Hours before the vice presidential debate, former President Donald Trump addressed a crowd at his campaign rally in Wisconsin and bashed the Biden administration over Iran’s historic attack on Israel. ‘A short time ago, Iran launched 181 ballistic missiles at Israel… I’ve been talking about World War III for a long time, and I don’t want to make predictions because ...
We’re now in the final full month of the 2024 campaign, and that means politicians and their allies are frantically seeking votes for their side. And for one side, in particular, that means an increasing onslaught of wild claims, conspiracy theories and outright falsehoods. That side, of course, is Donald Trump’s. The president who set new benchmarks for false and ...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) will face off Tuesday night at a CBS News vice-presidential debate in New York. Virtually every poll suggests they go into it from very different political places. Walz is modestly popular, and Vance is quite unpopular. That’s been the case for weeks. But that’s not the full story. So here’s ...
The ‘significant’ role the U.S. played in helping Israel fend off Iran’s aerial assault on Tuesday came just hours after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin assured Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that the U.S. had ‘increased force readiness’ and stood ready. ‘This is a significant escalation by Iran,’ White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters Tuesday. ‘It is ...
Hurricane Helene is gone, fragmented into large cloud formations over the Eastern United States that folded into the rest of the country’s weather. But many Americans are still dealing with the devastation Helene carried with it, especially portions of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida declared disaster zones. At least 125 deaths have been confirmed as of midday Tuesday, with tens ...
Live coverage begins today at 8 p.m. ET for the . The first rule of deciding who won a major political debate is that nobody wins a major political debate. There is no final score as the buzzer sounds, no final wink to be tiddled, it is a purely subjective matter. And that will be true of the vice-presidential debate between ...
When right-wing conspiracy theorist David DePape broke into the house of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in San Francisco, beating her husband, Paul, with a hammer as part of a deranged effort to undermine the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the initial response from the political right was dismissive. Conspiracy theories abounded, many intended to disparage the victim ...
– Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley is confident that Sen. JD Vance of Ohio is ‘absolutely prepared’ for Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate showdown. Vance, former President Trump’s running mate on the GOP 2024 ticket, will face off in New York City with Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota in the one and only debate between ...
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation banning local governments from requiring voters to present an ID at the ballot box in order to cast a vote – a move which sparked backlash from Elon Musk, who branded Newsom as ‘The Joker.’ ‘Wow, it is now illegal to require voter ID in California! They just made PREVENTING voter fraud against ...
Hurricane Helene’s destructive path across western North Carolina threatens to upend the fall election in the key battleground, with halted mail service disrupting absentee voting, thousands of voters cut off from polling locations and election administrators scrambling to adjust. Even as emergency response teams continued their search for survivors of the devastating storm and airlifted food and water into remote ...