LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump’s trade war with China could hit toy stores the hardest as they begin ordering for the holiday season. What You Need To Know President Donald Trump’s trade war with China could hit toy stores the hardest as they begin ordering for the holiday season Eighty percent of toys sold…
Elon Musk’s heavy involvement in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election pushed more voters away from the Republican candidate than it persuaded to support him, according to a poll. A survey from the Democratic polling firm Blueprint, shared with The Washington Post,found that 30 percent of voters said Musk’s multimillion-dollar intervention made them less likely to…
In its latest episode, “Saturday Night Live” somewhat inevitably went after President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement. James Austin Johnson returned as Trump during the NBC comedy show’s cold open, recreating the president’s Rose Garden speech from earlier this week, which saw him detail his controversial new import levies. “Thank you all for coming…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Not even 24 hours after his party lost a key Wisconsin race and underperformed in Florida, President Donald Trump followed the playbook that has defined his political career: He doubled down. Trump’s move on Wednesday to place stiff new tariffs on imports from nearly all U.S. trading partners marks an all-in bet…
Elon Musk learned an important lesson on Tuesday: Money isn’t everything. His $20 million effort to tilt a State Supreme Court race in Wisconsin to Republicans’ preferred candidate — and, as Musk said just hours before voting ended, to determine the fate of “Western civilization” — ended in failure when Democratic voters swamped the polls….
A closely watched election for a state supreme court judgeship in Wisconsin gave Democrats a boost Tuesday night, while two special elections in Florida delivered two seats to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s perilously thin GOP majority. Though off-year and special elections attract a much smaller share of voters than presidential elections, the outcomes in both…
Elon Musk’s sweeping attempt to reshape American politics through a combination of financial firepower and bureaucratic upheaval faltered Tuesday night, as Democrats clinched a key victory in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race and narrowed the gap in two deep-red Florida congressional districts. Democrats scored a high-profile victory in Wisconsin, where Susan Crawford defeated Trump- and Musk-backed…
Elon Musk has reacted to Judge Susan Crawford defeating conservative-backed candidate Brad Schimel for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. “The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, early Wednesday. Musk and groups he backed spent more than $21 million in an effort to defeat…
Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, overcame $25 million in spending from Elon Musk to defeat her conservative opponent, The Associated Press reported, in a totemic contest that became a critical test of the nation’s prevailing political winds. Judge Crawford, who serves in Dane County, handily defeated…
Residents of the Badger State will have their last chance Tuesday to vote in an unusually high-stakes race for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. The election, which is officially nonpartisan, pits Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, who is backed by the Democratic Party, against Republican-endorsed Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel in what has been…