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Pokémon is being sued in a class-action lawsuit after a former engineering director allegedly tried to get a “Peek-achu” at women and children while they were undressing in the bathroom. A woman — who filed the lawsuit as Jane Doe — is accusing…

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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) unveiled legislation Monday that would bar social media companies from selling expedited access to posts from government officials following the launch of Truth API. President Trump’s media company launched the service over the weekend, which gives Wall Street firms advance access to Truth Social’s “most market-moving” posts. Warner’s bill, called the…

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A working group within Nvidia’s new initiative on open-source technologies is seeking public input as it develops guidelines on how to share and learn from AI cybersecurity incidents to prevent future risks. The request for comment comes about a week after Nvidia announced the Open Secure AI Alliance, a consortium of more than 120 firms…

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While these two have yet to confirm any engagement rumors, it’s safe to say that, when it comes to their fashion, Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper have never been more aligned.

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Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to set records in its fourth day at domestic box office, notching the biggest Monday ever with north of $46M+. Sony hasn’t reported their official number yet, but the Destin Daniel Cretton directed movie’s Monday is well north of the previous biggest Monday which belonged to […]

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Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary in President Donald Trump’s first term, has filed a restraining order against Miller.

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Hundreds of Haitian immigrants in Ohio who had Temporary Protected Status have been summoned by the ICE for in-person “check-ins,” immigration advocates say.

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Two pledges were diagnosed with a serious medical condition after the alleged hazing.

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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Monday said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) should be booted from his role as leader, doubling down on his push to oust the nine-year Democratic leader.  When asked who should take over, Moulton said, “It should not be Chuck Schumer,” during a Monday night debate against incumbent Sen. Ed…

At this point 20 years ago, there was a Republican president working alongside a Republican-led Congress, though things were not going especially well for the GOP, despite its power.

There was a failing and unpopular war underway in the Middle East, the White House was investing too much political capital in a doomed and unnecessary legislative priority, the GOP-led House and Senate had little to show for their majorities, and polls showed Democrats in a good position ahead of the Republican president’s second and final midterm election cycle.

Sound familiar?

But making matters worse for the GOP was the astonishing number of Republican lawmakers who were caught up in ugly scandals in 2006. Names like Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney and Mark Foley became nationally notorious for a reason — and in the 2006 midterms, the party lost its majority, due at least in part to the backlash to the party’s “culture of corruption.”

Two decades later, the names are different, but the circumstances are eerily familiar. There’s another failing and unpopular war underway in the Middle East, but the war is with Iran, not Iraq. The White House is against investing too much political capital in a doomed and unnecessary legislative priority, but now it’s a voter-suppression package instead of Social Security privatization. The GOP-led House and Senate still have little to show for their majorities, and polls again show Democrats in a good position ahead of a Republican president’s second and final midterm election cycle.

As for Republican lawmakers caught up in scandals, DeLay, Cunningham, Ney and Foley have been replaced by a different set of characters:

• Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio is facing bipartisan resignation calls over domestic abuse allegations, which he’s long denied.
• Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida has been at the center of several scandals, and he has long insisted that he’s done nothing wrong. A judge last fall issued a restraining order against him for “protection against dating violence” after his ex-girlfriend accused him of threatening and harassing her.
• Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina faced a lengthy investigation from the House Ethics Committee, which concluded that there was “substantial reason” to believe he violated congressional sexual harassment rules with his “intimate and effusive attentions” toward two young women who worked in his office. (In response to the committee’s report, Edwards’ campaign issued a statement arguing that the findings “completely exonerate” him, which anyone who read the panel’s findings would find difficult to take seriously.)
• Former Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas resigned in disgrace four months ago after facing mounting scrutiny over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct involving former staffers, including an affair with an aide who later died by suicide.

I’m mindful of the fact that two House Democrats, Eric Swalwell of California and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida, have also been forced to resign in the face of scandals during this Congress, but that doesn’t negate the familiarity of circumstances in which the GOP finds itself.

As for whether the outcomes in 2026 mirror the massive Democratic gains in 2006, we’ll find out in 91 days.

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