Liz Cheney, a top GOP Trump critic, says she will vote for Harris
Former Rep. Liz Cheney, the once high-ranking Republican from Wyoming who torpedoed her political career by breaking forcefully with former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday she would be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
Trump questions fairness of next week’s debate at a town hall
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hours after the Trump and Harris campaigns agreed to rules for their first presidential debate, former President Donald Trump sought to instill doubt that the debate would be fair, downplayed his need to prepare and suggested he was more worried about the network hosting the debate than his opponent.
Nation and world news – at a glance – for September 5
Texas attorney general sues to stop voter registration push
Harris tells the business community: I’m friendlier than Biden
NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday sought to put daylight between herself and President Joe Biden on tax policy, making it the first issue on which she is trying to stand apart from an administration in which she holds a key role.
In deciding when to sentence Trump, judge faces ‘impossible’ task
NEW YORK — As Donald Trump’s criminal trial wrapped up in May, one of his lawyers wanted to give the jury unusual instructions that would have made it harder to convict him. A special case warranted special rules, the lawyer argued, and the first prosecution of a former U.S. president was “obviously an extraordinarily important case.”
Judge denies Trump’s request to move criminal case to federal court
NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan denied an effort by Donald Trump to move his already adjudicated state criminal case to the federal courts Tuesday, rejecting his claims of presidential immunity and brushing aside his allegation of bias.
Putin gets a red-carpet welcome in Mongolia despite arrest warrant
President Vladimir Putin of Russia was warmly received by the leader of Mongolia on Tuesday in his first state visit to a member nation of the International Criminal Court since it issued a warrant for his arrest last year.
No time to run: Russian missiles hit Ukraine city just after sirens sound
Russian missiles struck a military academy in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday only minutes after air-raid alarms blared, killing more than 50 people, wounding many others and underscoring Moscow’s superior firepower in one of the war’s deadliest attacks. Ukraine’s president said a hospital was also hit.
A vague, vacuous TV interview didn’t help Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris didn’t hurt herself in her interview Thursday with CNN’s Dana Bash. She didn’t particularly help herself, either.
UK suspends some arms sales to Israel
LONDON — Britain announced Monday that it would suspend the export of some weapons to Israel, a significant hardening of its position on Israel’s conduct of the war in the Gaza Strip under a new Labour government.
Netanyahu stands firm on cease-fire terms amid growing outrage in Israel
JERUSALEM — Brushing aside pleas from allies and the demands of Israeli protesters for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to keep an Israeli troop presence along the border between Egypt and Gaza, a contentious plan that appeared to dim, if not dash, prospects for a truce.
Haley’s voters size up a scrambled presidential race
LANSDALE, Pa. — Nikki Haley had been out of the Republicans’ presidential race for more than a month when Linda Kapralick and Cathleen Barone cast their ballots for her in Pennsylvania’s primary, so eager were they for an alternative to former President Donald Trump.
Fundraiser for Jan. 6 rioters at Trump’s golf club is postponed
A gala event to raise money for some of the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, set to take place Thursday at former President Donald Trump’s golf club in New Jersey, has been postponed, according to the event website.
The loneliness epidemic has a cure
What is the most important single thing that you can do to heal our national divides and to improve the social and economic mobility of your struggling neighbors?
For generations of Alaskans, a livelihood is under threat
Petersburg, Alaska, is as pretty a seaside town as any you’ll find across the filigree of fjords and foggy islands that make up the state’s maritime coast. Statuary and floral designs evidence its proud Scandinavian heritage, and bald eagles soar across the narrow strait that separates it from a national forest. It doesn’t have room for the giant cruise ships that disgorge thousands of passengers into Ketchikan and Juneau, but it is perfectly situated for its sustaining industry: fishing.
Who are the biggest donors to Trump and Harris?
In presidential fundraising these days, the donors who matter most are the very small and the very, very big.
Something’s poisoning America’s farms. Scientists fear ‘forever’ chemicals.
For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the federal government to spread municipal sewage on millions of acres of farmland as fertilizer. It was rich in nutrients, and it helped keep the sludge out of landfills.
Harris and Trump have housing plans. Economists have doubts.
America’s gaping shortage of affordable housing has rocketed to the top of voter worry lists and to the forefront of campaign promises, as both the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, and the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, promise to fix the problem if they are elected.
After Trump claimed fake Taylor Swift endorsement, her fans make real push for Harris
Nine days after former President Donald Trump falsely claimed to accept an endorsement from pop superstar Taylor Swift, thousands of Swift fans, including some high-profile cultural and political figures, gathered on a video call with the goal of ensuring his defeat.
Tech startups innovate to snuff out wildfires
TWAIN HARTE, Calif. —This is the tinderbox of the Sierra Nevada. It’s early June, the temperature is 97 degrees Fahrenheit and the air shimmers over dead trees choked in brush. In the Stanislaus National Forest, logging roads wind through firs and ponderosa pines, past 20-foot-tall burn piles — tons of scrap wood not worth bringing to a sawmill. They’ve been assembled by workers on the front line of the fight against forest fires: a timber crew thinning these woods for the Forest Service and a tech startup that’s trying to automate the enormous machines the crew relies on.
