31.10.2024 — The Garbage Truck Rally

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Vice President Harris is holding a campaign rally in the critical swing state of Wisconsin on Wednesday evening, featuring musical guests Mumford & Sons. Artists Gracie Abrams and The National's Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner will also be in attendance in Madison, according to a campaign release. The rally is the latest in a list of...

The Biden administration has asked Israel to explain what it called a “horrifying” attack on Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, that resulted in heavy civilian losses.

The Yankees slugger — finally, mercifully — hit his first home run of the World Series, going deep off of Jack Flaherty in the bottom of the first inning of Game 5.

Former President Donald Trump sent a message to Vice President Kamala Harris by riding in a garbage truck to his Wisconsin rally on Wednesday evening.

Former President Donald Trump climbed into a white garbage truck that carried his name as he tried to draw attention to a comment made by President Joe Biden a day earlier.

The White House on Wednesday warned North Korea "needlessly" raised tensions with the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. A spokesperson for the national security council said the United States "strongly condemns" the test launch out of North Korea, calling it a "flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions." Sean Savett said in...

Actress Jennifer Aniston said she voted for Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), in a post on Instagram on Tuesday. “Today not only did I vote for access to health care, for reproductive freedom, for equal rights, for safe schools, and for a fair economy, but also for SANITY...

Former President Trump said Wednesday that his advisers had counseled him against describing himself as a "protector" for women, a phrase he used in late September as he sought to make up ground with female voters and repeated again at a Wisconsin rally. "My people told me about four weeks ago, I would say, 'No,...

The missile launch came just hours after the United States and South Korea condemned Pyongyang’s deployment of troops to Russia to aid Moscow’s war effort.

Former President Bill Clinton said the “economy was better” under former President Donald Trump during a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, adding that people should still vote for Harris.

YIKES: TRUMP NEARLY BITES IT PLAYING GARBAGE MAN

The country’s armed forces are ill-equipped to secure its borders and push aside Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group that is now battling Israel.

Dodgers win World Series in five games with a thrilling come-from-behind victory at Yankee Stadium.

Rats the size of cats are sniffing out illegal wildlife products

The Los Angeles Dodgers rallied back from 5-0 and 6-5 deficits at Yankee Stadium to earn the 8th championship in franchise history.

Dodgers rally from an early five-run deficit to beat the Yankees 7-6 and secure their first full-season championship since 1988. It’s the eighth championship in franchise history.

Los Angeles Dodgers win 8th World Series title after defeating New York Yankees in wild Game 5

Why this small city is the ‘eyeglasses capital’ of Japan

Kim Jong Un said a long-range missile launch sends a message to rivals ahead of a U.S. election that could reshape Washington’s policy toward Pyongyang.

The storm, said to be the largest typhoon to hit Taiwan in 30 years, had caused damage even before making landfall in the country’s southeast.

Bullet-proof glass and fencing topped with barbed wire are some of the ways election officials have fortified their operations against a repeat of the chaos of 2020.

See how China has spent tens of billions of dollars turning farm fields and seaports into military complexes in the South China Sea.

Few elections in the nation’s history have provided such a divide as this year’s, with the two major candidates and so many of their supporters saying the outcome will determine the fate of the country and whether it can hold to its democratic moorings.

Nitish Pahwa

Los Angeles Dodgers win 8th World Series title after defeating New York Yankees in wild Game 5

China is defying pressure to set ambitious climate targets early and to help poor nations cope with the ravages of a warming world.

In today’s issue: Americans still believe the economy, or at least their finances, are a wreck. Former President Trump while campaigning Wednesday called the economy “a disaster” and promised that if he’s elected, “we will rapidly defeat inflation.” But experts at the Commerce Department reported Wednesday that the U.S. economy grew at a brisk clip...

Polls suggest the Nov. 5 election is so close it won't come down just to the battleground states but to specific counties within them.

Polls suggest the Nov. 5 election is so close it won't come down just to the battleground states but to specific counties within them.

