needed to keep the United States safe from drone attacks. “The arch is a generational national defense opportunity to mitigate these evolving threats,” Mr. Hegseth told the court. He added...

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has increased his polling lead to 7 percentage points over Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, among likely voters in a nationally watched U.S. Senate race in Michigan. Mitchell Research & Communications conducted the statewide poll Oct. 26-27 for CBS Detroit and other Michigan television stations. It surveyed likely voters in the Nov. 3 general election. "El-Sayed is in the driver's seat for a big victory on November 3rd," the researchers said. El-Sayed was the choice of 51% of likely voters, with Rogers at 44%, in the latest Mitchell poll. Three percent were undecided, and third-party candidates...

On the menu today: If, in the past five months or so, you argued that the memorandum of understanding with the Iranian regime was a terrible mistake and an insane series of concessions to one of the world’s most duplicitous regimes, you were probably accused of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” This week, President Trump declared the cease-fire with Iran to be “a waste of time.” This morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. is preparing for “a short, intense military campaign” against Iran “after the U.S. midterm elections.” As high as gas prices are today — a national...