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Oddsmakers betting big on Trump a week from election

While opinion polls in the 2024 election are just now starting to swing toward Donald Trump, the online political gambling markets have been betting big on the former president for weeks.

Brian Williams and Amazon are asking election night news-seekers to take a leap of faith with them

Let no one accuse Brian Williams of trying to lower expectations a week before his election night special coverage on Amazon Prime Video.

Woodrow Wilson showed how repressive so-called ‘Progressives’ can be

The roots of this nation’s Progressive Movement were racist, repressive, dismissive of the First Amendment and other civil liberties, and hostile to women’s rights to vote or to petition elected officials. Those are key takeaways, some of them relevant to this year’s election, from a Pulitzer Prize-worthy new history about former President Woodrow Wilson, whose presidency was the apotheosis […]

The US must address adversaries’ anti-sanctions three-card monte

One of the biggest handicaps of U.S. policy is that across administrations, U.S. policymakers expect rogues to conform to Washington’s bureaucratic geography rather than vice versa. After my first trip to the Horn of Africa, the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs sought a debriefing about Fahad Yasin, a former Al Jazeera journalist with close […]

Harris holds 12-point lead in key Nebraska congressional district: Poll

Vice President Harris leads former President Trump 54 percent to 42 percent in Nebraska's "blue dot" Omaha presidential electoral voting bloc, according to a recent poll.

Shifting alliances in the Horn of Africa: An Egypt-Eritrea-Somalia axis

Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia have formed a trilateral summit to boost cooperation and maintain territorial integrity, with the big elephant in the room being Ethiopia, as tensions over its activities and influence continue to simmer.

Biden says Musk super PAC’s $1M giveaways ‘totally inappropriate’

President Biden criticized Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaways to registered swing state voters Monday, calling them “totally inappropriate.” “I think it's totally inappropriate,” the president told reporters after casting his ballot in his home state of Delaware. America PAC, Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC, has faced pushback since launching the controversial sweepstakes earlier this month....

Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders to stump for Harris in Wisconsin 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are taking the stage in Madison, Wis., to campaign for Vice President Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Monday night.   Sanders is also scheduled to make an appearance in Oshkosh, Wis., on Monday afternoon. With early voting well underway across the country already, the...

The real monster this Halloween: Our national debt and a dysfunctional Congress

Congress is facing a potential government shutdown on Dec. 20 due to its reliance on continuing resolutions and bloated omnibus bills, and is being urged to address the monster of reckless spending.

Geraldo Rivera to Latino men: ‘A vote for Trump is a vote against self-respect’ 

Television personality and former Trump ally Geraldo Rivera is urging Latino men against voting for former President Trump, writing that “A vote for Trump is a vote against self-respect." Rivera's comments come amid widespread outcry over remarks by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday night. Hinchcliffe, who goes by Kill Tony,...

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