Boeing’s factory workers walked off the job early Friday, halting production of the company’s best-selling airplanes after staff overwhelmingly rejected a new labor contract. It’s a costly development for the manufacturer that has struggled to ramp up production and restore its reputation following safety crises. Workers in the Seattle area and in Oregon voted 94.6% against a tentative […]Read More
Former president Donald Trump has long inhabited a bizarre world of his own creation. He rewrites history — or makes it up entirely — to aggrandize himself, denigrate others and spread the basest of lies. It keeps getting worse. Since Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he’s spiraled ever deeper into conspiracy theories, falsehoods […]Read More
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, addressing a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner Saturday night, are expected to highlight the stakes for Black Americans in November’s election and take aim at what they view as an effort by Republicans to tip the scales by rolling back voting rights. Their joint appearance — culminating […]Read More
Just eight minutes apart, the two political arms competing for the House majority blasted out memos claiming momentum citing the exact same analysis. “Inside Elections shifts six races toward Democrats as momentum grows,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wrote a little past 4 p.m. Thursday. “Inside Elections: House Republicans still the favorite,” the National Republican […]Read More
Republican nominee Donald Trump spent his second rally since Tuesday’s debate promoting false online accusations trying to discredit Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance, alongside baseless allegations of chicanery in the reporting of crime statistics and jobs data. “She can’t talk,” Trump told a crowd of thousands in Las Vegas on Friday, three nights after facing […]Read More
For days, Donald Trump and his allies have zeroed in on Springfield, Ohio, amplifying baseless claims that Haitian immigrants there are eating others’ pets. The promotion of such rumors, which thrust the city into the national spotlight, is rooted in a centuries-old racist trope of vilifying newcomers to the United States and highlights the country’s […]Read More
Democrats have spent the last year eyeing a familiar trio of northern states that would deliver the White House in November: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are the “clearest pathway” to victory, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign leaders wrote in July — as long as she also picks up a single electoral vote in the Omaha […]Read More
A single-vehicle collision last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a preliminary report on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board. The crash, which occurred on California’s Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe, is being investigated by the NTSB. CAL Fire’s […]Read More
President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met at the White House on Friday amid rising tensions with Russia, reaffirming their support for Ukraine but declining to publicly address urgent questions over whether Biden will pave the way for Ukraine to use Western-made weapons to strike deeper inside Russia. “The United States is […]Read More
A former Arlington County Fire Department employee was arrested Friday in West Virginia on charges of assaulting police and rioting in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, accused of joining a charge that overran a key police line and led to the breach of the building, according to court records. Brian Holmes, […]Read More