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Today's headlines: Republicans have officially won control of the House of Representatives, with the current seat count at 218 to 210 seats for Democrats; The Respect for Marriage Act received enough votes for the Senate to agree to vote on it; Mitch McConnell has officially been re-elected minority leader. Oregon voters approved a measure to strengthen gun ownership requirements in the state. The...

Today's headlines: Donald Trump announced his 2024 presidential run from Mar-a-Lago last night. Control of the House of Representatives is still not officially decided, with Republicans one seat short of the 218 majority while Democrats hold 207 seats. Rick Scott will challenge Mitch McConnell for the Senate Republican leader. Two Polish citizens were killed yesterday near Poland’s border with Ukr...

Today's headlines: Control of the House of Representatives is still not clear, with Republicans holding 212 seats to the Democrats’ 204.The  governor’s race in Arizona was called last night for democrat Katie Hobbs. Voters in Nevada last week approved a measure that would establish ranked-choice voting in the state, while Georgia election officials have banned early voting on the Saturday before e...

Today's headlines: Democrats now control 50 senate seats to the Republican’s 49. Nevada has elected Republican Joe Lombardo as governor, but rejected one of the worst republican election deniers in the country, Jim Marchant, as their Secretary of State. Nevadans also voted to add a state constitutional amendment to increase the minimum wage to $12 dollars an hour by 2024. In Toledo, Ohio, the city...

Today's headlines: Control of Congress is still undecided but, the count in the Senate now stands at 49-49, after the Arizona senate race was called for democrat Mark Kelly late last night. Montana voters rejected a measure that would have required health care providers to take "reasonable actions" to save an infant who is born alive or face felony criminal charges and fines up to 50 thousand doll...

Today's headlines: As of this recording at midnight eastern time this morning, control of both the House and Senate still remain up in the air - 49 seats for the Republicans and 48 for the Democrats. In New York, voters approved a $4.2 billion dollar bond to pay for major projects as a response to climate change and pollution. South Dakota voted to amend the state constitution to expand Medicaid t...

Today's headlines: Congress is still undecided as of now, with 221 seats for Republicans, and 214 for Democrats with control leaning likely towards republicans, but not all races have been called. Right now the Senate is tied 48-48, with races in Arizona and Nevada still not fully counted. In Arizona, we likely won’t know the results of the governor and Senate races until tomorrow at the earliest....

Today's headlines: Our first look at Election results is here! In the House of Representatives, the Democrats currently hold 217 seats, while the Republicans have 218, with numerous races not called yet. Overall, Democrats had way more wins than most polling had indicated. The Republican's best performance happened in Florida, where Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio and Matt Gaetz were all reelected. More...

Today's headlines: Election Day is here - 16.7 billion dollars has been spent on it, with almost 8 of those billions alone being spent on niche state and local races. Republican officials and candidates in at least 3 battleground states have been pushing to disqualify thousands of mail ballots In Pennsylvania; In Michigan, the republican nominee for Secretary of State sued an election official in...

Today's headlines: Voting for the 2022 midterm elections officially ends tomorrow, and almost 40 million votes have already been cast. Elon Musk laid off half of Twitter’s employees over email on Friday, followed by those employees filing a lawsuit against him. Twitter is said to delay changes to the new check mark badges until after Midterms. Researchers have identified a series of Russian disinf...

Today's headlines: Obama gave his most frank warning yet about the state of democracy in the midterms to a rally in Phoenix. Paul Pelosi has been released from the hospital and will remain under doctor’s care at home. North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile as well as two other short range missiles yesterday. Leaked Kremlin documents claim that Vladimir Putin is battling both Pa...

Today's headlines: president Biden gave a speech last night on the theme of democracy. New reporting has emerged regarding Dr. Mehmet Oz’s role in research that killed hundreds of dogs. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that counties must segregate and not count mail ballots with missing or incorrect dates on their return envelopes. The federal reserve has increased the interest rate by .75...

