With victories in Los Angeles and Washington, a new Left-YIMBY alliance in big city politics takes center stage
LOS ANGELES — The revolution in American housing policy continues to accelerate. This week’s wins by Nithya Raman And Janeese Lewis George in the mayoral elections in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., join a growing group of elected officials who…
Trump is rapidly losing control of his war with Iran
Historic Republican defeats in the midterm elections have left President Donald Trump with even fewer options to quickly end the war with Iran, experts say. Trump has said he would consider resuming strikes against Iran after the midterms. But U.S.…
Schumer says Democrats will stop Trump from appointing a ‘right-winger’ to the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has vowed that Democrats will not allow President Donald Trump to appoint “a right-winger” to the Supreme Court once they take power, raising the possibility that his party could block…
Why it’s too early to call Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race
WASHINGTON (AP) – Almost 2,500 separate voices Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith are running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, and votes are still being counted Friday. Here’s why the race is still too early to call. An…
Trump confirms new US strikes on Iranian island of Qeshm | US-Israeli war against Iran
US President Donald Trump confirmed US military strikes on the Iranian island of Qeshm, saying Washington had made “a lot of progress” in negotiations with Iran. Trump said Friday that U.S. forces had carried out what he described as minor…
Two skydivers die after collision over Southern California
Two skydivers were killed Friday in a collision while jumping over the Southern California city of Lake Elsinore, officials said. The two men, described as licensed and experienced, were at the end of their jump when they collided and their parachutes…
US elections show major erosion of support for Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — In the span of about 24 hours, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested cut aid to Israela staunch critic of Israel won a key Senate race and the vice president partly blamed his own party’s crushing defeat on US-Israeli relations.…
Jimmy Kimmel says Trump is ready to go, criticizes the Oval Office
November 6, 2026, 12:51 p.m. ET Jimmy Kimmel has a new theory about President Donald Trump. In his opening monologue on the Thursday, Nov. 5, “Live” episode, the late-night comedian said that after many Trump-backed Republican candidates lost…
Texas’ Big Three will all be women for the first time
When Senfronia Thompson was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1972, there were only two women in the entire legislature. Five and a half decades later, a lot has changed. Tuesday’s historic election won the state’s first Latino…
Houston Mayor cancels cooperation with ICE after midterm elections
“Elections have consequences.” Words to live and die in American politics. Famously uttered by former President Barack Obama in 2009, versions of this aphorism have since become cutting political shorthand for the sentiment that “we won, you lost,…