Frei concedes loss to Bacon in Nebraska’s 2nd District U.S. House race Republican U.S. House candidate Dan Frei has conceded his GOP primary loss to 2nd District Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. He did so Friday, hours after the largest batch of remaining votes were counted, ... 05/17/2024 - 12:25 pm | View Link
Can Trump put Minnesota in play?: From the Politics Desk Still, Trump’s loss in Minnesota by less than 2 points in 2016 has made it an alluring target for the GOP. At an event May 4 in Palm Beach, Florida, top Trump advisers told donors that in a six-way ... 05/17/2024 - 10:56 am | View Link
Union vote fails at Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa County The unofficial tally Friday afternoon in Tuscaloosa showed 2,642 "no" votes and 2,045 "yes" votes or 56% against and 44% for the union. 05/17/2024 - 10:22 am | View Link
Alsobrooks to face Hogan in key US Senate race after winning broadly among Democrats Angela Alsobrooks will seek to draw again this fall on her network of endorsers, while Larry Hogan hopes to pull in “Biden-Hogan” voters. 05/17/2024 - 10:07 am | View Link
Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against joining UAW, a blow to union's expansion in the South Thousands of Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers (UAW) on Friday, delivering a significant defeat for the union one month after it prevailed at a Volkswagen ... 05/17/2024 - 8:51 am | View Link
A federal judge sentenced the man convicted of assaulting and attempting to kidnap Paul Pelosi, the husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to 30 years in prison on Friday, the AP reports.
Frank Fahrenkopf — the chair of the Republican National Committee in the Reagan era and co-founder of the Commission of Presidential Debates — told Politico he thought the Biden campaign rolled the Trump campaign by seeming to get everything it wanted in the debate over the terms of the debates.
New York Times: “With the corruption trial of Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey underway on Thursday, a prosecutor handed a juror in the first row of the jury box a plastic bag containing an object at the heart of the government’s case: a gold bar that glinted under the courtroom lights.”
“A senior communications staffer in Speaker Mike Johnson’s office abruptly resigned this week after he was presented with complaints about his behavior,” NOTUS reports.
“Anang Mittal, who was Johnson’s head of digital, resigned from his position when superiors in the office confronted him about the complaints on Thursday. A source familiar with the situation said the complaints centered around Mittal’s workplace performance and unprofessional outbursts.”
“Two top Biden administration officials held indirect talks with Iranian officials in Oman this week on how to avoid escalating regional attacks,” Axios reports.
“The talks — involving President Biden’s top Middle East adviser, Brett McGurk, and Abram Paley the acting U. S. envoy for Iran — were the first round of discussions between the U.
New York Times: “Two years into President Biden’s term, his aides began negotiating with Saudi leaders to have the kingdom establish diplomatic relations with Israel. But when the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the talks withered. American and Saudi officials have tried to revive prospects for a deal by demanding more from Israel — a cease-fire in Gaza and irreversible steps toward the founding of a Palestinian nation.”
“Now those officials say they are close to a final agreement on the main elements of what the Saudis want from the deal: a U.