An Iowa judge has tossed President Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register over polling numbers they published days before the 2024 general elections. In a Wednesday ruling, Iowa District Court Judge Scott J. Beattie went against Trump’s claims that the poll, which showed former Vice President Kamala Harris leading…
The Hill•Tara Suter24 Sept
The suit challenged a poll that showed Trump trailing Kamala Harris in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign. A judge warned that similar legal challenges could have a chilling effect on news reporting.
The New York Times•Ishani Desai23 Sept
On Oct. 25, 2024, 10 days before the election that would return Republican Donald Trump to the White House and more than three months after Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, ChatGPT was still telling users that Joe Biden was running for a second term as president.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed grilled a reporter for saying some people might think he “flip-flopped” on his opinion about former Vice President Kamala Harris after the pair appeared together at a campaign event. In a press conference, a reporter mentioned to El-Sayed his previous endorsement of an “uncommitted vote” in the 2024 presidential primary…
The Hill•Mira Bhakta23 Sept
Before Anthony Hopkins’ Dr Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Brian Cox played a cannibalistic killer in Mann’s pioneering Red Dragon adaptation Five years before The Silence of the Lambs, there was writer-director Michael Mann’s pioneering Thomas Harris adaptation Manhunter, now on re-release in a director’s “final cut” for its 40th anniversary. It was his version of Harris’s 1981 novel Red Dragon, a movie which features Dr Hannibal Lecter (here spelt Lecktor) in a relatively minor part, and played in a much more coolly matter-of-fact and downbeat way by Brian Cox, who is first discovered in his cell lying down with his back to the camera. It has long been a haughty, hipster film-bro affectation to claim that Cox is better in the role than Anthony Hopkins. (Lecktor’s early acoustic stuff was great, you see, before he went electric as Lecter.) I think that’s a bit obtuse, for all that Cox is of course very good. Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs is the definitive version: face it. But I will concede that Cox is more interesting than Hopkins by the time the latter came to make the 2002 adaptation of Red Dragon, at which stage the franchise had become a bit tired. Manhunter itself is a very interesting and watchable movie, but feels a little unevolved compared to Jonathan Demme’s masterly guignol spectacle, although Demme clearly inhaled Mann’s excitement at jets, ’copters and military hardware deployed at speed to bring down just one man. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Peter Bradshaw23 Sept
Former Vice President Kamala Harris returns to Michigan, a state she narrowly lost to President Trump in 2024. The state is once again critical come Election Day.
NPR•Russ McNamara23 SeptHarris performed to an estimated 1.6 million partygoers in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest attendance for a DJ set by a single artist.
Four potential candidates remain within three percentage points of each other at the top of new 2028 polling, led narrowly by former Vice President Kamala Harris
The former vice president joins Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit to bolster Democratic unity in swing-state Michigan.
Al Jazeera22 Sept
Former VP, who lost state to Trump in 2024 elections, is lending her popularity to unite fractured party Kamala Harris returned to Michigan on Tuesday to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, lending her popularity among Black voters to a progressive Senate nominee still working to unite a party fractured by a bruising primary – and the former vice-president’s loss to Donald Trump in the state. Appearing with El-Sayed at a Detroit birth center, Harris used a roundtable on Black maternal health to frame that November’s contest against the Republican Mike Rogers as a fight over women’s access to care. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Joseph Gedeon in Washington22 Sept
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday blasted President Trump’s move to ban news outlets from White House access, saying it shows “the man is afraid.” “Absolutely abhorrent,” Harris said of the president’s decision as she departed an event in Michigan. “And the man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the…
The Hill•Julia Mueller22 SeptFormer Vice President Kamala Harris sought to boost Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed during a joint Tuesday appearance in the Great Lakes State, stressing the stakes for Michiganders in the midterms. “Remember, the Senate seat is six years. So let’s think about that in the lives of all the people that the leaders here serve,…
The Hill•Julia Mueller22 SeptFormer Vice President Kamala Harris will join progressive Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on the campaign trail Tuesday afternoon, as Democrats seek to take control of Congress next year. Harris threw her support behind El-Sayed, a former health official who is running against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Gary…
The Hill•The Hill Staff22 Sept
Harris’ campaigning could serve to solidify or undermine her status as a potential Democratic front-runner for the 2028 presidential election
Kamala Harris is diving into the midterms, campaigning with Democrats like Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
ABC News21 Sept
Irish Finance Minister Simon Harris says details of the new associate membership with Canada "are yet to be determined", but believes it is "good news" that the European Union has signalled its intention to have a "much closer relationship" with Ottawa.
Euronews18 SeptFormer Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign for Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) at a campaign event next week, according to multiple reports. Harris will join El-Sayed, a doctor and former head of health departments in Detroit and Wayne County, at a roundtable focused on Black maternal health on Tuesday, The Associated Press reported…
The Hill•Ryan Mancini17 Sept
Former Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit Michigan next week to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate
ABC News16 Sept
Comments come after court on Monday rejected the president’s mail ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections Supreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections Donald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world’s most powerful AI companies. Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders sounded the alarm over the rapid advancement of the technology and its potential threat to humanity. Mitch McConnell , the 84-year-old former Senate majority leader from Kentucky, was seen in Washington for the first time in months on Monday, minutes before his office released a statement saying that he was back at work. With a slip of the tongue reminiscent of Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom , California’s Democratic governor, told CNN that he would not run for president in 2028 if his fellow Californian, former vice-president Kamala Harris , decides to run again, since “I know what that means: I know her base of supporters, I know her friends, the zen diagram on that is just pure crossover.” Donald Trump claimed there is a “SICK conspiracy” against artificial intelligence and data centers in response to the growing calls for greater checks on AI development. In a statement posted on social media , Barack Obama , the former US president, called for the pace of AI development to be slowed to allow time for the federal government to develop regulations to address “serious safety concerns”. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Tom Ambrose15 Sept
California governor’s name has been thrown out as a potential Democratic candidate in the 2028 presidential election — as have AOC, Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris
