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Democratic leaders, candidates and donors gathered on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard this summer to raise money ahead of the midterms, as party committees work to close a cash gap with Republicans.

A federal judge ordered the release of an MS-13 member convicted of a gang murder in El Salvador after finding immigration officials held him nearly five months in San Diego County without a required bond or danger hearing.

Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Newark used zip ties and duct tape to restrain a man who allegedly assaulted a fellow traveler, forcing an unscheduled stop in Baltimore. The FBI is now reviewing the case alongside state authorities.

President Trump said Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy will still face ‘a price’ after a mistrial was declared following a jury deadlock in the deaths of her three children, as GOP leaders blasted the outcome and Democrats stayed silent.

A wave of recent food recalls stems from a mix of better detection technology, human error, weak company oversight, and training gaps rather than any single cause, with the FDA still investigating several active outbreaks as of September 2026.

Several Democratic candidates, including Iowa’s Josh Turek and Rob Sand, Alaska’s Mary Peltola and Wisconsin’s Rebecca Cooke, have declined Kamala Harris’s help ahead of the 2026 midterms, while others like Nevada’s Aaron Ford have welcomed her involvement.

OpenAI has released its new GPT-6 Astra model, the first to trigger the company’s advanced internal cybersecurity safeguards, even as reports raise concerns about reduced transparency into how the model operates.

Florida Rep. Randy Fine now says he isn’t sure video showing him searching a stranger’s Ormond Beach mailbox is real, even though his office earlier confirmed he was the man on camera.

President Trump says his former lawyer Michael Cohen has “fully recanted” testimony from the hush-money case and is calling on New York prosecutors to drop the remaining proceedings against him.

Abdul El-Sayed’s public campaign schedule for the 25th anniversary of September 11 lists a Mexican festival, a farmers market and a county fair, but no remembrance event; his campaign says he will attend one privately.