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LONDON - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered heavy early losses in elections on Friday, showing the depth of voter anger with his government and raising fresh doubts about his future just ​two years after a landslide general election victory. Starmer's Labour Party haemorrhaged support in areas reporting results overnight, including traditional strongholds in former industrial regions ‌of central and northern England, along with some parts of London. The main beneficiary was the anti-immigration populist Reform UK of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which gained more than 200 council seats in England, and could form the main opposition in Scotland and Wales to the pro-independence Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru.

As I wrote, I watched Wednesday night’s LA mayoral debate between Republican Spencer Pratt, incumbent Democrat Karen Bass, and democrat socialist Nithya Raman, and I didn’t think Pratt just won the evening — I thought he creamed his two leftist opponents. Wiped the floor with them, actually. While they both whined for more state and federal dollars so they can keep spending our money for ever more failure, he kept relentlessly pounding home the theme that simply doubling down on the old ways of doing things is just a recipe for more disaster — and the tired voters of the Golden State have seen enough of that. Turns out, viewers agree

The 2026 midterms are just a few months away, and the Democrat Party still has no coherent answer to why it lost working-class voters in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, across the Rust Belt, to Donald Trump twice. Rather than reckon with that, the activist base has doubled down: more ideological purity tests, more litmus questions, more performative opposition to anything bearing the Trump name. Its loudest voices are busy policing their own members. Into that mess steps Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) — not leaving the Democrat Party, but making clear in a Thursday op-ed that he understands exactly what's wrong with it. In doing so, he may have delivered

Thursday on CNN’s “News Central,” senior data reporter Harry Enten said it was a myth that President Donald Trump is losing support among Republican voters. Enten said, “As Indiana goes, so goes the nation when it comes to Republican voters and Donald John Trump. He absolutely still has the juice. And when you’re a Republican and you go against Trump, you get voted off the island. I always love Survivor. And in this particular case, what we saw in Indiana was you go adios amigos, goodbye, see you later. And to me, that is emblematic of what we see nationwide with Republicans.”

As RedState previously reported, red states have not wasted any time since the Supreme Court decision in the Louisiana v. Callais case, which ruled that congressional redistricting based solely on race is unconstitutional. States like Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina are putting the wheels in motion to put new or previously drawn congressional maps in place ahead of the 2026 midterms. The Tennessee General Assembly has also been quick to act, debuting a new map on Wednesday that could effectively make the state 9-0 GOP in terms of congressional representation instead of 8-1 R/D. On Thursday, the Republican-controlled House passed the map, with the Republican-controlled Senate quickly

I'll disclose my bias straight off: I believe there's a special place in Hell below even Dante's imagination for adults who exploit children. Civilized societies should show absolutely zero tolerance for crimes involving child sexual abuse material or the destruction of childhood innocence. One of my older sisters once told me that “hate” is a strong word; only say it when it's necessary. Unfortunately, similar to words like “awesome,” “literally,” and “Nazi,” they've been overused to the point where those words lose their strength. Because of what she told me, I've refrained from saying "hate" until the situation demands it. For me, now, the situation demands it.

U.S. forces on Thursday attacked Iranian military facilities following attacks on American guided-missile destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command (Centcom). President Trump called the strikes a “love tap” in a phone call with ABC News on Thursday evening. Asked if it means the ceasefire is over, he said, “No, no, the ceasefire is going. It’s in effect.” Trump also said later Thursday in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. will “knock [Iran] out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST!”

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s “Project Freedom” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could be back on in days after a previously secret spat with Gulf allies which halted the military operation was resolved. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have quietly reopened their bases and airspace to the US military, which could restart the currently paused “Project Freedom” mission to protect ships from Iranian attacks, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Gulf countries had previously balked at letting the US use their territory for “Project Freedom,” which Trump called off on Tuesday less than 48 hours after it took effect, citing a request from Pakistan and “other countries.”

Could this be the endgame? On Wednesday, while talking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump implied that a deal with Iran was imminent - and stated that they have agreed to give up their nuclear weapons program. The Center Square's Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief, Sarah Roderick-Fitch, has more. During a Wednesday afternoon news conference in the Oval Office, Trump indicated that Iran has agreed not to have a nuclear weapon – a stipulation in a deal between Iran and the U.S. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and they won’t, and they’ve agreed to that, among other things,” Trump told reporters. The president said a deal

Karen Bass, the current Mayor of Los Angeles, dropped an F-bomb in a bizarre Freudian slip during Wednesday night’s debate against reality television star Spencer Pratt and councilmember Nithya Raman. The slip occurred when the debate segued into the destructive Palisades Fire of 2025 and reports that dozens of fire trucks were in need of repair prior to that fateful day. It was when Bass had to utter the word “trucks” that another word slipped out.

Happy Thursday, Morning Briefing readers! Kruiser is currently deep in Facebook Marketplace negotiations with a guy named Skeeter over a “slightly haunted” pontoon boat, so you're stuck with me today. Hopefully, he'll be back tomorrow. In case you missed it, Secretary of State Marco Rubio filled in for Karoline Leavitt — who is currently on maternity leave — on Tuesday, and it went about as well for him as it could have gone. He was funny. He was charming. He was knowledgeable. He was authoritative. And I hate myself for saying this so prematurely, but he was... presidential.

LOS ANGELES -- A fiery debate was held on Wednesday between incumbent Karen Bass and two of her primary challengers in the race for Los Angeles mayor. The candidates sparred over how to handle wildfires, homelessness and the dwindling Hollywood film industry. The debate comes with just one month until the mayoral primary election. There is an unlikely alliance in an ugly race for L.A. mayor. Former reality star Spencer Pratt and current Mayor Bass were hardly in agreement on Wednesday night, but coordinated or not, the opponents led a two-on-one tag-team attack against progressive L.A. city councilmember Nithya Raman.