An October surprise is usually defined as the well-known (and more often left-wing) tactic of manufacturing or unloading a news story right before voting to surprise a rival without allowing them time sufficiently to respond or recover. Think of the last-minute bombshell disclosure, five days before the 2000 election, that candidate George W. Bush had been cited for drunk driving over a quarter-century earlier. That surprise may have cost Bush the popular vote that year. Sometimes, an...

The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), a big-dollar fundraising group affiliated with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), isn’t helping two of McConnell’s biggest critics in the Senate GOP conference — Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rick Scott (Fla.). This has prompted grumbling from conservatives who say McConnell has too much power over Senate Republican fundraising and point out that Cruz, in particular, a longtime McConnell critic, will be heavily...

For nearly four years, federal prosecutors have tracked, charged and imprisoned hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But what once seemed to be a shock-and-awe campaign of prosecutorial force — one the department has regularly characterized as the largest and most complex investigation in history — appears increasingly squeezed by legal challenges and political threats. Ongoing court battles threaten to erase or undermine some of the 1,500 cases...

The 12-month inflation rate was 9.0% in June of 2022. This was the highest rate since November 1981. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims.

The Biden-Harris Justice Department’s prosecution of Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of the nation’s biggest, most high-profile city, is as intriguing as it is historic. City Hall has had its share of colorful, even roguish chief executives, but before Thursday, none had ever been criminally charged while in office, much less seen Gracie Mansion searched by a swarm of federal agents. Damian Williams, the Biden-appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY),...

It is jarring to hear American kids talk about politics and see the country’s often angry political debate filtered through young people. When a child is asked for one word to describe former President Donald Trump and comes up with “pure evil,” it suggests a level of division that might surprise the average American. Researchers found that Democrat-supporting kids drove polarization in a new study for CNN, and the children were more likely to say they wouldn’t be friends with...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain in a close race for the White House, with less than 40 days to go until the election. Recent polling averages have given Harris a slim lead nationally over Trump, well within the margin of error, and many battleground states remain toss-ups. The narrow gap between the candidates has prompted experts and commentators to say this is the closest presidential election history in decades, if not more...

Listen to the way Democrats talk about guns, violent crime, and the criminal justice system these days, and you’ll notice that things sound different from the way they did in 2020. That year, following a national protest movement centered around the high-profile police killings of unarmed Black Americans, including Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, Democrats focused their message on protecting citizens from police abuses and overhauling the criminal justice system, rather than...

Swing voters say they don’t know enough about Kamala Harris’s economic plans. Voila, her campaign on Wednesday released an 82-page “New Way Forward” document. Did her campaign ask ChatGPT to describe her progressive policies in moderate rhetoric using the verbiage of free-market economists? “I’m a capitalist,” she declared on Wednesday as she promised to “seek practical solutions to problems.” Yet any inspection of the details shows she‘s offering the same policies as Mr. Biden, only...

The indictment of Eric Adams, unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors, describes a dispiriting and profound violation of the trust New York voters once placed in the mayor to lead the nation’s largest city. This is the first time a sitting mayor of New York City has been indicted. The charges against Mr. Adams are serious, including allegations that he misappropriated more than $10 million in public funds for his 2021 campaign. The mayor will have his day in court and is entitled to...