Trump's Madison Square Garden Rally Sparks Controversy

Whoever takes office in January will face a region being reshaped by an emboldened Israel and the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Multiple Republican lawmakers have denounced comments from a speaker at former President Trump’s rally in New York on Sunday about Puerto Rico. At the rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said “I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the...

Influential voices in China are openly discussing who could act as a trusted bridge between Beijing and Washington, regardless of who wins the presidency.

Donald Trump's campaign had advertised the event as where he would deliver his closing message ahead of Election Day.

Never-before-seen photos of Prince William with his mother Diana released

On the Ukrainian steppe, where it is nearly impossible to hide from drone surveillance, windbreaks are fought over by Russian and Ukrainian troops.

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Some $544 million worth of illicit weed has been seized, but those on the front lines say the black market is ‘big and bad as ever.’

Trump’s hometown, deep blue New York — whose unpopular Democrat leaders have tried to lock him up — welcomed the former president back as a conquering hero.

Democratic strategists alarmed over former President Trump's track record of outperforming the polls are hoping that Vice President Harris will benefit from a surge of Democratic "ghost voters," young women they hope will turn out in large numbers for Election Day even though they are not being captured by recent polls. Polls in battlegrounds states...

Climate change has been hard for vineyards, but also made it possible to grow the grapes that make sparkling wine in southern England.

In today’s issue: Is it possible for the 2024 presidential election to be tied all the way to the end? In a word, yes, according to polling. And each campaign can read the signs on the ground. There are eight suspenseful days to go. The candidates’ travel schedules remain frenetic. Philadelphia is ground zero. Vice President Harris and running mate...

The Republican nominee’s fixation on The Atlantic follows a dark pattern.

Those tossing and turning throughout their early midlife years may be more susceptible to dementia as they age, researchers found.

Some $544 million worth of illicit weed has been seized, but those on the front lines say the black market is ‘big and bad as ever.’

Israeli troops have withdrawn from Kamal Adwan Hospital after a days-long raid, the IDF said. Gaza cease-fire talks are ongoing in Doha, said a person briefed on the talks.

Texas has been trending blue for a decade — that means Democrats could win the White House and maintain the narrowest of majorities in the Senate.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters in historic Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, October 27.

This Political Season, Americans Need To Chill Out

With only days to go, it is clear that Donald Trump is in a much stronger position than he was just weeks ago.

Some $544 million worth of illicit weed has been seized, but those on the front lines say the black market is ‘big and bad as ever.’

The Georgian Dream party’s founder has vowed to ban opposition parties and take the country in a pro-Russian election. Observers allege fraud in the election.

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The solution to climate change is to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy; thanks to the Biden administration and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), clean energy is putting down deep roots in the economy.

The British socialist writer Dave Widgery played a key role in Rock Against Racism, a mass movement that brought culture and politics together. With the far right on the rise again, Widgery’s ideas and example are now strikingly relevant.

The 2024 presidential election has seen Donald Trump's campaign focus on sexual issues, such as taxpayer-funded sex-change surgeries for prisoners, while Kamala Harris' campaign is emphasizing Trump's unfitness for office and his reluctance to offer disaster aid to areas dominated by Democrats.

Vice President Harris is campaigning in Michigan on Monday while former President Trump heads to Georgia, as the two presidential nominees kick off their final full week before voters head to the polls on Election Day. Harris will highlight her focus on manufacturing jobs, with multiple stops in Michigan on Monday. She will visit Corning’s...

A Trump campaign adviser sought to distance the former president and his operation from a racist joke about Puerto Rico delivered by a speaker at former President Trump's New York City rally on Sunday amid swift backlash from both sides of the aisle. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who goes by Kill Tony, delivered a set hours...

Israeli troops have withdrawn from Kamal Adwan Hospital after a days-long raid, the IDF said. Gaza cease-fire talks are ongoing in Doha, said a person briefed on the talks.

Vice President Harris appears to be increasing her support among young Black men, a crucial voting bloc she has struggled with in recent weeks. New polling from the Alliance for Black Equality, a Super PAC mobilizing Black voters in swing states, found that Harris has increased her support by 10 points with Black Gen Z...

The NATO chief called the deployment a “dangerous expansion,” and it could mean North Korea troops will be directly fighting Ukrainian forces.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) criticized Jeff Bezos after The Washington Post, which the billionaire owns, broke with decades of the newspaper’s history and decided not to make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race. Cheney said during an interview with David Remnick at the annual New Yorker festival on Saturday that Bezos was “afraid” to issue...

