Expect a surge of gun sales, but also gun control legislation after Tuesday’s dominance in midterm election by Democrats in the U.S. Congress and in various states where the power is shifting to liberal politicians.
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Texas GOP Gov. Gregg Abbot lost his reelection bid Tuesday night in a strong showing for Democrats in statewide and national races.
The Associated Press called the race for Democrat challenger Gina Hinojosa, who becomes the state’s first Latina governor. Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton lost his bid to keep the GOP-held seat held by retiring Sen. John Cornyn.
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Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed directly solicited support for his campaign inside Islamic centers whose imams and guest speakers called America the “the House of Shaitan [Satan]” and urged Allah to “take the worst revenge upon” Zionists, according to a review of their videotaped services.
Experts said the video evidence, first uncovered by the Middle East Forum and verified by Just the News, could open the door to potential investigations into the nonprofit status of places of worship and provide a stark reminder to voters in the final days of the 2026 election about El-Sayed’s ties to other controversial activists, who include Hasan Piker.
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Virginia State Senator Lillie Louise Lucas, 82, was charged in an eight-count federal indictment with leading a criminal marijuana distribution enterprise that prosecutors say involved family members, associates, money laundering, and the use of her public office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced Thursday.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has been mostly inactive on social media following a raid on her home earlier this month, but she posted a video on her Facebook account on Wednesday asking supporters for campaign donations.
“I just wanted to say thank you so much for the support, to everyone who sent a note of support, for everyone who sent $5, $10, $20,” Omar said in the brief video.
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A Virginia jury found transgender former Loudoun County substitute teacher Hadyn Dollery guilty on “two counts of threatening to injure or kill a person, one count of making threats on school grounds, and one count of threatening to damage a building,” charges that bring up to 25 years in prison combined, Loudoun Now reported.
Prosecutors showed evidence that 19-year-old Dollery, able to teach under a state law requiring only a high school diploma to be a substitute, threatened a “murder spree” at John Champe High School, where Dollery taught at the time, after the teacher’s student boyfriend broke up with him.
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The NCAA sued Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Friday over an executive order he signed that ignored newly established eligibility rules.
NCAA President Charlie Baker said DeWine lacks the authority to “permit Ohio colleges and universities to disregard the rules they have agreed to follow by rostering ineligible student-athletes.
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Maricopa County Recorder’s Office acknowledged Sunday that a third-party vendor “mistakenly” mailed out 3,126 ballots prematurely but said the incident affected “only the timing of the mailing.”
“The correct ballots were mailed to the correct voters,” the office said on social media. “Upon consultation with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, it was determined that the ballots remain valid and do not need to be voided or reissued.”
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You may remember him from the 2024 presidential debate stage or from cable news promoting his book on “woke,” but who really is Vivek Ramaswamy, and why does he want to run Ohio so badly?
To help answer this question, the Daily Caller News Foundation traveled to Marietta — a city of about 13,000 in the state’s Appalachian southeast — where the billionaire-turned-Republican Ohio gubernatorial nominee was holding a town hall with veterans and Gold Star families on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. After the event, the Cincinnati-born Ramaswamy sat for a 15-minute interview with his surgeon wife, Apoorva, at his side, during which he discussed a variety of topics, including the campaign, artificial intelligence, data centers and the impact of the war with Iran.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., notified local law enforcement that automated license plate recognition systems, such as Flock cameras, can no longer be used on the State Highway System.
On Monday, DeSantis’ Florida Department of Transportation ordered all cameras to be removed within 30 days, according to a memo obtained by the Daily Signal.
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced Monday that Florida will become the first state to ban the use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) funds for “inappropriate” non-essential purchases like tobacco, pornography, tattoos, and video games.
DeSantis made the announcement during a news conference at Feeding Tampa Bay, a regional food bank and nonprofit organization based in Tampa, Florida.
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Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has carved out a lead over former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., in the battle for Michigan’s open Senate seat, according to a recent survey.
El-Sayed, who recently defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., to clinch the party nomination, earned 46% support among likely voters in the latest Susquehanna Polling & Research survey. Rogers, for his part, took 39% support.
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A man previously recognized as an “outstanding refugee” by the Minnesota Department of Human Services has been charged over an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme, according to news coverage.
Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Monday that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had charged two men for allegedly stealing more than $1.5 million from the state’s Medicaid program. Salman Ahmed Elmi was charged in the first case with 8 felony theft offenses linked to Reva Health allegedly billing over $1,000,000 in Medicaid-funded services that were either never provided or were ineligible for reimbursement, per the announcement.
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Some Virginia anti-data center activists and candidates are seemingly linked to a Marxist-Leninist party tied to the Chinese Communist Party, according to public records, social media and news reports.
