Washington — Widespread Republican losses in the midterm elections are roiling the GOP, prompting soul-searching over what went wrong and a brewing blame game that’s expected to heat up as the party looks toward the next election. From House and Senate races to governors’ mansions, Republicans saw striking losses, both in battlegrounds and in places…
Sioux City, Iowa — Democratic Senate hopeful Josh Turek was standing with former Sen. Tom Harkin in a driveway in a small Western Iowa town when the former senator pulled out his phone to show the candidate something. “Oh my God,” Turek said as he leaned over to glance at Harkin’s phone, which appeared to…
Sioux City, Iowa — Less than 24 hours after President Trump held a raucous rally inside an airplane hangar in this western Iowa town, Senate Majority Leader John Thune stood alongside Rep. Ashley Hinson in a strip-mall bar and grill a few miles away. Looking out over a giant water tank that punctuated the flat…
The candidates in Kansas’ surprisingly competitive Senate race faced off in a debate Wednesday evening, as Republicans fight to head off the possibility of their first loss in a Kansas Senate contest in nearly a century. Incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall hammered away at what it would mean if he were to lose — that…
Houston — Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled what he described as a “flying” car, equipped with thrusters, during a livestreamed event at his SpaceX rocket company’s facility on Thursday. Technical and regulatory challenges have so far prevented the much-hyped flying car sector from getting off the ground. Musk revealed Tesla‘s new Roadster sports car during a…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to buy licenses for radio airwaves that will enable its Starlink Mobile satellite business to provide cellular service inside buildings, a move the company said will allow it to “become a major mobile carrier in the U.S.” “This is the last critical piece of the spectrum puzzle needed for SpaceX…
President Trump said Monday he will start paying for the pro-Trump ads that have blanketed the airwaves in recent weeks with money raised by his super PAC, after his administration drew intense pushback for using public funds on the ads. “The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which…
Senate Republicans’ main super PAC is redirecting millions of dollars to defend a Kansas Senate seat and scaling back its investments in a GOP-held seat in North Carolina, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News. The shifts are another sign of how the race for control of the upper chamber is changing in the…
Washington — Senate Majority Leader John Thune is set to travel to several states with key Senate races in the coming weeks as the GOP fights to hold on to its majority in the upper chamber. Thune will travel to North Carolina on Thursday, with stops to follow in Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Florida, South Carolina,…
A new ad campaign glorifying President Trump is on the air on national cable and national networks including CBS beginning Thursday, and it’s being paid for by American taxpayers. The first ad, which hit the airwaves Wednesday and aired on Fox News Channel, opens with Mr. Trump vowing, “We will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism…
