Politics - Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is claming state election laws amount to voter suppression, vowing to out-organize GOP rival Ken Paxton in 2026.

Anna Turley gives Reform leader 24 hours to report Russian hacking claim in ‘public and national interest’ The Labour chair has given Nigel Farage 24 hours to report to security services the claim that his phone was hacked by Russia-linked actors or the party will do it for him. In a letter to the Reform UK leader, Anna Turley said it was “in the public and national interest” to ensure that a suspected overseas hack of a senior politician’s phone by a hostile state was properly investigated. Continue reading...

The money has become a sticking point in talks, with Iran insisting that meaningful negotiations cannot begin without the funds’ release.

Seattle residents built street barricades to stop rampant shootings months after socialist Mayor Katie Wilson took office, sparking online criticism.

BMA blames new health secretary for decision to stage 16th strike in long-running jobs and pay dispute Resident doctors in England will next month stage the 16th strike in their long-running jobs and pay dispute, and have blamed the new health secretary for their decision. They will strike for four days from 7am on Monday 15 June until 6.59am on Friday 19 June. Announcing the move, the British Medical Association warned that resident doctors would mount a further stoppage in July unless progress towards meeting their demands was made. Continue reading...

Fox News poll reveals dramatic shift in attitudes toward higher education, with 65% of voters now saying college is less important to success than before.

GOP lawmaker Paul Kanitra rips Democrats for demanding what he calls five-star accommodations for illegal immigrants at Newark's Delaney Hall.

Marana, Ariz., is used to placid local politics, but the town, in a congressional swing district held by Juan Ciscomani, has been convulsed by two national issues, A.I. and immigration detention.

Republican and Democratic strategists say Maureen Galindo's Texas congressional runoff defeat was not the course correction some Democrats hoped for.

Exclusive: Vetting officials also flagged £1m loan when recommending he should be denied security clearance Key questions: did ‘mitigations’ cover links to China and Russia? Peter Mandelson’s associations with senior figures in China, Russia and Israel were among the concerns raised by the UK’s vetting agency when it concluded he should be denied clearance, multiple sources have told the Guardian. Mandelson’s links to China’s minister of finance, Lan Fo’an, the sanctions-hit Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and a former Israeli military intelligence general, Tamir Hayman, were all flagged by the agency as areas of concern shortly before he took up his post as the UK’s ambassador to the US, the sources said. Continue reading...