The Yankees lost because stars Cole and Aaron Judge were both G-O-A-Ts and goats in this clincher. Because they had a fifth inning that boggled the mind for ineptitude — except if you watched the Yankees all year.

Kim Jong Un said his regime will never stop “strengthening its nuclear force,” amid widespread criticism of his decision to send troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The danger level may rise on Nov. 5 when the polls close and the counting begins.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) gushed over Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday night applauding him as the very model of modern masculinity at a campaign event for his wife Kamala Harris.

Dodgers rally from an early five-run deficit to beat the Yankees 7-6 and secure their first full-season championship since 1988. It’s the eighth championship in franchise history.

A look at Trump’s ideas for a key Justice Department division uncovers the potentially disastrous consequences of his assault on democracy.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) suggested Wednesday that gender is no longer a “big darn deal” as the race between Vice President Harris and former President Trump winds down. “I personally don't think that gender is such a big darn deal in this race,” Palin said on NewsNation’s “CUOMO” during a pre-election town hall...

One hub for rumors and conspiracies about voting is X, the social media site once known as Twitter. There, users are floating unverified and false claims about voting that can quickly go viral.

The Post is stiffly wandering around with a smug facade of elitism, not realizing the power and influence it formerly possessed have been deeply — and likely irreparably — eroded.

Americans have turned out in record numbers to cast their ballots early in the general election, with more than half of the country’s registered voters having already voted or planning to vote before Election Day, according to a Thursday poll released by Gallup.  This year 54 percent of registered voters are headed to the polls...

Voters aren’t buying it; they see democracy — a term so vague its projected disappearance is hard to imagine — as immaterial, and Trump’s threats to it implausible.

Nitish Pahwa

The Illinois native jumped from family farm to mechanical engineering and then led a ‘Manhattan Project’ of finance.

Announcement from: Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief  Hey everyone, As we get ready for Election Night 2024, I wanted to share with you a few updates on our coverage plans. The Hill's website will host live coverage of the election throughout the night, with up-to-the-minute results in partnership with Decision Desk HQ, informative maps showing the battles for the...

Deporting immigrants takes effort and money. These would companies stand to benefit from Trump's ramp-up.

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An illustrated celebration of love at Taiwan Pride.

A New York woman who allegedly pepper-sprayed a Muslim Uber driver while he was praying was hit with hate crime charges, according to officials. Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, was indicted Monday in the New York State Supreme Court after using pepper spray on the 45-year-old man on the Upper East Side in July this year, the...

With so much on the line and so little time left, Harris should not hesitate to explain how she plans to plot her own course and change directions.

At least 158 people have died, and others are still missing, though how many remains unclear. Rescuers feared finding more bodies, the defense minister said.

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Cardi B will be showing "Up" for Vice President Harris's campaign, delivering remarks at a Friday rally in battleground Wisconsin. The "Money" rapper will speak at the "When We Vote We Win" concert event in Milwaukee, Harris's campaign announced Thursday. The rally is also poised to include performances by GloRilla, MC Lyte, The Isley Brothers,...

When Elon Musk closed on what looked like a massive overpay for Twitter, I scoffed along with everyone else. What we all failed to see was the savviness of Musk’s purchase and, more importantly, his true endgame (as much as Musk could be said to have one). In terms of bluntly inserting himself into...

With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights.

See the peculiar ‘googly eye’ the Perseverance rover captured on Mars

House Republicans have referred former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to the Justice Department for criminal charges, alleging he lied to the panel about his knowledge of a state health department report that was used to deflect criticism of his administration’s pandemic-era nursing home policies.  Cuomo told members of the House panel investigating the...

Republican strategist Karl Rove argued that “fence-sitters” that fall into three categories will decide whether former President Trump or Vice President Harris will win the 2024 presidential election. Rove said that Americans, outside of third-party voters, who have not decided who they are going to vote for are divided into three groups. The first being...

