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Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
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 Supreme Court of the United States/ReutersAn Alaska man has been charged for threatening to torture and kill six Supreme Court justices, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
Between March 2023 and July 2024, 76-year-old Panos Anastasiou sent over 465 messages through the court's website, in which he graphically described violent acts he would like to commit against the justices and their family members.
The names of the specific justices who received threats have not been made public.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The deadline for a candidate to withdraw is midnight tonight, but Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has vowed to stay in the race.
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Kamala Harris has received an outpouring of endorsements from Teamsters local unions and regional councils in key states, despite the national union's decision to not endorse.
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The absence of a full-blown war in Lebanon has been touted as a core U.S. achievement, but now Washington's grip on the crisis appears more tenuous than ever.
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Hassan Nasrallah called the operations an "act of war" that "transgressed all boundaries and red lines."
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The president said he was not declaring victory over inflation, but marking a pivot point for the recovery from pandemic recession.
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Michael Lonergan, a spokesman for Mark Robinson campaign, said it was "complete fiction" that Robinson was under pressure to drop out of the race.
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 NBC/GettyAhead of the sketch show's 50th season, Saturday Night Live creator, Lorne Michaels, is talking about how they will approach portraying Donald Trump in future episodes.
In a joint interview with cast members Michael Che and Colin Jost published Thursday, Michaels told The Hollywood Reporter that they would have to "reinvent" their Trump impression.
"And Trump has morphed. James (Austin Johnson), who I think is brilliant, played Trump as the sort of diminished Trump. The guy at the back of the hardware store holding court, and that played because it felt relevant. But we are going to have to reinvent it again because, well, you saw the debate," Michaels said.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Economists are betting on rates being held in September with a cut to come in November instead.
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Lawmakers are forcing each other to take unpopular votes on bills destined to go nowhere.
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Donald Trump promised to visit the city "in the next two weeks." Some residents welcomed a visit, but others were opposed, as officials said preparations were underway.
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 Vice President Kamala HarrisIs Oprah Winfrey the secret sauce Kamala Harris needs to win?
The Harris campaign sure hopes so, and campaign advisers say there are "surprises" in store during a livestream interview with the iconic talk show host Wednesday night.
A few hundred studio guests will be watching in-person in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, Michigan. A couple hundred thousand others are expected to be tuning in on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Twitch. The event is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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It remained unclear whether the man, Panos Anastasiou, came close to carrying out his threats, and public records indicate that he is not affiliated with any political party.
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Mr. Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, vowed to stay in the race and sought to deny the report, which also said he had defended slavery in online posts years ago.
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyTim Walz enlisted the help of Pete Buttigieg as he prepares for the vice-presidential debate on Oct. 1. The Transportation Secretary is reportedly serving as JD Vance's stand-in during policy sessions and mock debates on the campaign trail.
Buttigieg, now reprising his role as opposing veep candidate, stood in for Mike Pence during Kamala Harris' practice sessions leading up to the 2020 election. The former South Bend, Indiana mayor's on-stage persona this time around happens to be as a fellow Midwesterner.
On Wednesday, Walz, clad in cargo-pants and drinking Mountain Dew, met up with Buttigieg at a Minneapolis hotel to prepare for the October event. The duo, however, have yet to hold a full 90-minute mock debate, but are expected to do so closer to the New York City face off hosted by CBS News. The in-person meeting was the first of its kind, as Buttigieg previously assisted via video calls.
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Reports and interviews shed new light on the holding center, where migrants' calls with lawyers are monitored and some say they've been forced to wear blackout goggles.
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 Scott Kowalchyk/CBSDonald Trump and JD Vance's relentless pushing of the debunked pet-eating conspiracy is not just meant not "distract" the public, but also to "disgust us," said MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday.
Maddow stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, where she explained why she thinks the former president won't stop pushing the narrative that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are "eating cats and dogs," despite the fact that "the Republican mayor of that city says ‘stop it, it's not true, it's not happening.'"
