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Grendaline: The Time Between Turns a Friend’s Death Into a Doorway Across Worlds

Texas Senate Race Becomes a Fact-Check War

James Talarico and Ken Paxton are fighting for a Senate seat. The bigger fight is over what voters are allowed to believe.

Two Dan Sullivans on an Alaska Ballot, and the Fight Over Who Gets to Confuse the Voters

In the final days before the 2026 midterms, an Alaska Senate race became a national flashpoint over ballot-stacking, voter confusion, and a Justice Department bid to segregate ballots.

The Week the Election Became a Story About the Election

In the final days before the 2026 midterms, claims about armed guards at post offices, vote-flipping machines and ballot manipulation are crowding the conversation, while federal pressure on states escalates and a same-name Senate race draws subpoenas.

Midterms 2026: The Fight Over the Vote Became the Vote

In the final week before Election Day on Nov. 3, rumors about armed guards, flipping machines and stolen ballots collided with rallies, polling shifts and a federal courtroom. The noise is the story.

The Lies That Are Running For Office

With Election Day a week away, falsehoods about candidates and the economy are flooding the 2026 midterms, and voters are trying to sort truth from noise.

The Midterms’ False Story Factory

With Election Day looming on Nov. 3, rumors about ballots, observers and foreign interference are feeding a volatile campaign season.

The Midterms Are Being Fought in the Rumor Mill and the Ad Buys

With early voting underway and Election Day three days away, false claims about ballots are colliding with personal attacks in ads, and both are shaping how voters read a fraught campaign.

Paris Burns in the Feed, Not on the Street

In October 2026 a student walkout became a national uprising, and a fabricated aerial image of a burning city convinced millions that Paris was already lost. The unrest is real, the misinformation is manufactured, and both are feeding each other.

A Mother on Camera, A Campaign in Crisis

Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother set off a bipartisan storm in Ohio, splitting Republicans and drawing a public rebuke from the state’s outgoing governor.

Trump’s Quiet Pivot to Moscow Reshapes the Ukraine War

With a St. Petersburg meeting, a prisoner release and a promise of talks in Abu Dhabi, the president is pressing Kyiv while opening a channel to Putin as midterm voters turn away

The Knock Before the Ballot

Federal agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home weeks before the midterms as the Justice Department pushes past old election-season restraints, and the country braces for a vote under a new enforcement climate.

A 16-Year-Old Gunman, a Bystander, and a School Day That Ended in Bend

Silver Rail Elementary was supposed to be winding down. Instead, a teenager forced his way inside with gunfire, three children and a teacher were killed, and a community member shot him dead before police arrived. Bend is trying to grieve.

The Ohio Rumor That Ate a Week on the Campaign Trail

James Talarico disappeared from the trail for nearly ten days with the flu. Within hours of his return, a recording claiming he had been discharged from an Ohio mental-health facility went viral. The timeline, the photos, and the denial all said otherwise.

The Ohio Hospital That Never Had Him

A Democratic Senate candidate vanished for ten days with the flu. Within hours, a phone call to an Ohio clinic became a conspiracy that almost stuck.

The Midterms Are Being Fact-Checked in Real Time

As voters head to the polls on 3 November, every claim, ad buy and diplomatic invitation is being tested in public, with the numbers tightening and the kitchen table turning into the campaign trail.

The Midterms Are Being Sold Before They're Voted

Fake posts, taxpayer ads and misleading attack spots are shaping the 2026 race while voters wrestle with real costs and real doubt.

The Midterms Are Being Sold, Spoofed, and Sowed With Doubt

As the 2026 election nears, a doctored Trump post, taxpayer-funded ads, and a drumbeat of election denial are colliding on the airwaves and on the ground.

Let Them Take Out Los Angeles: Trump’s Nebraska Remark Ignites a California Firestorm

A loose, unscripted line at a Nebraska rally about Iran, Los Angeles and San Diego sparked outrage in California, a White House defense, and a debate over how far a war metaphor can go.

The Shrinking Mandate

With four weeks to go until the midterms, Donald Trump is touring red states, defending taxpayer-funded ads and a doctored Truth Social post, as his approval sinks and Republicans shift from offense to defense.

The Pressure Campaign

In autumn 2026 Donald Trump leans on taxpayer money, a government AI chatbot, phone-number pressure and a border-wall push as midterms approach, testing how far political communication can stretch under his administration.

The Cornell Seven and the Case That Wouldn’t Close

A civil lawsuit alleging a drugging and gang rape at a Cornell fraternity house has forced a prosecutor to reopen an investigation, reignited a campus debate over how universities handle sexual violence, and set a national conversation on trauma, memory and accountability.

The Message Is Paid For

A White House that bans critics, buys its own ads with taxpayer money, and hosts foreign leaders on a balcony where every frown becomes a headline is trying to write the story of its own second term before November arrives.

Be Quiet: Inside Trump’s War on the White House Press

The second Trump administration has turned press access into a weapon, banning outlets, seizing the press pool, and confronting reporters on the sidewalk. The confrontation is personal, public, and rewriting the rules of the briefing room.