Harris Had Stronger Debate, Polls Find, but the Race Remains Deadlocked  —  Kamala Harris holds an edge over Donald J. Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.  But new surveys found that the race remains a tossup nationally.  —  Kamala Harris overwhelmingly impressed voters …

J.D. Vance's Weak Excuse for “Pet Eating” Lie Just Blew Up In His Face … Prepare to be shocked: At around the time J.D. Vance started dissembling about Haitians eating people's house pets, a Vance campaign staffer privately spoke with the city manager of Springfield, Ohio, where thousands of Haitians have settled.

Lindsey Graham visits Nebraska on behalf of Trump campaign to push for electoral vote change  —  The South Carolina senator wants the governor to call a special session to put forward legislation that would make Nebraska a winner-take-all state in the Electoral College.

“Delusional and unsettling”: Trump forgets there was no debate audience, claims crowd “went crazy”  —  Appearing on Fox News, the 78-year-old Republican claimed that he won over an audience that did not exist  —  Former President Donald Trump appeared on a taped segment of Fox News' “Gutfeld!”

‘Israel Is Going to War’: Attacks on Hezbollah Devices Signal Jewish State Ready for Escalation  —  TEL AVIV—As Hezbollah terrorists across Lebanon spontaneously combusted for a second straight day on Wednesday, war-weary Israelis were enjoying the show.  —  But they were also asking what comes next.

Ex-Trump advisers help to grow pro-Russia website that spreads misinformation  —  George Papadopoulos and others involved in Intelligencer, increasingly popular source of news in rightwing circles  —  Amid the recent crackdown on Russian influence in American media, a group of former Trump advisers …

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Georgia's abortion ban killed a young mother.  The Christian right now blames the victim  —  Anti-choice activists argue that if Amber Nicole Thurman had submitted to forced childbirth, she'd still be alive  —  Pro-choice activists warned in the immediate aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health …

Donald Trump's financial failures are stunning.  ‘Lucky Loser’ has the receipts.  —  Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner's book, which builds on their Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting, is much more than an excavation of the former president's tax returns.  —  If you tell someone who is not a fan …

Fact check: 12 completely fictional stories Trump has told in the last month  —  Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories.  —  This isn't run-of-the-mill political spin, the kind of statistic-twisting and accomplishment-exaggerating that political candidates of all stripes engage in.

Anti-Immigrant Election Deniers Have Turned Their Online Following Into an Army of Activists  —  A coordinated effort called “National Only Citizens Vote” has been rolled out this week by a coalition of people pushing conspiracy theories about immigrants voting in the November election.

The Right is Where the Money Is … Earlier this month, the Department of Justice charged two employees of the Russian state TV channel RT with illegally pouring nearly $10 million into a Tennessee company, Tenet Media.  The company, founded by now-former Blaze TV personality Lauren Chen and her husband …

Pete Buttigieg Plays Vance in Walz's Debate Prep  —  The transportation secretary, who acted as Mike Pence during Kamala Harris's preparations for the 2020 vice-presidential debate, is again helping out as Tim Walz gets ready for his Oct. 1 clash.  —  Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota is intensifying …

Legal Watchdog Group Warns Pro-Trump Lawyers Against Subverting Democracy in November  —  New ads running in legal journals are warning lawyers: “Don't lose your law license because of Trump.”  —  After the 2020 election, legal watchdogs, outraged at some of their colleagues …

Former Georgia lieutenant governor says Trump is ‘not God’: 'He's a loser'  —  Georgia's former Lt. Gov Geoff Duncan (R) slammed Trump for sinking the latest government funding bill after delivering an ultimatum calling for the plan to include a proof of citizenship voting requirement

The stark reality of mass deportation  —  Former President Donald Trump has promised that he will start mass deportations if he wins in November.  The promise has become a central selling point of his 2024 campaign.  At a campaign rally in Michigan this summer, Trump vowed …