United States and Israeli authorities warned their citizens on Wednesday against traveling to certain popular tourist spots in Sri Lanka, after receiving “credible” threats of an impending attack. The U.S. Embassy in Colombo issued a notice that it received “credible information warning of an attack” on tourist locations in the Arugam Bay area. “Due to...
Veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod says Vice President Harris is caught in a “terrible place” on the growing conflict in the Middle East, which threatens to turn off Lebanese and Palestinian American voters in Michigan, a crucial battleground state. “This is a very fraught thing for Harris because in some ways she’s at the mercy...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and his family voted early on Wednesday morning, filling out their ballots in Saint Paul just less than two weeks out from Election Day. Walz, Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz and their 18-year-old son, Gus, went to the Ramsey County election office to vote. “It’s Gus’s...
Two U.S. troops were injured Tuesday in a joint raid with Iraqi security forces that killed at least seven senior Islamic State group leaders, according to the Pentagon. During the early morning operation, which included strikes and follow-on raids on multiple ISIS locations in central Iraq, the two U.S. military personnel were wounded while "assisting...
Former President Trump is hosting a "Believers and Ballots" town hall in the battleground state of Georgia on Wednesday afternoon, with remarks focused on religious freedom and support for Jewish communities. Trump will be joined by Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones at the event, which comes just shy of two weeks until Election Day. He...
MSNBC senior national security analyst John Brennan questioned voters' support of former President Trump after retired Gen. John Kelly alleged that Trump praised Adolf Hitler's generals, confirming previous reports from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. “We have seen this continuous pattern over the course of many years of Donald Trump endorsing individuals such as a...
Vice President Harris on Wednesday responded to former White House chief of staff John Kelly’s recent remarks that former President Trump fits a ‘fascist’ definition, arguing he has become more unstable and wants unchecked power. “It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone — who I quote — certainly falls in...
Sen. Thom Tillis has led a bipartisan group of senators in calling for Congress to pass a disaster funding package to assist victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, as the SBA disaster loan fund has run out of money and FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund is in danger of running out of money.