Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest moments in a 2024 election that is a sudden bonanza for Pennsylvania pollsters. (Did a friend forward this to you? If so, sign up here. And make sure you’re subscribing to the Campaign Moment podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you listen.) The […]Read More
One of the defining characteristics of Donald Trump’s life has been his quest for acceptance. He is a Queens kid, son of a real estate developer from the outer boroughs, an origin story that comports with an innate insecurity; Trump’s career has been oriented to some extent around proving that he belonged in the Manhattan […]Read More
House Democrats will hold their own hearing next week to illustrate potential impacts of Project 2025 under a hypothetical Trump administration, according to people involved with the planning. The hearing, which will be held by a committee made up only of Democrats, will feature lawmakers and testimony from people across the country whohave been or […]Read More
An Alaska man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to torture and assassinate six Supreme Court justices and their relatives, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Panos Anastasiou, 76, allegedly sent more than 465 messages through the Supreme Court’s public website — many of them violent, racist and homophobic, according to an indictment filed Wednesday. He […]Read More
By any honest assessment, there are millions of people living in the United States who are not authorized to be here. Some of them crossed the southern border from Mexico. Many arrived on visas and never left. When Donald Trump left office in January 2021, there were probably about 10.5 million foreign-born residents of the […]Read More
Amazon announced Wednesday it is raising wages for its hourly warehouse workers and adding a new employee perk that will give them a Prime subscription at no extra cost. Beginning this month, Amazon’s average starting pay for front-line employees in the U.S. will be bumped to an average of more than $22 an hour, up from roughly […]Read More
Donald Trump’s tough-guy shtick plays well on Fox News, so he leaned into it during an appearance on the late-night talk show “Gutfeld!” on Wednesday. Host Greg Gutfeld brought up Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket. Trump, the Republican nominee, quickly disparaged Walz as “strange.” And […]Read More
Boeing will temporarily furlough thousands of U.S. executives, managers and other staff, citing the ongoing machinist strike as the company races to preserve cash, CEO Kelly Ortberg told employees on Wednesday. The furloughs will affect tens of thousands of Boeing employees, a company spokesperson said. The plan came less than a week after Boeing’s more than 30,000 machinists […]Read More
JPMorgan Chase has created a new global role overseeing all junior bankers in an effort to better manage their workload after the death of a Bank of America associate in May forced Wall Street to examine how it treats its youngest employees. The firm named Ryland McClendon its global investment banking associate and analyst leader in a memo sent this month, CNBC […]Read More
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has accelerated his preparations for his Oct. 1 debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), participating in policy sessions and mock debates in his home state and on the road. Walz’s team has enlisted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to play Vance in debate rehearsals, reprising his role from […]Read More