I'm the Governor of Ohio.  I Don't Recognize the Springfield That Trump and Vance Describe.  —  I was born in Springfield, Ohio.  My wife, Fran, and I have lived our entire lives less than 10 miles from this city.  —  When we were dating in high school, we would go there to see movies …

Trump Ignores Mark Robinson Controversy, Hoping Gubernatorial Candidate Will Drop Out  —  CNN's article scrambled G.O.P. plans for winning North Carolina.  People close to Donald Trump are holding out hope Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will decide to quit the governor's race.

Nuzzi's RFK Relationship  —  “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the spokesperson said. … “Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged …

Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots  —  Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.  —  ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board approved …

New Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Party at the Center of the Sex Trafficking Scandal  —  This is the first public filing that cites sworn testimony alleging that Gaetz attended one of the long-rumored parties with a teenage girl.  — Copy  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party …

Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI  —  The owner of the shuttered Pennsylvania plant plans to bring it online by 2028, with the tech giant buying all the power it produces.  —  Pennsylvania's dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant would be brought …

Trump says Jews would deserve much of the blame if he loses  —  In a speech Thursday billed as former President Donald Trump's answer to rising antisemitism, he said Jews would bear much of the responsibility if he loses the presidential election.  —  And in a second speech later in the evening …

House Republicans work to defuse Trump as they defy shutdown demands  —  GOP appropriators have been calling their presidential nominee, trying to convince him his calls to shut down the government over a voting bill are a bad idea.  —  House Republicans are typically hesitant to defy Donald Trump.

I co-chaired Nikki Haley's Iowa campaign.  I am endorsing Kamala Harris.  —  I heard Harris articulate that she has always brought groups of diverse individuals and opinions together to solve problems.  That is a healthier and wiser way to lead.  —  I served as an Iowa state co-chair of the Nikki Haley for President campaign.

The Trump Lie Machine Is Broken  —  It shouldn't have taken a year, let alone nine, for political elites to stop getting snookered by Donald Trump.  —  I say that as someone with very low expectations.  Being an easy mark is part of the price of admission to the heights of American discourse.

Playbook: Inside the mind of Harris' messaging maven  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  OVERNIGHT MILESTONE — The midnight deadline having passed, it's now officially too late to remove scandal-plagued Republican gubernatorial candidate …

Trump Media closes at a new 52-week low, as Dow finishes week at record high … Shares of Trump Media fell to a new 52-week low Friday, closing down 8% just one day after “lockup” restrictions expired, which had previously prevented its majority shareholder, former President Donald Trump …

9th Circuit Reinstates Arizona Voter Suppression Law  —  Arizona's 2022 controversial voter registration and mail-in voting law will be reinstated due to a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.  —  Signed into law in June 2022, Senate Bill 1260 includes three harmful provisions …

Which Mexico are you?  New Mexico furious after Texas installs razor wire along its border  —  Texas' latest move is a ‘political stunt’ that will have 'will have no meaningful impact on our nation's broken immigration system,' New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said

US SEC intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk in Twitter probe  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony for the regulator's probe into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.

FTC Sues Prescription Drug Middlemen for Artificially Inflating Insulin Drug Prices  —  Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum, and their affiliates created a broken rebate system that inflated insulin drug prices, boosting PBM profits at the expense of vulnerable patients, the FTC alleges

A Project 2025 Adviser Just Defended Slavery in Haiti … A Project 2025 adviser was exposed Thursday in a congressional hearing for defending slavery in Haiti.  —  Mark Krikorian, an adviser for the right-wing manifesto, is the director of the Center for Immigration Studies …