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Virginia just delivered the moment Hakeem Jeffries has been waiting for. Voters approved a new congressional map that adds up to four Democratic-leaning districts, handing the party a stronger chance of retaking the House. The minority leader is leaning in, taunting Republicans and vowing “maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.” “Democrats defeated Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme in Virginia tonight,” Jeffries said in a statement Tuesday evening. “We will crush the DeSantis Dummymander in Florida next.” Jeffries has staked much of his credibility as a party leader on the effort, pouring time, money and political capital into a nationwide push to…

A Canadian national was fatally shot by a lone gunman and 13 others, including a Russian visitor, sustained injuries in Teotihuacan A lone gunman has killed a Canadian tourist and wounded several others, including a Russian national, at the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan, Mexico. The assailant took his own life after being injured and surrounded by security forces, according to the Mexican authorities.The UNESCO-protected pre-Columbian archaeological site near Mexico City is one of the country’s top tourist attractions, drawing around 2 million visitors annually.At around 11:30 AM on Monday, the man, armed with a handgun, ordered a group…

The Italian government on Tuesday summoned the Russian ambassador to Rome after Moscow’s diplomatic propagandist Vladimir Solovyov hurled a barrage of vulgar insults against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during a television broadcast. La Stampa reports that Solovyov, a notorious Kremlin propagandist, delivered the insults during a broadcast of his show Polnyj Kontakt (“Full Contact”), branding Meloni as a “fascist, certified idiot, a nasty little woman” and referring to her as “PuttaMeloni” (“Whore Meloni”). Sky TG24 detailed that Solovyov also condemned Meloni as a “disgrace to the human race, a natural beast, a certified idiot, a wicked little woman.” “This Meloni, a fascist scoundrel, who…

Monday on MS NOW’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said that after Democrats win the midterm elections, they will investigate the Trump administration. Ossoff said, “I think people across the political spectrum are feeling outrage that while families in Georgia are made to pay more and more for everything, the first family is pocketing vast sums of money from all over the world. You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner, the guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more…

Americans’ disapproval of Congress has matched an all-time high, a new poll from Gallup finds, as the beleaguered institution grapples with scandals, expulsions and its role as a co-equal, independent branch of Congress. The survey released Wednesday shows that only 10 percent of Americans approve of Congress, just barely above 2013’s all-time low of 9 percent. In contrast, 86 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing — matching the historic high in the over 50 years Gallup has been asking Americans for their opinions on the legislature. The last time 86 percent of Americans disapproved of Congress…

The conflict has left US credibility damaged and its president weaker at home, the Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi has told RT   The war with Iran has been a strategic disaster for the US, leaving President Donald Trump in a weaker position at home and damaging American credibility, Quincy Institute co-founder Trita Parsi has told RT. He added that the conflict, which he said Israel had pushed for, had not unfolded as Washington expected.The war, which began with the US-Israeli bombing campaign on Iran on February 28 under the pretext of dismantling Tehran’s nuclear program, has dragged on far longer…

At least three container ships have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran this morning, with a Royal Navy office reporting “heavy damage” to at least one, and Tehran claiming ships had been seized and taken into Iranian waters “in order to examine the cargo and documents”. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has opened fire on three container ships attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the maritime chokepoint at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, as a strained ceasefire is challenged by two mutual blockades imposed by Iran and the United States attempt to deny each other…

On Monday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) said, “The next Democratic president better figure out a way to get universal healthcare.” Walz said, “The antidote is delivering policies not talking about it. But when you get elected, delivering on policies that lift children out of childhood poverty, that invest in public education, that eradicate diseases and give people an opportunity to believe that tomorrow can be better, whether that’s in Cameroon or in Minneapolis. And I was grateful to see those folks there. There was an energy. There’s an understanding that the old world order is…

The American military may not have enough missiles for a future conflict, having used its stockpiles to wage war on Iran, a CSIS analysis warns The US military has dangerously depleted its stockpiles of critical missiles during the seven‑week war on Iran, creating a “near‑term risk” that could leave it vulnerable in any future conflict, according to a new analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).The report, published on Tuesday, found that intense combat operations have exhausted a staggering portion of America’s most advanced weaponry, including at least 45% of its inventory of Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM),…

President Donald Trump and his MAGA voters saved the lives of more than 1,000 migrants who would otherwise have died en-route to a Democratic-run U.S. border in 2025, according to data from the United Nations. “In the Americas, deaths recorded during migration decreased dramatically in 2025, from 1,272 in 2024 to 408 in 2025,” the International Organization for Migration reported April 21. The lifesaving “decrease is due in large part to a real decline in [migrant] movements along high-risk, irregular routes,” said the group, which is headed by President Joe Biden’s nominee, Amy Pope. Deaths in the Caribbean — including…