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Vice President Kamala Harris has lost steam and her edge against former President Donald Trump has slipped in three major polls with less than a month to go until Election Day — yet another blow to Democrats who were already starting to panic about November. Harris has lost six percentage points on Trump in a single month in the NBC News poll, giving the former president the slimmest lead of 47% to 46% among registered voters — with third-party contenders included. Last month, Harris scored 47% to Trump’s 41% in the same poll.

BREAKING: Man arrested near Trump's California rally was armed and tried to use fake VIP pass to enter venue, sheriff says

CNN — The US will send an advanced anti-missile system — and US troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel on April 13 and again on October 1,” the Pentagon said Sunday. It is not the first time the US has deployed the system, the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery, to the Middle East, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in the statement, and the system was also deployed to Israel in 2019 for an exercise. But the deployment of additional US troops to...

Two Army veterans, both lawyers who have not held elected office, are competing in Virginia’s 7th District to replace Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D), who is running for governor. Both are credible candidates, and polls show a race within the margin of error for a seat that will play an outsize role in determining who controls the House.Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman (D) is a better fit for the region than Republican Derrick Anderson. A thoughtful retired soldier, Mr. Vindman has positioned himself as a pro-business, pro-military moderate. Asked during an endorsement interview which members of Congress he would emulate, he named centrist...

If someone has no registered firearms, and so obstensively is not "on the radar", but wishes to carry concealed for strickly self-defense purposes, would obtaining a concealed carry permit be a mistake? In Arizona, concealed carry is allowed without a permit, except in drinking establishments. So that is the only advantage I could see in Arizona. But how about traveling through reciprocal carry states? `

Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that if elected, former President Donald Trump will “institute a fascist regime.” Carville said, “Just from what we learned in the last 48 hours. We had General Flynn say that the gates of Hell are going to reign on Trump’s enemies when he wins. We had General Milley say that he is a fascist to his core. We heard Trump on Fox this morning say he’s going to use the military to round up his political enemies. Trump has announced that he will be giving a speech at Madison Square Garden...

I’ve never considered “immigrant” my calling card, even though it’s one I’ve always carried. I arrived here first as a 3-year-old boy in the mid-1970s, settling with my family in Northern California, in a small town with trees so thick that their branches mingled high over the roads. My mother introduced us around the neighborhood not just as a new family, but as a Peruvian family (she signed cards, “from your Peruvian friends”). It mattered to her that people knew, whether to convey her pride or pre-empt their questions. Even when you’re trying to fit in, you can’t help standing...

Here’s a bit of advice to help maintain your sanity over the next few weeks until Election Day: Just ignore the polls. Unless you’re a campaign professional or a gambler, you’re probably looking at them for the same reason the rest of us are: to know who’ll win. Or at least to feel like you know who’ll win. But they just can’t tell you that.Back in 2016, Harry Enten, then at FiveThirtyEight, calculated the final polling error in every presidential election between 1968 and 2012. On average, the polls missed by two percentage points. In 2016, an American Association for...

The Harris campaign’s decision to bring “degenerate” former President Bill Clinton back to the political stage is “absolutely unbelievable,” according to Clinton accuser Juanita Broaddrick, who called the 42nd president “the most prolific sexual abuser in history,” while insisting the move further undermines Vice President Kamala Harris’s platform as a defender of women. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Sunday, Broaddrick did not hold back when discussing Bill Clinton’s unexpected return to national politics as a surrogate for the Harris campaign.

Catching up after the power and internet outage due to Hurricane MiltonExplanation: A gravel country lane gently winds through this colorful rural night skyscape. Captured from Monroe County in southern West Virginia on the evening of October 10, the starry sky above is a familiar sight. Shimmering curtains of aurora borealis or northern lights definitely do not make regular appearances here, though. Surprisingly vivid auroral displays were present on that night at very low latitudes around the globe, far from their usual northern and southern high latitude realms. The extensive auroral activity was evidence of a severe geomagnetic storm triggered...

