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Festival-goers in one of Maryland's most liberal enclaves told Fox News Digital they'd be open to the government seizing their own homes — and some were downright enthusiastic about it.

Fox News Digital hit the Takoma Park Street Festival to ask residents how much power they'd willingly hand the government. Some attendees favored government redistribution of property.

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The Army's new leadership is pumping the brakes on its sweeping tech transformation, with the acting chief of staff admitting the service tried to change too much at once.

Gen. Christopher LaNeve said the force had been overwhelmed by simultaneous experimentation with drones, AI and autonomous systems — and now needs to narrow its focus. "You can't AI yourself to be the best maneuver brigade commander out there," he said.

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Five years after Merrick Garland’s school board memo, a new DOJ report details the internal turmoil behind what one official derided as an “Anti-MAGA Task Force.”

Officials across DOJ raised concerns about politicization, federal jurisdiction and First Amendment issues as the effort took shape and moved forward.

The report also revisits warnings from inside the department that the push risked turning protected political opposition into a federal law-enforcement matter.

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FRAUD CRACKDOWN: House Republicans introduce a bill to protect Medicaid whistleblowers after more than 30 current and former Minnesota Department of Human Services employees alleged they faced surveillance, investigations, reassignment and termination for flagging fraud as early as 2019.

The Medicaid Whistleblower Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, would prevent employers from firing, demoting, threatening or discriminating against workers who report fraud, and would entitle retaliated workers to reinstatement, double back pay, attorneys' fees and punitive damages.

The bill is part of a 14-measure package from House Energy and Commerce Republicans targeting fraud in government health programs — including the WALZ Act, which would trigger inspector general investigations into any program that sees a 10% or greater spike in payments over a six-month period.

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DEAD FELONS: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's office sent voting rights restoration letters to deceased convicted felons — including a woman whose father confirmed she died in 2024 and a man whose friend says she has his ashes.

Spanberger announced in July that 66,000 convicts had their voting ability restored, with each letter stating her office "completed review of the particulars of the individual's case." But the letters arriving at homes of dead Virginians raise serious questions about whether any real vetting took place — or whether Richmond rubber-stamped tens of thousands of restorations without checking if the recipients were even alive.

The notices landed in mailboxes just as early voting began, even though the official restoration orders were dated months earlier. A Virginia Beach attorney with 27 years of experience says the situation boils down to two possibilities: either the governor's office knew these people were dead and restored their rights anyway, or they never actually reviewed anything at all.

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FINAL WORDS: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, whom President Donald Trump previously blasted as a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater,” is preparing to step down after 17 years — revealing the nation’s political climate persuaded her to postpone her retirement by two years.

“The country has an opportunity to make a course correction and to send a pretty strong signal, and I pray that we do because it’s been devastating,” Budde said, pointing to job losses, budget cuts and immigration policies that she said adversely affected people in her congregations.

Budde said she originally planned to serve for 15 years but extended her tenure to 17 because she felt like she "needed to stay.”

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LEAKED AUDIO: Ken Paxton tells a D.C. lunch crowd he feels zero control over his own Texas Senate campaign, saying outside forces are driving the messaging in a race that could determine the GOP's Senate majority.

Paxton, who torched John Cornyn as a "Washington insider" and "RINO" during a bruising primary, now finds himself relying on the very D.C. establishment groups he railed against to keep the seat red. The latest Fox News poll shows Democrat James Talarico with a slim 51%-49% edge, and ad spending in the race is projected to hit $850 million.

A source in Paxton's orbit told Fox News Digital the candidate "genuinely doesn't like the DC people" — the same people now pouring money in to save him.

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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history and the highest-ranking U.S. official to ever serve jail time, has died at 84 from natural causes at his home in Illinois.

Hastert admitted in 2015 to sexually abusing teenage students and athletes as young as 14 during his years as a high school wrestling coach in the 1960s and 1970s — decades before he ever entered Congress.

Hastert served 13 of 15 months of a federal sentence for banking crimes. He was never charged for the sexual abuse itself.

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Rep. Mike Haridopolos, a freshman Florida Republican most people may not have heard of, helped engineer the primary ouster of fellow GOP Rep. Cory Mills — one of only four Republican incumbents to lose a primary in the 2026 midterms — and also secured billions more for NASA's budget after the Trump White House initially proposed slashing it by 24%.

Haridopolos recruited former journalist Ryan Elijah to challenge Mills, showed up in the front row of the primary debate, and worked the spin room himself. He told Fox News Digital he went directly to House leadership and the president's team to warn that Mills would lose a general election, and when Mills refused to step aside, Haridopolos backed someone else — a move almost unheard of for a first-term congressman.

On the space front, he convinced the administration to reverse course on a proposed cut to NASA from $24.4 billion down to $18.8 billion last year, and ultimately Trump signed a spending bill restoring most of that amount plus an additional $9.9 billion through the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says Haridopolos "understands that so much of America's future in space runs through Florida and Kennedy Space Center."

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The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday with a loaded docket that could reshape gun rights, religious liberty, election integrity, and the limits of state power — all in a single session.

The blockbuster case pits Colorado officials against oil giants Suncor and ExxonMobil, testing whether a single state can use its own tort law to hold energy companies liable for climate-related harms that extend far beyond its borders. JCN president Carrie Severino calls it "climate lawfare" — an attempt to weaponize one state's legal system to regulate global emissions. The court will also take up whether Illinois and Connecticut can ban semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15, marking the first major firearms restriction case since the court's landmark decision in the Bruin case.

Add in a Catholic preschool fighting Colorado's anti-discrimination rules, Arizona's proof-of-citizenship voter registration law, and the Trump administration's authority to deport illegal immigrants to countries not listed on their removal orders — and this term could rival last year's presidential power showdowns in sheer consequence.

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AI is collapsing the cost of political advertising ahead of the midterms, letting campaigns churn out attack ads, deepfakes and targeted messages in minutes that once took days and entire production teams. At least 164 AI-influenced ads have been identified this cycle, according to the Wesleyan Media Project — and that only counts what researchers can detect.

But the jury is still out on whether any of it actually wins elections. Spencer Pratt's AI-generated superhero videos went mega-viral in the LA mayoral race. He came in third. A Massachusetts GOP gubernatorial candidate grabbed national headlines with a deepfake of the Democratic governor mocking her own climate agenda. He lost in a landslide.

Campaign operatives on both sides say the technology is a game-changer for production speed and budget — but warn that viral attention is not the same thing as persuasion, and voters are growing more skeptical of whether anything they see in a political ad is even real.

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FIRING BACK: Cruz says Vance is 'feeling insecure' after Vance claimed it was 'really obvious' the Texas senator is already running for president in 2028.

Both insist they are focused on helping Republicans win in the midterms.

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'FOOD FIGHT': Rahm Emanuel urges Democrats not to impeach Trump if they win the House, saying it will go nowhere.

The former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff says the party should instead deliver a comprehensive ethics package.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrie has declined to say whether he would support impeachment proceedings against Trump, though appeared to suggest this summer that it would not be a top priority.

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“STEAMROLLED”: A Virginia congressman representing America’s “Data Center Alley” is taking the fight to Congress, warning that mounting local resistance could obstruct the very buildout Washington views as critical to staying ahead of China.

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., is pitching a four-part federal plan covering siting, power costs, resource demands and security — including one proposal that borrows from the 1980s drinking-age playbook by using federal highway funding as leverage to push states to make large power users shoulder more of their infrastructure costs.

The fight is already crossing state lines: Virginia is moving toward stronger local guardrails while neighboring West Virginia has limited local barriers to qualifying projects.

“If you are concerned about a race with China … you should want to work with us on a plan to get community buy-in.”

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Texas is pulling the financial center of gravity away from New York — and the numbers back it up.

Dallas-Fort Worth has led the entire nation with 111 corporate headquarters relocations since 2018, followed by Austin with 88 and Houston with 31, according to CBRE data. Companies are citing growth opportunities, lower operating costs, and lighter regulation.

Now the Texas Stock Exchange, which received SEC approval last year, is gunning directly for the NYSE and Nasdaq. It already has primary listings from Energy Transfer, Dillard's, Sunoco, and Texas Capital Bank — with backing from JPMorgan and BlackRock. Former Congressman Jeb Hensarling, a board member, says the exchange is the final piece of a transformation that's been building for years: "Texas has been a great place to do business for decades. But increasingly, it's a great place to headquarter your business... And really the last piece of that puzzle was the Texas Stock Exchange."

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TIDE TURNING: Latino voters are swinging back toward Democrats ahead of midterms after Trump's standout 2024 performance, with 69% disapproving of the president's performance, according to new polling from NBC News and Telemundo.

The survey of 800 registered Latino voters found Democrats hold a 59-35 advantage when voters were asked which party should control Congress — a shift from the narrowing 12-point gap heading into 2024.

Trump called out "fake polls" and vowed to put "communists, socialist, radicalized lunatics" down "once and for all."

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ANTI-AMERICAN: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer torches far-left Democratic candidates as "communists, Marxists, and anarchists" on the first stop of a 56-district blitz rallying Republican voters ahead of the midterms.

Emmer, campaigning in Maine for Republican House candidate Paul LePage, took direct aim at the Democratic Party's left flank — singling out Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for claiming NFL football is "toxic masculinity" and for ties to figures Emmer says are openly anti-American.

"They want us to call them democratic socialists, there's nothing democratic about these people," Emmer told Fox News Digital. He also ripped the Biden administration for putting the economy "in the ditch" but argued that even $4 gas and $6 diesel "still isn't enough to vote for a communist."

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Democratic senators are refusing to rally behind Kamala Harris as the 2028 frontrunner, with multiple members of her own party signaling they want a wide-open primary instead.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal told Fox News Digital he's "made no decisions" about who he'd support despite backing Harris before. Sen. Elissa Slotkin predicted a "very, very, very messy and very big primary" where "every Tom, Dick and Harry" jumps in. Even Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, who called Harris "amazing" and "very well qualified," stopped short of committing to her.

Meanwhile, a University of New Hampshire poll shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surging to 22% among likely Democratic voters — 17 points ahead of Harris. The party that coronated Harris in 2024 appears to have no appetite for doing it again.

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'ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM': Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton's estranged wife backs the GOP ticket in a new ad — without ever saying his name.

Angela Paxton, who filed for divorce last year alleging her husband "committed adultery," says keeping the Texas Senate seat in Republican hands matters more than any individual candidate.

The ad, funded by a PAC tied to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, drops as a Fox News Poll shows Democrat James Talarico leading Paxton 51%-49% among likely voters.

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TIPPING POINT: Trump fires back at polls showing GOP disadvantage, saying they don't account for his return to the campaign trail in the final month.

A recent Fox News poll projects Democrats winning 215 House seats to the GOP's 201, meaning Republicans would need to win at least 17 of 19 toss-up races to hold their majority.

Trump told a cheering Dayton, Ohio, crowd that "we are on the cusp of beating the communists, socialist, radicalized lunatics and villains once and for all," pledging to "put them down once and for all."

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