American Battleground: Cat people are still haunting Trump’s campaign
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A look back at the moment Team Trump learned to avoid another TV showdown with Kamala Harris.
“Kamalaaaaaaaa!” Oprah Winfrey is belting it out in her sweet home of Chicago, welcoming the joyous, raucous, unmerciful dismantling of former President Donald Trump that is defining this Democratic National Convention. “We are now so fired up, we can’t wait to leave here and do something!” she shouts to the rapturous crowd. “And what we’re going to do is elect Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States!” The convention that had threatened to become a political wake as President Joe Biden’s campaign sank, has been reanimated by the rise of Vice President Harris. On the third full week of August, in the City of Big Shoulders, the party is flexing. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was edged out by Trump in 2016, proclaims, “We have him on the run now!” Biden, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and Jason Carter, serving as proxy for his grandfather in hospice, former President Jimmy Carter, take turns lavishing praise on Harris and mocking Trump’s ego, lies and conspiracy theories. Their presence is a reminder that no presidents, current or past, have ever endorsed Trump. Former first lady Michelle Obama claps back to the Biden debate when Trump said of immigrants, “They’re taking Black jobs, now.” She brings down the house by saying, “Who’s going to tell him that the job he is currently seeking might just be one of those ‘Black jobs’?” Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz hypes the crowd while his 17-year-old son creates one of the most human moments in the whole bitter election, cheering, weeping and shouting, “That’s my dad!”
Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate
A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities
Some Medicare enrollees may soon be able to access super-popular drugs for obesity under a voluntary model program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday. Eligible beneficiaries will only have to pay $50 a month.
The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.
A Delaware state trooper was killed along with the suspected gunman Tuesday during a shooting at a motor vehicle agency near Wilmington, authorities said.
Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn’t seeking re-election.
A new lawsuit filed in Washington, DC’s federal court Monday challenges the Kennedy Center board of trustees’ move to add President Donald Trump’s name to the cultural institution.
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Some staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs are finding little to be merry about after the agency said it would eliminate tens of thousands of open, unfilled positions across the country as it looks to streamline its staffing.
Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with “metastasized, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.”
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Political opposites are closing 2025 as they did 2024: on each side of America’s Donald Trump divide. But CNN’s “All Over the Map” survey did provide several interesting takeaways. Some may be instructive about the midterm election climate, at least at this beginning stage.
A 2-year-old child is among at least five people who were killed when a Mexican Navy plane carrying medical patients crashed into the waters of Galveston Bay in Texas on Monday afternoon, US Coast Guard officials say.