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.

Judge in Trump 2020 election case unseals more evidence from special counsel  —  The judge overseeing President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case released more evidence collected by special counsel Jack Smith on Friday, unveiling an enormous batch of heavily redacted records.

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.

Univision Town Hall Participants Unimpressed With ‘Arrogant’ Trump  —  Participants in the event expressed frustration with the former president in interviews with Rolling Stone … Three participants in the event expressed their frustration over Trump's failure to answer them directly …

Trump admits he's demanding Rupert Murdoch stop running ‘negative ads’ on Fox News  —  Donald Trump ended his interview with “The Fox & Friends” by admitting he was about to issue some demands for the network's founder Rupert Murdoch.  —  Trump was in the studio on Friday morning for the show he typically calls into.

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.

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 …

This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages  —  An Elon Musk-funded group called Future Coalition PAC is targeting Muslim voters in Michigan and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania with diametrically opposed political advertisements about Kamala Harris.

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.

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.

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

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 …

Labour activists campaigning for Kamala Harris in US ‘likely to break electoral law’  —  Campaign donation rules could be breached if travel expenses of a volunteer exceed $1,000  —  Labour activists who travel to the US to campaign for the Democrats are likely to break electoral law, The Telegraph understands.