Trump and Vance's reasoning comes down to "two things," Maddow told Colbert. "First of all, I think it's helpful to note that this is a recurring racist urban legend that happens every few decades from the late 1970s through the late 1980s," she explained. "There were multiple instances of ‘Refugees Eating Dogs And Cats.' They've used this against Haitians before, they've used this against Indonesians, they've used this against Southeast Asian refugees."
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Virtually everyone on Capitol Hill agrees that the Secret Service needs to do a better job. But Democrats and Republicans are at odds over whether to increase the agency's budget.
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 Fox NewsDonald Trump appeared to express surprise Wednesday that "a woman," Kamala Harris, is "somehow doing better" than Joe Biden in the election race against him.
In a freewheeling and mostly lighthearted appearance on the Fox News talk show Gutfeld!, Trump as is typical rattled off a few recycled old bits—military pilots who look "better" than Tom Cruise and told him they saw UFOs, was brought back from June, for example.
But when it came time to discuss his second Democratic opponent in this year's presidential election, the Republican nominee appeared taken aback that someone of the opposite gender was doing comparatively well.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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One measure, to be voted on Friday, would require hand counting of ballots. Critics say that it would create widespread confusion in a state pivotal to the presidential race.
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This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann sit down with Senior Video Journalist Jorge Ribas, who just got back from Springfield, Ohio - where the neighborhood pets are decidedly not being eaten. The crew dives into why former president Donald Trump continues to lean into anti-immigrant rhetoric and how Springfield residents feel about the sudden wave of national attention on their city.
Plus, a new Washington Post poll shows Trump and Vice President Harris are essentially tied in Pennsylvania - the key swing state that could determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
And does the Teamsters' decision not to endorse a candidate matter?
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 JEFF KOWALSKY/GETTY IMAGESTwo Republican strategists, one of them an adviser to former president Donald Trump, have condemned their party's "gratuitous" and "offensive" attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris for not having biological children, arguing it'll blow their chances with women voters in November.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the latest GOP official to make the baffling charge that having stepchildren is somehow a knock on Harris' character, and did it with Trump by her side at a rally in Michigan Tuesday.
"My kids keep me humble," she told the crowd. "Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble." Huckabee Sanders also mispronounced Harris' first name, something Trump has repeatedly and deliberately done.
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The immigrants are mainly in the United States under temporary protected status, which the executive branch can grant to people whose home countries are in crisis.
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We speak with Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, after she faced racist and hostile questioning from Republicans at Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, including Senator John Kennedy, who told Berry, "You should hide your head in a bag." The experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address, Berry says: "That kind of bigotry and hatred is difficult to hear from anyone, but to actually experience it at a hate crime hearing from a sitting member of this institution was pretty extraordinary." We also speak with Democratic Congressmember Delia Ramirez of Illinois, who has introduced a resolution to honor 6-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume, a Palestinian American boy stabbed to death in a Chicago suburb last October in an anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian attack. "His horrible bigotry and hate have real consequences in the Arab community and the Palestinian community, in other communities, and it makes us all less safe," Ramirez says of Kennedy.
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As the vice president was set to travel on Thursday to Michigan, home to many Muslim and Arab Americans, a leading group protesting U.S. support of Israel said she had not done enough to win its backing.
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We get an update from Beirut, after at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded in Lebanon on Wednesday when walkie-talkie radios across the country exploded without warning, the second day of an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah members by booby-trapping handheld communication devices. A day earlier, at least 12 people were killed and thousands more left with gruesome injuries when pagers began exploding across the country. Lebanon has banned pagers and walkie-talkies on all flights, while Lebanese citizens say they now live in fear that everyday household electronics could suddenly explode. Among those killed in the attacks are children, medics and other civilians. "This has been widely reported in the Western press as a sophisticated campaign that targeted alleged Hezbollah operatives, but the reality is that, for the most part, these explosions were occuring in civilian areas," says journalist Lara Bitar, editor-in-chief of the Beirut-based independent media organization The Public Source. Bitar warns that Israel's "terrorist attacks" could be a prelude to a larger assault. "The Israeli government has already taken a decision to escalate, to wage full-scale war on all of Lebanon."
