Topline State Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D) was elected to replace the late Rep. Don McEachin (D) in Virginia’s 4th Congressional District on Tuesday, making her the first Black woman to represent the s...
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Democrat Brandon Presley—Cousin Of Elvis—Close To Mississippi’s Republican Governor In Recent Polls
Topline This year’s gubernatorial election in reliably red Mississippi is shaping up to be the most competitive in decades, according to recent (if small) polls, with a distant relative of rock and ro...
Sen. John Fetterman Hospitalized After Feeling ‘Lightheaded’ Months After Stroke
Topline Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) has been hospitalized overnight after feeling lightheaded, his staff said in a statement late Wednesday, months after Fetterman suffered a stroke on the campaign ...
Top Republican lawmaker explains how Congress is warming up to crypto
Episode 4 of Season 5 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify, Google Podc...
S&P 500 breaks above 4,000 as Democrat propose eliminating debt ceiling
Only days after the U.S. government reached its debt limit, House Democrats are pushing for Congress to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether. Republicans are demanding spending cuts The United States...
Sinema Facing Senate Challenge By Progressive Democrat Gallego After Leaving Party
Topline Progressive Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is set to become the first notable Democrat to announce he’s running for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-Ariz.) seat in 2024, according to multiple reports, s...
Senate Passes Stopgap Funding Bill, Averting Government Shutdown
Topline The Senate on Thursday passed a stopgap bill to fund the government for an additional week, staving off Friday’s looming government shutdown as lawmakers race to finalize a broader funding pac...
Democrat Senator Seeking Potential Crypto Regulations, Report
Crypto regulations remained the hot issue across the crypto space and the point of tussle between regulators and crypto proponents. Yet the authorities or the people having authority are often reporte...
Top Democrat Faces Backlash over Tweet to SBF
CoinMarketCap News, Dec. 5: Top Democrat Faces Backlash over Tweet to SBF But first — subscribe to our newsletter. Listen to the CoinMarketRecap podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts ...
Senior Senate Democrat wants crypto exchange info after FTX collapse
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wants information on how large crypto exchanges conduct business, including whether they use customer funds for undisclosed purposes, following the co...
US Senator Wants Answers on SBF ‘Lavish’ Democrat Donations
Crypto bigwigs have spent millions of dollars funding recent U.S. election campaigns, including those for the 2024 U.S. presidential elections. One name echoing here is former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Frie...
Democrat Adam Frisch Concedes To Republican Lauren Boebert In Unexpectedly Close House Race
Topline After a surprisingly close race, Democratic House candidate Adam Frisch conceded to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a Trump ally who has been criticized for spreading baseless conspiracy theori...
Democrat Katie Hobbs Defeats Election Denier Kari Lake For Arizona Governor
Topline Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has defeated hard-right Republican election denier Kari Lake in the Arizona governor’s race, delivering Democrats a major swing state wi...
Democrat Fetterman Beats Oz To Flip Key Senate Seat
Topline Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) won Pennsylvania’s high-stakes Senate race Tuesday, defeating Republican nominee Mehmet Oz, according to the Associated Press, a significant victory as Democrats fl...
Republican J.D. Vance Defeats Democrat Tim Ryan In Key Midterm Contest
Topline Republican J.D. Vance has won Ohio’s Senate race, edging out Rep. Tim Ryan (D), after a tight contest where Vance’s celebrity status and alignment with former President Donald Trump aided his ...
FTX’s SBF has made donations to Republican and Democrat parties
According to reports of campaign donations, FTX Trading Ltd. has emerged as the third-largest source of funding for Democratic candidates, behind the megadonor George Soros and the cardboard box produ...
Liz Cheney Endorses Democrat Tim Ryan In Ohio Senate Race—Breaking With GOP Again
Topline Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Tuesday she is endorsing Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio’s closely contested Senate contest, marking the second time in less than a week the outgoing GOP c...
Over 50% of Democrat and Republican voters agree crypto is ‘the future of finance’
The digital currency asset manager, Grayscale Investments, announced on November 1 the findings of a new national survey to investigate how Americans view the current state of the economy and cryptocu...
Democrat Shapiro Leads GOP’s Mastriano By Double Digits In New Poll
Topline Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) holds a 15-point lead over state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) in a new CNN poll of Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race, a much wider gap than the state’...
Fetterman Latest Democrat To Distance Himself, Calling The Idea ‘Absurd’
Topline Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman (D) said in a new interview “it was always absurd to defund the police,” while other midterm candidates in his party have assured voters they don’t...
Democrat Senator Urges SEC Chair Gary Gensler To Release Clear Crypto Regulations
US Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) says it’s time for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to establish rules specifically designed for crypto. In a letter to SEC chair Gary Gensler, the...
Democrat Senators call Texas ‘Deregulated Safe Harbor’ for Bitcoin miners
A group of seven U.S. senators from the Democratic Party, led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, have called Texas a ‘deregulated safe harbor’ for Bitcoin miners. The group has sought related ...
Former DNC Chair Schultz Calls Democrat Tlaib ‘Antisemitic’ Over Remarks On Israel
Topline Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) accused fellow House Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) of making antisemitic comments Wednesday after Tlaib slammed progressives who “back Israel’s apa...
Congress stock trading ‘continues to degrade the trust’ of Americans, Democrat says
Congressional stock trading is back in the limelight following a New York Times analysis that found 97 members of Congress engaged in stock market transactions that could potentially be seen as confli...
Biden Taps Veteran Democrat John Podesta As Clean Energy Spending Czar
Topline President Joe Biden announced Friday that former Obama and Clinton Administration official John Podesta will oversee $370 billion in clean energy spending authorized in the Inflation Reduction...
Covid Split U.S. Along Political Lines More Than Other Countries, Poll Finds
Topline The U.S. is one of the most divided countries when it comes to attitudes about the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new Pew Research Center poll published Thursday, underscoring the political...
First Democrat In Congress Suggests Biden Shouldn’t Run In 2024
Topline Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) has become one of the most prominent Democrats to suggest President Joe Biden shouldn’t run again in 2024, telling a Minneapolis talk radio station a “dynami...
Mass. Democrat Richard Neal Isn’t Keen on Senators Investing in Crypto
Richard Neal – a democrat from Massachusetts and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee – wants the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine crypto investment options for governme...