Trump Screams From The Sidelines

“A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to block a lower-court ruling allowing Americans to bet on the outcome of the 2024 congressional elections,” CNBC reports.

Three people tell the Daily Mail that Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband assaulted his ex-girlfriend. “The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff allegedly struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around, while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival event in France.”

“Donald Trump said on social media during the debate that he would veto a national abortion ban, the first time he has clearly committed to a position that could appease some voters but is likely to anger his antiabortion allies,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Said Trump: “Everyone knows I would not support a federal abortion ban under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it, because it is up to the states to decide based on the will of their voters.”

ProPublica: “The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration would want to purge.”

“The long-feared ‘wider war’ in the Middle East is here,” the New York Times reports. “For the last 360 days, since the images of the slaughter of about 1,200 people in Israel last Oct. 7 flashed around the world, President Biden has warned at every turn against allowing a terrorist attack by Hamas to spread into a conflict with Iran’s other proxy, Hezbollah, and ultimately with Iran itself.” “Now, after Israel assassinated the Hezbollah chief, Hassan Nasrallah, and began a ground invasion of Lebanon, and after Iran retaliated on Tuesday by launching nearly 200 missiles at Israel, it has turned into one of the region’s most dangerous moments since the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.” “The main questions now are how much the conflict might escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved.”

“An unexploded U. S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no injuries,” CBS News reports.