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FOX 24 US Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she will oppose Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General in a Friday morning social media post — teeing up the Trump administration to either court a senator whose career Trump ended or ask for the Senate to delay the vote until after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fully returns to work. “I have had numerous constructive meetings with Mr. Blanche and he comes across as decent and capable. I appreciate the trip he made to learn more about Alaska, including our rural areas, … Ultimately, however, I will oppose his nomination,” Murkowski said…

FOX 24 US Census Bureau officials last Sunday conceded that a new rule banning certain privacy protection methods will make it impossible for the agency to publish certain data that it has historically released, a development that could especially harm minority groups. Representatives of the bureau, however, denied that the policy change had political objectives, though experts and advocacy groups believe it does. Officials from the Census Bureau spoke publicly at a major statistical conference, answering questions about a  policy shift first outlined in a June memo issued by the Commerce Department. The memo banned an umbrella of statistical privacy…

FOX 24 US Late last year, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials agreed to make a surprisingly damaging but until-recently little-noticed admission in court: they had cancelled several grants worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars largely because the money was slated to be sent to states that did not support the president in the last election.  “A primary reason” for withholding the funds in question was that “the grantee was located in a ‘Blue State,’” the DOJ wrote in a December 2025 court filing called a stipulation, an agreement entered into by the parties involved in a lawsuit agreeing…

FOX 24 US Missouri Republicans have been transparent about their strategy to drag out the response to a challenge to their new 7-1 congressional map, with state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) saying publicly during a radio interview earlier this year that “delay works in our favor.”  Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) proclaimed a petition voters brought to trigger a statewide veto vote on the new map “insufficient” Tuesday, claiming that it is unconstitutional to challenge gerrymanders under the referendum process. People Not Politicians, the group that organized the petition and sent in “over three times” the number of…

FOX 24 US Progressive Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), the pick of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The race was much closer than polls foretold, with a late glut projecting as much as a double-digit El-Sayed victory. The Associated Press called the race just before 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday. The acrimonious race has become a microcosm for the bigger questions bedeviling the Democratic primary: Have establishment Democrats 2024ed their way to irrelevance? Can lefty Democrats translate grassroots enthusiasm into statewide wins?  And a less philosophical but more immediate question: Does El-Sayed have…

FOX 24 US The group behind an effort to force a statewide vote on Missouri Republicans’ 7-1 gerrymander filed a new lawsuit Tuesday night challenging the Secretary of State’s finding earlier in the day that its petition is “insufficient.”  Missouri law lets voters block legislation if they gather enough signatures on a petition and win a subsequent statewide vote. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), who dragged the certification process out as long as legally possible — until Missouri’s primary day Tuesday — said that the petition was insufficient not because of the number of signatures turned in, but because,…

FOX 24 US Kansas voters foiled state Republicans’ latest scheme to snatch back their abortion rights Tuesday, as they voted down a constitutional amendment to change how state Supreme Court justices are chosen. The race was called fairly early in the night by CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post (the latter two making their calls based on data from the Associated Press). With 60 percent of the vote in, the “no” side has 63 percent of the vote to the “yes” side’s 37. Republicans have long seethed about this court thwarting their political goals — namely, forcing…

FOX 24 US Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) announced Tuesday — Missouri’s primary day, the latest he could legally push the decision — that he will not certify a petition that would’ve challenged Republicans’ new 7-1 gerrymander. He deemed the attempt to force a veto referendum to be “insufficient” because “challenging a congressional map is unconstitutional under Missouri law.”  Missouri law lets voters block legislation if they gather enough signatures on a petition, then win a statewide vote. “At issue is not the number of signatures turned in to challenge the new congressional map, but the fact that…

FOX 24 US Colorado Republicans are using an image showing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser with “devil horns” to mock him on social media. While a top Democrat blasted the move as a “plainly antisemitic” attack, the GOPer who created the graphic doubled down on Tuesday. On Facebook, Sean Pond, a Republican county commissioner and former Senate candidate who posted the image, dismissed the furor and called it a “silly picture” of “two cartoon devil horns.” “Sometimes devil horns just mean the devil. That’s why they show up in cartoons, church lessons, haunted houses, Halloween costumes, emojis, and every costume…

FOX 24 US During a Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, President Donald Trump touted growing “investment” into the U.S. since he took office. “There’s never been anything like it from the standpoint of investment into our country,” Trump told reporters and members of his administration. “It’s five to six times higher than anybody has ever seen, than any other country, not just us, has ever had.” Part of a diatribe about the economy which included a segment about his tariffs, the president was likely referring at least in part to the several trillions of dollars in foreign investment…