Trump and Harris offer night-and-day views of the economy
ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump swept through Southern battleground states Saturday, outlining sharply divergent economic messages for voters in areas where the presidential race remains in a dead heat.
Muddled jobs data may do little to alter immediate Fed rate path
Federal Reserve officials cut interest rates in September for the first time in four years, but now investors are beginning to ask the natural next question: How much will they lower them in the months and years to come?
Trump is courting apolitical young men. Will it pay off?
Back in June, former President Donald Trump appeared on a podcast interview with wrestler and social media star Logan Paul. They chatted about immigration and the economy, but also about boxing and the existence of aliens — which Trump described as “very possible.”
Can quake-prone Japan ever embrace nuclear energy again?
TOKYO — A decade after one of the most devastating atomic energy disasters in history, Japan was finally getting closer to reviving nuclear power.
How to keep traffic moving? An airport puts hugs on a timer
Airports have tried an array of methods to combat traffic jams outside terminals, including dedicated taxi lanes, ride-share bans and police officers telling drivers to move along or else.
Oil interests gave more than $75 million to Trump PACs, new analysis shows
Oil and gas interests have given an estimated $75 million to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Republican National Committee and affiliated committees, far more than has been previously known, according to a new analysis of federal campaign data.
1 in 4 child deaths after ER visits are preventable, study finds
The morning after Phyllis Rabinowitz brought her newborn daughter home from the hospital, she knew something was terribly wrong. The baby, Rebecca, had thick mucus, trouble breathing and lethargy unlike anything Rabinowitz had seen in her first child.
Xenophobia and hate speech are spiking heading into the election
The last time there was a presidential election, the country was coming off a summer of protests in favor of greater racial equality. Support for increased immigration was at the highest level ever polled.
US turns to China to stop North Korean troops from fighting for Russia
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is turning to an unlikely interlocutor as North Korean troops move into combat position to help Russia in its war in Ukraine.
They’re giving scammers all their money. The kids can’t stop them
When Chris Mancinelli walked into his father’s home for the first time after the 79-year-old man died last summer, he stopped to look at family photos displayed on the refrigerator door. Near a crayon drawing spelling out “grandpa” in rainbow colors were photos of his father’s three granddaughters at a swimming pool.
In election’s final days, dark money and ‘gray money’ fund ‘dirty tricks’
The campaign literature that landed in Republican mailboxes in North Carolina this week was jarring. On one side was a sonogram image of a human fetus, with this message: “Her heart is beating. We all know it. Only the courageous few will protect her.” On the other side was a call to action: “You have the courage and the conviction to vote for Randall Terry.”
Trump, Musk and an American masculinity crisis
Elon Musk has put full force of his billions, his ownership of the social platform X and himself on the line for Donald Trump, especially in Pennsylvania. Some of what he has promised to do, such as a $1 million giveaway, may well be illegal. Other out-out-the ordinary actions — appearing onstage at Trump rallies or blasting false claims about election integrity — have involved aggressively breaking long-standing norms.
Lakers’ rookie ‘wasn’t above anyone else,’ his ex-teachers recall
BATH TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Carrie Brown was an exasperated middle school teacher who had a famous student she knew she could count on.
Clean energy is booming in the US. The election could change that
WASHINGTON — Over the last two years, a surge in clean energy manufacturing has helped push U.S. factory construction to the highest level in half a century. Solar power installations and electric car sales are breaking records. Even Republican-led states like Montana and Utah are writing climate plans to secure federal cash.
Johnson’s ‘No Obamacare’ remark draws attention to unpopular stance
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Republicans would embark on a “massive reform” of the Affordable Care Act if former President Donald Trump is elected again, putting an unpopular policy position back in the spotlight just days before the election.
Ukrainians tell of brutal Russian repression in occupied territories
SUMY, Ukraine — For months after the Russian military occupied his hometown in southern Ukraine, Yevheny made plans to leave. But each time, the 48-year-old lawyer said, he was thwarted, by warnings of gunfire on the roads and, once, when a hired driver disappeared.
Teri Garr, comic actress in offbeat roles, is dead at 79
Teri Garr, the alternately shy and sassy blond actress whose little-girl voice, deadpan comic timing, expressive eyes and cinematic bravery in the face of seemingly crazy male characters made her a star of 1970s and ’80s movies and earned her an Oscar nomination for her role in “Tootsie,” died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 79.
Man who attacked Paul Pelosi is sentenced to life in prison
David DePape, the intruder who broke into the home of Nancy Pelosi two years ago and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
New vehicles, face paint and a 1,200-foot fall: The US Army prepares for war with China
MAUNA LOA, Hawaii — Early one morning this month, 864 Army paratroopers bundled into C-17 transport planes at a base in Alaska and took off for a Great Power War exercise between three volcanic mountains on the Big Island.
Harris’ closing argument: Turn the page on Trump, and avert chaos
WASHINGTON — On Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump stood onstage at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, and encouraged thousands of his supporters to fight to overturn an election he falsely claimed had been stolen.
