Trump-Harris live updates: Harris rolls out ad promising tough immigration policy ahead of Trump rally in Montana

The 2024 presidential cycle is the first since Musk bought X, formerly Twitter. Under his ownership, the fact checkers are gone, AI-generated content is feeding false election information to millions of users, and Musk himself is responsible for misleading posts that have been viewed more than 1 billion times.

The world’s wealthiest man not only controls a platform where he can boost Donald Trump’s campaign, he also helped launch a Trump-supporting political action committee to spend and raise unlimited dollars to get him elected — a uniquely powerful combination that election analysts, civil rights groups and state prosecutors are closely watching.

Fast food workers fighting for union recognition, higher minimum wages and better working conditions could have a powerful advocate in a former fellow french fry cook, Alex Woodward reports.

Donald Trump’s plane was diverted to Billings, Montana, because of a mechanical issue as he flew to a Friday night rally in the state.

The former president was heading to Bozeman, Montana, when his plane landed safely in Billings, 140 miles away.

Donald Trump’s federal election interference case is slowly coming back to life.

The four criminal cases against the former president — spanning 88 charges in four jurisdictions — have been hung up in months of appeals and delays, creating a Russian nesting doll of courtroom battles, with court dates and side hearings on evidence, gag orders and defense arguments all designed to slow down the likelihood of another conviction before Election Day.

Podcaster Joe Rogan has promptly walked back what many listeners took to be an endorsement of independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.

He made the comments on Thursday’s episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, explaining that he believed Kennedy’s political inexperience made him less likely to lie to voters.

“They do it on the left, they do it on the right,” Rogan said. “They gaslight you, they manipulate you, they promote narratives — and the only one who is not doing that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

Tonight’s rally with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz is set to begin at 5.30pm local time in Arizona, 8.30pm ET.

The rally will be held at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is speaking in Bozeman, Montana on Friday night at 8pm local time, 10pm ET.

The rally will be held at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University.

The Daily Show host Michael Kosta has destroyed Donald Trump’s wild claim that the crowd of supporters who flocked to see him speak on January 6 rivaled the crowd that turned out to hear Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic “I have a dream” speech during the March on Washington.

During the lie-filled briefing, Trump made a series of false and wild claims – with one in particular raising eyebrows: his boast he has drawn in crowds comparable to MLK Jr.

“I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody has spoken to bigger crowds than me,” Trump claimed.