1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (670+ words) Nearly half of the electorate—48 percent—believes Washington extends excessive support to Israel, while only 8 percent consider current backing insufficient and 34 percent view the existing level as approximately appropriate. President Donald Trump confronts widespread voter dissatisfaction as the November midterms…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (763+ words) The whiplash-inducing saga over whether Missouri can use its gerrymandered congressional map in the midterm elections heads to federal appellate court next week. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled a hearing at 10 a.m. on Sept. 17 in St. Louis for arguments…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (50+ words) A prominent conservative former federal judge is warning that House Republicans may attempt to block Democrats from being seated in the next Congress even if voters hand Democrats a decisive midterm victory, calling the coming months a potential "Final Battle…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (330+ words) As fighting continues in Gaza and Lebanon, a record proportion of U.S. voters say their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians than Israelis, according to a poll released Thursday. In the Quinnipiac University poll, 38% of voters said they were more sympathetic…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (602+ words) Kansas City-area Democratic elected officials on Thursday exulted in the dramatic climax of a high-stakes court fight that appeared to sound the death knell for a push to implement a redrawn Missouri congressional map in November. In a joking homage…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (476+ words) (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court has blocked Missouri Republicans from moving forward with a U.S. House map that the state’s highest court had already invalidated ahead of the November election. In a brief unexplained order, and over no noted dissent by any…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (442+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court blocked an order on Thursday, September 10, 2026, that would have allowed Missouri to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map, dealing a blow to GOP efforts to secure an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The unsigned order…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (287+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a new congressional map backed by President Donald Trump for Missouri's November election. Missouri's chief election official says he has directed local authorities to instead use districts passed in 2022, following a legal battle that lasted…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (305+ words) Republicans on Thursday notched a rare loss in the mid-decade gerrymandering war that President Donald Trump started, when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the GOP from using a new congressional gerrymander in Missouri. The ruling invalidated the House map that Missouri…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (460+ words) WASHINGTON, DC: In a major blow to the Republican Party just before the midterms, the Supreme Court on Thursday, September 10, pushed back against a Republican-friendly congressional map in Missouri, siding with the opponent. Republican lawmakers passed a new map in a…...