Vice President Harris and former President Trump are locked in an incredibly close race going into the final full week of the campaign — at least if the opinion polls are right. Harris holds a narrowing lead in national polls. Her edge is down to just one point in the polling average maintained by The Hill and Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). |
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Beyoncé endorsed Vice President Harris in an impassioned speech at a rally in Houston late Friday evening. "We are all part of something that is much bigger. We must vote. We need you," Beyoncé said, just moments before she introduced Harris. "It's time to sing a new song — a song that began 248 years ago. The old notes of downfall, discord, despair, no longer resonate. Generations of loved ones before us are whispering a prophecy, a quest, a calling, an anthem." |
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BY BRAD DRESS AND ELLEN MITCHELL |
Democrats are sounding the alarm that former President Trump's harsh rhetoric in the home stretch of a tight presidential race could portend a repeat of the mass political violence that broke out among his supporters in January 2021.
But national security experts say there's reason to believe a repeat of the Jan. 6 insurrection is unlikely. |
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Vice President Harris is zeroing in on specific communities of Asian American voters in key swing states as she looks to turn out every voter she can in what is expected to be an incredibly close White House race.
There are more than 1.5 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in the election's swing states, and in some, such as Nevada, they make up more than 10 percent of the electorate. |
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This week's revelations that North Korean troops could within days join Russia's war in Ukraine have raised the prospect of the U.S. and its allies getting more involved in the conflict. The Biden administration on Wednesday acknowledged that some 3,000 North Korean soldiers were training at Russian military bases. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow plans to deploy the North Koreans on the battlefield starting as soon as Sunday. "This is a clear escalation by Russia," Zelensky said Friday on social platform X. |
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Israel began "precise" airstrikes on Iran's military targets on Friday night. "In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel – right now the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran," spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a video released by the military. |
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The Washington Post is reeling from a decision to abstain from endorsing a presidential candidate in the 2024 election, a move that was reportedly made by billionaire owner Jeff Bezos after its editorial board drafted an endorsement of Vice President Harris. The decision has sparked widespread anger inside the Post's newsroom and earned the Amazon founder sharp condemnation from voices in Democratic politics and the media. |
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Former President Trump sat Friday for an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, with the two talking for nearly three hours. The episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" was posted late Friday to YouTube and Spotify after the two men sat down at Rogan's studio in Austin, Texas. The discussion ran so long that Trump's scheduled rally in Traverse City, Mich., was significantly delayed. |
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Former President Trump defended his earlier criticism of Detroit at another event in Michigan on Friday, saying he was not "disparaging" the city but only stating the facts. Following a three-hour delay to the start of the rally as a result of a long interview with podcast host Joe Rogan earlier in the day, Trump took the stage in Traverse City, located in the northern part of the state. |
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OPINION | I student-taught during the Republican primary of 2016. One afternoon, I watched my mentor teacher, an avowed socialist, berate a student during class for daring to express support for Donald Trump. After the election, many of my colleagues breathed nihilistic tirades to their charges about the hopelessness of our country. One stood sentinel in the hall every passing period wearing a red shirt with a raised fist of solidarity. All this in a purple school district. So forgive me if I am skeptical that our teaching force is capable of covering the election without bias and with equal respect to all sides of the arguments. Given that the 1619 Project and Howard Zinn Education Project are popular online resources to which history teachers turn, the promise that schools will cover "just the facts" seems unlikely. |
OPINION | You hardcore MAGA voters should brace yourselves. You're not going to like what you're about to read. I am struck by how consequential this election is — not just for the country, but because of what it says about us as individuals. In the past, we've had some bitter disagreements about policy, but we've never before had an election where good and evil were so clearly on the line. |
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Whatever the result of this election, Democrats will be in a moment of transformation afterward. For nearly a decade, the party's energies have been devoted to defeating former President Trump. That common goal caused most Democrats to rally around Vice President Harris as soon as President Biden stepped aside. But their united front has masked real fissures in the party, and at the intersection of many of them sits John Fetterman. Fetterman, Pennsylvania's junior Democratic senator, gained early political fame as the towering and tattooed mayor of a working-class town, Braddock, Pa., and then became lieutenant governor of the state in 2019. Three years later, he defeated the Trump-endorsed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in a tight Senate race, despite suffering a stroke just months before the election. |
BY ANDREW TANGEL AND JON SIDREU |
Boeing, a pioneer of the jet age and one of the most strategically crucial companies to American economic success, has lost its way. Getting back on track will require a daunting campaign to win back the trust of travelers, airlines, regulators, investors and its own employees. This year, a fuselage panel blew off one of its jets in midair. Its Starliner space capsule left two astronauts stranded in orbit. Its biggest union halted airplane production, worsening its cash drain. It is poised to plead guilty in a case tied to two fatal accidents, and its credit rating is flirting with junk status. |
BY DAVID KLEPPER AND LISA MASCARO |
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of major government contractor SpaceX and a key ally of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the last two years, The Wall Street Journal reported. A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, confirmed to The Associated Press that Musk and Putin have had contact through calls. The person didn't provide additional details about the frequency of the calls, when they occurred or their content. Here's what to know. |
BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER AND DREW HARWELL |
In the months after Donald Trump was thrown off social media for inciting a mob assault on the Capitol, a little-known technology mogul moved decisively into the former president's inner circle. Chris Pavlovski, the founder and CEO of the video-streaming site Rumble, mingled with Trump's political staff in March 2021 over a lobster buffet at his Mar-a-Lago club. Pavlovski was introduced over text in May to Trump's top aide. On calls, he got to know Trump's family. |
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