Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, believed by Israel to be chief mastermind of the October 7, 2023, terror attack that set off the current war in Gaza, was killed by Israeli forces. Many global leaders in the West expressed hope that his death signals the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza and could provide an opportunity for the release of the more than 100 hostages still being held by Hamas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump told a skeptical Republican voter Jan 6th was a ‘day of love’ at an event Wednesday. Plus, Vice President Kamala Harris turned questions about her nearly four years in office into attacks on Republican rival Donald Trump’s record in a heated interview Wednesday on Fox News, her first appearance on the conservative network, as she courts disaffected Republican and independent voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ranked one of the most conservative senators, Cruz’s bid for a third term should be a smooth ride in a place that has consistently elected Republicans in statewide contests for the past 30 years. But for the second election in a row, Cruz finds himself fighting to keep his seat against a well-funded Democrat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Republican rival Donald Trump in Pennsylvania over the former president’s comment that the US military should handle “the enemy from within” on Election Day. It was the latest example of Harris’ campaign drawing sharper distinctions with Trump in the presidential race’s closing weeks, using the former president’s own words and those of his former aides to cast him as dangerous and unstable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At last month’s presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed violent migrant gangs were “taking over” Aurora, Colorado, amplifying and exaggerating a disputed rumor his supporters had spread across the internet in the days leading up to his nationally televised face-off with Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Barack Obama delivered his most personal, furious indictment yet of Donald Trump and a Republican Party he said was in thrall to a man who he believes had, over the last week, violated the trust of Americans devastated by a pair of catastrophic hurricanes. “The idea of intentionally trying to deceive people in their most desperate and vulnerable moments – my question is, when did that become OK?” Obama said, pointing to Trump’s lies about the federal government withholding...

Milton remains a powerful Category 5 hurricane as it races toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, where it could be one of the most destructive storms on record. Though it is forecast to weaken before it makes landfall, it will grow in size — meaning its disastrous impacts will be felt over a larger area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions about how she’d pay for her economic plans, whether Democrats were too slow to enact border security measures, how she’d confront Russia over its war in Ukraine and more in a wide-ranging “60 Minutes” interview that aired Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hurricane conspiracy theories collide with the election and could end up hurting people who need it the most. Plus, Kamala Harris rallies in Michigan as one of the state’s most famous personalities from there warns that one particular move could cost her the election. Also, could the Melendez brothers be close to getting out of prison?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Special counsel Jack Smith and former Rep. Liz Cheney have thrust the issue of the GOP nominee’s false 2020 fraud claims into the endgame of Trump’s neck-and-neck showdown with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, while reviving memories of a day that will stain American history. Appearing with Harris in Wisconsin, Cheney presented herself as part of a bipartisan movement to block Trump from the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Federal prosecutors laid out their most extensive case to date against former President Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election in a sweeping legal brief that was unsealed. The 165-page document offers new detail about special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s efforts to lean on state officials and paint a narrative of widespread fraud that prosecutors say Trump knew was untrue.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Israeli military says it has begun “a limited ground operation” in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah. There will be “no long-term occupation” of Lebanon, Israeli officials said, but declined to provide a timeline. The ground offensive comes after hours of Israeli raids and artillery fire across the border, and after Israel restricted civilian movements in some border communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive against former President Trump on immigration during her visit to the southern border in Arizona as she tries to turn a political vulnerability on its head. Immigration has featured prominently in the 2024 presidential election, with polls showing voters placing more trust in Trump to handle the issue than Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hurricane Helene has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. Storm surge — how high the water rises above normal levels — could climb to 20 feet along Florida’s Big Bend. The National Weather Service is warning of “unsurvivable” storm surge in Apalachee Bay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on at least one federal criminal charge, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The indictment follows a monthslong federal investigation by the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, which was reportedly scrutinizing his connection to Turkish officials and businessmen, and campaign donations he received. The charges he is facing are not publicly known at this time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent delay tactic in the Senate, told CNN on Tuesday that he wouldn’t back her candidacy now — despite signaling earlier this month he was getting ready to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Campaign officials are weighing a potential visit by Harris to the US-Mexico border while in Arizona as the campaign tries to close the gap with Trump on the issue of immigration. Plus, Hezbollah has fired multiple rocket barrages into northern Israel, a day after Israeli airstrikes targeting the militant group in Lebanon killed nearly 500 people and wounded 1,600 others — the deadliest day in the country in nearly two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day, despite bipartisan objections from election officials and poll workers. The vote was 3-2, with the three Trump allies supporting the move, and a Democratic and independent GOP-appointed member of the board strongly opposing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates aggressively Wednesday, announcing the first rate cut since March 2020. The half-point move paves the way for lower borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to credit cards. It marks a crucial milestone for the central bank’s historic inflation fight, which kept rates at a bruising 23-year high for more than a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean “Diddy” Combs was denied bail and taken into custody after pleading not guilty in federal court to charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. Prosecutors argued the music mogul should not be released because he had previously reached out to witnesses and victims. Prosecutors allege Combs created and ran a “criminal enterprise” through his business empire that engaged in crimes including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of...

Embattled musician and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs has been arrested, the mogul’s attorney tells CNN. Combs – who has been in New York City since last week – was arrested in Manhattan and taken into custody by Homeland Security Investigations. The charges are unclear at this time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump, speaking earlier in California, promised “large deportations” from Springfield, Ohio, a town that has become a flashpoint as Republicans have spread false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets. President Joe Biden criticized Trump for disparaging the migrants. This as absentee ballots have started going out in Alabama, and other states begin sending mail-in ballots later this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would not participate in another presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly joins to give reaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump drew an estimated 67.1 million viewers across 17 television networks — blowing well past the 51 million who watched the Republican nominee take on President Joe Biden in June. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices