http://www.toledoblade.com The Latest News from Toledoblade.com (v5) Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:02:45 GMT en-us hourly 1 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/08/democrats-push-clean-energy-challenge-trump-fossil-fuel-agenda/stories/20261108087 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/08/democrats-push-clean-energy-challenge-trump-fossil-fuel-agenda/stories/20261108087#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2026 18:56:30 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/08/democrats-push-clean-energy-challenge-trump-fossil-fuel-agenda/stories/20261108087 Some Democrats are promising to push for more clean energy to help tackle rising energy costs when they take control of Congress in January, though President Donald Trump says he will use his veto power aggressively. Solar panels generate electricity on Oct. 2 near Boulder City, Nev. FILE - President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 30 in Washington. A person fuels up a vehicle at a gas station on March 10 in New York. Turbines are visible at Sunrise Wind offshore wind farm that is under construction off the coast of Montauk Point, N.Y., on April 23. American Electric Power's John Amos coal-fired power plant in Winfield, W.Va., stands across the Kanawha River on March 22. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/07/young-voters-overwhelmingly-backed-democrats/stories/20261107091 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/07/young-voters-overwhelmingly-backed-democrats/stories/20261107091#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:16:57 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/07/young-voters-overwhelmingly-backed-democrats/stories/20261107091 WASHINGTON — Andy Soma, 24, doesn’t identify with either political party, and he's been skipping elections since he became old enough to vote. But this year, disappointed with the economy and President Donald Trump's war with Iran, he cast his midterm ballot for Roy Cooper, the North Carolina Democrat now headed to the Senate. Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed visits a polling place at Michigan Union on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Texans cheer as a crowd gathers at the Texas State Capitol in Austin to celebrate the results of the election, early in the morning on Nov. 4. Supporters of North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper listen as he speaks at an election night event on Nov. 3 in Raleigh, N.C. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/07/trump-grip-party-question-republicans-reel-midterm-wipeout/stories/20261107090 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/07/trump-grip-party-question-republicans-reel-midterm-wipeout/stories/20261107090#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:08:48 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/07/trump-grip-party-question-republicans-reel-midterm-wipeout/stories/20261107090 WASHINGTON — Republicans aren't holding back. President Donald Trump talks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One, at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 6. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas appears for Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers during a campaign event on Oct. 28 in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. Republican Senate candidate John E. Sununu speaks during a debate against Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., on Oct. 28 in Manchester, N.H. Vice President JD Vance arrives at a campaign rally at Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport, on Nov. 2 in Swanton, Ohio. White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, on Oct. 20 in Washington. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/06/trump-replaces-susie-wiles-stephen-miller-chief-of-staff/stories/20261106108 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/06/trump-replaces-susie-wiles-stephen-miller-chief-of-staff/stories/20261106108#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:49:18 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/06/trump-replaces-susie-wiles-stephen-miller-chief-of-staff/stories/20261106108 WASHINGTON — President Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections. Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, speaks as Vice President JD Vance, right, and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling listen during a news conference on the Fraud Task Force inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus Oct. 8 in Washington. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles attends an event about women's health Oct. 19 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/06/houston-mayor-signs-order-limit-cooperation-ice-says-elections-matter-democrats/stories/20261106105 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/06/houston-mayor-signs-order-limit-cooperation-ice-says-elections-matter-democrats/stories/20261106105#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:48:59 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/06/houston-mayor-signs-order-limit-cooperation-ice-says-elections-matter-democrats/stories/20261106105 HOUSTON — The mayor of Houston on Friday said the city would limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, heralding “a new model” of immigration enforcement after Democrats swept statewide offices in Texas. A woman holds a sign reading "ICE OUT OF HOUSTON" during a vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national fatally shot by a federal immigration agent a day prior, on July 8 in Houston. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/05/trump-oval-office-cabinet-room-national-landmarks-prevent-future-changes/stories/20261105118 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/05/trump-oval-office-cabinet-room-national-landmarks-prevent-future-changes/stories/20261105118#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:19:26 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/05/trump-oval-office-cabinet-room-national-landmarks-prevent-future-changes/stories/20261105118 President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national landmarks — a move he said would protect the two West Wing spaces from future changes. The newly refurbished Cabinet Room at the White House is seen after President Donald Trump spoke in the Oval Office on Nov. 5 in Washington. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/04/democrats-sweeping-gains-state-level-legislatures/stories/20261104110 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/04/democrats-sweeping-gains-state-level-legislatures/stories/20261104110#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:35:37 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/04/democrats-sweeping-gains-state-level-legislatures/stories/20261104110 MADISON, Wis. — Democrats in Texas took control of the state House after historic wins for governor and U.S. Senate, part of a series of sweeping gains nationwide in Tuesday’s elections that shifted the balance of power across several battleground and Republican-leaning states. Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley, left, greets supporters at an election night event Nov. 3 in Milwaukee. Iowa Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand speaks during an election night event Nov. 3 in Des Moines, Iowa. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/2026-united-states-general-election-results/stories/20261103124 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/2026-united-states-general-election-results/stories/20261103124#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2026 02:16:08 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/2026-united-states-general-election-results/stories/20261103124 WASHINGTON — Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump. Democratic Senate candidate Texas state Rep. James Talarico speaks at an election night event in Austin, Texas, on Nov. 3. A guest cheers as he attends an election night event for Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) on Nov. 3 in Atlanta. North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper speaks at an election night event Nov. 3 in Raleigh, N.C. Democratic candidate U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff speaks at his final campaign event Nov. 2 in Decatur, Ga. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/election-takeaways-young-voters-hispanics-shift-away-from-the-gop/stories/20261103130 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/election-takeaways-young-voters-hispanics-shift-away-from-the-gop/stories/20261103130#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2026 03:47:59 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/election-takeaways-young-voters-hispanics-shift-away-from-the-gop/stories/20261103130 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump repeatedly encouraged voters to pretend he was on the midterm ballot. They did. And it's hard to imagine a worse outcome for the Republican president and his party. Democratic candidate U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff shakes hands with a supporter at his final campaign event Nov. 2 in Georgia. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, speaks during a campaign rally in Houston on Oct. 30. Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers greets people at an election eve event Nov. 2 in Rochester Hills, Mich. North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper speaks to supporters in Raleigh, N.C., on Nov. 3. Dr. Theopia Johnson Tate, of Atlanta, poses for a portrait at an election night event for Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms on Nov. 3 in Atlanta. Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms greets a young supporter during a campaign event Nov. 1 in Macon, Ga. Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., center left, greets supporters at an election night event Nov. 3 in Hollywood, Fla. Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., celebrates at an election night event with his wife Erika Donalds on Nov. 3 in Hollywood, Fla. Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Chris Pappas, right, D-N.H., greets the crowd at an election night event, with Vann Bentley, left, Nov. 3 in Manchester, N.H. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/trump-says-u-s-will-halt-4b-in-aid-to-israel-as-country-shifts/stories/20261103095 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/trump-says-u-s-will-halt-4b-in-aid-to-israel-as-country-shifts/stories/20261103095#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:26:28 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/trump-says-u-s-will-halt-4b-in-aid-to-israel-as-country-shifts/stories/20261103095 WASHINGTON — The United States will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. President Donald Trump listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/us-strikes-iranian-targets-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-official-says-leaving-unclear-what-comes-next/stories/20261103094 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/us-strikes-iranian-targets-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-official-says-leaving-unclear-what-comes-next/stories/20261103094#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:49:58 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/03/us-strikes-iranian-targets-in-the-strait-of-hormuz-official-says-leaving-unclear-what-comes-next/stories/20261103094 The United States launched strikes on Iranian targets, a U.S. official said, in what appeared to be a limited operation on the eve of Tuesday’s crucial midterm elections. A bird flies low over the water as cargo ships lie at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, early Oct. 24. A woman crosses a street beneath a billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump behind bars and calling for his killing in central Tehran, Iran, Nov. 3. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/02/trump-administration-supreme-court-california-mail-ballots/stories/20261102085 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/02/trump-administration-supreme-court-california-mail-ballots/stories/20261102085#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:30:19 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/02/trump-administration-supreme-court-california-mail-ballots/stories/20261102085 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s administration appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday in its push to sideline thousands of disputed California mail ballots the day before the pivotal midterm elections. Department of Elections workers sort mail-in ballots for the California primary election at City Hall on June 2 in San Francisco. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/02/learjet-parts-broken-off-midair-florida-crash-killed-9/stories/20261102084 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/02/learjet-parts-broken-off-midair-florida-crash-killed-9/stories/20261102084#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:30:04 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/02/learjet-parts-broken-off-midair-florida-crash-killed-9/stories/20261102084 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Parts of a business jet likely started to break off even before it slammed into the ground and erupted in a ball of flames in South Florida, killing all nine people on board, a federal investigator said Monday. This image taken from Aki Kuusisto's video shows a small jet crashing in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Nov. 1. Police work near the scene of a plane crash in Greenacres, Fla., on Nov. 2. Law enforcement respond to a plane crash in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Nov. 1. Law enforcement respond to a plane crash in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Nov. 1. Law enforcement respond to a plane crash in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Nov. 1. