A summary of the most important social, economic and political news of the week.
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With just 10 days until the election, new Wall Street Journal and Forbes polls both show former President Trump at +2% nationally. New CNN and New York Times polling shows him tied with Vice-President Harris nationally. The Real Clear Politics average in battleground states shows Trump just ahead of Harris.
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Israeli officials announced Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, architect of last year’s October 7th attack, had been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces. “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu celebrated, while saying that the war is not yet over. “Today we have settled the
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“Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades,” White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan wrote a year ago for Foreign Affairs. Before the article had even been released, Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel that became the
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On Tuesday night, Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz debated as the vice-president picks of former President Donald Trump and Vice-President Harris, respectively. Most VP debates are considered generally inconsequential, and this debate had 25% less viewership than the 2020 VP debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. Both
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As the United Nations meets this week in New York, the conflict in the Middle East remains unsolved, all peace talks having failed. Hezbollah in Lebanon launched about 30 rockets into the Jezreel Valley Saturday night and some 85 rockets into the Haifa area in northern Israel on Sunday morning.
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On Sunday, as former President Donald Trump played golf on the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach, a gunman lay in wait at the edge of the golf course. The gunman had been hidden there since 2am, and he’d brought an AK-47 rifle with a scope and a
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An estimated 67.1 million people watched the 1 hour and 45 minute debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on Tuesday night. Axios wrote that Harris “set traps surgically designed to provoke, rattle and enrage Donald Trump.… And over and over, Trump stepped right into them.” Harris successfully put
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On Wednesday morning, barely a month into the new school year, a 14-year-old opened fire in a school in a suburb of Atlanta, killing two teachers and two students. From the New York Times, “The shooter used a black AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle, according to arrest warrants. The four killings happened
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Thursday night, Vice-President Kamala Harris sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash for her first media interview since she became the presumed Democrat nominee after President Biden dropped out of the race 40 days ago. She defended her record in the Biden/Harris administration, shared details on her eleventh-hour nomination
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The DNC kicked off in Chicago on Monday. Over the four nights ensuing, the stars of the Democrat Party took to the stage to throw their support behind the Harris/Walz ticket. Speakers included Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton, President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barak Obama and Bill Clinton. The
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Vice-President Harris continues to poll better against President Trump than President Biden did. However, the margin is still close. As of Thursday in the Real Clear Politics polling average in battleground states, Vice-President Harris polls only 1% higher than President Trump. So far, reminiscent of Joe Biden in 2020, Vice-President
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Vice-President Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate for the 2024 Democrat presidential ticket. Conservatives see this as good news for their side. Normally, a Democrat Midwestern governor might be somewhat progressive, but would by and large hold views that resonated with middle-American working people (now