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 …

Republicans fret over Trump's freefall among women  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Play Video  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00  —  Loaded: 0%  —  Stream Type LIVE  —  Seek to live, currently behind liveLIVE  —  Playback Rate  —  Chapters  — Chapters  —  Descriptions

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.

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.

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

‘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 …

Meghan McCain says she won't support Harris or Trump  —  Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said she will not support Vice President Harris or former President Trump in November.  —  Her comment comes just hours after her brother, Jimmy McCain, threw his support behind Harris.

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.

Former Trump Aide Peter Navarro Implores MAGA Fans To Avoid Kamala Harris Mistake  —  The election-overthrow plotter used a soccer analogy to make his point.  —  LOADING  —  Peter Navarro, Donald Trump's former adviser who helped plot the attempted election overthrow in 2020, had a message for MAGA world.

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 …

Kamala Harris's banana republic on free speech  —  In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper that social media companies “are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop.”  —  Does it?

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 …

Tim Sheehy Was Recorded Using Racist Stereotypes About Native Americans  —  Mr. Sheehy, a Republican, is the nominee for a Senate seat in Montana, where Indigenous residents make up about 6 percent of the population.  —  Tim Sheehy, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana …

Two Florida Moms, One Congressional Seat and the Future of MAGA  —  On a steamy weekend in June, I went to St. Petersburg to report on the race for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District.  In a heavily gerrymandered and polarized country, it's one of the few congressional races …