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We’ve all had our laughs now at Eric Schmitt.

Editor’s note: Commentators are expressing concern about a Time cover story by Eric Cortellessa in which our commander in chief’s mind appears to wander.

“If you look at that Fox News poll, he’s ahead by seven points in the state of Texas,” Fox anchor Ainsley Earhardt lamented on Friday, adding: “How is that possible?”

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Texas Representative and former Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett tried to jump-start her lobbying career before even leaving office.

The Group of Seven Nations agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of oil from its stockpiles—following a desperate plea from the White House.

The bar for America’s highest elected office keeps sinking.

Vice President JD Vance thinks that Americans are too worried about the “little things” ahead of midterms—like gas prices, debt, Immigration and Customs Enforcement killings, and war.

Donald Trump is attempting to retcon his rationale for attacking Iran.

President Donald Trump went all the way to Texas to trash Ken Paxton in front of his own constituents.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

For the first time since the Supreme Court revived capital punishment in 1976, a death-row prisoner has survived an execution.

The biggest news during last week’s Climate Week NYC came not from the United States but from Germany, where the government of the world’s third-largest economy committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045.

President Donald Trump picked an odd political moment to remove guardrails from the private equity industry.

Most cheating scandals in sports boil down to numbers: Barry Bonds’s 73 home runs in 2001 (or Mark McGwire’s 70 home run campaign three years earlier); Lance Armstrong’s six Tour de France titles; the World Series won by the sign-stealing Houston Astros.

This week, GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton privately admitted that Donald Trump’s midterm convention in Texas was a serious problem for the state’s Republican candidates.

Collective action spared two men in Oswego, New York Wednesday following a multi-hour stand-off with federal immigration agents.

The Department of the Interior is paying more than $3 million to repair grass on the National Mall that was damaged during President Trump’s poorly-attended America 250 celebrations this summer, according to The Washington Sun.

In the past, members of the Republican Party have accused Democrats of waging a war on meat.

Whatever beef Donald Trump had with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to have been buried.

President Donald Trump doesn’t seem that concerned over whether the ongoing Iran war will hurt his party in November’s midterm elections.

Republican Representative Tom Tiffany has raised more than $26 million in his bid to become Wisconsin’s next governor, the vast majority of which appears to have come from three billionaires.

President Donald Trump will be hosting the “most EXCLUSIVE DINNER IN THE WORLD” to the top purchasers of his cryptocurrency.

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Ben Shapiro is making a pro-ICE movie about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has made serious bank off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, while simultaneously leading the U.S.

President Trump has been denied yet another chance to carve his name into something he didn’t make.

President Donald Trump is edgy with all kinds of media these days.

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers has surrounded himself with people tied to the Living Word Church sex abuse scandal, but he’s not willing to publicly address the matter.

Democratic dreams of midterm victory are alive in Mississippi and Kansas—two states that have been conservative strongholds for decades.

The family of Renee Good, the mother of three who was shot and killed earlier this year by a federal immigration agent Minneapolis, has filed two lawsuits against the United States government and several immigration officials alleging wrongful death and o…

Did President Trump just lie about a massive investment from South Korea?

President Donald Trump blocked CNN from the White House press pool Thursday morning, continuing his feud with the network despite a court order allowing them on the White House grounds.

Congressional staffers were planning to take a luxury trip to Europe, complete with stops in Milan, the Champagne region of France, and a Ferrari factory in Bologna, Italy, just weeks before the midterms, organized by a top aide to House Speaker Mike John…

Republican Senator Eric Schmitt was warned that his attempt to trap former special counsel Jack Smith might be baseless—before he humiliated himself on the Senate floor anyway.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 1 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

The New York Times has a massive, almost hegemonic influence on the political discourse among liberals in America.

In a survey of every Democratic governor in America, not a single state leader told The New Republic that they would move to dismantle state and local police participation in the FBI task forces carrying out investigations into political speech and organi…

Some cultural objects seem to tell the future.

Recent polling by Strength in Numbers and Verasight paints a dismal picture for Donald Trump and the GOP as they head into the midterms.

Donald Trump has been running propaganda ads starring, well, himself as a way to help the GOP in the midterms.

An unvaccinated resident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was confirmed to have died from measles, according to an announcement by the state Health Department Wednesday.

Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force” address Wednesday was a bizarre journey in which he rehashed or remixed his most common talking points in Ted Talk fashion.

Some 600 attendees at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia Wednesday received an unexpected keepsake during the officer-reduction announcement: a 144-page “field manual” filled with Hegseth’s…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project Meridian”—a massive upcoming study on the “future of warfare.”

Attorney General Todd Blanche is launching an investigation against almost every federal judge in Minnesota.

Donald Trump is planning to hit the campaign trail for 32 days before the midterm elections.

The Trump administration is trying to deport a Hasidic Jew for protesting against Israel.

Thanks to a 1980s anti–drug trafficking program, cities across the U.S. are being forced to turn over their license plate reader data to the Trump administration. 404 Media reports that the federal government is using the High Intensity Drug Trafficking A…

Another Republican senator is begging the Trump administration to reduce its immigration raids.