Politics - Tuesday, May 26, 2026

President Trump is said to be considering the appearance after his hometown team, the Knicks, clinched a championship spot.

Unofficial results will start coming in after polls close at 7 p.m. local time. They will be posted on the state’s voter portal.

Intervention by former PM almost feels designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump Did Tony Blair ever mention he was quite good at winning elections? If you happened to miss it, then his 5,700-word opus on where Labour, Keir Starmer and the UK more generally have gone wrong is here to remind you. Several times. “I led the Labour party for 13 years and through three general elections,” goes the second sentence. Further on, Blair laments that when the party tries to puzzle out how to win a second term, the one thing ruled out was “learning from the only time in the party’s 120-year history it has ever done so”. Continue reading...

A split among Muslim activists over NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to spill into the streets with a protest Tuesday outside Gracie Mansion.

Mr. Paxton, a Texas Senate candidate, has led Senator John Cornyn in all but one independent poll in the Republican primary runoff.

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election Analysis: Tony Blair’s essay on Labour failings gets full marks for being unhelpful Tony Blair has accused Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk by abandoning the centre ground, warning that the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” means it is likely to lose the next election. In a scathing 5,700-word attack on the prime minister and his would-be successors published on Tuesday night, Blair argued for the government to crack down on welfare spending, abandon restrictions on oil and gas and smooth relations with Donald Trump. Continue reading...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner dismisses Jeff Bezos' opposition to higher billionaire taxes as abject nonsense amid the 2026 election cycle.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship bout is scheduled for June 14, President Trump’s 80th birthday.

A Republican-led redistricting effort forced Representative Al Green, who has served 11 terms, and Christian Menefee, one of the newest members of Congress, into a battle for the same seat.

Spencer Pratt opposes ICE in LA but says Mayor Karen Bass' political grandstanding is guaranteeing continued federal immigration enforcement raids.