Republicans see ‘warning signs’ for the midterms after GOP underperformances  —  Democrats clinched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and made inroads in two deep-red Florida districts, spelling trouble for Republicans.  —  Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections on shaky footing.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results  —  ‹ See all Wisconsin state results  —  Wisconsin voters will choose a new State Supreme Court justice in an election that will determine whether liberals retain a 4-to-3 majority or whether conservatives take control of the state's judiciary.

Booker's speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live  —  More than 350 million people liked Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) floor speech on TikTok live, as the senator approached 25 hours of holding the floor in the Senate chamber.  —  By 7:07 p.m. EDT on Tuesday — just over 24 hours after Booker began …

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say  —  Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis.  But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox.  —  Just now  —  Members of President Donald …

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65  —  A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable.  At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.  —  Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor …

Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa  —  Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.”

Four key takeaways as Trump's sweeping HHS layoffs begin  —  Thousands of employees across the vast Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began receiving layoff notices as early as 5 a.m. on Tuesday.  —  The purge comes on the heels of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forcing out a top vaccine official late last week.

White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights  —  It's the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.  —  Just now

Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney  —  President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination.

Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners  —  U.S. President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, threatening cost increases and likely drawing retaliation from all sides.

Some Conservative Voices Raise Alarm Over Trump's Immigration Tactics  —  The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration's aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.  —  Influential figures on the right have largely cheered on the opening months of the Trump presidency.

Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says  —  A university senate review concludes that some demonstrators who occupied Hamilton Hall were willing to leave voluntarily.  —  Columbia University's move to use police force to clear demonstrators from a campus building …

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH  —  Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US's leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.  —  Several top scientists charged …

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs … - Max Kozlov  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  On health economist Jay Bhattacharya's first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) …

US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally  —  U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote’  — Elon Musk's super PAC replaced a video featuring a $1 million giveaway winner who said she got the money, in part, to vote.  — Experts suggest that offering money in exchange for voting …

Disgraced ex-NYC Councilman Dan Halloran arrested at Miami airport with thousands of child sex abuse videos on phone  —  Disgraced ex-City Councilman Dan Halloran — who was booted from office after taking part in a $200,000 bribery scheme to rig the 2013 mayoral election …

Why We Train With Allies—Even When It's Dangerous  —  When our soldiers were in trouble, our friends showed up and didn't leave.  —  IN EVERY ARMORED FORMATION I COMMANDED—and there were many—there were a few soldiers who never made headlines, never sought the limelight …

Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites  —  The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison.