BY EMILY BROOKS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
House Republicans are overwhelmingly dismissing former President Trump's calls for a government shutdown in the absence of a proof-of-citizenship voting bill being signed into law, a public break from the GOP presidential nominee in the lead-up to the November election. A group of Republicans this week rejected a bill that combined a six-month continuing resolution (CR) with the Trump-backed voting bill, tanking the legislation in a move that thwarted Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) funding strategy. |
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Vice President Harris is seeing encouraging signs in Pennsylvania, a state that many see as the key battleground in the fight for the White House in November. Many recent polls have shown Harris holding a slim lead over former President Trump in the Keystone State, and she has a 53 percent chance to win the state in Decision Desk HQ and The Hill's election forecast. |
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Vice President Harris has taken the lead in pollster Nate Silver's election forecast and model for the first time since Aug. 28. Harris now leads in the polling aggregation with 48.9 percent to Trump's 46.1 percent. |
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Vice President Harris on Friday night told rallygoers in Wisconsin not to pay too much attention to the polls, which paint the presidential race as largely neck-and-neck against former President Trump, while she still considers herself the underdog. "46 days until the election. And, what we know, this is going to be a tight race until the very end. So, let's not pay too much attention to the polls because let's be clear, we are the underdog in this race and we have some hard work ahead of us," Harris said at a rally in Wisconsin. |
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Republicans are scrambling to mitigate the fallout from North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson's latest scandal, fearful it could cost them more than just the governor's mansion as the state becomes a critical battleground in the presidential race. CNN's bombshell report Thursday that Robinson made many inflammatory comments concerning race, gender and sexual preferences has left Republicans seeking distance from him. Democrats, meanwhile, have sought to underscore Robinson's ties to other candidates, including former President Trump, who has heaped praise on the North Carolina lieutenant governor in the past. |
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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) suggested that North Carolina's GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson should take legal action against the media or exit the race. "If the reporting on Mark Robinson is a total media fabrication, he needs to take immediate legal action," Tillis said in a Friday post on X. "If the reporting is true, he owes it to President Trump and every Republican to take accountability for his actions and put the future of NC & our party before himself." |
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The deadly pager and hand-held radio attacks in Lebanon this week, along with subsequent strikes on military leaders, raised fears that a larger Israeli attack on Hezbollah is imminent and a wider war is inevitable. At least 37 were killed and thousands wounded in Lebanon by the low-tech device explosions Tuesday and Wednesday, while strikes Friday took out top Hezbollah commanders in another escalation in the conflict. |
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said her House office was "tagged with blood-splattered signs accusing [her] of supporting terrorism" after she condemned Israel for a series of explosions across Lebanon involving pagers that targeted members of militant group Hezbollah. "Yesterday my House office was tagged with blood-splattered signs accusing me of supporting terrorism after I questioned the pager operation, which clearly runs counter to US policy," Ocasio-Cortez wrote Friday in a post on the social platform X. |
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A long-expected deal to reduce U.S. troop presence in Iraq will likely be announced next week, two administration officials said Friday. The agreement with Iraq, which would reduce American troops in the country, will come even as the battle persists against what remains of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. |
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OPINION | National political polls get all the glory, but the only polls that really matter are the surveys in the small group of battleground states that will make or break presidential aspirations. Consideration of national polls at the expense of battleground state surveys in the presidential race resembles a doctor who tries to diagnose the injuries of the victim of a serious car crash without doing X-rays. |
OPINION | China may be preparing a surprise attack against Japan. This operation would include a massive missile barrage against all major U.S. and Japanese military installations on the archipelago. The logic of such a campaign is straightforward. To maximize the effectiveness of a complex amphibious operation to conquer Taiwan, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) would need to establish air and naval supremacy around the island. Japan hosts the majority of allied naval and sea power. But will Chinese leader Xi Jinping risk a third world war to improve the odds that his operational plans succeed? |
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BY MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT AND MATTHEW CULLEN |
Former President Trump and his allies have suggested that his constant threats to prosecute rivals and perceived enemies if he is elected again should not be taken literally. "His vengeance is going to be by winning and making America great again, not going after his political opponents," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told CNN. But as president, Trump tried repeatedly to use the powers of the federal government to investigate or penalize those he considered foes. |
The number of homeless people in the U.S. continues to grow, putting the country on pace to hit yet another record high this year. Counts from encampments, streets, and shelters are largely higher than they were in 2023, according to preliminary data collected and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The numbers come from more than 250 homeless-service organizations covering cities, metro areas and vast rural areas. |
BY ZEKE MILLER AND AAMER MADHANI |
President Biden is looking to showcase the Indo-Pacific partnership he has nurtured since taking office as he hosts the leaders of Australia, Japan and India in his hometown Saturday with an eye on his legacy as well. When Biden entered the White House, he looked to elevate the so-called Quad, which until then had only met at the foreign minister level, to a leader-level partnership as he tried to pivot U.S. foreign policy away from conflicts in the Middle East and toward threats and opportunities in the Indo-Pacific. This weekend's summit is the fourth in-person and sixth overall gathering of the leaders since 2021. |
BY DEREK HAWKINS, CLARA ENCE MORSE AND ERIC LAU |
Former President Trump has a long list of executive actions he says he wants to carry out on his potential first day back in the White House. Among them: Begin mass deportations, eliminate perks for electric vehicles and ban transgender women from women's sports. Since launching his bid for a second term, Trump has made 41 distinct promises about what he says he wants to do "on day one" as president, and he has mentioned those promises more than 200 times on the campaign trail, according to a Washington Post analysis of his speeches. |
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