Iranian officials took to social media on Tuesday and Wednesday to gloat over the Democrat Party's big win in the U.S. midterm elections, taking it as a sign of the American public accepting Iranian victory and turning against President Donald Trump over his military action against Tehran.

"Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message," Iranian parliamentary speaker and chief negotiator Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf said on social media platform X.

A new video ad supporting Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has sparked accusations of antisemitism after the ad falsely blamed Israel for high grocery prices in the US.

In the ad, a woman and her husband are shopping at the grocery store when the wife tells her husband to put the eggs back because "we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians."

The husband protests that the US already gives Israel "$4 billion a year," to which the wife replies: "Yeah, and now we're...

With control of the House and Senate at stake in the 2026 midterms, Republicans face a critical test as questions grow over misleading polls, media bias, and what a Democratic victory could mean for Trump's presidency. Meanwhile, Europe's growing alliance between socialists and Islamist activists raises questions about conflicting political values, as concerns over rising antisemitism intensify following a controversial Michigan Senate campaign ad blaming U.S. support for Israel for higher grocery prices.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday morning that the United States plans to end its roughly $4 billion in annual aid to Israel by the end of the year, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself asked him to do so.

Speaking with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, Trump insisted the Jewish state is rich and successful and doesn't need the aid.

"Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal.

US Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that America's relationship with Israel and the war with Iran were to blame for the major losses suffered by Republicans in the midterms.

In his first public statement since the election, Vance also said the cost of living, inflation, and a failure to "put America first" mattered greatly to the Make America Great Again (MAGA) base.

"Vice President Vance says the reason Republicans lost last night was the war in Iran," US President Donald Trump...

Vice President JD Vance has refused to endorse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just a day after President Donald Trump announced his support for the incumbent Israeli leader.

"I'm not anti-endorsing. I'm not pro-endorsing," Vance told journalist Mark Halperin in a Monday interview. "I'm not getting involved in the Israeli elections."

"I endorse American candidates," the vice president added, noting that he is focused on the U.S. midterms.

Trump declared his support for...

The U.S. Mission to the United Nations strongly rejected the genocide report issued by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry at the U.N. General Assembly Third Committee Meeting Thursday.

Addressing the committee, Ellie Cohanim, the Iranian-born senior policy adviser for the U.S. Mission to the U.N., characterized the commission's findings as baseless and blasted the U.N. for its antisemitic bias.

Germany's newly appointed federal antisemitism commissioner, Katharina von Schnurbein, has warned that the country is facing an alarming resurgence of open, brazen anti-Jewish hatred, vowing to confront the crisis as she begins her new mandate.

"We have reached a point that has probably never existed since the Holocaust," Schnurbein told the Düsseldorf-based newspaper Rheinische Post in an exclusive interview.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday accused LeBron James of disrespecting the United States after the NBA star appeared to continue his warmups while the national anthem was performed before Philadelphia's season opener on Tuesday.

"I said right from the beginning that he's no good, a TOTAL DISGRACE," Trump said of James in a social media post sharing the video. "LeBron James should apologize to all of those Great American Warriors and Heroes who died for the...

The stakes in Tuesday's midterm elections are so high that Shane Dunn voted for the first time in his life, at age 65.

After a career as a cook up and down the East Coast, Dunn moved to the Philadelphia suburbs and voted last week in Levittown. "I was always a busy man," he said outside his polling place. But now, "I'm learning what's going on within our country, and this is actually what brought me out."

Democrats got his vote. "It feels great, to...