Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election.
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The IndependentNostradamus pollster predicts how an October surprise could impact election
Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted the result of nine out of 10 presidential elections since 1984
- The Independent
Voices: After the Elon Musk-Donald Trump rally, there’s a better word for Republicans than ‘weird’
Now that the former president and Tesla CEO have teamed up, there’s only one way to describe the American political right in its current form...
- The Independent
Michael Moore - who correctly called the 2016 election result - says ‘Trump is toast’
Moore claims ‘vast majority of the country’ wants Trump out
- HuffPost
'What The F**k?': Jon Stewart Exposes A New Trump Double Standard
The "Daily Show" host also offered a tasty retort to Elon Musk's "dark MAGA" boast.
- HuffPost
Joe Scarborough's Take On Trump's Weekend Speech Is Too Terrifying To Imagine
The "Morning Joe" host sounded the alarm big time.
- The Daily Beast
Corey Lewandowski Sent Home to New Hampshire After Trump Campaign Coup Fails
Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been exiled to New Hampshire after parachuting onto this year’s campaign in August and suggesting to people he was plotting a coup, according to a report in The Guardian.After the abrasive Lewandowski returned to the Trump orbit as an unpaid senior adviser, he told people he had been brought back to “run the campaign,” sources told the newspaper. That was false, those sources said, noting Trump merely asked people to find “something for
- HuffPost
George Conway Sums Up A Donald Trump Tactic With 2 Words From Adolf Hitler
“That’s German. I don’t speak German, so forgive my pronunciation," the conservative lawyer told MSNBC's Alex Wagner.
- The Daily Beast
Kamala Harris Dishes About Her Gun in ‘60 Minutes’ Sit-Down
Vice President Kamala Harris surprised some viewers when she mentioned during last month’s presidential debate that she has long been a gun owner. But, frankly, she was surprised by people’s surprise.“That’s not the first time I’ve talked about it,” she told Bill Whitaker during a 60 Minutes primetime election special that aired Monday.Asked by the correspondent what kind of gun she owned, and when and why she’d acquired it, the Democratic presidential nominee said hers was a Glock pistol.Read m
- The Daily Beast
‘Queer Eye’ Star Jonathan Van Ness Reacts to Being ‘Vilified’ in Trump Ad
Queer Eye co-host Jonathan Van Ness had the “surreal” experience of seeing themself in a TV spot attacking Kamala Harris and “they/them” pronouns in support of Donald Trump on Monday—and they’re pretty “upset” about it.“I saw myself in a Trump TV ad today and it’s surreal,” Van Ness wrote in a statement posted to their Instagram, adding that it was “kind of iconic, but mostly very unsettling.” Van Ness, who came out as nonbinary in 2019, is featured in a clip from the PAC ad where they’re chatti
- HuffPost
Donald Trump Melts Down In New Post About Jimmy Kimmel
The GOP nominee shared a video to attack the late-night TV host but left out one crucial bit.
- Fortune
The Russian economy can’t sustain Putin’s war on Ukraine much longer, expert says
"Ukraine could win the war if it had an additional $50 billion per year, as well as a green light to bomb military targets inside Russia."
- HuffPost
Elon Musk's Mom Hit With Blunt Community Note On X After Encouraging Voter Fraud
Maye Musk swiped at Democrats and urged people to vote multiple times under fake names.
- The Independent
Trump secretly sent Putin Covid tests in 2020; Harris takes narrow lead over Trump in new poll: Live
Kamala Harris continues media blitz as Donald Trump’s campaign pushes back on new book’s allegations about relationship with Putin
- Evening Standard
Hypersonic missiles attack by Putin's military on Kyiv at rush hour repelled by Ukraine air defences
Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine’s capital as many people were heading to work or school
- The Independent
North Carolina’s second-largest newspaper condemns Trump for ‘ridiculous’ Helene response ‘falsehoods’
Harris vows ‘we’re here for the long haul’ as she visits western NC and combats Trump’s relief effort lies
- The Hill
Cotton calls Trump special counsel filing ‘a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic’
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton (R) said in a Sunday interview that the recently unsealed filing from special counsel Jack Smith is “a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic.” “Well, what I, what I think about what Jack Smith did this week, is that it was a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic who is angry…
- HuffPost
Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter Reveals What It’s Like Talking To Her Dad In Private
Caroline Rose Giuliani, who has endorsed Kamala Harris, said she has “open conversations” with her father.
- Evening Standard
OPINION - All-out nuclear war is inching closer — and now it could take place in space
Once again there is a lot of loose talk about the possibility, and practicality of nuclear war — in northern Europe, the Middle East, and maybe even the United States. Dimitri Medvedev, deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, has warned that if a Nato power, meaning Britain, America or France, permitted the use of its weapons for Ukraine to strike deep into Russia, then Russia would feel entitled to reply with nuclear weaponry. This is a change in Russia’s “nuclear doctrine” against striking first with nukes — a central plank nuclear deterrence back in the Cold War of 1946 to 1989.
- HuffPost
Trump Sparks Outrage With 'Bad Genes' Comment About Immigrants
"He's been hittin' the Mein Kampf again, hasn't he?" one person on social media remarked.
- France 24
🔴 Netanyahu claims Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Nasrallah's successors
Two new Israeli strikes struck Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday evening, Lebanese state media said, after Israel's military issued a warning to inhabitants of the area. More than 3,000 people attended an alternative memorial organised on Monday evening by relatives of victims and hostages in a Tel Aviv park to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks, with emotional testimonies from survivors and performances by singers. Around 374,000 people have fled from Lebanon