Local Virginia political figures have appeared in connection with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Marxist-Leninist organization that seeks to replace US capitalism with socialism. Data center opposition has intensified across Virginia over concerns about rising electricity demand and costs, water use, noise pollution and facilities being built near homes, according to the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. Those issues are especially pronounced in Northern Virginia, where the state’s data center industry is focused.
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A Michigan appeals court on Monday overturned two more convictions related to the 2020 kidnapping plot of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, ruling that it was obligated to overturn the convictions based on precedent.
Pete Musico and Paul Bellar were previously convicted of providing material support for an act of terrorism in the plot, alongside Joseph Morrison, whose conviction was overturned by a different appeals panel last month.
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Nearly two-thirds of Minnesota 11th graders are below grade level in math, and the class of 2025 posted the worst academic performance on record for a graduating cohort even as it earned the highest graduation rate ever.
As measured by the state’s Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment, the spring 2025 proficiency results reflect the percentage of juniors meeting the state’s academic math standards, which include content students must “satisfactorily complete” by the time they graduate. (Seventy-seven percent of 11th graders statewide took the test.)
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Gov. Henry McMaster, R-S.C., on Monday announced his selection of Darline Graham Nordone to succeed the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Nordone is the sister of the late Graham. Prior to the announcement, President Donald Trump had recommended that McMaster appoint her. During a press conference, McMaster stated that he had spoken to Nordone about serving the remainder of Graham’s term beore discussing it with Trump.
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The Department of Justice on Wednesday sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over its recently approved assault weapons ban, asserting that the Second Amendment barred such restrictions.
Virginia is one of a handful of states that have enacted such restrictions on the commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.
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Ohio legislative Republicans have not committed to an override of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill requiring voter ID for absentee ballots, but they did offer strong criticism of their fellow GOP members.
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Amid federal scrutiny and concerns about commercial driver’s licenses being in the hands of unqualified drivers, Ohio is cracking down on CDLs for those drivers not born in the United States. The CDLs of 1,200 foreign-born drivers will be downgraded to a Class D by the state for failing to adequately meet standards proving they are in the United States legally.
Ohio Department of Public Safety spokesman Bret Crow confirmed the downgrade to The Center Square last week. “Those receiving this notice who believe their documents do meet the updated federal standards may request a hearing with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to dispute the downgrade and/or submit additional documentation to BMV to prove their eligibility,” he said.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday that the state is suing TikTok, saying the social media platform broke state laws by ignoring them.
The first, Florida House Bill 3, or the Online Protections for Minors Act, limits social media access for minors.
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The Florida Supreme Court declined Wednesday to halt the use of a new congressional map that state Republicans passed earlier this year amid a mid-decade redistricting push.
Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed the map into law in May, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Louisiana redistricting case that the state’s existing congressional map that includes an additional majority-black district violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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A Florida hospital has cut sepsis-related deaths by half by utilizing advanced technology that continuously monitors patients to detect potential early warning signs, The Times reported on Tuesday.
Tampa General Hospital has saved almost 900 lives over four years after implementing the Palantir-developed Sepsis Hub system, The Times reported. The software tracks every patient’s vital signs of every patient around the clock and can notify a “rapid response team” of hospital employees to any slight changes that could indicate sepsis, according to the outlet.
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A Minnesota attorney said dozens of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters will not face state charges for their disruption of a Minnesota church service earlier this year.
The 39 protesters are facing federal civil rights charges for disrupting the church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January. The charges came after a livestreamed video showed them interrupting services at Cities Church by chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good,” after the protesters learned that one of the church pastors was also an ICE official.
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The Ohio State University said Wednesday it has reached a $100 million settlement with all but one of the 280 former students who claimed a campus doctor sexually assaulted them decades ago.
The settlement marks a significant step toward ending the eight-year legal battle over allegations that the school had been aware of hundreds of claims that Dr. Richard Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005, sexually assaulted primarily male athletes in the mid-1970s to 1990s and did nothing.
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Florida on Monday became the first U.S. state to sue OpenAI over the alleged harms caused by the artificial intelligence firm, arguing it knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings about its possible harms.
The lawsuit, filed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, alleges that OpenAI permitted its flagship AI assistant ChatGPT to aid and abet mass shooters, encourage user suicides, damage users’ critical thinking skills, and addict minors, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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A Republican candidate for Georgia’s 11th congressional district who has recently painted himself as a “pro-Trump” conservative has advanced to a runoff election to become the party’s nominee.
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Federal agents arrested two U.S. citizens in Minnesota on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicaid of more than $21 million through a multi-year scheme involving false claims for autism-related services under the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program.
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First-term Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has filed paperwork to create a legal defense fund following an ethics complaint and allegations of sexual misconduct leveled by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13).
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A former Senior Executive Service-level official at the Central Intelligence Agency with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance was charged with theft of public money after federal agents discovered approximately 303 one-kilogram gold bars valued at more than $40 million, roughly $2 million in U.S. currency, and about 35 luxury watches during a search of his Virginia home.
