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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are preparing for their first debate in Philly. Here's what's at stake.

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PHILADELPHIA — The spotlight aimed at Pennsylvania is going to need a new bulb soon.

Tuesday's debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris at 9 p.m. at the National Constitution Center will become the latest high-stakes moment in an unprecedented presidential campaign playing out in Pennsylvania.

The impact ...Read more

Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS

Commentary: Harris has an advantage over Trump -- Being a woman

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is downplaying the fact that, if elected, she’ll be the first woman president. On the other hand, her opponent, Donald Trump, has tried repeatedly reminding voters of this fact by leveling gendered insults at her.

Both campaigns are probably taking these approaches for the same reason: Hillary Clinton ...Read more

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Editorial: Stumped by Trump on the stump: A candidate's coherence matters

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At an appearance at the Economic Club of New York Thursday, Donald Trump confounded listeners and produced plenty of mockery with a long, rambling and fundamentally unintelligible answer to a simple question about whether he’d support legislation to bring child care costs down under control.

Over nearly 400 words of stream of consciousness, ...Read more

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images North America/TNS

Editorial: Trump gets another break: Justice Juan Merchan put off the hush money sentencing to after the election

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In a four-page letter on Friday, Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan explained his reasoning in postponing Donald Trump’s sentencing for his 34 felony convictions in the Stormy Daniels hush money case until late November, after the election.

Merchan pointed to the need for analysis on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court...Read more

Chris Kleponis/Getty Images of North America/TNS

Congress faces another government shutdown deadline

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WASHINGTON — Election years usually mean a light fall schedule for Congress, but yet another a deadline to fund the federal government creates one of the few must-do items on the agenda.

Legislators return today after a six-week summer break. The new fiscal year on begins Oct. 1, but Congress has failed to pass long-term spending bills with ...Read more

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Fall legislative preview: Congress returns for busy fall session

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WASHINGTON — With the political conventions in the rearview mirror, Congress returns this week facing the traditional election year push and pull of members wanting to get out of Washington as quickly as possible while doing just enough to avoid a government shutdown.

House conservatives have been agitating about attaching a noncitizen voting...Read more

Is it time to retire the ‘Arab-Israeli conflict’? Hostilities now extend beyond those boundaries

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The current phase of fighting in the Middle East began almost a year ago, with the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas and the subsequent pummeling of Gaza by Israel. But to many academics, foreign policy experts and international observers, what is taking place is also the latest episode in the decadeslong conflict commonly referred to as the “...Read more

Neutral news sources could exploit today’s polarized mediascape to boost revenue − here’s why they may choose not to

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Even news outlets perceived as politically neutral can benefit from today’s polarized media environment.

The past decade has seen a surge in partisan online news sites that patently skew toward one side of the American political spectrum, from the right-leaning Blaze Media to the openly liberal Axios. Money is a primary driver of ...Read more

How Russia employs ‘hard soft power’ to influence overseas media and sow dissent and fear among foreign populations

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Public diplomacy – the art of rallying a foreign audience behind a nation’s interests – used to be about attracting support through charm, values and cultural exports. It is what political scientist Joseph Nye first referred to as “soft power.”

But our peer-reviewed study of Russian attempts to use foreign media as a ...Read more

Politicians often warn of American decline – and voters often buy it

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Presidential candidates talk about national decline while campaigning. A lot. This was front and center during the June 2024 debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

“Throughout the entire world, we’re no longer respected as a country,” Trump said, as he has repeatedly.

Trump continued by ...Read more

How Democrats are making a mistake in rural America – by not showing up

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Rickey Cole, 58, is a farmer and the former two-term chair of Mississippi’s Democratic Party. If anyone understands rural Mississippi voters – and their shift from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party – it’s Cole.

“You learn from losing,” the lifelong Democrat said.

He should hope so.

In 2001, when ...Read more

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Commentary: Election predictions are too noisy to tell if Trump or Harris wins

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What is the probability that Donald Trump will win the 2024 presidential election?

Assuming you’re not a super-forecaster with access to inside information and a dedicated staff of researchers, you’ll likely rely on experts and prices from election betting markets. Most show a race close to even, with prediction markets mostly having Trump ...Read more

Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS

A new frontier? How Alaska's elections could show what's to come for Nevada's

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Evergreens and aspens cover the luscious mountainscapes, and clouds settle heavy over Cook Inlet. The hum of float planes can be heard overhead as Alaskans travel to the remote wilderness, while locals drive to work.

Though at a smaller scale than the crowds who flock to the glittering lights and jingling slot machines of ...Read more

Robin Buckson/The Detroit News/TNS

Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate this week elevates stakes of Pennsylvania voting

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WASHINGTON — When Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump take the stage Tuesday for their first — and perhaps only — presidential debate, the stakes will be enormously high.

With just eight weeks to election day and early voting in Pennsylvania beginning Sept. 16, there's little time for either candidate to recover...Read more

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Tanzania president orders probe into pre-election abductions

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Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan ordered a probe into abductions of political figures and government critics ahead of upcoming elections in the East African nation.

The investigation follows the abduction and murder of a senior member of the main opposition Chadema party, Ally Mohamed Kibao.

“I have ordered investigative agencies...Read more

Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Harris and Trump deadlocked in Pa. and national polls as debate nears

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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

Hyosub Shin/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS

Trump leads Harris by a point in NYT-Siena College national poll

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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

Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom heads to New York to raise money for Harris -- then to Pennsylvania, where she'll debate Trump

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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

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Mail those ballots early: Election officials warn Virginia absentee voters about slow postal services

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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

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Veterans of Labour's big win flock across Atlantic to aid Harris

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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

 

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