{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Thursday. Happy Halloweeeeen! 🎃 TBH, this upcoming election is scary and spooky enough for me. Here's what’s happening today: Trump is stoking misleading election fraud claims in Pennsylvania. Election officials say it's secure, though. Trump put on an orange vest and hopped into a MAGA-themed garbage truck on Wednesday, and no,...

Jimmy Kimmel took to the publicly funded airwaves Wednesday to urge Trump supporters to vote late, like next week Thursday or Friday.

The Backstreet Boys, Blake Shelton, Brittany Spencer, Cedric the Entertainer and other artists are teaming up for a performance dedicated to raising funds for Hurricane Helene and Milton response efforts. The performances will be broadcasted on Saturday night on CBS and CMT, and streamed on Paramount+ with Showtime.  United Way Worldwide and Paramount Global partnered...

The New York mom who jumped to her death at Niagara Falls with her baby and young son wrote a series of harrowing posts detailing her heartbreak at splitting from her baby daddy. Chianti Means, 33, wrote the Facebook posts under the name Diamond…

Israel attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital, Gaza authorities said. White House officials Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk are in Israel to meet with top leaders.

At least 158 people have died after torrential rainfall turned into a natural disaster in Valencia, Spain.

Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise the Trump campaign’s alternate electors strategy in 2020, has been suspended from practicing law in New York following his conviction for a "serious crime." A panel of judges on the Appellate Division — New York’s midlevel appeals court — ruled Thursday that Chesebro is barred from practicing law in the...

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final pushes in key states in the race’s closing days.

Older homes are the only ones many Americans can afford, but they are costly to fix and maintain, especially for seniors. A patchwork of programs to help are underfunded and have years-long waitlists.

Dave Smith, David Stockman, and Jacob Grier: Who Is The Lesser Evil?

‘Come up here and say that’: Radiohead singer walks off stage after concertgoer starts shouting about Gaza

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban claimed Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that you never see former President Donald Trump around “strong, intelligent women.”

Republicans on the House Education Committee on Thursday released their report regarding antisemitism on college campuses after a nearly yearlong investigation that played a part in at least two university presidents resigning from their roles.   The probe collected more than 400,000 documents from 11 schools across the country in the wake of Hamas's Oct....

The “Shark Tank” co-host’s insult triggered a fierce backlash from Trump’s campaign and his female allies.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is failing to serve the urgent needs of U.S. veterans due to chronic understaffing, long waits for health care, a six-figure backlog of benefit claims, and an over-reliance on medication instead of more innovative treatments.

More than 150 people were killed in unprecedented floods in the Valencia region of Spain.

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Harris, Trump pull out all the stops Vice President Harris and former President Trump are making their final strides ahead of Election Day this weekend, circling back through the key battlegrounds most likely to decide who will be the next...

Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, accusing the two of deceiving the public about the environmental impact and recyclable nature of their containers, as well as of contaminating the most populated county in the United States with plastic bottles.

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Businessman Mark Cuban claimed that former President Trump does not surround himself with "strong, intelligent" women, alleging that the former president "doesn't like to be challenged" by them. "Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever. It's just that simple, they're intimidating to him. He doesn't like to be challenged by them,"...

The British government settled for an undisclosed amount with the mother of a nine-year-old girl who was the first to have “air pollution” on her death certificate.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said local police are on “alert” after looting and violence across the city following the Los Angeles Dodgers World Series win. “As we celebrate this achievement tonight and in the coming days, violence will not be tolerated. LAPD is currently on tactical alert and has activated a strategic plan to...

Donald Trump's and Kamala Harris' offshore betting odds of winning the 2024 election continue to move differently from what recent polls show.

Vice President Harris leads former President Trump in the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania while she trails him in North Carolina, according to a new set of surveys released on Thursday. In the new polls, from UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion and YouGov, Harris is ahead of Trump by 4 points, 49 percent...

Vice President Harris and former President Trump are locked in a tight race for the White House, offering starkly different views for the future of the country. However, their stances on tech policy — from antitrust enforcement to artificial intelligence to cryptocurrency — have occasionally overlapped. When asked to comment on their policy...

