Martin Pengelly

Speaking to a far-right conspiracy theorist who advocated seizing control of the polls, the president said merely, 'Stranger things have happened.' In actual elections, progressives had a mixed night.

Governor Newsom writes that while Donald Trump ‘grew up with wealth,’ he grew up ‘around wealth.’ Will that impress voters?

It's a measure of the president's staggering corruption that preliminary approval of an application for a charter by Trump's crypto firm is just another story. Also, Hakeem Jeffries finds a new low.

The Michigan Senate candidate went into the lion's den. When he got a word in, he held his own. Elsewhere, Trump got on with losing his trade war with Canada and rattled a rusty saber at Iran.

The top Trump ally is racially abusing Florida Dem Angie Nixon but, sure, DC journalists, keep going after the critic of Israel instead. Meanwhile, Trump escalates his assault on our (failing) media.

Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark have written a book Trumpworld doesn't want you to read.

The Michigan loser endorsed the victor, then went to Israel to complain about El-Sayed's ‘poisonous' approach, and said she doesn't know ‘what Bernie Sanders has done for peace in the Middle East.'

The Texas senator has bashed out a weird book about a weird guy. He may deny judicial ambitions of his own but it’s hard to see what other purpose this shameless hagiography might serve.

Fake GOP uproar over NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's attendance at 9/11 commemoration ceremonies on Friday is brazen Islamophobia in its ugliest form. Meanwhile, New Hampshire picked a ‘moderate' Dem.

When New Zealand and South Africa kick off at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Saturday, there will be more at stake than victory in “Rugby's Greatest