Columbus, OH

The Independent

 A White House aide reportedly called Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention an “implicit rebuke” to President Joe Biden’s term, perpetuating rumors that there is a rift between the president and his former boss Barack Obama.The former first lady delivered a powerful speech on the second night of the DNC. She anticipated that a Kamala Harris presidency would bring a long-dormant sense of “hope” back to the country, reminding the nation of the enthusiasm felt during the Obama years — while glossing over President Biden’s term.“Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn’t it?” Michelle Obama began....

White House aide says Michelle Obama’s speech was ‘implicit rebuke of the Biden era’

WashingtonExaminer

President Joe Biden was not aware of the latest revelations involving his son Hunter Biden, the White House said Wednesday. “The president has never done business with his son,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “He was not aware of this. For anything further, I would have to refer you to Hunter Biden’s personal […]

Biden ‘not aware’ son sought Obama administration’s help for Burisma: White House

Pennsylvania State

NBC News

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, senior political editor Mark Murray breaks down Kamala Harris' rise in...

The biggest change in the polls since Biden’s exit: From the Politics Desk

North Carolina State

With polls showing former President Donald Trump slipping behind Vice President Harris in multiple states, Trump's allies are stepping on the gas to try to make up ground, according to a new NPR analysis of ad data provided in partnership with the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. Trump's campaign and outside groups...

As Harris inches ahead, the cavalry comes to Trump's aid on the airwaves

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (L) and Attorney General Josh Stein (R). (Robinson photo by Getty Images/Stein photo file image) Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump enjoy nearly equal favorability ratings among North Carolina’s registered voters, according to an Elon Poll released Tuesday. About 44% of voters...

Elon Poll shows Harris and Trump with about equal favorability in NC. Robinson faces a wide gap.

Texas State

CHICAGO — Amanda Zurawski didn’t want to go into politics. She wanted a baby girl. Her name would have been Willow. But when Zurwaski was 18 weeks pregnant, her water broke. The fetus wouldn't survive, but, citing Texas' abortion laws, her doctors refused to terminate the pregnancy until she eventually developed sepsis three days later.

After being denied a medically necessary abortion, Amanda Zurawski will do whatever it takes to beat Donald Trump

Mediaite

Former President Donald Trump posted an utterly unhinged rant on Tuesday in which he again misspelled Vice President Kamala Harris's name.
The post Trump Posts Grotesque Screed Against ‘Kamabla’ and ‘Barrack HUSSEIN Obama’ to Claim the Presidency ‘Was Unconstitutionally STOLEN’  first appeared on Mediaite.

Trump Posts Grotesque Screed Against ‘Kamabla’ and ‘Barrack HUSSEIN Obama’ to Claim the Presidency ‘Was Unconstitutionally STOLEN’

California State

Fox News

U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi has ruled that Hallie Biden will testify under immunity next month at Hunter Biden's criminal tax trial in California.

Hunter Biden tax trial: Judge rules Hallie Biden will testify with immunity

Oklahoma State

An 84-page document was sent to Oklahoma schools claiming to be a supplemental supervisory document from the State Department of Education. (Photo by Kyle Phillips/For Oklahoma Voice) School districts across the state received packages Wednesday that claimed to be from the State Department of Education and contained 80 pages of...

Oklahoma schools receive hoax document on Ryan Walters’ Bible directive

Wyoming State

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Fremont County, WY

Lander, WY

WyoFile

FREMONT, SUBLETTE AND SWEETWATER COUNTIES—Voters streamed in and out of the Bob Carey Memorial Fieldhouse at Lander Valley High School early Tuesday, accompanied by the sound of thwacking pickleballs from the nearby courts.

Wyoming voters ‘boiling mad’ over misleading mailers

Early Monday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris released a statement commemorating the deaths of 13 US service members in Afghanistan. Those service members died in a terror attack during the US withdrawal from the country. It was a clear pre-emptive strike against Republicans. During the RNC, Republicans made a point...

The Trump campaign now hopes to tie Harris to Biden’s lowest moment: Afghanistan

Wilmington, DE

Inner city schools like Warner Elementary School in Wilmington's Triangle Neighborhood are exceedingly rare after desegregation saw students bussed to suburban districts. | SPOTLIGHT DELAWARE PHOTO BY JULIA MEROLA. Attention on education reform and investment in public education for Wilmington city students has perhaps never been higher than in the...

‘We were bulldozed’: The history of Wilmington’s school system

(The Center Square) – Friday’s polling average from Real Clear Politics shows a dead heat between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state in the battle for the White House. Just 0.2 percentage points separate Trump and Harris, with the GOP nominee clinging to a residual lead that dominated […]

Trump, Harris in dead heat in Pennsylvania polling

Maine State

Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

A marijuana activist holds a flag during a march on July 4, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Members of the group Fourth of July Hemp Coalition gathered outside the White House for its annual protest on marijuana prohibition, which the group said dated back to more than 50 years ago during the Nixon administration. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

America’s decade-long experience with marijuana legalization shows it to be a success

Butler, PA

The Lantern

At a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, multiple gun shots were fired at former President Donald Trump as he stood on stage, wounding his right ear, killing one spectator and injuring two others. Credit: Courtesy of TNS [Original caption: President Trump ordered the airstrike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3.] This story is the first installment of a three-part series unpacking historic political news from summer 2024. Today’s story focuses on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

A summer to remember: Political experts unpack the Trump assassination attempt and its effects on young voters

Georgia State

Georgia Department of Corrections Director Tyrone Oliver testified at two Senate committees in August about the impact that understaffing, aging facilities, and a more dangerous inmate population is having on a rash of violent incidents at state prisons. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder. The Georgia Department of Corrections continues to struggle with...

Georgia prisons chief tells state lawmakers drones are smuggling deadly contraband into prisons

TheDailyBeast

Dozens of well-known Republicans including a couple of former Trump White House staffers have switched allegiance to endorse Kamala Harris in the latest blow for Donald Trump.The Harris presidential campaign on Sunday launched a “Republicans for Harris” drive, which it says already has the public endorsement of almost 30 Republican moderates who reject “the chaos, division and violence of Donald Trump and his Project 2025 Agenda.”They include former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye, who advised Vice President Mike Pence on national security matters.“I might not agree with Vice President Kamala Harris on everything, but I...

Trump White House Aides Desert Donald for Kamala in ‘Republicans for Harris’ Drive

Kamala Harris is turbocharging her party’s support from millennials and Zoomers, reenergizing a Democratic voting bloc that had been bored with President Joe Biden’s campaign, a new poll finds.The poll from the progressive youth voting group NextGen America, first shared with the Daily Beast, shows that Harris has vastly improved on Biden’s performance among voters under 35, beating Donald Trump in a multi-way survey, 53 percent to 36 percent. The president was ahead by a margin of only nine percentage points, 41 percent to 32 percent, when the group surveyed the race back in March.A NextGen press release at the...

Harris Crushes Trump Among Young Voters—Unlike Biden: Poll

Daily Coffee Press

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

NewsBreak

The number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million under Trump, fell by 3 million under Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden signs executive actions in the Oval Office of the White House on January 28, 2021. President Biden signed a series of executive...

The number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million under Trump, fell by 3 million under Biden

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