Las Vegas is best known for its glittering casinos along the Strip, but it is also a perennial political battleground. That is partly because it is a transient region inside a transient state — a place where people move in and out with rapid speed, adding a new crop of voters with every election cycle. Adding to that volatility is the fact that the state’s demographics skew young, and that the number of new voter registrations keep growing. Much of that growth comes from Hispanic voters, who make up more than 20 percent of the Nevada electorate. For nearly two...

During Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, responded to host Martha Raddatz’s criticism of former President Donald Trump’s attacks on Biden-Harris immigration policy and for attributing a Venezuelan gang problem in Aurora, CO to that policy. Vance questioned Raddatz for attacking Trump when she admitted Venezuelan gangs overran apartment complexes.

The relationship between Kamala Harris' team and Joe Biden's White House has been increasingly fraught in the final weeks before Election Day, 10 people familiar with the situation tell Axios. Why it matters: Biden's team wants Harris to win the election, but many senior Biden aides remain wounded by the president being pushed out of his re-election bid and are still adjusting to being in a supporting role on the campaign trail. "They're too much in their feelings," one close Harris ally said of the president's team — a sentiment shared even by some White House aides. Driving the news:...

Elon Musk’s Starship rocket has completed a world first after part of it was captured on its return to the launch pad. The SpaceX vehicle's lower half manoeuvred back beside its launch tower where it was caught in a giant pair of mechanical arms, as part of its first test flight. It brings SpaceX’s ambition of developing a fully reusable and rapidly deployable rocket a big step closer. "A day for the history books," engineers at SpaceX declared as the booster landed safely. The chances of the bottom part of the rocket, known as the Super Heavy booster, being caught...

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arrested an armed man who allegedly said he wanted to “kill the president” outside the perimeter of a Trump rally on Oct. 12, Sheriff Chad Bianco told The Epoch Times in a text message on Sunday. The rally was held in the city of Coachella in Southern California, 130 miles east of Los Angeles. “We arrested a man trying to get in the perimeter with two firearms who ended up saying he was going to kill the president,” Bianco said in the text. The arrest occurred in the wake of two previous alleged assassination attempts...

This might be the first time that average Americans read a top Russian official’s views without a filter. It’s rare nowadays for Russian officials to give interviews to Western media, both because the first suspect that their words won’t be accurately reported while the second fear being “canceled”, which is why it’s so important that Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov just gave a written interview to Newsweek. He concisely summarized his country’s positions on the Ukrainian Conflict, multipolarity, and the US’ upcoming presidential election, which will be reviewed. Regarding the first, he reaffirmed the official position that Kiev should comply with...

The United States is sending an advanced missile defense system to Israel, and will deploy about 100 American troops to operate it, the Pentagon announced on Sunday.President Biden directed Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, and its crew, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement on Sunday.The move comes after Iran launched about 200 missiles, including ballistic missiles, at Israel on Oct. 1 and as Israel plans its retaliatory attack. It will put American troops closer to the widening war in the Middle East.General...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s support among Hispanic voters is in dangerously low territory for Democrats, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, while her rival, former President Donald J. Trump, has maintained his strength with the fast-growing group poised to play a key role in deciding control of the White House.The survey of the likely Latino electorate across the country found Ms. Harris underperforming the last three Democratic candidates for the White House, and vulnerable on a slate of top issues, including the economy, immigration and crime.Mr. Trump, who shocked Democrats four years ago with his appeal to Latinos,...

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality estimates that each border crosser leaves approximately six to eight pounds of trash in the desert during his or her journey. If you do the rough math, the total amount of strewn garbage caused by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas greenlighting millions of illegal migrants, all trampling their way across the southern frontier, is stunning. Americans have probably wondered why federal environmental law does not prevent, or at least slow, Mayorkas from bringing about this mess. After all, the Biden-Harris administration has done much more than simply benignly tolerate or mildly encourage this massive human...

Vice President Kamala Harris has lost steam and her edge against former President Donald Trump has slipped in three major polls with less than a month to go until Election Day — yet another blow to Democrats who were already starting to panic about November. Harris has lost six percentage points on Trump in a single month in the NBC News poll, giving the former president the slimmest lead of 47% to 46% among registered voters — with third-party contenders included. Last month, Harris scored 47% to Trump’s 41% in the same poll. A separate survey from ABC News/Ipsos also...