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris remain in a razor-thin race to claim up-for-grabs swing states that could solidify a victory.

New billboards are going up in Pennsylvania and North Carolina on Thursday, stoking Puerto Ricans’ pride in their island to shore up support for Vice President Harris. The billboards, paid for by Voto Latino and the Oakland Corps, feature images of Puerto Rico landmarks and beaches with the caption, “This isn’t garbage. And neither are...

More than 5,000 structures have been affected in border villages, including at least nine religious sites demolished in controlled explosions, a Post analysis found.

The Story About THC-Laced Halloween Candy Shifts From Malevolent Strangers to Careless Parents

Louisiana healthcare workers and advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a recently passed state law re-classifying two drugs used in medication abortions — mifepristone and misoprostol — as controlled and dangerous substances.   The lawsuit was filed in Louisiana’s 19th Judicial District Court and is seeking an injunction to stop the state from enforcing Act...

🎧 Plus: JD Vance does Joe Rogan's podcast {beacon} Evening Report   © Associated Press 5 days: Trump, Harris criss-cross battlegrounds Former President Trump and Vice President Harris are shadowing one another across the battleground states with five days to go before the polls close on the 2024 election. In focus for both campaigns...

The Trump campaign and Republican officials have highlighted sometimes routine election administration decisions as proof that Trump is being attacked.

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Billionaires with business interests riding on election For billionaires who have funneled tens of millions of dollars into the 2024 election or made key decisions affecting the race, there's a lot riding on the outcome. ©...

An off-duty officer has been arrested in connection to a shooting that took place at an Ohio elementary school parking lot.

U.S. officials condemned Pyongyang’s launch of a powerful new ballistic missile and called on China to reign in North Korea’s cooperation with Russia.

Miriam Adelson, who owns a majority stake in the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, announced that she has donated $100 million to her Preserve America PAC in support of former President Donald Trump, according to Front Office Sports.

Authorities tightened security in an apparent attempt at avoiding howls of defiance.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final pushes in key states in the race’s closing days.

Former President Trump is set to make a final pitch to voters in the swing state of Nevada Thursday evening. During the visit to the Silver State, the former president will target Vice President Harris over inflation, interest rates and housing prices, according to the campaign — and issue a vow to "Make America Affordable...

Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Where Harris and Trump stand on tech Former President Trump and Vice President Harris may offer starkly different views for the future of the country, but the two have occasionally overlapped on tech policy. © AP Photo With just days to go...

Donald Trump’s election could allow the GOP to gut Medicaid and protections for preexisting conditions.

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James endorsed Vice President Harris in the 2024 White House race, saying “the choice is clear to me.”  The four-time NBA champion announced his support for the Democratic nominee by sharing a video on Thursday. It features former President Trump’s past comments where he used demeaning language when talking about...

Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance responded to Mark Cuban’s statement on The View that Donald Trump is never around “strong, intelligent women.”

A federal judge on Thursday refused the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) request to send its challenge to North Carolina’s absentee ballot guidance back to state court, likely ending the prospect of any changes for this year’s election. U.S. District Judge Richard Myers in a two-page ruling said the state board of elections properly removed the...

Former President Donald Trump tried to seize on the "garbage" comments at a truck in Wisconsin while Vice President Harris will have a campaign event with J.Lo in Las Vegas.

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Oil and gas tycoons open wallets for Trump The executives made significant contributions supporting former President Trump's campaign after the GOP nominee asked the industry for $1 billion to support his reelection bid. © Illustration / Courtney Jones; Alex Brandon and Carlos Osorio, Associated...

Fleeing the Lebanese city of Baalbek ahead of Israeli airstrikes, thousands find shelter — but not necessarily peace of mind — in Deir al-Ahmar.

Vice President Harris shared what her late mother would tell her to do in her fight against former President Trump during the final days of the 2024 presidential election.  “Just go beat him,” Harris said during her Thursday interview with NBC News. “That’s probably what she’d say. Yeah, that’s my mother.”  The Democratic nominee spoke...