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A Russian court on Monday sentenced 72-year-old U.S. citizen Stephen James Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison for helping to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Russian prosecutors said Hubbard joined a defense unit in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. He was taken prisoner by Russian forces after the city was captured in April 2022. Ukrainian forces were able to push the Russians out of Izyum in a counteroffensive about five months later. The prosecution said he “systematically received material compensation” for his efforts, working out to about $1,000 per…
Billionaire Mark Cuban, a top economic surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris, found himself triggered after Breitbart News pressed him on tariffs and America First economic policies. A user on X asked Cuban to provide the “single biggest reason” he is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and the biggest reason he is not supporting former President Donald Trump. Cuban, bizarrely, pointed to Harris’s economic policies, asserting that she has “great policies for Small Business & Entrepreneurs, the biggest drivers of jobs and growth”: Concerning Trump, Cuban accused him of attempting to overturn the last election. That prompted another X user…
Former President Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 and we’re told he barely lost Pennsylvania in 2020. Nevertheless, compared to where his polling stood in that vital swing state during those two campaigns, he is way over-performing in the polling today. According to the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average poll of Pennsylvania state polls, Trump leads sitting Vice President Kamala Harris by a mere 0.2 points. That might not sound like much of a lead — and it’s not, but what’s useful is to look at the polling in Pennsylvania at this same time in the 2016 and 2020 campaigns. According to the…
By Kevin BucklandTOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar traded near a two-month peak against major peers on Thursday as markets grew more confident about a patient approach from the Federal Reserve to further monetary easing, even as a key inflation report loomed later in the day.The dollar index, which measures the currency against six key rivals, was steady after climbing to the highest since Aug. 16 overnight, as traders further pared bets for U.S. interest rate cuts this year in the wake of last week’s unexpectedly strong payrolls data.September’s consumer price index (CPI), due at 1230 GMT, is likely to…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a proposal from Vice President Kamala Harris that would eliminate the filibuster to pass abortion rights legislation — warning Democrats that they will rue the move when Republicans next control Washington. “What they want to do is break the institution in order to achieve what they want to achieve,” he said in an interview Thursday. McConnell spoke two days after Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio that “we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe” — in other words, changing the Senate’s rules to exempt a vote to restore the abortion rights guarantee under Roe v.…
Democratic operatives, including some of Kamala Harris’ own staffers, are growing increasingly concerned about her relatively light campaign schedule, which has her holding fewer events than Donald Trump and avoiding unscripted interactions with voters and the press almost entirely. In interviews with POLITICO, nearly two dozen Democrats described Harris as running a do-no-harm, risk-averse approach to the race they fear could hamper her as the campaign enters its final 30-day stretch. With early voting by mail and in person already underway in more than half of the country, Harris spent just three days of the last week of September in…
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill.In today’s edition, politics reporters Matt Dixon and Allan Smith explore why Donald Trump is set to campaign in heavily Democratic states in the final stretch of the 2024 race. Plus, chief political analyst Chuck Todd explains why the winner of House control this fall will have a major say over the direction of the next presidency.Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every…
Where’s Jim Cantore? It’s the question just about everyone asks when their is a storm threat in their neck of the woods.He’s not in Collier County today.He’s not in Lee County, either.But he’s very close. Cantore just did a live report at 6:30 p.m. for the Weather Channel. He was standing in a parking garage in Charlotte County at the Sunseeker Resort. The parking garage was located on the edge of Charlotte Harbor and the waves from Hurricane Milton were crashing behind Cantore. He walked around in the garage, which was flooded.Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel reports on Hurricane…
The greenback and the Washington-based fund are used as weapons against nations out of favor with the West, Brazilian economist Paulo Batista argues The US dollar has become a dangerous currency, a former Brazilian representative at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., told RT in an interview at the outlet’s studio on Friday.The economist highlighted that trust in the greenback as the global reserve currency has been steadily declining as more and more nations seek alternatives in what has become a major de-dollarization push. “The dollar is a dangerous currency, let’s put it this way, see what happened…
The Israeli PM reportedly insists that he first needs to agree a response to Iran’s attack on the Jewish state with President Joe Biden first, according to Axios Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blocked his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from visiting the US, the Pentagon has confirmed, with multiple sources speculating the PM wanted first to speak with US President Joe Biden.Gallant’s trip to Washington was arranged last week after Iran fired over 180 ballistic missiles at targets inside Israel. The strike was said to be a reaction to the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah.The…