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As he seeks a comeback, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, spoke with CNN about what another term of his would look like, sparking chatter about his stance on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s chief of staff resigned Wednesday and will have her final official day in the coming weeks, Axios reported.
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A Superior Court judge in Fulton County, Georgia, on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order that will allow a bipartisan observation of the state’s election-night operations center.
Georgia state GOP Sen. Greg Dolezal, who is running for lieutenant governor this year, filed a lawsuit seeking the court order.
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The 10th District Court of Appeals this week heard arguments regarding Ohio’s school voucher program, EdChoice, and will decide whether to uphold a judge’s ruling that the program is unconstitutional.
A decision from Common Pleas Court Judge Jaiza Page was appealed last July by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who has defended school choice.
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The National Rifle Association is suing Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger for her signing of a measure to make illegal the buying, selling, importing, manufacturing and/or the transfer of assault weapons in the state.
The NRA filed lawsuits in both federal and state courts, arguing the law is unconstitutional.
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America First Legal is demanding information amid claims that Loudoun County Public Schools hid from parents key safety concerns about a student, who identifies as transgender, filming boys without their pants and underwear in high school bathrooms.
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Five South Carolina Republicans joined Democrats Tuesday to block a Trump-backed redistricting push that could have helped the GOP target the state’s lone Democratic-held House seat.
The state Senate voted 29-17 on a proposal to take up redistricting after the regular legislative session ends, falling two votes short of the two-thirds threshold needed to move forward. The vote came after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social, urging South Carolina Republicans to “GET IT DONE!” and said he would be “watching closely.”
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In the wake of the party’s failed Virginia redistricting gambit, Democrats and their allies in the media and academia have been floating radical proposals to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. In response to their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, the Democratic leaders have promised to remain defiant and have labeled the judicial decision “undemocratic” and discriminatory against minorities.
“Even after being aided and abetted by blatantly undemocratic court decisions, the failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic Minority Leader, wrote in a letter to his caucus on Monday. “Republican extremists spent the last few days applauding their ongoing effort to rig the midterm elections based on two egregious judicial decisions dripping with far-right partisanship,” he also wrote. “We remain undeterred.”
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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday announced Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson is his pick to serve for the remaining six months of outgoing Attorney General Dave Yost’s term.
Last Thursday, Yost made his resignation official, effective June 7. He’ll leave his current post to work for Alliance Defending Freedom.
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The political champagne corks barely stopped popping at Democrat headquarters before the Virginia Supreme Court dropped a legal bunker buster right down the middle of their gerrymandering fantasy.
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The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled against the Democrats’ effort to redraw the state’s maps.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost indicated Thursday that he will resign from office, telling families of fallen officers and other attendees at the annual peace officers memorial that “Today will be the last time I am here in this role.”
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One of Virginia’s top Democratic power brokers and longtime state senator denounced an FBI raid on her Portsmouth office and cannabis business as an attempt to intimidate critics of the Trump administration.
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The FBI on Wednesday raided the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas in connection with a corruption probe that has ensnared the Democrat power broker and close ally of Gov. Abigail Spanberger, sources told Just the News.
Officials said FBI agents executed search warrants at multiple locations, including a state Senate office in Portsmouth, Va., and a cannabis business with ties to the state senator.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., on Monday signed into a law a new slate of congressional maps that is expected to add several Republican-leaning seats to the state’s congressional delegation.
“Signed, Sealed, and Delivered,” DeSantis posted on X, along with an image of the new slate of maps.
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Florida lawmakers on Wednesday approved a slate of congressional maps expected to bolster Republican chances in the midterms.
The map largely limits Democratic-leaning districts to Orlando and a series of urban areas on the southwest coast. It is expected to face legal challenges, according to Politico.
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The Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a motion from state Attorney General Jay Jones to lift a stay on the certification of the state’s redistricting referendum result.
The decision follows a Tazewell County Circuit court blocking certification while legal challenges to the referendum persist. The referendum faces multiple challenges and a separate court blocked a GOP-driven challenge earlier this week.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation officers reportedly raided over 20 childcare facilities in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
The raid is being reported by Fox News and CBS News, based on information from sources.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., on Monday unveiled a proposed slate of congressional district maps that would see the state net four-Republican leaning seats.
The map, first reported by Fox News, would limit Democratic seats to Orlando, and three isolated urban bubbles along the southeastern coast.
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The Supreme Court on Monday opted not to hear a gender secrecy case out of Florida, in which parents objected to a policy that kept their child’s school from informing them of a gender transition.
The case involves the School Board of Leon County, Florida, which in 2018 said that when students informed their school’s administration that they would assert a different gender identity, the school would treat students consistent with that gender identity. The plan said that school administrators revealing this to parents could be dangerous to the well-being of a student, CBS News reported.
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