Author: Daniel Chaitin

Former President Donald Trump will deliver his “special announcement” on Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST, according to a new advisory. He will be speaking from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, and the press are invited to register for credentials. It was already known Trump would make some sort of big announcement one week…

Tropical Storm Nicole strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday evening as it makes a beeline for Florida. The National Hurricane Center reported at around 6 p.m. EST that Nicole had reached the requisite 75 mph maximum sustained winds for the storm to reach Category 1 hurricane status, going off observations from a Hurricane Hunter aircraft. Nicole…

Former President Donald Trump is again bad-mouthing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) while speaking favorably of another Republican as a candidate to replace him. An interview published on the day of the midterm elections showcased one of Trump’s most strident rebukes of McConnell to date as he also laid the groundwork for a possible…

The Monday drawing for the Powerball lottery, with its largest-ever jackpot at roughly $1.9 billion, has been delayed. Officials claimed a participating lottery needed “extra time to complete the required security protocols.” The winning numbers and recorded video of the drawing will be posted to the Powerball website, and YouTube channel after the protocols are…

The special master in Donald Trump’s documents case dropped an order on the docket just hours before the former president may announce another bid for the White House. Judge Raymond Dearie, who was appointed as the special master third-party reviewer to root out privileged items seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort that the former president believes…

Florida may soon be hit by another tropical system, maybe even a hurricane, in the coming days. A little more than a month after Hurricane Ian swept across the state, causing widespread devastation and killing dozens of people, a new area of low pressure has been detected more than 200 miles north of Puerto Rico…

Polling guru Nate Silver says Republicans have “the edge” in the contest to win control of the Senate, but “fairly big swings” could save the Democrats in the midterm elections. Two days before Election Day, Silver shared FiveThirtyEight‘s forecasts for the balance of power in Congress on ABC’s This Week, signaling a strong performance for…

A report was published Sunday warning that Russian trolls and bots are back — and they are targeting Democrats. Social media research companies have detected these resurgent Russian campaigns, using accounts made to appear like they are run by disaffected Americans, on smaller platforms such as Gab, Parler, and Gettr, according to the New York…

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the state’s Democratic nominee for governor, is refusing to cave to pressure to recuse herself from election duties for the midterm elections. Her Republican opponent, Kari Lake, and even some former Arizona secretaries of state have urged Lake to step aside to avoid an appearance of there being a…

A war of words between Kari Lake and Hillary Clinton took a conspiratorial turn on Thursday. Lake, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, alluded to the “Clinton Body Count” while reacting to the former secretary of state’s criticisms of her. “I’m in perfect health, my brakes on my car are in good shape, and I’m…