Former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has opened up a sizable advantage in the election betting odds in recent weeks, giving Americans a new way of trying to piece together what might happen come Election Day. “More than two billion dollars have been bet on the election already,” Maxim Lott, who runs ElectionBettingOdds.com, told […]
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Trump works the fry section at PA Mcdonalds
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on Sunday before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions through the drive-thru window. As reporters and aides watched, an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in oil, salt the fries and put them into boxes using a […]
Harris ditching Biden; stumping with Obamas
Vice President Kamala Harris is downsizing President Joe Biden’s role in her campaign as she struggles to paint herself as an agent of change. While Harris is barnstorming the country with a concoction of varied political allies, including former President Barack Obama and former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the Democratic Party’s commander in chief […]
Dems on attack as Trump becomes more popular
It’s hard to measure the intensity of negative media coverage of former President Donald Trump, but it’s safe to say it is rising as Election Day approaches. What’s interesting to note is that in the face of unrelentingly negative coverage, at a high level now but negative for a long time, the public views Trump […]
Musk will award 1 million per day to PA voters
Billionaire Elon Musk promised on Saturday to give away $1 million each day until November’s election to someone who signs his online petition supporting the U.S. Constitution.And he wasted no time, awarding a $1 million check to an attendee of his event in Pennsylvania aimed at rallying supporters behind Republican Donald Trump. The winner was […]
Traffic deaths in this state up 51% in last 5 years
The number of annual traffic fatalities in Washington state has jumped from 528 in 2019 to 810 in 2023, a 51% increase since 2019, according to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission. The reasons given for the increase vary, ranging from fallout among law enforcement staffing via the defund the police movement in 2020 to increased […]
Kamala’s joyful 60th; No Happy Birthday!
As Vice President Kamala Harris gears up for her 60th birthday and a tight showdown with former President Donald Trump, her campaign has notably taken on a harsher attitude. Harris traveled to Michigan on Friday, where she held multiple campaign events and targeted Trump. The vice president attended a rally Saturday alongside recording artist Lizzo […]
Activists are being trained to disrupt election
On a Friday night in a warehouse plastered with posters of MAGA figures like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, former tax law professor David Clements demonstrated to a group of 30 people how to take over a public meeting if their election concerns aren’t being taken seriously. “You need to focus right now on who administers […]
Man attacked by ‘sexually frustrated’ dolphin
A man says he is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a “sexually frustrated” dolphin which experts believe is responsible for terrorising a Japanese town all summer. Takuma Goto had been swimming off the town of Tsuruga in central Japan with a friend earlier this summer when they were attacked by a lone […]
Trump now favored to win for 1st time since Aug
Former President Donald Trump is the favorite to win November’s presidential election for the first time since August 7, according to the latest model from polling analytics website FiveThirtyEight. The most recent FiveThirtyEight update published on Friday gave the Republican a 51 percent chance of victory on November 5 against 49 percent for Democratic rival, […]
Obamas hitting the campaign trail for Kamala
Democrat Kamala Harris will campaign for the first time with Barack and Michelle Obama in separate events next week, hoping to inject some political star power in the final dash to election day in November, a senior campaign official said.The former president and his wife remain immensely popular with the Democratic base and are expected […]
Israel kills enemy # 1 Hamas leader Sinwar
Israeli troops had for more than a year hunted the leader of Hamas, who disappeared in Gaza soon after masterminding the 7 October attacks.Yahya Sinwar, 61, was said to have spent much of his time hiding in the tunnels under the Strip, along with a cadre of bodyguards and a “human shield” of hostages seized […]