The same day that the Supreme Court overturned federal protections for legal abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed a proclamation banning the procedure in his state. “We are issuing this proclamation to restore our state authority to regulate abortion and protect life,” Parson said. He went on […]Read More

Gov. Tim Walz will campaign in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, attending the University of Michigan vs. University of Minnesota football game. The vice presidential nominee and former Minnesota high school football coach will meet with students during the trip to speak about the importance of registering to vote and the power of them participating, according […]Read More

Donald Trump has spent virtually all of his nine years in politics stoking cultural resentment by using hyperbolic and false claims about scourges of immigrants and the crimes they commit. He has gradually worked his way up to the idea that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country — an echo of historical fascism […]Read More

Donald Trump portrays himself as a “protector” of women, who as president will safeguard them from inflation, undocumented immigrants, crime and foreign threats he often speaks about in exaggerated terms. Women will “no longer be thinking about abortion,” since states now make their laws unilaterally, he declares, nodding to the end of Roe v. Wade […]Read More

NEW YORK — Russia is making plans to attack Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned fellow world leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday, issuing a stark call for global leadership to help him attain peace as his country stares down a cold, dark winter with most of its energy infrastructure destroyed. […]Read More

Let’s begin with an electoral factoid: 16 out of every 1,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania have a last name that ends in -ski or -sky. This is not because the state is awash with newly arrived immigrants from Poland and Eastern Europe but because it used to be. A century ago, immigration from Poland peaked, […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to outline in greater detail Wednesday an economic philosophy rooted in her own biography, attempting to contrast her vision with Donald Trump’s and win over voters in a crucial swing state who so far have viewed her skeptically on a driving electoral issue. Harris, speaking at the Economic Club of […]Read More

We’ve documented many times the false claims that former president Donald Trump has made about his achievements during his presidency. But there are also instances when Trump claims credit for something that either Barack Obama or Joe Biden did. Here’s a recent sampling. Capped insulin at $35 a month “Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for […]Read More

Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday pushed beyond U.S. intelligence assessments of Iranian interference in the presidential election in an effort to disparage his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Officials with the director of National Intelligence briefed Trump on Tuesday about “real and specific threats” by Iran to assassinate him with the goal of […]Read More