The Democratic Party's progressive wing faces critical tests in Upper Midwest primaries as Peggy Flanagan battles Angie Craig for Minnesota's Senate nod.
Posted on 12 August 2026 | 12:06 am
Ilhan Omar faced four challengers in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District Democratic primary as affordable housing and public safety dominated.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 11:53 pm
Peggy Flanagan defeated Angie Craig in Minnesota's Democratic primary, backed by Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar in a growing progressive proxy war.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 11:41 pm
Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth beat Trump-backed MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for the GOP governor nomination to replace outgoing Gov. Tim Walz.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 11:35 pm
Vermont Democrats pick their nominee to challenge Republican Gov. Phil Scott, who is seeking a sixth term as the dark-blue state's longest-serving governor.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 11:03 pm
Rebecca Cooke won Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary, setting up a rematch with Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden this fall.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 10:39 pm
Fourteen-term Rep. John Larson faced Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin and two others in a hard-fought Democratic primary centered on generational change.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 10:08 pm
Brad Finstad faced challengers Gregory Goetzman and Oliver Morlan in the Minnesota 1st Congressional District Republican primary on Tuesday.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 9:52 pm
Amy Klobuchar defeated long-shot challengers in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party primary as she seeks to replace Tim Walz amid a $9 billion fraud scandal.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 9:32 pm
Officials are exploring a misdemeanor prosecution in the Lincoln Memorial pool case after prosecutors moved to drop the felony charge against Olympic canoeist David Hearn.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 9:26 pm
Tom Tiffany wins the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin and is expected to face Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong in November's election.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 9:25 pm
Connecticut Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont faces Josh Elliott, who says the incumbent is too "nice" to Trump and calls that a liability against fascism.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 8:31 pm
The race for the Republican nomination to succeed the late GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina heads to a runoff in two weeks.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 8:22 pm
A federal judge in Boston blocked the USPS from enforcing Trump's executive order on mail-in voting rules ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 7:36 pm
Trump instructed CMS to end Medicaid funding for gender transition procedures, calling the surgeries "barbaric" in a Truth Social post.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 5:39 pm
Sarah Trone Garriott's Iowa legislature votes on bathroom policy and girls' sports clash with her new campaign video opposing men in women's locker rooms.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 4:56 pm
Trump secretly switched to a military jet in Turkey over an Iranian missile threat, leaving journalists and White House staff aboard the decoy aircraft.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 4:50 pm
Fox News Digital found Francesca Hong's X posts calling America "an abundance of suffering" and urging police abolition in her governor campaign.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 3:15 pm
Sen. Ron Johnson alleges career bureaucrats within HHS are sabotaging efforts to uncover pandemic-era information from Anthony Fauci's government iPhone.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 2:35 pm
Gov. Mikie Sherrill says she would support voter ID in New Jersey, even as she blasts the federal SAVE Act that Donald Trump champions as suppression.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 1:58 pm
President Donald Trump praised Associate Justice Samuel Alito's decision to stay on the U.S. Supreme Court in a social media post on Truth Social.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 1:43 pm
Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, who is running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, was asked about U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Woke 1" comment.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 1:34 pm
North Carolina state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom has been tapped as the GOP nominee to run for U.S. House in the state's 11th Congressional District.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 12:17 pm
United States Marine veteran Robert Gilman spent 1,666 days in Russian custody and was in a catatonic state before his release in a prisoner exchange.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 12:04 pm
Video shows Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger greeted by loud boos at the Old Fiddlers' Convention in Galax amid sagging poll numbers.
Posted on 11 August 2026 | 11:58 am