The latest political headlines, election updates, government coverage, policy stories, and national news from Blab.
Eve Ottenberg’s recent piece in CounterPunch argues that former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his successor, President Claudia Sheinbaum, represent a “social...
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On April 7, 2026, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran had agreed to a two‑week ceasefire, bringing an end to the four‑month conflict that began on February 2...
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CNN’s June 9 “Run the Numbers” segment flipped the script on the immigration debate, revealing a widening gap between Democrats and Republicans in voter trust.The broadcast opened with...
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The Australian Commonwealth has filed its largest ever lawsuit, seeking A$2 billion in damages from American chemical maker 3M and its Australian subsidiary. The claim targets the cost of in...
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Reps. Dan Goldman (D‑NY) and Mike Lawler (R‑NY) unveiled a bipartisan House bill on Wednesday that would expand federal security support for Jewish organizations and establish new oversi...
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A new analysis released on June 10, 2026 by the Anti‑Defamation League (ADL) and its affiliate JLens estimates that removing New York City pension investments in companies that do business...
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A U.S. government employee assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Yangon was found dead in the city’s largest hotel, the U.S. State Department confirmed on Thursday. The incident, which occurred ...
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When you hear "Patriots," most people think of the NFL’s New England squad or the patriotic fervor of a Fourth‑of‑July parade. Yet the name has traveled far beyond the gridiron, landin...
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At the 2026 Shangri‑La Dialogue in Singapore, the United States quietly announced a recalibration of its Indo‑Pacific strategy. While China’s top military leaders were absent from the ...
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Frank Bisignano, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) commissioner, told a joint session of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Social Security and work and welfare subcommittees ...
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Jeanine Pirro, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, sent subpoenas in early June 2026 to several large banks, including Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. The requests d...
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Pamela Beryl Harriman (née Digby; March 20 1920 – February 5 1997) was a British‑born socialite who rose to become one of the most powerful figures in American Democratic politics, serv...
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On the evening of 9 June 2026 a stabbing and attempted beheading in North Belfast sparked a wave of anti‑immigration protests that turned violent and left dozens of homes and vehicles on f...
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In a district that has leaned Republican for a decade, a farmer from Lisbon is turning the tide.Blake Gendebien, a second‑generation dairy farmer, has become the front‑running candidate ...
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When the June 9 primary ballots were tallied, Lindsey Graham’s name lit up the results column, earning 56.8 percent of the vote and securing the Republican nomination for a fifth Senate te...
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In late May, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani publicly backed Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Darializa Avila Chevalier for the Democratic primary in the city’s 13th Congre...
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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors filed indictments against eight University of Michigan affiliates for a coordinated campaign of threats, vandalism, and intimidation aimed at forcing the un...
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When a locomotive engineer in Boston’s suburbs is elected to his town’s executive board, the story feels less like a quirky career change and more like a glimpse of a new political pipel...
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At 9 a.m. Thursday, MPR News premiered a podcast episode that convenes scholars and peace‑building practitioners to dissect the surge of political violence in Minnesota after the assassina...
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On April 30, 2026, a $40,000 hole opened in the bank account of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP’s political action committee (PAC), only to be closed again a day later when Truist Bank re...
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XRP, the native token of Ripple’s blockchain network, has become the subject of a new wave of analyst speculation. While the market currently sits just over a dollar, some experts are fore...
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Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas, has shifted the focus of the 2026 campaign to an attack on the masculinity of his Democratic opponent, state representat...
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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 25‑page opinion that upends the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) longstanding guidance on disparate‑impact liabil...
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In a headline‑making June 2 top‑two primary, California’s nonpartisan system left voters with a clear contest between former UK adviser Steve Hilton and seasoned Democrat Xavier Becerr...
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