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At least 12 people were killed and over 2,800 people were injured Tuesday in Lebanon when electronic pagers used by many members of Hezbollah — who had switched to the older technology over concerns of mobile phones' vulnerability to security breaches — exploded simultaneously across the country in a coordinated attack on the group. Individual explosions occurred in supermarkets, cafes, houses and in other public places. Many of the injuries were sustained by civilians who were not carrying the pagers themselves, including at least two children who died from their wounds. According to a Reuters report, Israel's Mossad spy agency had managed to plant explosive material in a batch of pagers bought in recent months by Hezbollah, which has vowed to retaliate, deepening the risks of a broader regional war. We discuss the attack with three guests: Beirut-based journalist Mohamad Kleit, Human Rights Watch's Ramzi Kaiss and Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri. Kaiss says the "indiscriminate attack" on the Lebanese population — which Kleit additionally describes as "terrorist" — is "unlawful under the rules of war." "What the Israeli attack using the pagers did was completely throw out the rulebook," says Khouri, as eyes are on the region in preparation for another possible Israeli escalation.
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 Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson's spending bill was rejected by Congress on Wednesday after 14 Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the stopgap measures—even after the speaker attached a Trump-endorsed voter registration act to the legislation.
The House now has until Sept. 30 to pass a spending bill or face a government shutdown.
Johnson previously scrapped a vote on the bill last week to spend the weekend rounding up support from hesitant members of his caucus. He also attached the SAVE Act to the legislation, which would prohibit states from registering non-citizens as voters—something Johnson himself has admitted is already illegal under federal law.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Both Republicans and Democrats opposed the stopgap funding bill, which was tied to new rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.
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Sen. John Neely Kennedy used a hearing about hate crimes to accuse Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry of supporting terrorists.
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Israel is believed to have carried out the attacks on the group's communications.
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The vice president has said the stories of pregnant women who have been denied or have been unable to gain access to medical care show the consequences of former President Donald J. Trump's actions.
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 MSNBCMSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell's monologue turned personal Tuesday when he emotionally described a procedure his mother once needed—one which Georgia's Republican lawmakers recently banned.
O'Donnell told his story following a ProPublica report this week that the legislation enacted in the southern state has led to the deaths of at least two women.
"ProPublica is now reporting about the death of a 28-year-old woman in Georgia who died because of what George W. Bush and Donald Trump did to her when they appointed those Supreme Court justices," O'Donnell said, before reading from the story, which notes that the woman needed a procedure called a dilation and curettage (D&C), which removes tissue from the inside of the uterus.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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We end today's show in conversation with New York City Councilmember Yusef Salaam. He was one of five teenagers from Harlem — four Black and one Latino — wrongfully accused and convicted of raping and nearly killing 28-year-old white investment banker Trisha Meili in 1989. Meili had been jogging in Central Park when she was assaulted, and the accused teens became known as the Central Park Five. They faced a barrage of racism from the public and news media during their trial, including from real estate mogul and future U.S. president Donald Trump. All of the boys were convicted and served at least six years, with one, Korey Wise, having been tried as an adult, spending over a decade in prison. All were later exonerated after DNA evidence corroborated a separate man's confession to the attack. Redubbed the Exonerated Five, four of the five members addressed the Democratic National Convention last week, slamming Trump, who called for their execution and says he still believes the men are guilty, as hateful and dangerous. "The reality was that we were guilty of the color of our skin," says Salaam, who successfully ran for city council last year.
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Republican governor candidates Karrin Taylor Robson and Kari Lake each attended separate rallies in Arizona on Friday ahead of a primary election on August 2.
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