Ethel Kennedy, Rfk’s Long-devoted Widow And Enduring Link To Camelot, Dies At 96

Republicans are hoping to work out a new model for a party less tied to Trump's fortunes in California

Late on Wednesday night, as Hurricane Milton made landfall, Ryan Hall, the self-proclaimed “Internet’s Weather Man,” hosted a video stream where viewers peppered him with questions about which areas looked likely to be hit, where tornadoes were touching down, and how high the water had reached in treasured parts of Florida.  “How’s Marco Island doing?” “NORTH PORT storm surge?” “Do you know if that came near D road?

Donald Trump’s visit to Aurora on Friday for a sold-out rally will mark the first big public event by a major-party presidential candidate in Colorado this year — with Trump’s visit motivated more by the chance to amplify his rhetoric about migrants than to seize on any likely prospect of winning Colorado. His planned afternoon stop on the northern edge of Aurora, near the airport, comes three weeks after the former president and current Republican nominee pledged to visit a suburban city he’s falsely claimed has been overrun by Venezuelan gangs.

Twelve years ago, when former President Barack Obama proudly created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to shield undocumented youth from the threat of deportation, all involved thought of it as a temporary fix. It would be, as Obama said, a “stopgap measure.” Eventually, everyone assumed Congress would get together and pass legislation for the so-called Dreamers brought to the country as children. But, as I’ve written about before—despite the seeming bipartisan consensus of the time and DACA’s outsized weight on the lives of the 800,000 undocumented young people who have benefited from it and built their lives in the United States—the long-envisioned legislative agreement that would have afforded DACA recipients a pathway to citizenship never came to be. Now, the prospects of a bill to help Dreamers seem grim.

That Kamala is worried is evidenced by the fact that, suddenly, she’s doing interviews (and doing them very badly, too).

Here’s what happens when the two sides of the aisle come together.