Politics

Trump Bet $32 Million on Crushing Thomas Massie. Kentucky Voters Get the Final Word Today

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Older voter in a barn coat slipping a ballot into a wooden ballot box at a Kentucky polling place at dusk, with a wall of red, white, and blue Republican primary signs to one side, an American flag and curtained voting booth, and a county courthouse silhouette through the window

The most expensive House primary in American history reaches its conclusion today in Kentucky. Rep. Thomas Massie, 98% MAGA-aligned but unforgivable on the other 2%, faces a Trump-recruited challenger backed by $32.6 million and a Pentagon chief who showed up to campaign against him.

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Drone Strike Hits UAE Nuclear Power Plant: Houthis Claim Attack as Iran War Spirals Beyond Borders

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Cinematic dusk view of a four-reactor nuclear power plant complex in an arid desert with sodium-amber security lighting, distant mountains, and a faint drone silhouette in a stormy violet sky; an orange emergency glow rises from a peripheral generator suggesting recent damage

A drone struck the perimeter of the UAE’s Barakah Nuclear Power Plant on Saturday, sparking a fire near the Arab world’s first operational nuclear facility. Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility. No radiation was released, but the attack crosses a dangerous threshold in the Iran war: the deliberate targeting of nuclear infrastructure by proxy forces.

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67 Million Voter Records Checked: Inside the Trump Administration’s Controversial Midterm Eligibility Purge

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Dimly lit federal data operations center: wall of monitors showing voter registration records with flagged entries, a holographic US map highlighting database queries, and a paper voter registration form on a desk.

The Trump administration has run 67 million voter registrations through DHS databases ahead of the 2026 midterms, flagging 24,000 as potential noncitizens and 350,000 as deceased. Six federal lawsuits have been filed. Critics call it the largest voter purge in American history. The administration calls it election integrity.

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Iran Ceasefire Expires With No Deal in Sight as Gas Prices and 6% Inflation Squeeze American Households

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Broadcast news studio scene with curved video wall showing a Brent crude candlestick chart climbing, a glowing amber map of the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, and a stacked data panel reading gasoline 3.58 per gallon and inflation 3.8 percent year over year. A ticker bar runs across the bottom of the wall and a dark anchor desk sits in the foreground

The Iran ceasefire expired Sunday with no deal in sight. Trump rejected Tehran’s latest proposal as “garbage.” Meanwhile, gas prices are up 45%, inflation hit 3.8% in April, and forecasters project 6% by Q2. The war that was supposed to be quick is now the primary driver of an economic crisis heading into midterm season.

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