Overperforming and Still Losing: What Tennessee’s Special Election Actually Shows

Democratic congressional candidate State Rep. Aftyn Behn, D-Nashville, attends a campaign event during the special election for the 7th district on Nov. 13, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV/AP Democrats have spent much of the past year pointing to “overperformance” in deep-red districts as evidence that their message is breaking through in Donald Trump

ICE launches surge in Minnesota as Trump pushes for crackdown on Somali immigrants

Federal immigration authorities this week began conducting enhanced operations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, a U.S. official told CBS News, targeting a region with a large population of the Somali immigrants President Trump often rails against.  The surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expected to target individuals in the Twin Cities area with deportation