Election Day is a month away, and the polls show a breathtakingly close race. Vice President Harris has a small lead nationwide. She led former President Trump by 3.4 points in the average maintained by The Hill/Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) as of Friday evening. But the picture in the battleground states is tighter still. |
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A previously obscure immigration dataset entered the public lexicon over the past week, sparking a new attack line for Republicans and a deluge of fact-checking over an accurate, yet decontextualized, number.
Last week, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) drew attention to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "non-detained docket," one of the datasets that, for most people, is not just a few clicks away. |
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Republicans are trying to tie New York Democrats to New York City Mayor Eric Adams in the wake of his indictment on federal corruption charges, hoping the association will be a liability for those running in tight Empire State races that could determine control of the chamber next year. The effort — which has spanned top GOP lawmakers, Republican candidates and the House GOP's campaign arm — has sought to link New York Democrats to the "cult of corruption" surrounding Adams, who is facing five counts including bribery, wire fraud and solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national. He has pleaded not guilty. |
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Kurdish minorities are sounding the alarm over an expected U.S. downsizing from Iraq by 2026, worried they will be left vulnerable to extremist attacks that have frequently targeted the group. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which governs three provinces in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, is in active negotiations with the U.S. on securing air defense systems and other security guarantees to protect civilians when American troops depart. |
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A much better-than-expected jobs report released just hours after the quick suspension of a longshoreman's strike is giving a boost and some relief to Vice President Harris's campaign. The port strike had threatened to bottle up the economy and was the most politically threatening of a trio of recent challenges faced by Harris and the White House. |
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Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called out tech giant Elon Musk on Friday for making false claims about the federal government blocking flights with deliveries for Hurricane Helene victims. Musk posted a screenshot of a conversation with a person who said the air space had been "shut down" and that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was "throttling flights." |
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Former President Trump on Friday vowed to revert North Carolina's Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg if he's elected this fall, a little over a year after the military installation was redesignated to remove the name of a Confederate general. "The first question that I asked: Should we change the name from Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg?" Trump said, prompting raucous applause from the crowd gathered for his town hall in Fayetteville, near the base. "So here's what we do, we get elected. I'm doing it." |
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Vice President Harris joined host Alex Cooper on her popular "Call Her Daddy" podcast for a discussion on reproductive rights, the campaign told The Hill. She sat Tuesday for the popular podcast among young, female listeners, and the episode is set to air next week, although the campaign did not specify the day. |
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President Biden told reporters he's "never been so proud" of Liz Cheney Thursday night after she delivered a speech in support of Vice President Harris. "She made one of the most consequential speeches I've ever heard. She has character," Biden said at Joint Base Andrews, Md. "I know her dad. And her dad as well we argued like hell. But I've always admired her courage and honesty." |
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OPINION | The strike by 47,000 International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) members, which shut down all 36 East and Gulf Coast ports, has ended after an agreement on wages. However, the most important issue, automation, remains unresolved. |
BY FORMER REPS. CHARLIE DENT (R-PA) AND DAN GLICKMAN (D-KAN) |
OPINION | Donald Trump has claimed that Kamala Harris's economic plan would result in an economic depression on the scale of the Great Depression of 1929. However, a major element of his own economic plan is the imposition of high tariffs on imports, which would be much more likely to lead to a depression than anything Harris is proposing. And there's historical proof of that. |
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BY MARK MAZZETTI AND ADAM ENTOUS |
On July 7, 2017, after President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shook hands in Hamburg, Germany, to conclude their first face-to-face meeting, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson walked out of the sterile conference room, removed notes from his pocket and gave anxious White House aides a summary.
"We've got work to do to change the president's mind on Ukraine," Tillerson said.
The secretary of state had just watched Putin, the former K.G.B. spymaster, put on a master class in seeking to shape the thinking of the new American president. |
Investors were breathing two big sighs of relief on Friday. Thursday evening brought news that a port workers strike from Maine to Texas, which threatened to paralyze the economy, would end after just a few days. Then came Friday's ebullient jobs report.
The U.S. economy added 254,000 jobs in September, well above estimates for 150,000. Job totals for July and August were revised up. The three-month moving average of job gains, a helpful gauge to smooth out monthly volatility, stood at 186,000 in September, up from 140,000 in August. |
With registration deadlines looming, Democrats and civil rights groups are asking election officials in the states ravaged by Hurricane Helene to give voters more time.
A judge in South Carolina on Friday extended that state's deadline to Oct. 14, but prospects are uncertain in the other hard-hit states.
In North Carolina, one of the most fiercely contested presidential battlegrounds, election officials aren't planning to extend the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline, North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesperson Patrick Gannon said. That could change when the Legislature meets next week to consider adjustments to state election laws. |
Nearly a year ago, these four Americans were among hundreds of hostages taken into the Gaza Strip. As the months have passed, their families have clung to glimpses of their loved ones, fragments of hope in an ocean of fear.
Keith Siegel, a grandfather born in California, was last seen in a video released by Hamas in April, gaunt and weeping.
Edan Alexander, who grew up in New Jersey, and Sagui Dekel-Chen, a father of three, were spotted alive in late 2023 by other hostages.
Omer Neutra, a New York native, was shown being pulled out of a tank by Hamas gunmen in a blurry clip recorded on Oct. 7, 2023. |
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