The latest political headlines, election updates, government coverage, policy stories, and national news from Blab.
Nearly nine in ten Americans back limiting the number of terms a member of Congress can serve, a figure that has held steady in multiple polls. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey found 90 % o...
Read story →
When Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara stepped off a flight into Miami on July 19, the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio seized the moment to urge Cuban authorities to free more than 700 people...
Read story →
Sam Francis, a former policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, released a 1981 paper titled The Soviet Strategy of Terror that argued the Soviet Union employed terrorism as a deliberate ta...
Read story →
In a July 18 interview with the New York Times, newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani said his administration is still weighing whether it can order the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjami...
Read story →
The 2024 presidential election highlighted the growing public focus on the age and experience of candidates for the nation’s highest office. Joe Biden, who entered the White House in 2021 ...
Read story →
On June 16, 2026, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency detained Colombian journalist Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido—known online as Beto Coral—in Arizona. The deten...
Read story →
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced a new rule on May 29 that would change how federal research grants are awarded and managed. The proposal, titled Regulation for Federal Fi...
Read story →
On July 14, Germany’s media regulator announced that AI‑generated summaries produced by Google’s AI Overviews and Perplexity AI must be treated as media content under German law. The d...
Read story →
On Thursday, the Will County Board pulled the plug on a land‑bank proposal that had been championed by the county’s economic development agency, leaving the initiative in limbo amid a sh...
Read story →
On Thursday, the House floor fell silent when Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a veterans‑benefits package from the agenda, ending a long‑running effort to make the measure a GOP highlight be...
Read story →
The Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed Roger Rogoff as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington on Wednesday, 54 minutes after he was sworn in by the district’s federal judg...
Read story →
On January 1, 2026, New York City welcomed a new mayor who would soon become a rallying point for the state’s progressive movement. Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of...
Read story →
Pew Research Center released the 2026 edition of its National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) on July 14, 2026. The survey, fielded primarily by mail with a 30 % response rate, found...
Read story →
On July 16, 2026, Baja California’s governor, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, took to her official Facebook page to fire back at a wave of audio clips that had begun circulating online. Th...
Read story →
Two Republican members of Congress filed an amicus brief on July 14, 2026 asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to revive a lawsuit that challenges the 1954 Johnson Amendmen...
Read story →
The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30, 2026 decision reaffirming that anyone born on U.S. soil automatically receives citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment has prompted a sharp response fr...
Read story →
Ryan LaLonde, the first openly LGBTQ person to hold the presidency of the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Board of Education, filed to run for a two‑year term that would keep him on...
Read story →
When former President Joe Biden announced that his memoir, Promise Me, America, will hit shelves on November 17, 2026, the news lit up political feeds and conversation boards alike. Little, ...
Read story →
On July 15, 2026, the House of Commons saw the final act of Keir Starmer’s premiership as he delivered his last Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) address before announcing his resignatio...
Read story →
A 20‑something man was taken into custody on Tuesday after he posted a threat on X that he would shoot Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. The Metropolitan Police said the suspect was held over...
Read story →
In a race that could tip the balance of the 2026 Senate, Michigan’s open seat is heating up as incumbent Representative Haley Stevens gathers high‑profile endorsements and a surge of out...
Read story →
Ohio voters are watching a billionaire eye the governor’s office, and the question is whether money will outweigh experience. On July 15, 2026, the state’s Republican primary concluded w...
Read story →
On July 13 2026, the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) Political Council (PC) chose James Dirth as its new chair, a decision that came just before Nicole Juan stepped in...
Read story →