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 judge's latest release of Jan. 6. evidence was heavily redacted.  Here's what was included.  — 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.

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 …

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.

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.

Republicans livid UK Labour staffers will stump for Harris  —  Republicans and mini-MAGA Brits are flipping their lids after a U.K. Labour aide let slip almost 100 political foot soldiers from the governing party in Britain are preparing to jet to the U.S. to knock doors for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.

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.

Donald Trump's hysterical closing argument: Save the cows!  —  Among the beefs I have with his prophecies for a Harris administration: They aren't even original.  —  They're eating the dogs.  They're eating the cats.  And now, they're banning the cows.  —  Or so says Donald Trump.  No bull!

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 …

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.

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

Maybe if Trump spent less time selling shoes, he could afford more staff  —  Hardly anyone works for Trump's campaign, in part because the campaign is struggling to raise money.  —  On the lengthy menu of unusual aspects to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, one item stands out …