18+ min ago (319+ words) The GOP may "return to the status quo" after Donald Trump finishes his second term in the White House. He wrote, "The schisms underscore the growing fragility of the nascent coalition in the waning days of its founder. But the idea that the party can go back to some kind of status quo that existed before Mr. Trump is fanciful." Baker also believes the MAGA faction of the GOP "seems slightly lost" after Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her resignation. Trump had called his one-time close ally a "traitor" after she was one of the first to break rank and back the release of the Epstein files. Trouble for the MAGA wing of the party may come to a head sooner than expected, with a "crack" never in doubt for the devoted Trump followers. Baker added, "That the MAGA coalition would…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago (396+ words) The Democrat Party could focus all their efforts on one seat in 2026, as the "biggest opportunity" to win it has appeared. Both Democrats in the state and nationally, according to NOTUS, believe they are in with a real chance of flipping Ohio blue after a series of poor election losses. Preparations for the 2026 midterms are already underway, with the Democratic National Committee already rolling out the red carpet for the state. The DNC has promised additional funding for the state and is already staffing up to prepare their push to win Ohio with "dream candidate", Sherrod Brown. Ohio Democratic Chari Kathleen Clyde has since explained the plan for the Democrat Party is to go heavy on Ohio. She told NOTUS, "We can't just focus on a couple of states and expect to perform well nationally. When we look toward the…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago (432+ words) A meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani has surprised some political commentators with how friendly it seemed. The president and New York City's mayor elect met at the Oval Office for a meeting that looked favourable to many, including talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who joked that Trump may prefer Mamdani to his own administration. Speaking in the opening monologue of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the 58-year-old suggested Trump was won over by Mamdani. He said, "After weeks of painting Mamdani as the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, they didn't know what to do with themselves. This is how upside down this crop of MAGA-teers is. They're mad at Trump, some of them are furious at Trump, because he was friendly with the new mayor of New York. "Last week he had a big celebratory dinner for the Saudi Prince,…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago (1712+ words) ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It's a New Record. It was Friday, June 6, and the rent was due. As soon as she finished an errand, Imelda Carreto planned on joining her family as they gathered scrap metal to earn a little extra cash. Her fianc, Julio Matias, and 15-year-old nephew, Carlos, had set out early, hitching a trailer to the back of their beat-up gray truck. Carreto didn't carry any proof that she had custody of the boy. She had left it in another car in her rush. She recalls officers saying her nephew would likely be released to her in a few days once she presented the proper documents. Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, "Don't cry. I don't know how, but I'll get you back....

5+ hour, 32+ min ago (259+ words) A Republican lawmaker in the House of Representatives was so distraught by the latest proposed peace deal for Russia's war in Ukraine that he considered resigning from Congress, according to a new report. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told Axios that he was "appalled" by the 28-point peace deal, which some experts have said seems to have been written by the Russians. The proposed peace plan also made several pro-Ukrainian lawmakers on The Hill furious, including several Republicans, according to the report. The plan calls for Ukraine to significantly reduce the size of its military, cede land to Russia, including land that Russia does not currently control, give up its long-range missiles that can reach Moscow, and stop attempting to join NATO. Bacon dubbed the peace plan "Witkoff's Ukrainian surrender plan," Axios reported, a nod to President Donald Trump's envoy Steve…...

5+ hour, 47+ min ago (169+ words) MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace said on Monday that Republicans are acting like political prisoners who remain in captivity even though the door to their proverbial jail cell is unlocked. "They're like those prisoners who, when they go in to rescue them, the rescuers are like, 'The door wasn't locked,'" Wallace said. "They could get out of their political prison today." The way for Republicans to get out of their prison is to stand up to Trump, she added, something that leadership within the party doesn't appear to be interested in. " Mike Johnson (R-LA) isn't so good at having a spine," Wallace said. "Mike Johnson goes on a podcast and says, 'Yeah, I think they should release the Epstein files.' Donald Trump burps or belches at him the wrong way, and he shuts down Congress. That doesn't look strong. That…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago (296+ words) President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has threatened to call up Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) into active military service again, just so he can court-martial him " but even if he goes through with this plan, it is likely to backfire spectacularly, some observers warned on Monday. Kelly is one of six Democratic lawmakers from a military background who made a joint video reminding active servicemembers that if they are given illegal orders, like to kill unarmed civilians or take over civilian law enforcement in American cities, they have a duty to refuse those orders. This is clearly outlined in the Uniform Code of Military Justice " but ever since the video came out, Trump and his devotees have falsely claimed these lawmakers are trying to countermand lawful orders, with Trump even calling the video "seditious" and threatening to have them…...

6+ hour, 29+ min ago (187+ words) The Internal Revenue Service filed a lawsuit against West Virginia Senator and former Governor Jim Justice, a Republican, on Monday over a $5 million tax bill that Justice has not paid, according to a new report. Local news station WKBN in West Virginia reported that the Justices had been contacted "multiple times" by the Treasury Department regarding more than $5.1 million in taxes that the family has owed since 2009. The lawsuit claims the Justices have "neglected or refused to make full payment" on the debt, according to the report. It adds that Justice and his wife must pay any debts that the court "deems just and proper." Justice replaced former Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in the Senate in 2025. Before that, he served as West Virginia's governor from 2017 until 2025. The lawsuit was filed about a month after the IRS filed a lien against…...

6+ hour, 53+ min ago (267+ words) President Donald Trump was nearly banned from appearing on his favorite television channel after he broke its "golden rule," according to a new report. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that unsealed documents show Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch telling star Fox News host Sean Hannity not to book Trump because he was using his airtime to attack the channel. The exchange followed an appearance by Trump in October 2020, where he attacked two of Fox News' journalists, according to the report. "Sean, sorry, but the president is not coming back on air if he uses it to attack us," Murdoch wrote to Hannity, according to the report. "It is the same rule we have with the other side. This is a golden rule." The document obtained by The Daily Beast redacted Hannity's response, the report adds. Trump was invited back…...

7+ hour, 8+ min ago (236+ words) President Donald Trump and his administration's Department of Justice got a brutal tongue-lashing by the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday for the failure of their "revenge lawfare" scheme, branding them as the "gang that couldn't indict straight." This follows a federal judge's move to dismiss the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey for false statements and New York Attorney General Letitia James for bank fraud, because the inexperienced and ill-equipped prosecutor Trump installed, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed to the U.S. attorney's office. The vacancy law that lets presidents fill prosecutor offices on a 120-day basis, wrote the board, "is designed for a temporary fill-in, not Senate circumvention" " and the judge called out the DOJ on their misuse of the law. The upshot, the board wrote, is that "This is what happens when officials don't follow legal…...