7 min ago - Updated 6:56 PM EDT, July 26, 2024 DETROIT (AP) — Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automakers selling customers’ driving data to brokers who package it and then sell it to insurance companies. In ... (AP)

16 min ago - July 26, 2024 7:37 PM EDT Updated 9 hours ago RIO DE JANEIRO, July 26 (Reuters) - The first-ever joint declaration by G20 finance leaders vowing to cooperate on effectively taxing the world's largest fortunes on Friday papered over deeper disagreemen ... (Reuters)

29 min ago - Donald Trump, the former president who double downed on his ambitions of being a dictator, told a crowd gathered in West Palm Beach on Friday that if elected for a second term, they “won’t have to vote anymore.” At the Florida summit, ... (Rolling Stone)

41 min ago - 07/26/2024 07:14 PM EDT PHILADELPHIA — The event was supposed to be all about Kamala Harris raking in the endorsements. But as labor unions and Democratic leaders rallied Friday to declare Pennsylvania’s support for her presidential bid, t ... (Politico)

1 hr ago - July 26 2024 6:58 PM EST Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, often described as the architect of Project 2025, has ties to the far-right and secretive Roman Catholic group Opus Dei. “Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that ... (The Advocate)

1 hr 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)

2 hrs 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)

2 hrs 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)

3 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)

8 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))

9 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)

9 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)

9 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)

10 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)

10 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)

11 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)

11 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)

12 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)

12 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)

12 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)