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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday said that former President Trump should “tone it down” in an interview on MSNBC, following a post on X by Trump that blamed Democratic rhetoric for political violence. “I would suggest to Donald Trump: tone it down. Let’s have a debate on issues, let’s have honest disagreements, but don’t start calling people terrible names or suggesting that people are communists,” Sanders said in the interview. In Trump’s post on Monday, he wrote,” Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!” Trump’s post came after an apparent...

CEO Jim Farley is trying to learn from his greatest competitor and is now trying to copy parts of China's electric vehicle playbook. =================================================================== Ford’s CEO Jim Farley first sounded the warning back in May, after his visit to China, but it’s been quietly happening in the background for far longer; Chinese electric vehicles, or EVs, are gobbling up the Chinese domestic market. They may even be on pace to do the same globally. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Farley described the situation as an "existential threat" to Ford, highlighting the rapid pace at which Chinese automakers are advancing...

<p>DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Joe Wiederien was an unlikely candidate to challenge a Republican congressman in one of the nation’s most competitive House districts.</p><p>A fervent supporter of former President Donald Trump, Wiederien was registered as a Republican until months earlier. A debilitating stroke had left him unable to drive. He had never run for office. For a time, he couldn’t vote because of a felony conviction.</p>

Minnesota Democrats have complained in past elections of dirty deeds in the race for the 2nd Congressional District. In both 2020 and 2022, candidates claiming to be with marijuana legalization parties filed to run in what Democrats feared was an attempt to draw votes from Democratic incumbent Angie Craig. One even left a voicemail message for a friend saying he had, in fact, been recruited as a spoiler candidate. It didn’t work. Craig won by more than enough votes to compensate for any skimming of votes. And in a bizarre coincidence, both legalization candidates died before Election Day. This year,...

“We concluded that this was the right thing for the economy and the people we serve,” the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, said, referring to the central bank’s decision to cut interest rates by half a point.

Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump by only a single point in the battleground state of Wisconsin. FabrizioWard surveyed 600 likely voters and found a 49 to 48 percent squeaker in Harris’s favor. The poll was taken entirely after the September 10 debate, between September 11 and 14, 2024, and lines up with other polls in Dairy State that show an insanely tight race. With independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the ballot, Harris leads by three points, 48 to 45 percent. Kennedy is still appealing to be removed from the ballot after suspending his campaign...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump and chose to sit out the presidential election, marking the first time first time since 1996 that it did not endorse a candidate.

Pennsylvania - Quinnipiac Poll - 9/12-9/16 - Kamala Harris 51% - Donald Trump 46%

A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was tightly wrapped in tarps the past four years, symbolizing the community's enduring division over how to commemorate the past. Grenada’s first Black mayor in two decades seems determined to follow through on the city’s plans to relocate the monument to other public land. A concrete slab has already been poured behind a fire station about 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) from the square. But a new fight might be developing. A Republican lawmaker from another part of Mississippi wrote...

The Teamsters Union, representing more than one million members, released the results of its presidential poll among members — showing that almost 60 percent of Teamsters support former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. The poll, released on Wednesday, shows that the most recent telephone poll of Teamsters — taken September 9-15, 2024 — found that 58 percent support Trump in the presidential election while just 31 percent back Harris. About six percent are undecided, and five percent are unsure. Polling conducted from July 24 through September 15, 2024, found similar results, with more than 59 percent of...

“Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible.”

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points Wednesday, the central bank’s first rate reduction following a two-and-a-half year crusade against inflation that raged in the wake of the pandemic. The new federal funds rate is 4.75 percent to 5 percent, a jumbo rate cut that signals the Fed’s confidence that its war against inflation is coming to an end. The pandemic hit the economy hard, scrambling supply chains, shuttering stores and leading to layoffs of millions of Americans. When the world started to reopen in the spring of 2021, however, the economy went into overdrive. The consumer...

Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the latest apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump, was found in a vantage point regularly used by news photographers. On Sunday, Routh was arrested in connection with what the FBI said was an attempted assassination on the former President at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh reportedly camped out on the edge of Trump’s Florida golf course for nearly 12 hours with food and armed with an SKS-style rifle, before being confronted by one of Trump’s security detail. A Secret Service agent saw Routh pointing a semi-automatic weapon through the...

The incident happened at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania uthorities announced that misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest were filed against Weiss, who was taken into custody at Friday’s Trump rally. Weiss shared an image of the banner that showed a drawing of the former president with the words, "PA IS FOR PATRIOTS NOT SGT SELFIE." Johnstown police Chief Richard Pritchard said investigators did not know what the banner said because arena staff apparently discarded it. Weiss told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 reporter Marcie Cipriani that he concealed a tube of glue in a metal crutch,...

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), said Wednesday that there would be no “normalization” of relations with Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state — a reversal of his position one year ago. In September 2023, as Breitbart News reported, MBS said that he wanted to see a “good life” for Palestinians emerge from any peace deal with Israel, but specifically excluded mention of a Palestinian state. While the Saudi foreign minister insisted on a Palestinian state, MBS — the real source of power in the kingdom — pointedly did not. But the Biden administration reportedly intervened,...

Rep. Dan S. Goldman (D-NY), a former aide to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump intends to “execute a coup” on January 6, 2025, if he loses the race. In a fundraising text message signed by Goldman, he urges recipients to rush campaign contributions to his website (via ActBlue). The message reads (fundraising link omitted): Dan Goldman here with an important update on Donald Trump and New York. In just a few hours, Trump will hold a rally on Long Island in a critical battleground district. Trump knows...

Readers of the New York Times know the news may change, but the message is always the same in their paper of record. It will play up every Republican kerfuffle and downplay Democratic scandals while presenting the choice between the two parties as a Manichean struggle between good and evil. Now clad in rainbow colors, the Gray Lady will, in the name of inclusion, celebrate a wide range of heretofore marginal behaviors – homosexuality, polyamory and transgenderism – while sowing divisions by separating Americans into warring camps based on race, gender, and ethnicity.The transformation of the Times, and much of...

When Breitbart’s own singer/songwriter Jon Kahn sat down at the piano recently, he had one simple thought: What kind of man could withstand the relentless barrage of attacks that have been leveled at former President Donald Trump? The answer was as simple as the question: a FIGHTER. ....

And then you wonder why I get shot at, right? Only consequential presidents get shot at. When I say something like that, you have countries saying, "This guy..." But what can you do? You have to do what you have to do, right? We have to be brave, otherwise we're not going to have a country left.

John Tester has been a bit of a counter intuitive for the state of Montana in the last decade or so. Since the 1990s Montana has been a relatively conservative political state, with the GOP controlling the state house and senate for all but 3 sessions since 1995. There was a brief window in 2005 to 2011 where Democrats manages a 50/50 division in the state senate, (with 2007 term technically being a 50 R, 49 D 1 I) and also had control of the state house through those terms as well. However, since that time, The GOP has pulled...