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Judge Delays Trump's Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day  —  The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars.  —  The judge overseeing Donald J. Trump's criminal case in Manhattan postponed …

Eighty-eight corporate leaders endorse Harris in new letter, including CEOs of Yelp, Box  —  @IN/MEGAN-CASSELLA-BA02A160/ @MMCASSELLA  — Eighty-eight corporate leaders signed a new letter Friday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.  — Signers include former 21st …

‘A huge mistake’: Trump's crypto allies cringe over family's startup  —  The crypto venture is attracting what appear to be hacks and attempted scams ahead of its launch.  —  Donald Trump's sons want to turn their father's growing bromance with the cryptocurrency industry into the new family business.

Start of mail-in voting delayed in NC, as RFK Jr.'s lawsuit leads to court-ordered pause  —  Kennedy lost in trial Thursday, but the North Carolina Court of Appeals wants time to consider his argument to have his name taken off the ballot.  —  Posted 2024-09-06T15:29:29+00:00 - Updated 2024-09-06T16:28:13+00:00

Donald Trump's incoherence makes the media's double standard hard to hide  —  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris curiously don't get the same coverage  —  It seems like only yesterday that the elite media were extremely concerned that President Joe Biden had mistakenly referred to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico.

“This is not normal. … There are no broadcast television cameras inside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue.  But the real story of Jan. 6 is found in the mounds of evidence and testimony judges and juries have seen and heard behind the doors of the courthouse …

September State Polling: California, Florida, Ohio, Texas  —  Home Polls September State Polling: California, Florida, Ohio, Texas  —  New Emerson College Polling/The Hill statewide polls find Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris by ten in Ohio, 53% to 43%, five in Florida, 50% to 45% …

Trump deputy campaign manager identified in Arlington National Cemetery dustup  —  One of two staffers involved in the altercation at Arlington National Cemetery is a deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump's reelection bid, NPR has learned.  The former president insisted this week the incident …

JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security  —  School shootings are a “fact of life,” so the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Thursday.

The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say  —  The father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting that left four people dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Donald Trump Rapes and Pillages His Way Through the Scathing ‘The Apprentice’  —  “The Apprentice” is the movie Donald Trump doesn't want you to see—and for good reason.  A sneak preview at TIFF revealed a damning film about the making of a monster.  —  Donald Trump doesn't want Americans …

Cook Political Report shifts 6 House races toward Dems, 2 toward GOP  —  The nonpartisan group Cook Political Report has shifted half a dozen House races toward Democrats and two toward Republicans, as Democrats see their fundraising advantage and enthusiasm rise after Vice President Harris …

How Harris dodges scrutiny  — Why did President Biden's top advisers routinely leak word they found her performance as vice president disappointing or episodically problematic?  — How did her views change in five years, from liberal to centrist on health care, immigration and energy?

YIKES: Tim Walz's Remarks About Gaza Just Revealed Why They Don't Want Him Answering Questions  —  I wrote earlier about Joe Biden's cluelessness when it comes to what's going on with Gaza, Hamas, and making deals with terrorists.  —  Biden keeps leaning on Israel, and that keeps emboldening Hamas.

Tucker Carlson and the Heterodoxy-to-Holocaust Denial Pipeline  —  This week Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star who now hosts one of America's top podcasts, had an apologist for Adolf Hitler on his show.  Darryl Cooper, who runs a history podcast and newsletter called Martyr Made …

Trump Can't Get Himself Out of the Abortion Straitjacket  —  Donald Trump is stuck.  —  He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues.  His instinct is to promise the moon, and he'll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room.

The mainstream press is failing America - and people are understandably upset  —  The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid  —  The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media …

World sees hottest summer recorded for second consecutive year  —  Summer temperatures broke records for the second consecutive year, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.  —  Newly released data found that 2023 experienced the hottest June and August on the books …

The End of Democracy Has Already Begun  —  Undermine truth, spread falsehoods, and prepare the ground for worse.  —  The corruption of democracy begins with the corruption of thought—and with the deliberate undermining of reality.  Stephen Richer, an election official in Arizona …

Not even football stars are safe in blue state cities  —  The life of an NFL rookie is difficult.  You must learn a new playbook, deal with multiple rookie chores, and try to avoid being shot when your new home is run by Democrats.  —  San Francisco 49ers first-round pick Ricky Pearsall found this out the hard way.

Montana Senate Race Moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The Montana Senate race moves from Toss-up to Leans Republican.  — We were very close to making this change in yesterday's more expansive Senate update, but we were waiting for some additional polling evidence to do it.

Kamala Harris ran her office like a prosecutor.  Not everyone liked that.  —  After a difficult first year as vice president, Harris has grown into her role — and found staff who respond better to her style, allies say.  —  On the day after President Joe Biden decided to end his reelection bid in July …