Comment on 2020 Will Be Uphill Race for Trump

Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc across the Southeast over the past several days, leaving more than 60 people dead and providing a chilling example of how climate change is worsening storms. Since the hurricane made landfall in northern Florida on Thursday, it killed at least 64 people, including 1-month-old twins and their 27-year-old mother in Georgia, and a couple in their 70s and a 6-year-old relative who drowned in North Carolina, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

At Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), something will be missing: on-air fact-checking. The Associated Press reports that moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS will not point out the candidates’ inaccuracies during the 90-minute debate, scheduled to take place in New York City at 9 p.m.

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For five years, reactor one at Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Pennsylvania has lain dormant. Now, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, the reactor will start running again in 2028—this time to exclusively supply the tech firm with oodles of low-carbon electricity. It’s all part of an ongoing flirtation between Big Tech and nuclear power.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and COLLEEN LONG ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Republicans on Sunday sought to distance themselves from Donald Trump’s latest insults of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris during a rambling weekend rally in Wisconsin in which he called her “mentally disabled.” Trump escalated his personal attacks on the vice president during a self-described “dark speech” on immigration following Harris’ trip to the U.

When you look at childrearing practices in the Muslim Middle East, it’s easy to surmise that the abuse children suffer needs an outlet—and Israel is that outlet.

In the wake of recent events, how could any self-respecting American Jew vote for a Democrat?