After Democrats won control of Congress, prediction-market traders moved sharply toward Ron DeSantis as a 2028 Republican nominee while JD Vance slipped. The figures differ by market and by report.
President Trump said U.S. forces carried out new limited strikes on Iranian air defenses on Friday, though damage has not been confirmed. Iran was reportedly reviewing Qatari proposals on its nuclear program at the time, according to Ynetnews.
On Tuesday the Supreme Court hears a New Jersey family farm's challenge to the Labor Department's use of its own in-house proceedings to decide money penalties. The question before the justices is whether Article III of the Constitution allows that.
Georgia's Democratic governor-elect named Tyler Perry a co-chair of her transition team while he faces two sexual assault lawsuits. One outlet reports he denies the allegations, and no court has made any finding against him.
New York's attorney general told a poolside crowd in Puerto Rico that anyone in Hakeem Jeffries's district thinking of running against him would have to get past her. She named no one, and no source reviewed confirms a challenger.
Salon, the left-leaning online outlet founded in 1995, says its publishing model is no longer sustainable and it is ceasing publication. Conservatives on X then circulated two older headlines, which have not been verified against Salon's archive.
About a hundred activists broke into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam on Friday, according to press accounts, with some climbing a crane and others clashing with police. The action was part of two days of protests planned in 15 European countries.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will move all 548 of California's death sentences to life without parole. Phyllis Loya, whose son Officer Larry Lasater was shot and killed in 2005, told the New York Post, as cited by The Gateway Pundit, that Newsom "wants to be president."
According to DHS, a Venezuelan man arrested on Constitution Avenue told Secret Service officers that voices directed him to Washington to kill the president. Officers reportedly found a rifle and handguns in a car reported stolen.
President Trump has endorsed Joe Gruters to continue as Republican National Committee chairman, according to Just the News, as post-election leadership questions swirl around the party.
After a rough midterm night for Republicans, an unnamed source close to the White House told Breitbart that immigration was the one thing that worked. Breitbart pointed to losing GOP members who had backed amnesty or Haitian protections, though the losses are not tied causally to the issue.
Trump's legal team went before a Manhattan appeals court to seek dismissal of his 34-count conviction, citing the Supreme Court's 2024 immunity decision. Early reports describe the hearing, but full details are still coming in.
Days after Democrats won both chambers of Congress, War Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a video on X urging a reconciliation bill of at least $350 billion for the military and calling the impeachment effort against him a sham. How the figure relates to existing funding is unclear.
Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told White House officials he is considering leaving after the GOP's midterm losses. The State Department and the White House call the report false, and Rubio denied it to the New York Times, according to the Daily Beast.
Meta, Google and TikTok filed separate federal lawsuits against California, arguing that a new state law limiting "addictive" features for minors violates the First Amendment. The reporting so far rests on search-result snippets, and key details of the law are unconfirmed.
Barbra Streisand, John Cusack, Mia Farrow and other entertainers posted celebratory reactions on Wednesday after networks projected Democratic wins in the midterms. The posts were not independently viewed, and official counts had not been confirmed.
Britain's Supreme Court opened a two-day hearing on a challenge to the terrorist designation of Palestine Action. Police arrested about 25 protesters outside the building, according to the Press Association.
