Harris tells Oprah she’d shoot home intruder as Trump says Jewish voters will carry ‘a lot’ of blame if he loses election: Live
Harris speaks on cost of living, reproductive rights, and immigration during a star-studded election ‘Unite for America’ event with Oprah Winfrey
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Kamala Harris told Oprah Winfrey that she would shoot an intruder in her home as the vice president addressed gun violence, the cost of living, reproductive rights and immigration in an event on Thursday evening.
The pair sat down for their “Unite for America” live-streamed rally in Michigan as Winfrey mentioned that Harris revealed herself as a gun owner during the debate against Donald Trump last week.
“I did not know that,” Winfrey said to laughter from the audience that included the likes of Chris Rock and Julia Roberts.
Harris added: “If somebody breaks into my house they’re getting shot. I probably should not have said that... my staff will deal with that later.”
Trump said that Jewish American voters will bear “a lot” of blame if he loses the election, he told the Israeli-American Council National Summit in Washington on Thursday.
“If I don’t win this election – and the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens because if 40 per cent, I mean, 60 per cent of the people are voting for the enemy – Israel, in my opinion, will cease to exist within two years,” he told the audience.
S&P 500 surges to record high close on euphoria over Fed rate cut
The S&P 500 surged to a record high close on Thursday, the day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points and indicated more rate cuts were on the horizon.
Heavyweight stocks that have enjoyed much of this year's stock market rally made fresh gains, with Tesla, Apple and Meta Platforms up sharply.
AI powerhouse Nvidia rallied, helping lift the PHLX semiconductor index.
Better-than-expected jobless claims data further stoked global risk appetite.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced a rate cut at the high end of expectations, and said it had greater confidence inflation was under control. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the US economy remained strong and the central bank would decide on the appropriate pace of future rate cuts.
Here’s our report on the rate cut decision and how it affects you:
Fed slashes interest rates for first time in years. Here’s what that means for you
The major move signals end to inflation fight while shoring up job market for ‘soft landing’ as borrowing to get cheaper
‘I ain’t see no Haitian eat no cat’: Kodak Black reacts to Trump’s claims about Haitians eating pets
Kodak Black took time out of a recent concert to respond to Donald Trump’s allegation that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
The Florida-born rapper, 27, is the son of Haitian immigrant Marcelene Octave and has been a longtime Trump supporter.
Kevin E G Perry reports on what he said.
Kodak Black reacts to Donald Trump’s claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets
The Florida-born rapper is the son of a Haitian immigrant
Bewildered by Melania Trump bringing up her nude modeling? Stephen Colbert is too
Stephen Colbert made his bewilderment clear to audience members and viewers on the latest episode of his talk show after Melania Trump posted a video bizarrely highlighting her nude photos from her modeling days.
“Trump’s struggling campaign needs all the help it can get to stay on message these days,” explained The Late Show with Stephen Colbert host on Wednesday.
“Thankfully, Melania Trump - who has been notably absent from her husband’s side - pitched in with this video,” he added.
Myriam Page has the story.
Stephen Colbert bewildered at Melania Trump bringing up nude modeling photos
The former first lady posed for the nude photos on her now-husband’s private jet in 2000
Trump is gifted handcuffs police used in arrest of attempted assassination suspect
The Martin County Deputies who detained the suspect in the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump signed the handcuffs used in the arrest and gifted them to Trump.
The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was detained on Sunday after a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle through the fence at Trump’s golf course near West Palm Beach, Florida as the former president was playing a round on Sunday.
The agent opened fire and Routh fled but he was later detained after a woman took a photo of his license plate and alerted the authorities.
Trump met the deputies at Mar-a-Lago after the arrest.
Gustaf Kilander has the story.
Police force gifts Trump signed handcuffs used on assassination attempt suspect
Sheriff says arrest of suspect Ryan Wesley Routh was ‘as rewarding as anything I’ve ever done’
How Project 2025 became Trump’s worst nightmare
John Bowden reports for The Independent:
These days, “Project 2025” is nothing but a dirty word (or pair of words) to staffers on Donald Trump’s third bid for the presidency. After months of negative coverage and attacks from Democrats, Trump and his top aides are both engaged in a conscious effort to distance the former president from the project whenever possible. That effort drew to a heated pitch this summer as top Trump campaign officials Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles released a statement crowing over the resignation of a top Project 2025 operative and declaring the various groups involved with the plan to be speaking on the former president’s behalf without his permission.
This wasn’t supposed to be how the election went at all. The question remains: How did the Heritage Foundation and the other conservative groups behind Project 2025 fumble the bag this badly?
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‘A devastating self-own’: How Project 2025 became Trump’s worst nightmare
Project 2025 was always Trump’s game. How did the ultra-conservatives who crafted it let everything spiral out of control so badly? John Bowden reports
Giddy NYU students are sharing blurry videos of Barron sightings on social media
Barron Trump, youngest son of the former president, started his freshman year at New York University earlier this month - sparking a flurry of TikTok videos of the 18-year-old making his way around campus, trailed by Secret Service agents.
Fellow NYU students have been taking and sharing videos of Barron, aptly described by WIRED as “Sasquatch-esque”: short, frantic, blurry clips of the elusive 6’9” freshman making his way to class. Many of these videos are posted then reposted, with users making their own edits and setting them to background music.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Giddy NYU students share videos of Barron Trump sightings on TikTok
Barron Trump is a freshman at the Manhattan school
ICYMI: Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife leaps to Kamala Harris’s defense again
The ex-wife of Kamala Harris’s husband has yet again defended the vice president on social media after she was attacked for not having biological children.
Kerstin Emhoff rushed to Harris’s defense after Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared to sneer at the Democratic presidential candidate for not having biological children at a town hall event in Flint, Michigan with Donald Trump on Tuesday.
“My kids keep me humble,” Sanders, who also served as White House Press Secretary under Trump, said at the event. “Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”
Emhoff was quick to speak out against the comments on social media on Tuesday night.
Katie Hawkinson reports on what she had to say.
Emhoff’s ex-wife defends Harris after Huckabee ‘childless’ attack
Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Harris doesn’t ‘have anything keeping her humble’ because she does not have biological kids
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