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban said in a Sunday interview it’s “not a stretch” to call former President Trump a “fascist,” after his presidential candidate of choice, Vice President Harris, did the same at a town hall last week. Asked what he makes of Harris using that label for Trump, Cuban told ABC News’s Jonathan Karl in...

Former President Donald Trump's campaign sought to distance themselves from an offensive joke about Puerto Rico at Madison Square Garden before Trump spoke.

Israeli troops pulled back from Kamal Adwan Hospital after a days-long raid, the IDF said. Gaza cease-fire talks are ongoing in Doha, a person briefed on them said.

Molly Olmstead

Americans should prepare for “unrest’ if former President Donald Trump completes the greatest political comeback in modern American politics, Democrats told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

Molly Olmstead

Vice President Harris regained her 4-point lead over former President Trump in a new national survey from ABC News and Ipsos. Harris leads Trump by 4 points among likely voters nationally, 51 percent to 47 percent, in the survey released Sunday and conducted Oct. 18-22. Among registered voters, Harris has a narrower lead, 49 percent...

Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said jokes made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe about Puerto Rico, Jews and other ethnicities at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night were in "poor taste," as the campaign sought to distance itself from the material.   “It was a comedian who made a joke in poor taste,” Leavitt said during...

It depends on how much Harris can run up the score.

The former president and his allies railed against Democratic rival Kamala Harris at a rally a little over a week before election day. Both Trump and Harris will barnstorm battleground states this week.

Pensions are a major sticking point between Boeing and its striking machinists union. Many workers want the company to restore the pension plan they lost a decade ago, but Boeing hasn’t budged.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called former President Trump’s Madison Sqaure Garden event one of his “mini January 6 rallies,” saying he is readying his supporters to reject the results of any election he loses.   “This was not just a presidential rally, this was also not just a campaign rally,” the progressive Democrat said during an...

Rep. Colin Allred (D) is homing in on suburban voters to pull him over the finish line with a week to go in Texas’ increasingly tight Senate race. Polls have shown Allred closing the gap with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), with some recent surveys showing a tie. Though Allred is still seen as the underdog,...

Domestic violent extremists are considering a range of activities to disrupt the 2024 election and the peaceful transfer of power, with U.S. intelligence agencies seeing greater discussions around a future civil war and plans to destroy ballot drop boxes. The warning comes from a series of bulletins prepared by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

With just over a week before the election, vice-presidential candidate Governor Tim Walz, and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, played Madden NFL together on the live-streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.

The latest batch of national polls and swing state surveys shows the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is as tight as ever.

Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Thomas Homan said that “families can be deported” together as a solution to separating families when carrying out mass deportation. In a 60 Minutes interview Sunday night, Horman, who was ICE director for a part of former President Trump’s administration, spoke on the GOP candidate’s pledge to implement...

GOP Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance made an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, which resulted in a fiery exchange with CNN anchor Jake Tapper.

The Madison Square Garden rally featured high-profile speakers, but some overshadowed the event with remarks that caused backlash.

President Biden on Monday voted in the 2024 election while in his home state of Delaware, casting his ballot in a race that he was running in just a few months ago. “Joseph Biden, now voting,” announced a woman who checked in the president at the New Castle, Del., voting location. The president presented his...

An actor known for roles in the animated series “Bob’s Burgers” and “Arrested Development” was on Monday sentenced to a year and one day in prison in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Jay Johnston, who voiced the role of Jimmy Pesto in “Bob’s Burgers” and played Officer Taylor on “Arrested Development,” pleaded...

Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended former President Donald Trump on Saturday, after Vice President Kamala Harris and others have amped up their divisive rhetoric, calling the former president a “fascist” similar to Adolf Hitler.

Senator Mike Lee has proposed reforms to strengthen the Senate, empower individual members, and ensure that the voices of the American people are heard, but some Republicans are resisting these changes.

The next president will face decisions on drug price negotiations, enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans and medication abortion among other issues. Here's where the candidates stand.

Volkswagen, the largest employer in Germany, is facing increased competition from China and weakening demand.

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.

Israeli troops pulled back from Kamal Adwan Hospital after a days-long raid, the IDF said. Gaza cease-fire talks are ongoing in Doha, a person briefed on them said.

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...

Former President Donald Trump leads incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris in New Hampshire, a state considered safely in her column a week ago.

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....

Former President Donald Trump leads incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris in New Hampshire, a state considered safely in her column a week ago.

Journalist Eliza Griswold says complaints about homophobia, white privilege and diversity are splintering progressive organizations — including one particular church. Her book is Circle of Hope.

