Not until its next campaign filing in October will we know how much Elon Musk has donated to America PAC, a Super PAC he launched along with other Silicon Valley elites with the aim of electing Donald Trump. But we do know how much the organization is spending — and, …
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Pro-Palestine protesters interrupted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert twice Tuesday night. In response, Pelosi said that the U.S. is committed to Israel and that she hopes Hamas will accept a ceasefire agreement. A protester began shouting a few minutes into the segment, …
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Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster in a new memoir describes the way Russian President Vladimir Putin influenced former President Donald Trump during his time in office. McMaster, who was national security adviser to Trump from 2017 to 2018, writes that Putin took advantage of Trump’s ego. The memoir, At War …
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Fact checking columns have been around for some time but gained new popularity with the rise of Donald Trump as a way for news outlets to appear adversarial toward a politician whose rhetoric is consistently, thoroughly detached from reality, without doing the legwork. Nine years after he first started running …
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With his spoiler campaign losing steam, Robert F. Kennedy is looking at dropping out or supporting former President Donald Trump, according to Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan. Kennedy, who is running as an Independent, is easily the most chaotic candidate in the 2024 presidential race. For example, he said he …
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Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr spoke at the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in the same venue where he won three NBA titles witch the Chicago Bulls. Fresh from an excursion to Paris where he coached the U.S. men’s basketball team to their …
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The Democratic National Convention kicked off with a heavy dose of star power on Monday, with everyone from Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaking in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. But no one worked the crowd into more of a frenzy than …
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The Democratic National Convention is a celebration of Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic nominee, and while there has been plenty of adulation for the Harris-Walz campaign, the first night of the DNC was also an emotional reminder of what’s at stake in November. On Monday, amid speeches …
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Joe Biden addressed the Democratic National Convention on Monday not as a candidate, but as a supporter passing the baton to his vice president, Kamala Harris. The president spoke for nearly an hour in what felt like his political swan song. “I made a lot of mistakes in my career, …
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Former President Donald Trump said he would consider appointing Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, as an adviser or cabinet member in his administration if he is elected. “He’s a very smart guy. I certainly would, if he would do it, I certainly would. He’s a brilliant guy,” Trump told …
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