The Day Harris Turned the Tables

A bevy of bad news prompted action from the leader—but not a full U-turn.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation from special session on California gas price spike.

In today's environment, the art of deception goes beyond face paint and camouflage.

Canadian officials expelled India’s top diplomat and five others in a dispute set off by the assassination of a Sikh separatist in British Columbia last year.

Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine, who disappeared along with George Mallory in 1924.

A North Carolina man has been arrested for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene.

A former star player for Ajax Amsterdam and the Netherlands became a major cocaine trafficker and has found refuge in the United Arab Emirates, where he continues to play.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday left Earth’s orbit again to serve up another word salad — this time while bringing up constellations to talk about crime, earning her the nickname “Galileo Harris.”

Two Democratic groups are launching a $2.5 million ad campaign that aims to put Republicans on the spot over reproductive access as the 2024 election comes down to the wire. Progress Action Fund and Defend the Vote are coordinating the multi-million-dollar ad campaign, which will showcase two ads depicting scenarios where a Republican lawmaker stops...

Legislative changes and the fallout from Hurricane Helene could make the experience look different for voters in the key swing states.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday left Earth’s orbit again to serve up another word salad — this time while bringing up constellations to talk about crime, earning her the nickname “Galileo Harris.”

Vice President Harris is headed to Detroit on Tuesday for the first of several Michigan appearances this week. She will be in Grand Rapids and Lansing on Friday and back in Detroit on Saturday. Her visits come as events in the Middle East careen even further out of control. This month alone, Israel has invaded...

An incumbent House Democrat from Connecticut is locked in a tight race for reelection against her Republican challenger, a new poll shows. The survey, released Tuesday from Emerson College Polling/WTNH/WCTX/The Hill, found Rep. Jahana Hayes (D) leading Republican George Logan by 3 points — 49 percent to 46 percent. Roughly 1 percent said they would...

In today’s issue: Vice President Harris insists she’s the underdog in the presidential race. This week, she’s campaigning that way. Underdogs, when hemmed in, take risks. And sitting for a Fox News interview Wednesday for the first time as a candidate is an offensive play by the Democratic nominee, who decided to be heard on...

How did Dejaune Anderson go from a loving mother to being accused of killing her infant son? After running off with Cairo, she got into mysticism and joined an apprenticeship program, according to her former friends.

The 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act was supposed to make it harder to overturn a presidential election. Here's why it's still possible.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who served in the Trump administration, said on Monday the public should take former President Trump “seriously” when he suggests using the military against American citizens. “Yes I do, of course,” Esper told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source,” when asked whether he fears Trump would “try to utilize...

Some components for the anti-ballistic THAAD battery system have arrived in Israel, the Pentagon said. The deployment deepens U.S. military involvement in the region.

An honorable discharge status unlocks access to critical benefits that some veterans may have been missing out on for decades.

The Noncitizen Voting Myth

Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris let his pro-migration border chief welcome hundreds of thousands of youth migrants, according to a report in TheFreePress.com.

Israel’s military campaign, largely concentrated in southern Lebanon, has reached the Bekaa Valley, where deadly airstrikes often come without warning.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban said on Monday he thinks business leaders fear “retribution” and “vengeance” from former President Trump and are therefore not criticizing the Republican nominee more in the public arena. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the “Shark Tank” cast member outlined the reasons he said business leaders should support...

More than half of adults list inflation as a top issue for the country, even as it has fallen in recent months.

After the former president described American citizens as “the enemy within,” Glenn Youngkin reveals his own complicity.

Many Palestinians are staying put as Israel’s military orders civilians to leave large parts of northern Gaza as it conducts an offensive against Hamas militants.

Alexei Moskalyov’s daughter Masha was waiting for him at the gates of the penal colony where he served a year and a half for “discrediting” the Russian army.

Vice President Harris and her campaign aides on Tuesday swiped at former President Trump after the Republican nominee cut short a town hall event in Pennsylvania to play songs from his playlist for the crowd. "Hope he's okay," Harris posted on the social platform X, responding to a post from her campaign that included a...

Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris let his pro-migration border chief welcome hundreds of thousands of youth migrants, according to a report in TheFreePress.com.

An independent journalist says he was visited by the FBI after he published materiel allegedly obtained through an Iranian hack of former President Trump’s campaign.  "The Bureau told me that I had been the target of a foreign influence operation with regard to a news article I had written, a clear reference to my publication of the...

The White House says Israel must do more to protect innocent Gazans as images show "what appear to be displaced civilians burning alive."