It would be a shame if Americans went to the voting booth without understanding this important fact.

Multiple federal agencies are working together on an “interagency operation” pertaining to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently being held, the Bureau of Prisons announced on Monday.

Vice President Harris has announced a map on the popular video game Fortnite as part of her campaign. The map, called “Freedom Town, USA” is attached to taglines like “Fight For Freedom” and was designed around Harris’s campaign pillars, including tax breaks for small businesses and affordable housing.   The map is joined by...

In the campaign’s final week, Trump returned to New York to feed his ego and the hate of a party that seems to have lost all pretense of wanting a democracy, columnist Anita Chabria writes.

Toxic pesticides dumped off Southern California's coast decades ago are staying put — deep in adjacent ocean sediments and in the fish that reside in these habitats, a new study has found. Current levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), an agricultural insecticide banned in 1972, remain highest in sediments and fish located closest to the old discharge...

Police say they have identified a “suspect vehicle” connected to incendiary devices that set fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state early Monday.

Former President Donald Trump's campaign sought to distance themselves from an offensive joke about Puerto Rico at Madison Square Garden before Trump spoke.

Vice President Harris will sit for another interview with Charlamagne tha God on Tuesday morning. It will be her second interview with the radio host since announcing her campaign back in July. Harris sat with Charlamagne two weeks ago for a town hall in Detroit.  She faced questions from both the radio host and his audience, though the...

Elon Musk and his America PAC were sued Monday by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who says their $1 million daily giveaway is illegal.

Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of Pennsylvania voters.

Nevada’s Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision on Monday allowing mail ballots to be counted if they arrive without a postmark up to three days after the Nov. 5 election. A majority of the high court ruled the state law requiring mail-in ballots to be counted even if the postmark “cannot be determined” applied...

FROTHING NYC MAGA RALLY

The unhinged, often racist madness at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally is a preview of what his win on Election Day would unleash. Yet the Democratic Party has continuously refused to wage a substantive campaign to defeat him.

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The President of Egypt, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, announced a proposal on Sunday that detailed a two-day ceasefire plan involving Israel and Hamas, which includes a hostage exchange.

Former President Trump is holding a rally in Atlanta as both presidential campaigns urge their supporters to vote early ahead of Election Day next week. Georgia is one of the key swing states that will decide the election and early voting has already broken records in the Peach State. The rally begins at 6 pm....

Jenna Wang, 59, told The Post in a phone interview on Monday that she had fallen head over heels for the now-Minnesota governor when he was a young English instructor in China.

The Washington Post has lost more than 200,000 digital subscriptions since its decision to not endorse a candidate in this year's presidential election, according to a report bv NPR citing two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Such a number would amounts to around eight percent of the outlet's 2.5 million digital...

Donald Trump’s campaign issued a rare statement distancing itself from a comedian’s offensive joke about Puerto Rico at Mr. Trump’s rally on Sunday.

In the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, seven battleground states may push the Electoral College in either direction.

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A ‘brain-dead’ patient woke up in the OR. But a witness says an organ procurement group kept ‘pushing’

How the coldest place on Earth became one of the world’s hottest vacation spots

The latest batch of national polls and swing state surveys shows the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is as tight as ever.

Federal officials have been warning that in recent months, some social media users have been encouraging sabotage of ballot drop boxes. "It's a direct attack on democracy," said one local official.

An illegal immigrant was taken into custody on Saturday for sexual assault charges after a Florida woman disguised a 911 call as a pizza order.

Longtime San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich went on a tirade criticizing former President Donald Trump prior to Saturday’s game against the Houston Rockets.

In the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are focusing on two pivotal battlegrounds: Michigan and Georgia.

A ‘brain-dead’ patient woke up in the OR. But a witness says an organ procurement group kept ‘pushing’

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, broke his silence late Monday in the face of an intensifying controversy over the outlet's decision not to endorse a candidate in this year's presidential election. In an Op-Ed published in the Post, Bezos pushed back on suggestions that the decision, which...

Former President Trump on Monday boasted about the attendance at his Madison Square Garden rally even as his campaign finds itself engulfed in controversy over jokes made during the event. “Look! Look! Up in the little, tiny corners of this big place. We've had the greatest rallies in the history of the world, not just...

The USA TODAY Network followed election workers in swing states including a clerk, lawyers, poll workers, poll watchers and a county commissioner.

Israel passed a law on Monday banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), according to multiple reports. Israel’s legislature, the Knesset, voted 92-10 to bar the UNRWA from operating on Israeli soil on Monday, notes the Associated Press. “It was approved by the plenary: UNRWA activities...

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