CNN polls across six battlegrounds find Georgia and Pennsylvania are key toss-ups  —  The 2024 presidential campaign's home stretch kicks off with a mixed outlook across six key battlegrounds, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in each state.  Vice President Kamala Harris holds …

If Republicans Want to Win, They Need Trump to Lose — Big  —  To dominate the country once more, Republicans need to hasten the move to a post-Trump party.  —  Accepting his party's nomination in 1984, Democrat Walter Mondale vowed to cut the deficit with a memorable line about the tough medicine either …

Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast  —  All the numbers for Trump vs. Harris.  —  ∙ Paid … Let's cut to the chase: So, who's gonna win the election?  —  Well, honestly, we don't know — but we can give you our best probabilistic guess.

Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much”  —  In a call with donors, First Liberty Institute's Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas.  The leader of the religious-rights group also labeled Justice Elena Kagan …

Trump ties himself in knots on abortion  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 … Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters  — Chapters  —  Descriptions  — descriptions off, selected

The ugly truth we're missing on Trump, Arlington  —  There's an old saying: Never take any time off in 2024.  OK, I just made that up, but no sooner did I decide to skip a few column slots to recover from the joy, or whatever, of Chicago's Democratic National Convention, than all heck broke loose.

Barron Trump arrives at NYU for first day at college  —  Former President Donald Trump's youngest child, Barron Trump, was spotted arriving at New York University Wednesday to kick off his first day of college life.  —  The towering 18-year-old was flanked by Secret Service agents …

Why thousands of Florida students are not being taught sex ed  —  In May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed Florida House Bill 1069, a law that requires sex education classes in the state to conform to right-wing ideology.  Specifically, the law requires all sex education classes …

Josh Marshall on how the “liberal media” works against Dems  —  “Republicans in the national political conversation have trained the press to think, ‘We play hard.  We break the rules sometimes.’”  —  ∙ Paid … How is it possible that the elite press, comprised largely …

Trump appears to have misled Gold Star families on troop deaths in Afghanistan  —  Trump frequently suggests, as he did in a TikTok filmed at Arlington Cemetery, that an 18-month period without hostile-fire deaths took place entirely in his presidency.

Exclusive: Biden administration to accuse Russia of sustained effort to influence 2024 election  —  The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms …

Biden's Asylum Restrictions Were Meant to Be Temporary.  Now That Could Change.  —  The changes under consideration would build on the executive order that President Biden issued in June, which blocked a vast majority of asylum claims at the southern border.

The saga of Trump's hush money case isn't over yet: Sentencing date nears  —  Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump was hoping to delay his New York sentencing on 34 felony counts until after the Nov. 5 election, but a federal judge said Tuesday that he wouldn't block the case from moving forward.

JD Vance's Catholicism helped shape his views.  So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers  —  By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn't find in his Yale education or career success.  —  It also amounted to a political conversion.

‘A ton of Covid out there’: US summer wave not taken seriously enough - experts  —  Epidemiologists push newly approved booster vaccines as current virus strain threatens at-risk groups  —  Infectious disease experts say many people are not taking the latest Covid-19 wave in the US seriously enough …

Trump admits he lost 2020 election ‘by a whisker’ during Lex Fridman podcast  —  Trump repeats false claims about voter fraud as he concedes 2020 loss in podcast interview  —  Support truly  —  independent journalism  —  Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.

Christian group recruits ‘Trojan horse’ election skeptics as US poll workers  —  Lion of Judah enrolls poll workers in Trump-aligned swing state tour, which experts say could be ‘hazard to democracy’  —  A Christian political operative has teamed up with charismatic preachers …

Georgia police report ‘casualties’ and suspect in custody in school shooting  —  The Barrow County Sheriff's Office has said there are “casualties” and one suspect in custody following a school shooting at Apalachee High School outside of Atlanta, Georgia.  —  Police said in a statement Wednesday …

How the Media Sanitizes Trump's Insanity … Four years ago, in an article for Media Matters for America, I warned that journalists were sanitizing Donald Trump's incoherent ramblings to make them more palatable for the average voter.  The general practice went like this …

SURPRISE!  —  Hello again, it's Brian Stelter — yes, really.  —  I am thrilled to share that I am returning as the lead author of CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter, the digest I founded in 2015.  —  But this is not going to be a “Back to the Future” remake.

US service member detained in Venezuela, officials say  —  A US service member has been detained in Venezuela, according to four US officials familiar with the matter.  —  The service member, a US Navy sailor, is a US citizen and was detained on August 30 in Caracas, according to the officials.

Sweden's foreign minister says he will step down  —  Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom will step down next week, he wrote in a post on social media platform X on Wednesday.  —  “It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that I have today informed the prime minister that I will leave …

The Triumphant Return of Brian Stelter  —  Our long national nightmare is over.  —  Brian Stelter, after two years, is returning to CNN.  Stelter, whom we all know and love as the man who helmed CNN's venerable “Reliable Sources,” will make his triumphant return to the airwaves next week.