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Harris and Trump deadlocked in Pa. and national polls as debate nears
WASHINGTON — A series of unprecedented upheavals over the last two months have not changed the contours of the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
As the two candidates prepare to meet in their first — and perhaps only — debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday, polls released Sunday of ...Read more
Trump leads Harris by a point in NYT-Siena College national poll
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris by a point in a new national poll by the New York Times and Siena College, as the U.S. election enters its final stretch.
The survey of 1,695 registered voters conducted Sept. 3-6 shows support for Trump at 48% against 47% for Harris, within the three-percentage ...Read more
Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom heads to New York to raise money for Harris -- then to Pennsylvania, where she'll debate Trump
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is heading east to headline a splashy big-dollar fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in New York before the vice president's first debate with former President Trump on Tuesday in Philadelphia, which he'll likely attend.
The governor will promote Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim ...Read more
Mail those ballots early: Election officials warn Virginia absentee voters about slow postal services
NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk’s elections czar is urging absentee voters to prioritize their mail-in ballots.
“You don’t want to wait until a week before the election and then decide to put it in the mail,” said Stephanie Iles, the city’s director of elections and general registrar. “There is a possibility that we might not get it in ...Read more
Veterans of Labour's big win flock across Atlantic to aid Harris
Just days after securing his party’s first election victory in almost two decades, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer got on a plane to Washington.
In the weeks since, a procession of his most senior advisers has followed in those footsteps, rushing to impart their winning strategy to the Democrats. Starmer’s team believes Kamala Harris’ ...Read more
Georgia officials brace for threats ahead of presidential election
ATLANTA — It wasn’t the profanity-laden bomb threat that spooked Paulding County Election Director Deidre Holden. That just made her mad.
Nor did the gravity of the threat sink in when a state election official urged her to take it seriously, or when her husband insisted on spending the day at her office to protect her.
Holden said the ...Read more
Falling pump prices blunt Trump's inflation attacks on Harris
WASHINGTON — Steadily falling gasoline prices are providing a tailwind for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the nation’s highest office as Donald Trump seeks to rile inflation-weary consumers by attacking her record on energy.
Retail gasoline prices have fallen to a six-month low in the U.S. and are only expected to fall ...Read more
Trump tells NC police event rising crime is 'brutal plague.' They say it's getting better
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump on Friday told members of the Fraternal Order of Police violent crime rates skyrocketed under the Biden administration, which contrasted with FOP’s endorsement hours earlier that cited lower crime rates.
Trump spoke in Charlotte for the FOP’s fall conference at the Hilton Charlotte ...Read more
LA real estate developer accused of 444 violations of campaign fundraising laws
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Ethics Commission has accused real estate developer Samuel Leung of committing 444 violations of the city’s campaign finance laws, including those that prohibit the laundering of campaign money.
The agency, in a filing released Friday, said it had determined that “probable cause exists” to believe that ...Read more
Trump pledges '100% tariff' for countries that shun the dollar
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump pledged on Saturday to make it too costly for countries to shift away from using the U.S. dollar, adding a new pillar to his tariff platform.
“You leave the dollar and you’re not doing business with the United States because we are going to put a 100% tariff on your goods,” the Republican presidential nominee ...Read more
Slotkin, Rogers set to face off in 2 Senate debates
DETROIT — Michigan U.S. Senate candidates Mike Rogers and Elissa Slotkin will face off in two debates in October, after Rogers' campaign said Friday that he agreed participate in a pair of televised debates next month in Detroit and Grand Rapids.
Slotkin, a Holly Democrat, had previously accepted the same invitations from WOOD-TV in Grand ...Read more
Trump, Harris eye Pennsylvania as main battleground of 2024
Pennsylvania is emerging as the top battleground in the White House race with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump increasingly focusing their attention and resources on the Keystone state.
The most populous of the swing states, Pennsylvania — with its 19 Electoral College votes — has drawn repeated visits from the candidates in recent weeks. And...Read more
How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11
As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the early morning of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta started hearing calls from the public to ban Arab Americans and Muslims from all flights – and even to round them up and detain them.
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Voters have made up their minds about Trump. They're still uncertain about Harris
WASHINGTON — “Who’s going to win?”
Anyone who writes about politics hears that question constantly. Let’s get it out of the way first: I don’t know; neither does anyone else.
With the campaign now in its final stretch, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a small lead over former President Donald Trump in most national polls (47%-44...Read more
Trump, Harris eye Pennsylvania as main battleground of 2024 race
Pennsylvania is emerging as the top battleground in the White House race with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump increasingly focusing their attention and resources on the Keystone state.
The most populous of the swing states, Pennsylvania — with its 19 Electoral College votes — has drawn repeated visits from the candidates in recent weeks. And...Read more
How someone becomes a torturer
Every day, thousands of people are tortured in police stations, security offices and prisons around the world. Human rights organizations protest torture and advocate for survivors, but neither they nor the public knows much about the torturers themselves.
Where do torturers come from? How can they do such terrible things? And most ...Read more
Editorial: Biden follows Harris's lead in fuel flip-flop
The Biden-Harris administration is many things, but steadfast on policy isn’t one of them.
When President Joe Biden ran in 2020, he caved to the Bernie Bros and let Sen. Bernie Sanders “Unity Task Force” influence his climate change agenda. Fossil fuels bad, pipelines must go, and green was the order of the day.
Vice President Kamala ...Read more
Here are Mitch McConnell's three biggest challenges this fall in Congress
WASHINGTON — Navigate a fight over the Save Act. Stave off a government shutdown. Win two Senate seats to hand Republicans control of the chamber in 2025.
Those are the top priorities of Mitch McConnell during his final two months as GOP leader, when Congress returns next week from its summer recess.
The 82-year-old McConnell will guide his ...Read more
Trump or Harris? For Putin, his preference isn't clear cut
Back in 2016, it was evident that Russian President Vladimir Putin was Team Trump. Top Kremlin officials cracked open champagne bottles in the early hours of Nov. 9 as the businessman-turned-politician emerged as the surprise victor in the U.S. election.
When it comes to determining where the Russian leader stands today, there is no easy answer...Read more
Commentary: Trump goes full revisionist on the economy
Listening to former President Donald Trump speak to the Economic Club of New York, you could be forgiven for thinking that the economy has been such a disaster since he left office that the stock market is in a perpetual free fall. And yet, the benchmark S&P 500 Index is up 64% since the 2020 election through Wednesday, topping the 60% gain at ...Read more
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