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Monday, October 21, 2024

Moldova's pro-Western president Maia Sandu said her camp "won fairly in an unfair fight" on Monday after a referendum found voters to be narrowly in favor of joining the European Union, despite allegations of Russian interference. With all votes counted by Monday evening, the "yes" vote for future EU membership emerged with a wafer-thin majority of 50.46%, according to Moldova's electoral commission. read more


"I can't think of anything that would be this order of magnitude," said the group's senior policy director, Marc Goldwein, about the perceived effect a Trump presidency would have. Among the Trump policies that concern the committee are promises that Social Security recipients would pay no federal income tax on their benefits. Currently, 40 percent of beneficiaries pay taxes, which go directly back to fund Social Security. read more


In the half decade since his complaint kicked off a political firestorm, the CIA analyst has declined all requests to speak publicly about his actions, even as he has reckoned privately with whether they made a difference. Did his lonely stand help to check what he saw as Trump's bad behavior or reveal the weakness of the guardrails around the presidency? Did it strengthen his country's democracy or lay bare its flaws? read more


Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) engaged in a tense text exchange last week, Axios has learned. read more


Elon Musk says on stage at a town hall that America PAC will be awarding $1 million every day until the election to a registered Pennsylvania voter who has signed his petition. read more


Donald Trump delivered another bizarre rambling performance at a Town Hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sunday, at one point seeming to forget his own age while discussing charges that he is not mentally fit to serve. "I'm not 80, and I'm not that close to 80," Trump, who is 78-years-old said, before attacking Biden for being "81 or 82." Trump also then repeatedly claimed to have "no cognitive," when discussing charges from Kamala Harris that he is not mentally fit to be president. read more


To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Fight Club, we're sharing the reasons why it's had such an impact over the decades. read more


In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects. read more


Newsweek looked at the health inspections for the McDonald's restaurant where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump briefly worked on Sunday and found that it failed its last health inspection,. read more


Gov. Ron DeSantis' top deputies directed a Florida Health Department lawyer to threaten Florida television stations with criminal prosecution for running political advertisements that support enshrining abortion rights in the state's Constitution, according to new court records. read more


The five men who were wrongly accused and convicted of a brutal New York City assault in 1989, now known as the "Central Park 5," on Monday sued former President Donald Trump for defamation after he once again asserted they were responsible for the crime and falsely claimed a victim had died during a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris last month. read more


Will Bunch: What a genitalia joke and a four-letter word about Kamala Harris is telling us about the American fascism threat under Trump. read more


"I started to learn what patriarchy was": How Donald Trump pushed Republican women out of the GOP read more


Arnold, who died in 2016, would almost certainly have been insulted by Trump's latest crass "locker room talk," if his family is to be believed. His daughter told The Sporting News in 2018 that the golf legend, a conservative who was friendly with Dwight D. Eisenhower, was so incensed by what he saw as Trump's lack of civility that he made noises of disgust when Trump appeared on the television. read more


Dozens of interviews with people deeply familiar or involved with the election process point to a clear consensus: Not only could Trump make a second attempt at overturning an election he loses, he and his allies are already laying the groundwork. read more


Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump â' among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is. read more


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