A summary of the most important social, economic and political news of the week.
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Last Sunday, President Biden approved Ukraine to use U.S.-made ATACMS long-range missiles against Russian and North Korean forces in Russia's Kursk territory. On Tuesday, Russian President Putin responded by lowering Russia’s threshold for using nuclear weapons. Russia then reported that Ukraine had shot six of
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Republicans successfully ran the table in the elections last week, securing a majority in the Senate and House, and of course the presidency. The New Administration President-elect Donald Trump has begun naming his cabinet. Some names are quite conventional; others couldn’t be more disruptive and will likely face trouble
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On Tuesday, in a landslide election and historic comeback, Donald J. Trump was re-elected as the 47th U.S. President. He carried all battleground states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada), and won the popular vote by nearly 4 million votes. He’ll be the first president
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With three days till polls open, statistician Nate Silver gives Donald Trump a 51.1% chance of winning at least the 270 electoral votes necessary to become the second U.S. president in history to serve two non-consecutive terms. Many polls put the election at a statistical tie. Meanwhile, Vice
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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