Politics

CNN reports: The 2024 presidential campaign’s home stretch kicks off with a mixed outlook across six key battlegrounds, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in each state. Vice President Kamala Harris holds an advantage over former President Donald Trump among likely voters in Wisconsin and Michigan, while Trump has the edge in Arizona. The two split likely voters …

The Washington Post reports: Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) has pulled ahead of former governor Larry Hogan (R) in Maryland’s competitive Senate race, showing a five-point lead among registered voters just over two months before the November election, according to a poll released Wednesday. The poll, conducted between Aug. 24 and Aug. 30 by Gonzales Research & …

From the Justice Department: Ade Salim Lilly, 35, of Queens, NY, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 13 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release for threatening to kill a Congressional staffer and for conducting a campaign of pervasive harassing communications against members of Congress, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief J. Thomas Manger …

The Detroit News reports: The presidential race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump is a jump ball in Michigan with 63 days remaining until the Nov. 5 election, according to a new statewide poll commissioned The Detroit News and WDIV-TV (Channel 4). The Aug. 26-29 survey of 600 likely Michigan voters found 44.7% of participants supported Trump, the …

Via press release from GOP Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds: Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced that Lt. Governor Adam Gregg is stepping down from his position to pursue a career opportunity that allows him to focus more on his family. “It has been a great honor to serve alongside Governor Reynolds for seven years. I have enormous respect for her and …

Axios reports: Former Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry’s (R-Pa.) support for a strict anti-abortion measure is coming back to haunt him in a new Democratic ad, Axios has learned. Democrats’ fight to retake the House has homed in on reproductive rights and singled out lawmakers like Perry with long anti-abortion records. Democrats are looking at it as a prime pickup …

The Hill reports: Republican Voters Against Trump launched a $11.5 million ad buy in key swing states on Tuesday, marking the group’s largest ad buy so far this cycle. The group is targeting voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona. Additionally, the ad buy will also run in Nebraska’s competitive second congressional district. $4.5 million of the ad buy will …

The Washington Post reports: Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan is running a new ad describing himself as one of the few Republicans who “never caved” to Donald Trump and touting his record sending National Guard troops to the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. Scenes of the rioting that day have littered ads for Democratic candidates over the years, …

Politico reports: Republicans are racing to plug a massive money hole — before it’s too late. Panic is starting to set in. “The only thing preventing us from having a great night in November is the massive financial disparity our party currently faces,” said Jason Thielman, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “We are on a trajectory …

USA Today reports: Israeli protesters carried six empty coffins past Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Jerusalem on Monday night, in a symbolic act after six hostages were found dead in a Gaza tunnel over the weekend. But in his first public address since Israel’s military recovered the bodies of the six hostages, Netanyahu pushed back Monday night in …

The Associated Press reports: A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide, according to the court’s website. The broader support among justices undermines the effort by Musk and his supporters to cast Justice Alexandre de Moraes as an authoritarian renegade who is …

Bloomberg News reports: Venezuela ordered the arrest of presidential candidate Edmundo González, an escalation of the government’s crackdown on dissent in the wake of a disputed election. The move is likely to draw further outcry from the US and other countries that have concluded González was the winner of the July 28 vote. Venezuelan authorities have declared instead, without evidence, …

Courthouse News reports: Unlike the First through 14th Courts of Appeals, which have jurisdiction over cases filed in particular locations, the 15th Court of Appeals will instead preside over all civil cases involving the state, as well as any appeals from Texas’s newly created business courts. But support for the change has been notably partisan, and legal experts have questioned …

Milwaukee’s Fox affiliate reports: Several vehicles in the Gov. Tim Walz motorcade crashed in Milwaukee County just before 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 2. According to one report, a staff member in a press van “appears to have a broken arm and is being treated by medics.” Other reporters traveling with the governor reportedly suffered scrapes and bruises, and another …

CBS News reports: The U.S. seized a plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought it to the U.S. on Monday, the Justice Department said in a statement, claiming the jet was exported from Florida in violation of U.S. sanctions. The plane, identified as a Dassault Falcon 900EX, was seized in the Dominican Republic and transported to Florida, the …

The Associated Press reports: Nicki Kämpf watched her daughter toddle across the sand in a Berlin playground and wondered whether she and her wife should move their 1 1/2-year-old west, after Alternative for Germany became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany. Kämpf, 29, and her wife discussed a backup plan as Sunday’s …

CNN reports: Protests have broken out in big cities, small towns and on highways across Israel as demonstrators call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas. Protest locations include Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Ra’anana, Be’er Sheva, Kfar Saba, Kiryat Bialik, Afula, Ness Ziona, Binyamina, and various major intersections and bridges around the country, …

Axios reports: The Secretary General of Israel’s national workers union, the Histadrut, announced a general strike to protest against the Netanyahu government and called for an immediate hostage-release and ceasefire in Gaza deal. The strike will begin on Monday morning. The Histadrut is a powerful workers union and a general strike will almost completely shut down the country. The strike …

NBC News reports: More than a month after Musk officially put his weight behind Trump, a series of Democratic attacks have suggested that the endorsement has exposed a vulnerability. Since the tech billionaire endorsed Trump on July 13, the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly attacked Musk for his anti-worker stances. The campaign has called Musk and Trump …

Raleigh’s ABC affiliate reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing North Carolina elections officials in his latest effort to get off state ballots in November. In a lawsuit filed in Wake County late Friday, the third-party presidential candidate said the North Carolina State Board of Elections decision to reject his party’s request to remove him from the ballot violates elections …