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A foreign minister who served under former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called on the Biden administration to condemn his country’s ban on social media platform X, saying the U.S. has a ‘responsibility’ to speak up. Ernesto Araújo, who served as foreign minister under Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2021, said the U.S. has a ‘responsibility to be the reference point for democracy, for rule of law, for freedom in the hemisphere.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has flipped on another policy — banning plastic straws.Harris’ campaign has abandoned the vice president’s previous position from the 2020 Democratic primary in which she stated unequivocally that plastic straws should be banned due to environmental considerations.”She doesn’t support banning plastic straws,” a campaign official told Axios on Wednesday.

Rep. Elise Stefanik has filed an ethics complaint against New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan “for his illegal conflict of interest in the sham Manhattan trial against President Trump,” alleging the Harris campaign has a “newly active financial relationship” with a company led in part by his daughter.

Prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz announced his departure from the Democratic Party, citing several “anti-Jewish” lawmakers that make up the ranks of the party and the recent Democratic National Convention in which Vice President Kamala Harris became the party’s presidential nominee.

The nation’s oldest and largest police organization endorsed Donald Trump Friday, saying there is “zero doubt” they want him in the White House for a second term, while the former president blasted his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as a “defunder” of law enforcement, and vowed to end “Kamala’s crime wave” if elected.

Which of these things is not like the others? The economy. The border. Abortion. Foreign policy. The first three are issues many voters consistently tell pollsters are the subjects most important to them in 2024. Foreign policy? Dwarfed by the others. In fact, recent Fox polling shows that foreign policy decisions were the most important subjects to only 3% of registered voters surveyed in Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona.

Political headwinds have recently shifted in eight close House races around the country. With less than two months until Election Day, Democrats continue to ride a wave of enthusiasm for their new presidential nominee.Six races have shifted in Democrats’ favor, while just two are looking better for Republicans, according to a nonpartisan analysis by the Cook Political Report.Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Former President Trump suggested that he could win up to half of the Jewish vote in the 2024 election as he criticized Jewish Americans who don’t support him in his showdown with Vice President Kamala Harris.”We’re probably around the 50 percent mark,” Trump said on Thursday in live-streamed comments as he addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.

First son Hunter Biden released a statement Thursday after he pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges, saying he did so to “spare” his family from being “publicly humiliated” by a trial. “I went to trial in Delaware not realizing the anguish it would cause my family, and I will not put them through it again,” Biden said.

No proof? No vote.As in, proof of citizenship.House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., convened a conference call Wednesday with House GOPers, just days before the House returns to session for the first time since late July. Johnson advocated that the House adopt an interim spending bill running into the first quarter of next year to avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1. But House Republicans will attach the so-called SAVE Act to the bill.

The criminal trial of first son Hunter Biden on federal tax charges was expected to get underway in normal order Thursday, until the younger Biden said he intended to plead guilty to the charges in a shocking twist. Special Counsel David Weiss charged President Biden’s son with three felonies and six misdemeanors concerning $1.4 million in owed taxes that have since been paid.

The administration of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has not explained how noncitizens made it onto the state’s voter rolls, according to the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Minnesota GOP, which penned a letter to the state’s Department of Public Safety.

Former President Donald Trump blasted VP Kamala Harris on immigration in a Fox News Town Hall making the case that “she was in charge of the border” as illegal immigration surged to record levels in recent years.”They want open borders,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in a town hall event on Wednesday night.  “She wants open borders. Now she’s all of a sudden said, oh, I think we’re closing the borders.

Former President Donald Trump said during a Fox News town hall in Pennsylvania Wednesday evening that the U.S. is heading towards “World War III territory” as wars abroad rage under the Biden-Harris administration.

Former President Donald Trump addressed the mass school shooting in Georgia during his Fox News town hall event in a key battleground state, vowing to “heal our world” if he’s re-elected. “It’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons and we’re going to make it better. We’re going to heal our world.

Former President Trump is back in Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening to headline a Fox News town hall.The Sean Hannity-moderated prime-time event is being held at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, the capital city of the key battleground state in the race between Republican nominee Trump and Democrat nominee Vice President Harris.Trump was previously in Pennsylvania last Friday at a rally in Johnstown in the western part of the state.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a one-time rising Republican Party star who became a top GOP critic of former President Trump, says she’ll vote for Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.”I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states,” Cheney said Wednesday at a speaking event at Duke University in North Carolina.

Robert Burke won the Republican nomination for Massachusetts’ eighth congressional district Tuesday night by a wide margin against two other GOP hopefuls.The videographer will face an uphill battle against incumbent Democrat Stephen Lynch, who ran unopposed in his Tuesday primary. Lynch, who is vying for his 12th full term, has been representing Massachusetts’ eighth congressional district since 2013. He currently has over $1 million cash-on-hand.

House lawmakers subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday over his alleged refusal to testify about the Biden administration’s deadly 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.The House Foreign Affairs Committee said Blinken must appear before the committee on Sept. 19 or face contempt charges, the committee said in a letter written by Republican Chairman Michael McCaul, of Texas.

Republican attorney and Marine veteran John Deaton of Bolton won a US Senate primary in Massachusetts on Tuesday and will now face longtime Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren in November.Deaton, a personal injury attorney and crypto advocate, moved from Rhode Island to Massachusetts last year. He faced off in the primary against Ian Cain of Quincy, Massachusetts’ first black and openly gay city council member, and Bob Antonellis, an engineer and political newcomer from Medford.

It’s back to school time on Capitol Hill.But not really until next week.What?Even though millions of kids returned to school just after Labor Day, the end of August, or, in some cases, even earlier in August, Congress still isn’t in session yet for the fall term.REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: WHAT THE END OF THE YEAR LOOKS LIKE IN CONGRESSThat comes on Monday, September 9. That’s when the House and Senate come back for legislative action for the first time in more than a month.

Former President Trump plans to plead not guilty to the revised charges in the federal election inference case against him, a new court document shows.According to a court filing obtained by Fox News, Trump signed an entry of not guilty plea. In the document, which was filed on Tuesday, Trump also waived his right to be present at his arraignment.”I authorize my attorneys to enter a plea of not guilty on my behalf to each and every count of the superseding indictment, Doc.

Several vehicles in Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s motorcade were involved in a minor crash on the way to a campaign stop in Wisconsin on Labor Day, causing some minor injuries, Walz said. “Some of you might have heard, some of my staff and members of the press that were traveling with us were involved in a traffic accident on the way here today,” Walz said at a Monday campaign event following the crash. “We’ve spoken with the staff.

The 2024 Election season is reaching its crescendo.Labor Day traditionally marks the final stretch ahead of a presidential election, and there are just nine weeks of campaigning left until Election Day on Nov. 5.In a slew of states, however, the election actually gets underway this month. In swing state North Carolina, mail-in voting begins on Sept. 6. Early voting begins on Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two other crucial electoral battlegrounds.

President Biden claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a hostage deal with Hamas terrorists.Biden made the remarks to reporters before heading into the Situation Room, where he and Vice President Harris convened with a hostage deal negotiating team following the murder of 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages by Hamas on Saturday.

Six weeks after he ended his re-election campaign amid rising calls from his own party to drop out of the race, President Biden returns to the campaign trail for the first time on Monday.It will be the first of a “robust” schedule of campaign appearances by the president on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris over the next two months, a White House official tells Fox News.