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Buffalo Bills head coach Joe Brady speaks with the media before Bills' practice.

Flu season is here. We’ve examined these 20 claims

As flu activity picks up, we revisited rumors about vaccines, questionable home remedies and more that we've investigated.

ICE paid $495M for Minnesota prison offered to state for $75M. Here’s proof

The story spread amid the White House's highly-publicized attempts to portray Minnesota as a hotbed of fraud.

MAHA devotees ‘without a home’ as RFK Jr.’s movement and Trump’s base eye ‘divorce’

The nascent Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement finds itself “without a home,” according to Politico’s Playbook, with its alliance with President Donald Trump going through what Politico called its roughest patch yet.After Tuesday’s Democratic sweep, Politico reported, there is “plenty of reason for divorce”…

Poll: Working class voters are still up for grabs

Republicans and Democrats are fighting over working class voters. Americans don’t believe the rhetoric. Fifty-five percent of Americans think politicians are just trying to win votes when they say they will help the working class, according to new results from The POLITICO Poll. It’s a…

Progressives are learning the hard way how to survive Fox News

The night after verbally sparring with Abdul El-Sayed on primetime television, Fox News host Jesse Watters had kind words for the progressive Michigan Senate nominee.“I like him,” Watters remarked Tuesday to his co-hosts on “The Five,” albeit right after saying he doesn’t trust him. “I…

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers…

The lesson Democrats could learn from MAGA

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How Democrats eyeing 2028 won and lost in primaries they endorsed in

Top Democrats are using 2026 as a launching pad for potential 2028 presidential runs. From progressive Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to the more moderate Pete Buttigieg and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Democrats have sought to shape their party by endorsing in…

Iowa’s last Democrat on how he can win in Trump country

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GOP’s desperate post-wipeout plans crumble as big-name conservatives refuse to play along

Republicans hoping to use their final weeks in power to blunt this week’s Democratic wave are running into resistance from their own side, according to new reporting.Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), 93, won’t resign early to let outgoing Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds appoint his successor before…