A Mystery $30 Million Wave of Pro-Trump Bets Has Moved a Popular Prediction Market  —  Four Polymarket accounts have systematically placed frequent wagers on a Trump election victory  —  Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls.

Trump overcharged Secret Service agents to stay at his D.C. hotel, new Democratic report says  —  Then-President Donald Trump also benefited from U.S. officials and others seeking jobs and pardons who paid for stays at his downtown Washington hotel, House Democrats allege.

Trump judge releases 1,889 pages of election interference evidence against the former president  — A federal judge has released additional evidence against Donald Trump in his election interference case.  — The release follows a previously unsealed motion with new evidence against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith.

Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini  —  To support The Atlantic's journalism, please consider subscribing today.  —  Rhetoric has a history.  The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries.

UK Labour Party accused of foreign interference over campaigning on behalf of Kamala Harris  —  The United Kingdom's governing Labour Party is on shaky legal grounds over a plan to send 100 members to work on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign.

JD Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated Tax and Election Laws, Experts Say  —  Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can't legally intervene in political campaigns.  —  Co-published with Documented

Julian Zelizer on Trump's increasingly dire rhetoric  —  “He doesn't even really use code words or anything.  He's just all in.”  —  ∙ Paid … In the closing days of the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump is talking a lot about “the enemy within.”  He's threatened to deploy the US military against his domestic political foes.

Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago  —  Economic Confidence Index remains negative at -26  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than half of Americans (52%) say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, while 39% say they are better off and 8% volunteer that they are about the same.

Trump's age finally catches up with him  —  The man who would (once again) be the oldest president in history has reportedly scaled back his campaign due to fatigue.  So who would run his White House?  —  When Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait raised the question …

How Silicon Valley Billionaires Became Trump's Biggest Donors … Last February, the billionaire financier Nelson Peltz summoned a group of about 20 wealthy, predominantly Republican donors and a handful of G.O.P. strategists to dinner at his $334 million waterfront estate in Palm Beach …

When the Top General in the U.S. Says You're ‘Fascist to the Core’  —  Toward the end of his tenure, Gen. Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023, told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post that Donald Trump was a fundamental threat to the safety and integrity of the United States.

Montana ranger comes forward with account of Sheehy gun incident  —  Candidate says he was shot in Afghanistan; ranger witness to gun incident questions that account  —  Over 35 seasons working as a ranger in Glacier National Park, Kim Peach, 67, recalls only two incidents in which he responded …

House Rating Change: Scott Perry's Race Moves to Toss Up  —  In 2022, some Republican House members paid a price for their hardline reputations.  The highest-profile example was in Colorado's 3rd District, where GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert won reelection by just 546 votes in her race …

October 17, 2024  —  In a new rule released yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission requires sellers to make it as easy to cancel a subscription to a gym or a service as it is to sign up for one.  In a statement, FTC chair Lina Khan explained the reasoning behind the “click-to-cancel” rule …