Harding's pitch is that Congress has 'turned the public's trust into personal benefit' by trading stocks. For ten months he ignored the federal law requiring him to tell Nebraska voters what he owns — until Democrats referred him to the Justice Department.
Gallagher's amendment to the defense bill would have opened a study into how federal authority can 'preempt or otherwise mitigate' state fuel policies. Seven Republicans joined 209 Democrats to kill it, 212-216.
The New York Times found photos of a 20-year-old Mike Lawler with his face darkened at a college Halloween party. He said sorry, then spent the same night arguing it didn't count. Two NAACP branches and the organization's regional director told him it did.
Idaho cut most state agencies 4% this year and 5% next year, partly to absorb a $155 million hole created by matching Trump's federal tax cuts. In July, Brad Little pointed at the $250 million left over and said he won't be putting any of it back.
House Bill 752 took effect in Idaho on July 1. A first offense is a misdemeanor. A second one within five years is a felony. Gov. Brad Little signed it, along with a second law exposing schools to fines of up to $100,000 for not reporting kids to their parents.
In July, Bailey's running mate told WBEZ, 'We're not talking about abortion.' This week, at a rally hosted by an anti-abortion lobbying group, he said Pritzker is 'willing to murder millions of babies.'
Alabama has the fifth-highest rate of gun violence in America. Its Republican Senate nominee spent his time in Congress trying to make the rifle used at Uvalde a national symbol — and got George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene to sign on.
On the same telephone town hall where Pillen used an ableist slur three times, he waved off Nebraska's $471.5 million budget hole, saying the press 'tries to say that we're broke,' said the state has 'bushel baskets' of money, and promised he won't support any candidate who won't back a six-week abortion ban.
One industry's super PAC spent more than three times what Barry Moore's own campaign raised. It was the crypto industry's single biggest bet of the 2026 election so far — and Moore had already voted its way every single time.