Trump Media stock falls below $20 per share for first time

Trump Media stock falls below  per share for first time

Aytac Unal/ | Anadolu | Getty Images The months long Trump Media stock slide continued Wednesday, as shares of the company majority-owned by former President Donald Trump fell below $20 for the first time since the Truth Social maker went public in March of this year. As of 12:45 p.m. ET, the stock price of … Read more

RFK Jr. to stay on Wisconsin ballot after endorsing Trump

RFK Jr. to stay on Wisconsin ballot after endorsing Trump

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes an announcement on the future of his campaign in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. August 23, 2024.  Thomas Machowicz | Reuters The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Tuesday voted to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the state’s November presidential ballot, thwarting the former third-party candidate’s plan to remove his … Read more

Trump budget proposals would spike deficits 5 times more than Harris

Trump budget proposals would spike deficits 5 times more than Harris

Former President Donald Trump’s economic proposals would increase federal deficits by $5.8 trillion over the next decade, almost five times more than those of Vice President Kamala Harris, which would add $1.2 trillion, according to a new pair of studies from the nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model. The Trump report found that his plan to … Read more

Trump taps RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard for transition team

Trump taps RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard for transition team

Former President Donald Trump has added his onetime campaign rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to his presidential transition team, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday. Both Kennedy and Gabbard endorsed Trump in the past week in his race against Vice President Kamala  Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. “As President Trump’s broad coalition of supporters … Read more

Going local: A new streaming service peeks into news in 2024 election swing states

Going local: A new streaming service peeks into news in 2024 election swing states

NEW YORK — Fans of politics have another way to keep track of what’s happening in the most competitive states in the country through a new service that collects and streams local newscasts. Swing State Election News, which began operation Monday, lets streamers choose from among 37 local television stations in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, … Read more

Trump clemency recipient Jonathan Braun arrest eyed by judge

Trump clemency recipient Jonathan Braun arrest eyed by judge

Republican Presidential nominee, former president Donald J. Trump remarks during a campaign event at Precision Custom Components on August 19, 2024 in York, Pennsylvania.  Tierney L. Cross | Getty Images A New York federal judge has ordered U.S. probation officials to investigate the recent arrest of a convicted drug dealer who was released from prison … Read more

ABC News event in doubt

ABC News event in doubt

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Michigan, U.S., August 20, 2024.  Rebecca Cook | Reuters Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is waffling on whether he will debate with Vice President Kamala Harris as previously agreed. And their campaigns are squabbling … Read more

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds rejection of petitions to let voters decide on abortion access

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds rejection of petitions to let voters decide on abortion access

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state’s rejection of signed petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative on Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before voters in November. The ruling dashed the organizers’ hopes of getting the constitutional amendment measure onto the ballot in the predominantly Republican state, where many top … Read more

Trump says Tesla CEO Elon Musk has no time for White House cabinet

Trump says Tesla CEO Elon Musk has no time for White House cabinet

Elon Musk (L) and Donald Trump (R). David Swanson | Vincent Alban | Reuters Former President Donald Trump said that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk likely couldn’t serve in his hypothetical White House cabinet due to the demanding schedule of running his various companies. “He wants to be involved. Now look, he’s running big … Read more

Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story

Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story

NEW YORK — Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination “on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth.” America, Barack Obama thundered, “is ready for a better story.” JD Vance insisted that the Biden administration “is not the end of our story,” and Donald Trump called on fellow … Read more