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How Left is too Left? Voters might begin giving answers Tuesday night as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) continues running wild in Democratic Party primaries across the nation. Voters go to the polls in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Carolina, Connecticut, Alabama and Vermont. But the marquee races are in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Carolina. In South Carolina, primary voters, who selected Lindsey Graham over challenger Mark Lynch earlier this summer, will return to the polls in a special election to choose a new nominee after Graham’s death. Trump has endorsed newly minted Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, Lindsey Graham’s sister, who was…

Democrats’ anti-establishment surge just claimed another incumbent. Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin has ousted longtime Rep. John Larson in Connecticut’s 1st District in a race that revolved around generational change. The signs of an upset were apparent for months: Bronin, 47, beat the 78-year-old Larson for the state party’s official endorsement in the spring. He argued that Larson, who was facing the first serious challenge since he won his seat nearly three decades ago, had become too steeped in the status quo and needed to go. The primary defied some of the trendlines that have defined similar contests this cycle.…

The US military’s annual report has been criticized for excluding non-combatant deaths from its official tally The Pentagon was accused of whitewashing US Army crimes after publishing its annual estimate of civilian casualties in 2025.The report, submitted to Congress late Monday and obtained by US news outlets, contains numbers that are far lower than estimates by independent outlets.The Pentagon concluded that US military operations killed 153 civilians and injured 243 last year. All of the cited casualties in 2025 stemmed from Washington’s bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, while another 15 remain under review. However, independent monitors have reported…

Signing of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have signed a major, NATO-style, mutual defense agreement in Mecca, creating a new security framework among three of the Muslim world’s most influential military and political powers at a time of rapidly escalating regional instability. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement was signed on Friday by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, according to various reports across the international press. The ceremony took place in Islam’s holiest city, giving the pact particularly…

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has contributed $102 million this year to a political group funding ballot measures that could block California’s proposed wealth tax on billionaires. The LA Times reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has poured $102 million this year into Building a Better California, a group funding two ballot measures that could block a billionaire tax, according to data from the California Secretary of State. His latest donation totaled $20 million. Brin’s net worth was $284 billion at the start of the week, making him the world’s fourth-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Building a Better California…

The government of South Korea confirmed that it observed the launch on Wednesday of a ballistic missile from North Korea into the East Sea (Sea of Japan), causing no damage but reinvigorating regional alarm that the communist nuclear state could soon plan an attack on its neighbors. North Korea’s state media arms, which typically rush to boast of such a missile test, have not at press time addressed the incident. The rogue state’s missiles are making headlines in other ways, however, as President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine once again warned on Tuesday that his troops are seeing North Korean equipment,…

Democrat Chris Jones, who is running for Iowa secretary of agriculture, was rebuked by Iowa Republicans after saying farmers are “wealthy,” grain farming is “not that hard,” and farmers are “only working a few weeks out of the year.” The remarks were highlighted Tuesday by Iowa Field Report, which posted video from a 2021 interview Jones gave at the Iowa Ideas Conference, hosted by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. “And a lot of this grain farming now, it’s not that hard. They’re only working a few weeks out of the year,” Jones said. “These farmers might be industrious and they might…

President Donald Trump said that “stranger things have happened” when it was suggested that he could declare a national security emergency for elections on Tuesday. During an interview that aired on Real America Voice’s America Speaks, Wayne Allyn Root posed the idea of declaring a national security emergency for the midterm elections, which Root said would allow for voter identification requirements at the ballot box. Root pointed to the 1983 Supreme Court ruling of Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha as the reason the president would have the right to declare a national emergency: Because it’s so hard to get the Senate to…

National Democrats just got their pick to take on one of their top targets this fall in a western Wisconsin swing district. Rebecca Cooke won the Democratic primary for Wisconsin’s 3rd District on Tuesday, setting up a high-stakes November rematch with GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden in a crucial pickup opportunity for Democrats. Cooke is hoping the third time is the charm after two unsuccessful runs for Congress. But she came within 3 percentage points of defeating Van Orden in 2024, even as President Donald Trump won the district by more than 7 percentage points. That strong performance helped persuade…

Force is the only language Western colonial powers understand, podcast host and RT contributor Carl Zha believes The only response Western nations will understand for seizing Russian commercial vessels is a forceful one, including retaliation in kind, Carl Zha, the host of the Silk and Steel podcast, told RT.Moscow has repeatedly condemned the seizure of Russia-linked shipping as “piracy” and a gross violation of international maritime laws. Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated the position on Wednesday while attending major drills of the country’s Pacific Fleet, warning that hostile actions will be met with an appropriate response.“If such a policy is…