38 min ago - July 26, 2024, 6:50 PM EDT Intense wildfires in western Canada have sent huge plumes of smoke sweeping across North America in recent days — pollution that has been captured in images by NASA satellites, aircraft and ground-based observatories. ... (NBC News)

1 hr ago - 12 hours ago In the days since Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid, more than 170,000 volunteers have joined her cause, her campaign says. Why it matters: The numbers are yet another example of the momentum Harris has harnessed ... (Axios)

1 hr ago - Published July 26, 2024 4:42PM (EDT) JD Vance is making headlines for a variety of unanticipated reasons this week — accused of both making love to a literal couch and searching online for sex-specific dolphin content. And the hits keep coming. ... (Salon)

2 hrs ago - 07/26/24 4:06 PM ET Vice presidential hopeful Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) acknowledged the white supremacist attacks against his wife, Usha Vance, who is a child of Indian immigrants. “Look, I love my wife so much. I love her because she’s who ... (The Hill)

7 hrs ago - The presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is essentially tied, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll that shows heightened support for her among nonwhite voters and dramatically increased enthusiasm about the campaign among D ... (Wall Street Journal (gift link))

8 hrs ago - 07/26/2024 07:34 PM EDT President Joe Biden plans to unveil a proposal on Monday for dramatically reforming the Supreme Court, two people familiar with the matter told POLITICO. Biden is likely to endorse establishing term limits for justices and an ... (Politico)

8 hrs ago - The northbound 15 freeway lanes in Baker remained closed on Friday, July 26, after a semi truck hauling a container of lithium ion batteries overturned, blocking the route to Las Vegas just before the weekend, authorities said. The truck overturned j ... (OC Register)

8 hrs ago - Fri 26 Jul 2024 13.14 EDT Last modified on Fri 26 Jul 2024 14.44 EDT JD Vance, the Ohio senator and Donald Trump’s running mate, promoted a baseless rightwing talking point in 2022 when he warned of George Soros-funded planes transporting Black ... (The Guardian)

9 hrs ago - 4 hours ago Democrats commemorated the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act by coming out swinging against Donald Trump, after his nephew claimed in a new memoir that the former president once suggested people with disabilities
... (UK Independent)

9 hrs ago - RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada election officials verified enough signatures for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign to appear on the Nevada ballot, the state’s top election official confirmed Friday, likely bringing his insurgent quest to shake up ... (AP)

9 hrs ago - July 26, 2024 1:07 PM EDT Updated 7 hours ago WILMINGTON, Delaware, July 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has blocked a Department of Labor rule from taking effect that would have expanded the types of retirement advisers who are considered fiduciaries, f ... (Reuters)

10 hrs ago - July 26, 2024, 4:14 PM EDT Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in her Illinois home, according to Massey’s family members who spoke t ... (NBC News)

11 hrs ago - July 26, 2024 at 6:38 p.m. EDT Patrick Byrne, who has funded efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election, said in an online forum Thursday that law enforcement would face “a piano wire and a blowtorch” if they did not drop a case ... (Washington Post)

11 hrs ago - The FBI has reportedly confirmed former President Donald Trump was indeed shot by a bullet, ending speculation about what exactly bloodied Trump’s ear. The agency told Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich in a statement on Friday afternoon, “W ... (Daily Beast via Yahoo w reporting by Fox)

11 hrs ago - By SARAH PARVINI Updated 12:21 PM CDT, July 26, 2024 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s video game performers went on strike Friday after negotiations with game industry giants that began more than a year and a half ago came to a halt over art ... (AP)

11 hrs ago - Former FBI agent Pete Strzok, who was fired from the bureau in 2018 after his disparaging text messages about Donald Trump were made public, has reached a settlement with the Justice Department over his claims that his privacy rights were violated, a ... (ABC)

11 hrs ago - Fri 26 Jul 2024 13.45 EDT Last modified on Fri 26 Jul 2024 14.05 EDT Following the success of a virtual call to mobilize Black women voters for Kamala Harris, a similar event with more than 160,000 attendees was held on Thursday aimed at white women, ... (The Guardian)

12 hrs ago - Updated on: July 26, 2024 / 5:08 PM EDT PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Former President Donald Trump says he is returning to Butler County for a rally after he survived an assassination attempt earlier this month. In a post on the social media platform Tr ... (CBS News)

12 hrs ago - July 26, 2024, 2:21 PM EDT Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the subject of some notable new advertising — from a group with Republican ties and on a subject that is one of the Democratic Party’s key campaign issues. The new group, called “SAG ... (NBC News)

13 hrs ago - Jul 26th, 2024, 2:16 pm Even while granting the relief sought for “good cause,” a court didn’t take kindly to the “irrelevant characterizations” that Rudy Giuliani’s defense lawyer included across two pages of a recent ... (Law & Crime)