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On Thursday's CNN This Morning, Mark McKinnon offered a snide suggestion about President Trump’s sexuality. Commenting on Trump’s habit of sizing up male physiques, McKinnon said: “Check Truth Social just to make sure he doesn’t have a Grindr account.”Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

A new poll released by the group Interactive Polls shows the Republican candidate leading in nine of the key 2026 Senate races that will decide which political party will have the majority next year in the upper chamber. The group, a non-partisan aggregator of polls, news, prediction markets & election results, shows in its poll released Thursday: Incumbent Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall leading by 5 pointsIncumbent Nebraska GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts leading by 5 pointsIncumbent Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan leading by 2 pointsIncumbent Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins leading by 2 pointsIncumbent Ohio GOP Sen. John Husted leading...

As their midterm picture darkens, and gas and diesel prices soar, some Republicans who backed the war for months are now changing their tune. As President Trump warned in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in recent days that he might “annihilate” Iran, a growing number of Republicans were scrambling to find distance from a costly war that has swelled into a midterm crisis for the party.The split screen showed how Mr. Trump and his party’s battleground candidates are increasingly at odds as the November elections approach. With no clear resolution in sight, the war has sent the...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will soon end, jobs will go “unfilled.” Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that TPS will end for tens of thousands of Haitian migrants come February 2026 — leaving them with no legal status to remain in the U.S. […] DeWine, in an interview with local Ohio media, complained that DHS’s potentially deporting Haitian migrants — particularly from Springfield, Ohio, where the Haitian population has exploded — will open American jobs. …

It’s been over seven months since the FBI announced a criminal complaint stemming from Ohio House Bill 6 (HB6). Arrests were made for what feds call a bribery and racketeering plan bankrolled by FirstEnergy Solutions to elect state representatives and a House Speaker that would ensure the bill passed (and stopped efforts to repeal it) – giving a $1.3 billion bailout to two Ohio nuclear energy plants. The FBI investigation is ongoing and discoveries continue to surface detailing relationships between the energy company, political action committees, nonprofits, dark money groups, corporations and government officials.... Generation Now (which pleaded guilty to...