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James Talarico was asked one question at a Texas campaign stop: Who’s your favorite drag queen in the state? He didn’t hesitate. “Oh my gosh. Probably Alyssa Edwards.” Watch the clip. Then ask yourself if that’s the reflex you want in a U.S. senator. Most Americans could not name a drag queen if…

Mitch McConnell just rolled back into the Senate after three months away. The Kentucky Republican is 84. He fell at his Washington home in June, was treated for pneumonia, spent two months between the hospital and rehab, then recovered at home with almost no public appearances. While Kentucky still…

James Talarico thought he had Ken Paxton in a box. After GOP Railroad Commission of Texas nominee Bo French posted a photo from the UT student section and said the problem in Texas is “far worse than anyone imagined,” Talarico quoted John Cornyn and went straight at Paxton: Condemn this “blatant…

Twenty-five years later, one lab three miles from Ground Zero is still identifying 9/11 victims. The lab promised the families it would never give up — and it hasn't. Mark Desire and the NYC medical examiner team are still pulling DNA from tiny bone fragments that the fire, jet fuel, and water…

Trump just put a $5,000 check on the midterms. He told the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas that if the GOP holds the House and the Senate, every adult citizen gets a “Trump dividend.” He framed it like a company paying shareholders after “tremendous economic success,” and he told the…

Families of 9/11 just walked a petition into New York City Hall asking Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to stay away from Friday’s 25th anniversary memorial. More than a dozen relatives of the dead stood on the steps and said the mayor’s presence turns a private hour of grief into a political photo. The…

Rudy Giuliani just told Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to skip this week’s 9/11 memorials: “It offends me.” Watch this before Friday’s ceremony and decide if America’s mayor is out of line — or saying what the families have been saying for months. It is the 25th anniversary. More than 2,700 people were…

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer just said the quiet part out loud. After six days and about 36 hours, the jury is still stuck — and Kevin Reddington says one juror “refuses to listen to the law.” The judge even framed it as one juror against the other 11. That is 11-1. Watch this first. Twice the panel…

Rep. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has not been seen in public for 80+ days. The last real update from his office is almost a month old. He has missed 60 Senate votes — Iran war powers, housing, even the confirmation of a new attorney general — while Republicans hang onto a thin majority where every vote…

The Lindsay Clancy jury just told the judge they are deadlocked. After nearly 18 hours, they still cannot agree on whether a Massachusetts mother murdered her three children. The judge sent them back in. Pat opened the phones and asked you what you think. Lindsay Clancy is charged with first-degree…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just said the part Canada does not want on loop: You cannot be in a tit for tat with a country 13 times larger than you are. Watch the clip. Then watch what he said next. On CNBC from the G20 in Asheville, Bessent was asked if America is now in a trade war with…

Two mothers. Five children. One diagnosis now stands between a crime and a courtroom. A Bronx judge just found Dimone Fleming not responsible for stabbing her 3-year-old and 11-month-old sons in a family shelter. In Massachusetts, a jury is deciding whether Lindsay Clancy was too sick to be guilty…