Trump refuses to denounce threats to FEMA, doubles down on falsehoods
SWANNANOA, N.C. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump declined to condemn violent threats to Federal Emergency Management Agency workers providing relief to Americans impacted by Hurricane Helene, instead criticizing the government’s storm response using false allegations. Asked during a news conference
Harris and Cheney visit swing states to declare Trump unfit for office
MALVERN, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris joined forces with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney here Monday to denounce GOP nominee Donald Trump as unfit for office, part of the Harris campaign’s last-ditch effort to win over moderate Republicans and
Trump flips stance on making voting easier after storm batters North Carolina
Former president Donald Trump’s years-long effort to restrict mail balloting and early voting has skidded into reverse in North Carolina, with the Republican presidential nominee demanding the kind of easier voting access that he labeled fraudulent when Democrats pushed similar
You can probably guess who swing-state Fox News viewers are voting for
All Donald Trump wants from Fox News is for it to operate as an explicit arm of his political campaign. Just that. Just no more people who criticize Trump and no Democrats and no anti-Trump ads until Election Day. It’s
Elon Musk’s legally problematic $1 million voter giveaway
Elon Musk has inserted himself into an American presidential election more than perhaps any other uber-wealthy person in modern history. There is no question that one of the world’s richest people is going to great lengths to speak and spend
Arizona county official who delayed certifying election results accepts plea deal
PHOENIX — An Arizona Republican who helped inspire national concerns over county-level certification of the 2024 presidential election pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Monday related to a “failure or refusal” to perform her duty. Peggy Judd, who helps lead Cochise
Musk’s millions-and-misinformation effort to pick who signs federal checks
As of this writing, Elon Musk’s net worth is about $246.8 billion. That’s not all liquid, obviously. He doesn’t have a giant Scrooge-McDuck-style vault filled with $250 billion in gold bullion — partly because such a vault would have to
Exonerated Central Park Five sue Trump for defamation over debate remarks
A group of men who were exonerated for the rape and assault of a woman in Central Park in 1989 have sued Donald Trump for continuing to suggest that they are guilty, including at the presidential debate in Philadelphia last
No, McDonald’s didn’t confirm Trump’s baseless claim about Kamala Harris
In any other presidential campaign, one of the candidates’ mention of a summer job she held 40 years ago would probably just slip into the background chatter, a little biographical detail of no real consequence and not much political utility. But
The thin veneer over Trump’s fascistic rhetoric
Former president Donald Trump participated in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday. If so inclined, as many Fox News viewers presumably will be, it’s easy to pick out pieces of the conversation that would assuage concerns one
Trump’s recent Four Pinocchio flights of fancy
Former president Donald Trump tells so many tall tales that it’s hard to keep track. Sometimes, one of his invented stories blows up into an actual news story, such as when he related a dramatic but fake tale of a
Could Trump undermine the vote again? Harris’s legal team says it’s not worried.
Former president Donald Trump and his allies have filed hundreds of lawsuits, with more to come, seeking to tighten voting rules or disqualify voters. Security experts have gamed out how to restore order quickly if unrest at polling locations shuts
Harris and Trump locked in dead heat in seven-state poll, with some voters still deciding
With two weeks of campaigning left before the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are running nearly evenly across the seven battleground states among a critical portion of the electorate whose votes likely will determine
Donald Trump keeps calling Kamala Harris stupid
Speaking to a crowd in Erie, Pa., on the last Saturday in September, former president Donald Trump lambasted his Democratic opponent. “Crooked Joe Biden became mentally impaired — sad — but Lyin’ Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that
Bipartisan task force slams beleaguered Secret Service in new report
The deadly shooting at a July 13 Donald Trump rally was preventable, but multiple security failures allowed a 20-year-old gunman to climb atop an unsecured roof and fire eight shots, killing an attendee and wounding Trump and two others, the