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/01/jet-nosedives-erupts-into-fireball-near-busy-roadway-south-florida-all-9-dead/stories/20261101112 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/01/jet-nosedives-erupts-into-fireball-near-busy-roadway-south-florida-all-9-dead/stories/20261101112#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:48:37 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/11/01/jet-nosedives-erupts-into-fireball-near-busy-roadway-south-florida-all-9-dead/stories/20261101112 A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a giant fireball that appeared to just miss homes near a busy roadway. Everyone on board was killed, the nation's transportation secretary said. Law enforcement respond to a plane crash in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Nov. 1. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/29/senate-is-skeptical-about-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent/stories/20261029086 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/29/senate-is-skeptical-about-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent/stories/20261029086#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:13:09 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/29/senate-is-skeptical-about-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent/stories/20261029086 WASHINGTON — The Senate is unlikely to act before the end of the year on a House-passed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, defying President Donald Trump and dashing the hopes of Americans who don’t like having to change their clocks twice a year. Clockmaker Scott Gow adjusts the hands of a clock at the Electric Time Company, Oct. 30, 2024, in Medfield, Mass. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/28/smoke-la-fires-exposed-millions-people-high-levels-toxic-heavy-metals/stories/20261028115 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/28/smoke-la-fires-exposed-millions-people-high-levels-toxic-heavy-metals/stories/20261028115#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:33:28 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/28/smoke-la-fires-exposed-millions-people-high-levels-toxic-heavy-metals/stories/20261028115 LOS ANGELES  — At the height of the Los Angeles fires in 2025, millions of residents were exposed in a 24-hour period to toxic lead levels from smoke that were 80 times higher than the typical background level, according to a new study. A firefighter battles the Eaton Fire in 2025 in Altadena, Calif. The Eaton Fire burns a vehicle in 2025 in Altadena, Calif. Fire crews battle the Eaton Fire as it impacts a structure the Eaton Fire in 2025 A man walks through rubble damaged by the Eaton Fire in 2025 An emergency vehicle drives through a neighborhood burned by the Eaton Fire in 2025, in Altadena, Calif. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/27/6-citizens-sue-trump-saying-media-ban-deprives-them-of-news-as-audience-stakeholders-1/stories/20261027088 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/27/6-citizens-sue-trump-saying-media-ban-deprives-them-of-news-as-audience-stakeholders-1/stories/20261027088#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:03:29 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/27/6-citizens-sue-trump-saying-media-ban-deprives-them-of-news-as-audience-stakeholders-1/stories/20261027088 In the increasingly bitter legal standoff between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes, a new and crucial third party has emerged: citizens who watch and read the news and need it to do their jobs. Columbia College Chicago student Kailey Ryan reads a newspaper in Chicago on Nov. 5, 2024. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/26/judge-trump-doj-illegally-fired-ex-fbi-director-s-daughter-maurene-comey-as-a-federal-prosecutor/stories/20261026094 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/26/judge-trump-doj-illegally-fired-ex-fbi-director-s-daughter-maurene-comey-as-a-federal-prosecutor/stories/20261026094#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:17:31 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/26/judge-trump-doj-illegally-fired-ex-fbi-director-s-daughter-maurene-comey-as-a-federal-prosecutor/stories/20261026094 NEW YORK — The Trump administration last year illegally fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York, a federal judge ruled Monday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey is outside court during the Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial, June 3, 2025. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/25/trump-escalates-rhetoric-el-sayed-michigan/stories/20261025125 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/25/trump-escalates-rhetoric-el-sayed-michigan/stories/20261025125#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:35:34 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/25/trump-escalates-rhetoric-el-sayed-michigan/stories/20261025125 PORT HURON, Mich. — President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday with rhetoric that questioned the Muslim candidate’s loyalties to the U.S. and repeatedly tried to tie him to extremism, claims the Democrat has repeatedly denied and denounced. This combination photo of images taken in Detroit shows Senate nominees Republican Mike Rogers, Aug. 20, left, and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Aug. 19. https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/24/obama-is-set-to-campaign-with-democrats-in-ohio-and-michigan-as-he-ramps-up-midterm-efforts/stories/20261024071 https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/24/obama-is-set-to-campaign-with-democrats-in-ohio-and-michigan-as-he-ramps-up-midterm-efforts/stories/20261024071#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:51:22 GMT https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nation/2026/10/24/obama-is-set-to-campaign-with-democrats-in-ohio-and-michigan-as-he-ramps-up-midterm-efforts/stories/20261024071 Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seized on what he described as cruelty and indecency coming from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, stepping into one of the nation's ugliest midterm fights as he worked to rally Democratic voters in battleground Ohio. Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in 2024 in Clarkston, Ga. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks during a campaign rally at a coffee shop, Aug. 3, in Detroit. Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers, right, responds to Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed, during a televised debate at WOOD-TV, on Oct. 8 in Grand Rapids, Mich. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, attends a campaign rally before Vice President JD Vance speaks at the Sharonville Convention Center, Oct. 21 in Sharonville, Ohio.