Politics

Obama rallies with Walz in Wisconsin: ‘America is ready to turn the page’

MADISON, Wis. — Barack Obama appeared at a rally Tuesday with Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, marking the former president’s first event with a member of his party’s ticket since Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign in July. Both Obama…

Georgia Supreme Court declines to reinstate Trump-allied board’s election rules

The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to reinstate an array of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board that a lower court judge had tossed last week after calling them unconstitutional and void. The…

Biden spurs controversy by saying ‘We’ve got to lock him up’ about Trump

CONCORD, N.H. — President Joe Biden sparked controversy Tuesday with a new attack line against former president Donald Trump, telling Democrats, “We’ve got to lock him up,” before moderating to suggest he meant figurative rather than literal incarceration. After listing…

Kamala Harris’s narrow opening with GOP-leaning voters

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McDonald’s where Trump served fries hit with flurry of bad Yelp reviews

Yelp disabled comments for a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania where former president Donald Trump manned the fry station during a weekend campaign stop, after the restaurant’s Yelp page was hit by a flurry of politicized reviews. “Went to this McDonalds to…

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…