Today's headlines: Justice John Roberts has ruled to delay the handover of Trump’s tax returns to the House Oversight committee while the court considers his request to hear his appeal. The Supreme Court has denied Lindsey Graham’s request to avoid testifying to the grand jury in Georgia over his role in election interference. Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission recently issued a...

Today's headlines: The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi had a greater plan to kidnap Nancy and break her kneecaps if she didn’t tell him the “truth.” Elon Musk has dissolved the whole board of directors of Twitter, making him the sole director and giving him full control over the company. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to stop the IRS from releasing his tax returns to the House of Representat...

Today's headlines: Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi was attacked inside their San Francisco home at 2:30am on Friday morning; Elon Musk tweeted an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack. Saudi billionaires are the ‘second largest investors’ in Twitter after Musk’s takeover. According to data from the University of Florida's U.S. Elections Project, 20 million people have already voted in th...

Today's headlines: GDP grew 2.6 percent last quarter, while unemployment is at 3.5 percent. Arizona’s current Secretary of State and the democratic nominee for Governor Katie Hobbs’ campaign office in Phoenix was broken into and a suspect was arrested, though the details of their identity and what was stolen have not yet been reported. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is reportedly under federal cr...

Today's headlines: Three men were convicted yesterday of state charges in the plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. A second woman is alleging that Herschel Walker pressured her get an abortion, and that he personally drove her to the clinic. A judge has ruled that Mark Meadows has to testify before a special grand jury in the Georgia election probe. Finally for today, a new report fr...

Today's headlines: With officially less than 2 weeks until the midterm elections, The U.S. has seen debate nights and record breaking voting turnouts across multiple states. Pediatric hospitals and physicians are reportedly overwhelmed by cases of not only covid and the flu, but RSV - which they’ve now nicknamed a “tripledemic.” President Biden received his updated covid booster and made a stateme...

Today's headlines: The 8th circuit court of Appeals blocked the student loan relief program temporarily. The Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court has temporarily blocked Lindsey Graham from testifying in the Georgia election interference probe. A woman in Missouri who previously described herself as anti-abortion was denied an abortion last week after her water broke at 17 weeks of pregnan...

Today's headlines: Donald Trump has been officially subpoenaed by the House January 6th committee. Some of the classified documents reportedly found at Mar-a-Lago included highly sensitive information regarding Iran’s nuclear program, and the United State’s intelligence work against China. A federal judge has sentenced Steve Bannon to four months in prison for refusing to comply with a subpoena fr...

Today's headlines: Supreme Court Justice Serena Joy rejected a request that the court hear a lawsuit brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers association, challenging President Biden’s student loan forgiveness. Newly released police body camera footage has been published, showing the results of Governor Ron DeSantis’s crackdown on voter fraud in action. Parts of Florida hit hardest by Hurricane Ian are se...

Today's headlines: Donald Trump has been questioned in the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit. According to new reports, Trump signed legal documents alleging instances of fraud during the 2020 election that he knew were false. An oversight report shared with Congress found that Covid was responsible for 1 in 4 maternal deaths in the first two years of the pandemic. The family of George Floyd anno...

Today's headlines: Early voting for the midterms started in Georgia on Monday, and a record number of voters showed up for the first day of in-person voting. Biden announced yesterday that the White House would send a bill to codify abortion to the House, to be signed around the 50th anniversary of Roe on January 22nd, 2023. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning that China is speeding up it...

Today's headlines: The Biden administration has launched its online application for student loan borrowers to claim loan relief this week, while Covid officials scramble to plan for the Omicron subvariant threat. The nonprofit Center for Popular Democracy has found that US pharmaceutical companies have been responsible for significant EPA violations in Puerto Rico. Kanye West has offered to buy th...

Today's headlines: 4 people were killed and 61 injured following a major fire at the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran on Saturday evening. Current democratic senator Raphael Warnock debated his republican opponent Herschel Walker on Saturday night. Republican candidate Kari Lake refused to say in a CNN interview whether she would accept the results of her election if she loses the governor’s race i...