Two men who were injured during the shooting at former President Trump's rally in Pennsylvania in July are speaking out, claiming the Secret Service is responsible for "negligence" and the security flaws surrounding the assassination attempt. “I believe there was 100 percent negligence on the Secret Service, probably everybody involved in setting that security, down...

The Defense Department has issued honorable discharges to around 800 servicemembers who were separated from the military during the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that was repealed in 2011. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the Military Department Review Boards have issued honorable discharges in nearly 97 percent of 851 cases they...

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The first team of U.S. military personnel arrived in Israel on Monday to help with the installment and operation of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery, which aims to boost Israeli air defenses amid threats from Iran. Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a Tuesday statement that more U.S. servicemembers would...

Clinging to hegemony leads only to more costly interventions and strategic failures, as evidenced by recent decades of U.S. foreign policy.

Underneath the Treasury in Petra, Jordan, archaeologists found remains and a ceramic vessel some said looked similar to “the Holy Grail” depicted in “Indiana Jones.”

The state’s 12-week ban has already upended care. Anti-abortion leaders want to go further.

Scott Nover

Inside the most pro-Trump county of all the swing states

Just over a quarter — 28 percent — of students ruled out a school because of the politics, policies or legal situation in the college or university's state, according to a new poll from the Art and Science Group. Out of that group, about two-thirds decided to exclude certain schools at the beginning of their...

Walgreens announced Tuesday that it plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years as it looks to downsize.

How did Dejaune Anderson go from a loving mother to being accused of killing her infant son? After running off with Cairo, she got into mysticism and joined an apprenticeship program, according to her former friends.

Tax policy is set to take center stage after the election, as major portions of the tax code are due to expire by the end of 2025. Key portions of Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — his marquee 2017 tax-cut law — are set to expire in 2026, including reductions to personal income tax...

Television personality Geraldo Rivera questioned how any Latino voter with "self-respect" or "self-esteem" could vote for former President Trump in November, citing what Rivera labeled as "horrifying" rhetoric from Trump toward undocumented immigrants "The immigration reform bill that he did not embrace, rather he has chosen to become an absolute racist when it comes to speaking of particularly Latin,...

All her life, Rebecca Kimmel was told she was abandoned. But the baby in her adoption file was not her.

Without protective legislation, strong rules, cybercops, better security and tech-literate users, it seems inevitable that we wake one day to zero balances.

At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

Democrats this week slammed Republicans for attempting to obstruct voting for military servicemembers after some GOP lawmakers filed lawsuits targeting overseas voters. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), an Army veteran who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin along with five other Democrats raising concerns about six Republicans...

Former President Trump is leading his Vice President Harris, by 1 point in a head-to-head matchup in the battleground state of Michigan just three weeks before Election Day, according to a new survey. The AARP poll, released Tuesday, shows Trump edging out his Democratic rival by 49 percent to 48 percent in the Great Lakes...

Kamala Harris took the opportunity to mock Trump's behavior on Tuesday, tweeting, “I hope he’s okay.”

The administration is urging Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or risk a cut to arms sales, the starkest threat by the U.S. since the war began last year.

The Biden administration is reportedly telling Israeli officials to take immediate measures to address the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip or risk cutting off access to key U.S. military assistance. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin wrote to senior Israeli officials warning that continued U.S. military assistance is in...

A cop has been killed and four others were left wounded after a terrorist attack took place in central Israel on Tuesday.

When Israel began its war on Gaza, it initially felt pressure to deny responsibility for attacks on hospitals and refugee camps. A year of unflinching support from the US has convinced Benjamin Netanyahu that he no longer has any such need to pretend.

However the Richard Glossip case comes out, Wednesday’s proceeding offered a chilling reminder that Justices Thomas and Alito want to undo our constitutional tradition of protecting those who are wronged by the law.

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Officials in Brazil’s well-regarded public health system are scrambling to explain this week how six transplant patients received organs infected with HIV.

Former President Trump on Tuesday clashed with the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News during an economic forum in Chicago over the GOP nominee’s insistence that tariffs would not have negative consequences in a possible second term. Bloomberg’s top editor, John Micklethwait, repeatedly pressed Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago over his plans to impose a...

Lebanon's Prime Minister has expressed readiness to implement UN Security Council resolutions that would end Hezbollah as an armed force. Israel's offensive against the Iran-backed group has been successful, and the international community should support this effort.

More Americans think the economy would fare better under former President Trump than Vice President Harris in a new survey, even as many economists say they expect higher inflation and slower growth under Trump. In a survey released by Bankrate on Tuesday, 42 percent of Americans said Trump would be a better choice for their...

Why does a French saint from 800 years ago still resonate with young women today?

