Firings underway at Office of Director of National Intelligence, source says ^66%

MS NOW - By Jake Traylor, Ebony Davis - 6/23/2026, 12:01 PM

Quote-first Misdirection 41.5% - Negativity Bias 38.7% - Appeal to Authority 23.4%

Workforce cuts at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence began Monday, a senior White House official told MS NOW, following plans by the office’s acting director to reduce staffing across the agency. The source was granted anonymity to discuss internal administration planning. In his June 10 announcement on Truth Social... more

U.S. and Iran say they have finally reached a deal, but details are still emerging ^40.6%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 6/14/2026, 11:34 PM

Negativity Bias 27.9% - Unattributed Quote 17.1% - Optimism Bias 16.8%

Iran and the United States reached a deal Sunday aimed at ending the Middle East war, according to President Donald Trump and Tehran’s deputy foreign minister, marking a major breakthrough after months of conflict and on-again, off-again negotiations. The statements from Trump and Tehran raised hopes for an end to fighting that has left... more

Senate Democrats warily eye new allegations about Platner ^68.2%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 6/5/2026, 2:53 AM

Negativity Bias 29.7% - Self-Serving Bias 19.7% - Special Pleading 16.1%

Senate Democrats are still digesting a report with new allegations surrounding a candidate running for Senate in Maine whom Democrats hope will help them recapture the majority come November. But at least one Democratic senator, who conceded she had yet to read The New York Times’ report on Graham Platner, is sick of talking about... more

‘Simply not true’: Platner denies some of new allegations on MS NOW ^28.5%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 6/5/2026, 1:27 AM

Self-Serving Bias 11.8% - Halo Effect 10.7% - Red Herring 9.1%

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner denied some of the new wave of allegations during an interview Thursday with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes, his first national interview following a New York Times report detailing his past relationships. The interview came hours after the Times report detailed accounts from several women who had been... more

Trump’s Saturday: LIV golf, punishing gas prices and radio silence from Iran ^67.3%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 5/9/2026, 10:46 PM

Negativity Bias 24.8% - Ad Hominem 15.7% - Framing Effect 13.9%

While President Donald Trump watched LIV golfers at his golf course outside Washington on Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House envoy Steve Witkoff met with Qatar’s prime minister in Miami amid a stalemate to end to the punishing war with Iran. Trump sat in the presidential suite at Trump National Golf Course in... more

Indiana Republicans defied Trump on gerrymandering. Today, they find out what it cost ^83.8%

MS NOW - By Hunter Woodall, Ebony Davis - 5/5/2026, 11:48 PM

Indiana Republicans who defied Donald Trump are fighting for their political lives Tuesday in a key measure of whether the president’s grip on his own party is starting to slip. The contests for state Senate seats in Indiana’s part-time legislature would ordinarily draw little national attention. But after a December vote in which a bloc... more

Appeals court overturns Roy Moore’s $8.2 million defamation award ^37.4%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 4/25/2026, 1:47 AM

Biased Writer Voice 40.3% - Negativity Bias 32.2% - Appeal to Emotion 27.3%

An appeals court on Friday overturned an $8.2 million defamation judgment won by Roy Moore, marking a significant reversal in a legal battle tied to misconduct allegations that have shadowed the former Alabama chief justice for years. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court decision that had awarded Moore damages in... more

Judge temporarily strikes down Virginia’s redistricting referendum ^5.9%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 4/22/2026, 11:51 PM

Representativeness Heuristic 11.9% - Framing Effect 10.5% - Optimism Bias 9.3%

A Virginia judge on Wednesday blocked the certification of a redistricting referendum that allows the state to redraw its congressional and legislative maps, less than 24 hours after voters approved the measure. The ruling, issued by Tazewell County Circuit Court, halts state officials from finalizing the results of the ballot measure,... more

Rep. Tony Gonzales says he plans to retire from Congress ^0%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 4/13/2026, 10:55 PM

Negativity Bias 23.4% - Availability Heuristic 19% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 13.3%

Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, announced Monday that he plans to retire from Congress, after facing mounting scrutiny over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct involving former staffers, including an affair with an aide who later died by suicide. “There is a season for everything and God has a plan for us all. When Congress returns... more

Former staffer accuses Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual assault, reports say ^0%

MS NOW - By Ebony Davis - 4/10/2026, 11:40 PM

Negativity Bias 29.2% - Appeal to Emotion 20.4% - Availability Heuristic 18.7%

A former staffer has accused Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, a current candidate for California governor, of reportedly sexually assaulting her. The allegations were first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. The woman, who has not been publicly identified and worked for Swalwell for nearly two years, alleged she had sexual encounters... more