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Ballistic missiles, air defense systems and unmanned aerial vehicles are displayed at Baharestan Square as part of Iran’s ‘Sacred Defense Week’ amid ongoing tensions in Tehran on Sept. 29, 2026. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images A senior Iranian security official warned Sunday that Tehran has prepared a new response plan for any renewed U.S.-Israeli

The Michigan Senate election is one of the most interesting of the 2026 midterms because, unlike other Republican Senate candidates, Mike Rogers was a personal Trump pick, and he can’t run away from the president. Rogers has to keep himself aligned with Trump while downplaying the president in a state where Trump is extremely unpopular.

A voter casts his ballot during early voting at the Polk County Election Office on Oct.14, 2026 in Des Moines, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall | Getty Images One of the last big campaign-finance snapshots before the Nov. 3 Election Day is now available, and both political parties found something to like. But campaign cash is flowing

Donald Trump can’t stop talking about Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. The Republican incumbent, who polls show is trailing former Sen. Sherrod Brown, has drawn the attention of President Donald Trump, not for his legislative record or competence at his job. Donald Trump seems to be lusting after Husted. To get access to all of our

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Aug. 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Friday waiving parts of a recently enacted package of sanctions aimed at curbing Russia’s ability to prosecute its war

No Kings is a non-partisan organization with the goal of protecting democracy and making sure that the American people have a voice in how they are governed. The stated goal of Saturday’s No Kings protest is to register the largest single day of early voting in US history. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion.

Ukraine is facing increasing uncertainty over its ability to sustain the war against Russia as a series of moves by U.S. President Donald Trump has raised fresh questions about Washington’s reliability as Kyiv’s most important military partner. Trump’s agreement with Putin to ease sanctions for Russia to provide global markets with diesel, as well as

The majority of Trump’s rally in Georgia was spent lying about Sen. Jon Ossoff. Did you know that Donald Trump once ran for the House of Representatives in Georgia? To hear Donald Trump tell the story, he single-handedly beat Jon Ossoff in a House special election in 2017. You might be thinking, wasn’t Karen Handel

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on October 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday opened the door for new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia to step down just

Republicans have no answers. The Midwest has become a blue-burning prairie fire, but Trump and his party have no resources to douse the flames. Trusting Republicans would be like trusting the arsonist who set your house ablaze to put out the flames. PoliticusUSA is 100% independent news and opinion. Please consider supporting our work by

ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA – SEPTEMBER 1: Miniter of Finance for Russia Anton Siluanov sits in a plenary session on sovereign debt hosted by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for the 2026 G20 Financial meetings on September 1, 2026 in Asheville, North Carolina. Melissa Sue Gerrits | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russia’s finance minister attended

It started with the Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers Michigan US Senate debate, where Rogers was solely interested in making the election about El-Sayed and trying to plant the idea in the minds of voters that the Democratic candidate is a terrorist. Rogers hasn’t held town halls or the sort of big events that one

A voter drops a mail-in ballot at an official drop box inside City Hall during a primary election in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The federal government sued the state of California on Thursday in an escalating battle over how to prevent non-U.S. citizens

Pete Hegseth was one of the main people in the administration pushing for the Iran war. Hegseth has been behind the US blowing boats killed hundreds of people in the Carribean. The Pentagon is thought of by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress as a mess, and Democrats are counting down the days until they

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the U.S. government and President Donald Trump was responsible for any curbs on Ukraine’s military-grade Starlink network. Writing on X, Musk said that “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the U.S. government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and

After traveling to Alaska and holding a rally on Tuesday night, someone thought it was a good idea to send the 80-year-old president to the nation’s epicenter of election denialism and let him swear and rant and rave conspiracy theories. Republicans in Arizona were already very worried because they have election deniers at the top

The USS Abraham Lincoln, pictured on Oct. 8 in San Diego, set a U.S. Navy record spending over 260 days consecutively at sea without a port call while playing a key role in Operation Epic Fury and regional maritime security operations in the Middle East. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Saudi officials said Wednesday that

It is clear now why Republicans are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas, beyond trying to prop up the worst Senate candidate in the country. Ken Paxton is unpopular and scandal-riddled, but he was Donald Trump’s choice to be the state’s Senate nominee, so the Republican Party is left trying to figure out

A Bank of America branch in New York, US, on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bank of America was hit with more than $1.2 billion in federal penalties Tuesday after regulators said the nation’s second-largest bank failed for years to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions and

Speaker Mike Johnson has been running around the country, appointing himself Trump’s co-president and trying to convince voters that a House majority that barely shows up for work deserves two more years in power. PoliticusUSA is never influenced by any political party or corporation. We are independent thanks to your support. Please support us by