Aaron Rogers can’t wait to be back on the field with Davante Adams as his teammate again.

Jack Hamilton

There are about 95 election-related lawsuits filed in seven battleground states, according to a website that tracks election cases.

Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden are not on speaking terms.

Ryan Lizza has wholly denied allegations of blackmail while claiming that RFK Jr. told his former fiancé he wanted to “possess,” “control,” and “impregnate” her.

The UN Human Rights Council has elected some of the world's most oppressive regimes, including Qatar, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia, to its membership, leading to a mockery of its core principles and an absence of condemnatory resolutions against human rights violators.

The vice president spends a fair amount of time at her Brentwood home, generating increased traffic and other minor headaches. Could it get worse if she becomes president?

The vice president spends a fair amount of time at her Brentwood home, generating increased traffic and other minor headaches. Could it get worse if she becomes president?

Former President Trump blasted the Wall Street Journal and other prognosticators in the financial sector who have predicted his economic plans will have a negative impact on the country's financial future. “You said, President Trump, at the moment there was a thing called the Trump trade in the markets. Do you know what that is?"...

Journalist Olivia Nuzzi claimed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted to “possess,” “control” and “impregnate” her during their sexting tryst, according to an explosive court filing by Nuzzi’s ex Ryan Lizza.

Former President Trump on Tuesday sat down with the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News for an expansive and at-times confrontational interview. The former president clashed with Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait over the impacts of tariffs, which Trump has pledged to use aggressively if elected in November, and over the events following the 2020 election. The interview was...

Walgreens says about a quarter of its stores are unprofitable. Big pharmacy chains are struggling with growing retail competition and lower prescription payouts.

Since care for abortion and pregnancy loss is the same, restrictions on one have had disastrous impacts on the other.

Mark Joseph Stern

A Georgia judge must decide whether to squash new state election rules, including a controversial change requiring hand-counted verification of ballots, in the final weeks before November’s election. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney heard arguments Tuesday over six new rules instituted by Georgia’s State Election Board, which lawyers for Cobb County’s election board said...

Election Day is just three weeks away. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their pitches to voters across the country.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Harris's running mate, is campaigning Tuesday evening in Pittsburgh, as the White House race enters its final stretch. The vice presidential hopeful gave remarks focused on reaching rural voters from Valmont, Pa., earlier Tuesday. The trip marks Walz's third visit to the city — which is also where Harris...

Kamala Harris Promotes Federal Pot Legalization As a Boon to Black Men

The Advocate, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ-focused publication, on Tuesday endorsed Vice President Harris for president. “Harris, the Democratic nominee, is exponentially better on every issue than her Republican opponent, Donald Trump — issues including reproductive freedom, the economy, and climate change. But our endorsement focuses on her LGBTQ+ rights record, which is stellar, and what...

Vice President Harris is leaning into her time as a prosecutor and her law enforcement background in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. Harris has sought to appeal to undecided voters in key swing states by touting her prosecutorial chops. Last week, in an interview on CBS’s "60 Minutes," Harris discussed being a gun...

The U.S.'s warning to Israel to allow more food, water and other humanitarian assistance to Palestinians comes amid a drop in supplies flowing into Gaza.

Inside the most pro-Trump county of all the swing states

Inside the most pro-Trump county of all the swing states

Sinema (I-Ariz.) spent roughly $216,000 on expenses related to travel — including trips to Japan and France — and another $152,000 on security between July 1 and Sept. 30.

Thousands of Boeing employees will be given their pink slips within the next few weeks, multiple union and industry sources claimed.

Vice President Kamala Harris raised doubts on Tuesday about whether November’s election will be “free and fair.”

When Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs went to confront the strength and conditioning coach over his son’s treatment on the UCLA football team in 2015, the conversation escalated into a brawl that involved not only the coach but other staff members.

The popular radio host tried repeatedly — and with little success — to knock Harris off her talking points during the hourlong interview.

This Reporter Was Arrested for Asking Questions. The Supreme Court Just Revived Her Lawsuit.

Kamala Harris’ campaign immediately honed in on Trump’s comments on Tuesday.

Massachusetts may become the third state to legalize psychedelics. But the industry faces hurdles cannabis never did. Here's why this is not weed 2.0

President Joe Biden suggested Tuesday that he is looking forward to seeing former President Donald Trump imprisoned — right after Vice President Kamala Harris warned that Trump would prosecute his opponents.

Harris’ town hall with the influential radio host came at a crucial moment in the campaign, as polls show her struggling to cement the level of support she may need from Black men to win the White House.

NC Gov. Roy Cooper says 81 people missing in western part of state after Helene. He also accused Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of pushing disinformation.