Analysts: Turmoil in world market is a result of end of cheap funding, not hard and fast shifts in US economy
While Friday’s weaker-than-expected US jobs data was the catalyst for the market sell-off, with Japan’s blue-chip Nikkei index on Monday suffering its biggest one-day rout since the 1987 Black Monday selloff, the employment report alone wasn’t weak enough to be the main driver of such violent moves, they added.
Why intelligence community fears Republicans’ ‘nonsensical’ policy proposals in Project 2025 put US elections at risk
During the 2020 election, amid conspiracy theories and hoaxes about Covid-19 and the presidential election, CISA flagged state and local officials’ concerns about online falsehoods to social media companies. This practice, dubbed “switchboarding,” outraged conservatives, who accused CISA of suppressing their speech. House Republicans produced a report on what they called “the weaponisation” of the agency, two GOP-led states sued the government (the US Supreme Court dismissed the case).
Harris raises $200 million in first week of White House campaign, signs up 170,000 volunteers
Harris campaigned in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday, drawing hundreds to a fundraiser that had been organised when Biden was still at the top of the Democratic ticket. The fundraiser had originally been expected to raise $400,000 but ended bringing in about $1.4 million, according to the campaign.
As racist and sexist attacks fly, Republicans grapple with how to dim Kamala Harris’ rising star
In interviews with nine Republican lawmakers and 11 Black Republican women who back Trump, eight said personal attacks on Harris should be avoided. While guarded in their comments and emphasising their continued support for Trump, several expressed worry over the tenor of the attacks and whether the onslaught could harm Republicans at the ballot box.
‘Gen Z’ rock US with ‘Kamalove’ as youth-led groups say Harris will energise young voters
Since Sunday, statements have poured out from youth-led organisations across the country, including in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Minnesota, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, as leaders thanked Biden for stepping aside and celebrated the opportunity to organize around a new candidate. On Friday, a coalition of 17 youth-led groups endorsed Harris.
How jailed Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s son lured rival gang’s kingpin Zambada into FBI dragnet
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the two agencies who carried out the operation, scrambled agents from their local El Paso offices and barely reached the airport by the time the private plane was landing, according to a fifth source, a US official who declined to give further details on the arrests.
Kamala Harris builds momentum as Barack and Michelle Obama endorse, give her crucial support
The Obamas are perhaps the last major party figures to endorse Harris formally, a reflection of the former president’s desire to remain, at least publicly, a party elder operating above the fray. The Obamas remain prodigious fundraising draws and popular surrogates at large campaign events for Democratic candidates.
Why Vice President Kamala Harris is using Beyoncé’s ‘Freedom’ as her campaign song
The Biden-Harris creative team wrote the script for Harris’ video on Tuesday, based on her speech at campaign headquarters on Monday. Harris recorded the voiceover while on the road in Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon.
Republicans worry about Trump’s loose mouth and misogynism, urge party to avoid racist and sexist attacks on Harris
President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was withdrawing from the race. In a memo on the state of the race on Tuesday, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio argued the fundamentals of the campaign had not changed now that Harris appears increasingly likely to be the Democratic nominee.
VP Kamala Harris is sure to win Democratic ticket, but her mother’s native India is cautious about her prospects
When Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president in the US, residents in her maternal family’s ancestral village in southern India watched in real time, setting off fireworks, holding up portraits of her and wishing her a long life. But, four years later, as she works to become the...
