Even When They Lost, California Democrats Made Big Gains in Republican Districts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This year, the Democratic Party targeted 10 Republican-held California congressional seats it felt it had a pretty good shot at flipping. In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in seven of these districts, including some reliably Republican ones Southern California. The decision…
Cindy Hyde-Smith Refuses to Apologize for “Public Hanging” Comment
Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, right, leaves a news conference Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, at the state Republican Party headquarters in Jackson, Miss.Emily Wagster Pettus/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi—who is facing a runoff to keep the seat she was appointed to…
Democrats Are Still Waiting to See How Many House Seats They Flipped in California
Election workers unload ballots in Sacramento, California, in June 2018.Rich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While Florida, Georgia, and Arizona are slowly counting (and recounting) ballots in key elections in an increasingly hysteric atmosphere , California has been quietly doing the same for nearly a week—making Democrats anxiously wait for…
Florida Judge Rejects GOP Campaign’s Request for Recount Security Measures
A Broward County sheriff’s deputy watches as election workers move sorted ballots on Monday at the Broward Supervisor of Elections office in Lauderhill, Florida.Joe Cavaretta/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Florida judge on Monday rejected Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott’s attempt to impose new security measures on the contentious…
The California Wildfires Have Already Claimed 31 Lives and Displaced 150,000 People
Mason Trinca for The Washington Post via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp Fire in northern California has become the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history, incinerating the town of Paradise, and displacing more…
What Is Donald Trump Doing Today?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Let me get this straight. On Saturday Donald Trump skipped a memorial service for Americans killed during World War I at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France. Today he’s not bothering to attend the Veterans Day wreath-laying at Arlington Cemetery even though he’s in Washington. And…