Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton (D) was reportedly attacked at a campaign event on Sunday, WLWT reports.
According to a statement put out by Acton’s campaign, an armed individual lunged at Acton while she was at the Canfield Fair in Mahoning County, resulting in the injuries of multiple people who were nearby.
“A Kentucky judge ordered former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) to serve 60 days in jail without bond on a contempt charge out of Jefferson County,” WDRB reports.
Ohio congressional candidate Brian Poindexter (D) “was arrested for allegedly swallowing a rock of crack cocaine at a traffic stop after he was stopped by police” in 1998, according to police records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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“Kalshi is conducting ongoing investigations into other political figures who may have conducted insider trading after suspending four yesterday,” Semafor reports.
“A federal judge on Friday rejected an effort by President Donald Trump to transfer to federal court the New York state criminal hush money case that ended with his conviction,” CNBC reports.
“A federal appeals court is allowing two federal assault charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) stemming from an oversight visit to Delaney Hall Detention Facility to move forward, finding she does not have legislative immunity from the charges,” MS NOW reports.
“Billionaire Elon Musk will not face charges for promising Wisconsin voters $1 million checks during last year’s state Supreme Court election,” NOTUS reports.
“A Missouri judge has issued an arrest warrant for three-time presidential candidate Jill Stein after she skipped a scheduled Monday court appearance in connection with her alleged assault on a police officer at an April 2024 anti-Israel college protest,” the New York Post reports.
NBC News: “For more than a year, Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton has been probing what he says is the large number of noncitizens who illegally voted in his state. So far, three people have been prosecuted.”
“And among 53 cases that were referred for investigation, at least five people were listed as American citizens in previous court records.”
“U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Friday announced the arrest of a suspect who allegedly vandalized the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. saying in a post on social media that her office filed two felony charges against a woman, with a penalty of ‘up to ten years in prison,'” ABC News reports.
“A memorial in Washington DC for the second world war was vandalized with bubbly soap and graffiti on Thursday, prompting vows from the U.S. government to find the perpetrator,” The Guardian reports.
“The fountain bubbled over with suds and someone painted ‘Clean hands Dirty $’ on one surface, splattering the area with red and green paint.”
“President Donald Trump is headed to the Nassau County Police Academy in New York Friday to tout new FBI statistics showing a historic decline in crime nationwide,” NewsNation reports.
“The FBI 2025 crime report, expected to be released Friday, is projected to show a significant drop in violent crime. According to reports, the data could show the largest year-to-year decrease in violent crime on record.”
“Hugh Hefner reportedly notified the FBI that a Playboy Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and others in his orbit,” NewsNation reports.
“Court records state that Hefner was told by then-Playboy Playmate Audra Christiansen in 2005 that she was an Epstein survivor and requested the Playboy founder call the FBI, arguing he would have more status than her with the authorities.”
“Hefner allegedly called the FBI several times with the tip, who didn’t investigate the claim for 15 years, according to court documents.”
“A former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist groups, one of whom she was allegedly living with and had a romantic relationship with at the time,” CNN reports.
“Violent crime kept falling across many of the nation’s largest cities through June, with homicides down 17.2% from the first half of 2025, according to preliminary data reviewed by Axios,” Axios reports.
“The decline now spans two presidencies — it began falling under President Biden after the pandemic-era surge, and has kept dropping under President Trump.”
“Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child,” Denver Post reports.
“Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County and was released from the county’s jail on Sunday, jail records show. Court records indicate he was arrested on suspicion of five felonies, apparently related to an alleged incident in early 2024, when Boebert was 18.”
“His charges include sexual exploitation of a child and child exploitation with intent to ‘deal in, sell or distribute… any sexually exploitative material,’ as well as a third charge that relates to videotaped material.”
“The Trump administration is offering grants of tens of millions of dollars to cities across the U.S. to create more Memphis-style enforcement surges – on the condition that they abandon progressive ideologies on policing,” The Guardian reports.
“President Trump on Saturday posted photos of alleged vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool amid a push for Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, to revisit a recent decision to drop charges related to the pool,” NewsNation reports.
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Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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