Former President Trump is enjoying a small but measurable shot of momentum as the race for the White House enters its closing stretch. Polls have been edging in Trump's direction since Vice President Harris hit her two high points — around the Democratic National Convention in late August and following her first and only debate with Trump on Sept. 10. |
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BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
FREEPORT, N.Y. — A top House Democrat said this week that if the party wins the majority, its first priority in the next Congress will be election integrity — an issue that's been front-and-center throughout a campaign in which former President Trump has floated baseless claims of voter fraud and laid the groundwork to challenge the results if he loses.
In a sit-down interview with The Hill on the campaign trail on Long Island, Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the Democratic whip, laid out the contours of an ambitious legislative agenda if Democrats seize the gavel next year, including restoring legal protections for abortion access that were eliminated by the Supreme Court in 2022. |
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Northern New Mexico Indigenous communities and environmental groups are calling for the reconsideration of federal plans to run a new transmission line through an ecosystem they say is both vulnerable and critical to local tradition.
The plans, proposed by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy, involve the construction of a 14-mile, 115-kilovolt line that would boost power reliability and redundancy for supercomputing and other projects at the Los Alamos National Labs (LANL). |
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"American Psycho," screamed the banner headline on the Drudge Report this week underneath a photo of former President Trump swaying back and forth listening to music at a town hall in Pennsylvania, an episode that was widely panned by his critics. Such mockery of the former president on the buzzy, conservative Drudge page would have been unthinkable in previous election cycles. But blistering attacks on Trump and other MAGA stars has today become regular practice for Matt Drudge, known widely for his sensational headlines, oddball stories and attacks that have historically leaned against Democrats and liberals. |
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Republican challenger Eric Hovde squared off on a debate stage Friday evening in Madison in a fiery exchange of attacks that showed how intense this race has become after largely flying under the radar for months. Hovde wasn't as highly touted a Senate Republican candidate as some others trying to knock off Democratic incumbents, but the race in Wisconsin has become extremely tight in recent weeks, mirroring the small margin of difference between Vice President Harris and former President Trump in recent state-wide polls. |
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Raytheon Co., part of parent defense contractor RTX, will pay more than $950 million to resolve Justice Department allegations that it defrauded the Defense Department (DOD) and paid bribes to a government official in Qatar to get business in the country. The company is accused of "a major government fraud scheme involving defective pricing on certain government contracts and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Arms Export Control Act," according to a statement from the Department of Justice (DOJ). |
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Singer Cher shared her endorsement of Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), on social media Friday night, saying she's been a follower of Harris's for years. "I have followed Kamala Harris since she was my U.S. senator," the "Believe" singer said in a video posted to X. "She fought for me then and she is fighting for all of us now. That's why I'm proudly voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. |
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Former President Trump said he would not pay the company that rented his campaign equipment after his microphone went silent for about 20 minutes at a rally in Detroit. Trump was in the midst of speaking about his tariff policy at the event on Friday, about to call it "the most beautiful word in the dictionary," before the microphone went down. Someone handed the former president another microphone to try, but it didn't work either. |
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The shooter responsible for two deaths and multiple injuries at an Iowa high school earlier this year "likely displayed warning signs" according to a detailed report from state officials released Friday. Seventeen-year-old Dylan Butler, a student at Perry High School, went to class with a pump action shotgun, revolver, knife and an improvised explosive device on Jan. 4. He used the guns to open fire on his classmates and teachers before taking his own life. |
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OPINION | With consecutive devastating hurricanes hitting Florida early this fall season, and a new normal of storm damage in the U.S. projected to exceed $100 billion annually, it is time to recognize that our collective efforts to mitigate climate change by shifting to greener energy may not suffice. Despite making some progress in slowing the growth of emissions, the world continues to emit more carbon dioxide than ever, notwithstanding impressive progress in wind, solar and hydroelectric energy. The planet's 8 billion people are becoming more prosperous all the time — a good thing overall, but with the predictable result of more energy consumption. |
OPINION | You can sometimes learn the truth from the unlikeliest sources. This is especially true of Putin's Russia, where mendacity rules and veracity is despised. Consider the absurdly named "WarGonzo," one of the many Russian military bloggers who shares Putin's imperialist ideals. WarGonzo (real name Semyon Pegov), like many other "milbloggers," occasionally finds the regime's casual lies to be too much even for sycophants like himself. He adopts a critical tone toward conditions in Russia and the army's incompetence, inhumanity toward its own soldiers and huge losses of men and materiel. |
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BY JONATHAN SWAN, MAGGIE HABERMAN AND RUTH IGIELNIK |
Former President Trump turned his back to the crowd and stared up at the screen. Ominous music rang out. For the next minute and a half, the former president and his audience in Atlanta stood and silently watched clips of news reports of undocumented immigrants committing horrific crimes. When the montage ended, Trump said out loud what he has been telling his advisers in private for weeks: that, in his view, immigration is the "No. 1" issue in the 2024 election. |
BY KEN THOMAS AND NATALIE ANDREWS |
About an hour into a recent speech here, former President Trump warned that "our whole country will end up being like Detroit" if Vice President Harris is elected president. Inside Harris's campaign, her team saw a political gift. "I saw someone text, 'Wow.' And then I looked to see what it was, and it was that," said Rob Flaherty, a Harris deputy campaign manager, describing the thread of an internal campaign text chain. "And it was like, 'I cannot believe he insulted Detroit in Detroit.'" |
Over the past four years, judges at Washington's federal courthouse have punished hundreds of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented assault on the nation's democracy. On the cusp of the next presidential election, some of those judges fear another burst of political violence could be coming. Before recently sentencing a rioter to prison, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he prays Americans accept the outcome of next month's election. But the veteran judge expressed concern that Donald Trump and his allies are spreading the same sort of conspiracy theories that fueled the mob's Jan. 6, 2021, riot. |
The 2024 election is less than three weeks away. But who wins isn't the only major question; so too is what happens afterward. And more specifically, it's whether a large chunk of the country baselessly rejects the election results (again) and whether a segment of them might take to drastic measures (again). The bad news on that front: Despite the utter lack of evidence — nearly four years later — that the 2020 election was stolen, Donald Trump's supporters actually appear more primed to believe the election will be stolen in 2024 than they were in 2020. |
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