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Beach and water apparel brand Salt Life is closing all of its retail locations after it was sold to new owners who moved to liquidate it.
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Disgraced music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has reportedly been placed in the same jail housing unit as convicted crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Caroline Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried's ex-girlfriend, may not face jail time for her role in the collapse of FTX.
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Food container giant Tupperware Brands has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after announcing the closure of its last U.S. factory in favor of moving production to Mexico, the company said Tuesday.
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The New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) is offering $1 million to support an LGBTQ+ Pride Parade in Palestinian-controlled territories.
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House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) said Vice President Kamala Harris either lied for political points or is "clueless" that thousands of American troops are risking their lives overseas.
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Dame Alison Rose will be an adviser to what the firm calls its "equity diversity and inclusion committee" working on a diversity push.
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BurgerFi International, owner of Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings and its eponymous chain, on Wednesday joined the growing list of restaurant operators to file for bankruptcy.
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Donald Trump will square off Tuesday night against Kamala Harris in Philadelphia in what could be the only debate between the two major parties’ presidential nominees.
The stakes of the Harris-Trump debate couldn’t be higher.
For Harris, the current vice president, it could be her best chance to put the Trump era in the rearview mirror.
For Trump, the former president, it could be his only chance to personally and effectively brand the elusive Harris on key issues and point out where Harris has flip-flopped.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., seems to believe it shouldn’t be all that difficult, given Harris is President Joe Biden’s sitting vice president.
“Any opportunity President Trump has to contrast secure borders, the Trump economy, and $2 gas with Kamala Harris’ disastrous record is going to help him on Election Day,” Banks told The Daily Signal. “The more voters are reminded of the Harris-Biden administration, the less they like it, which is why the vice president has only given one softball CNN interview since she announced her campaign.”
Harris spent the five days leading up to the debate with Trump in rigorous preparation inside a hotel in Pittsburgh. Her campaign brought in a full stage and TV lighting to give the vice president a feel for what being on stage at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the debate venue, would be like.
Harris was accompanied in her lockdown by lawyer and Democratic debate whisperer Karen Dunn, political consultant Sean Clegg, domestic policy adviser Rohini Kosoglu, Democratic National Convention Chair Minyon Moore, and her campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond. The group worked around the clock, attempting to help Harris hone answers to follow ABC News’ debate guidelines.
That’s not all: Harris had a sparring partner. Philippe Reines, former deputy assistant secretary of state, reportedly was in full method-actor mode while playing Trump—even to the point of dressing like the former president.
Trump prepared a little differently. As he did before meeting Biden in June on the debate stage, Trump hosted policy roundtables with allies to prepare for the debate with Harris.
These roundtables featured commonplace figures in the Trump campaign such as campaign co-manager Susie Wiles, senior advisor Jason Miller, and policy adviser Stephen Miller. This time around, however, Trump was joined by former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii (who made a splash in the 2020 Democratic primary by attacking Harris) and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R.-Fla., who peppered the former president with tough questions.
Last time Trump was onstage in a presidential debate he was opposite Biden, whose performance was so abysmal it triggered a chain reaction that ultimately ended with him dropping out of the race. Now Trump faces Biden’s current understudy and chosen successor.
Nevertheless, Harris isn’t to be underestimated. In less than a decade, she has gone from being the attorney general of California to spitting distance of the presidency. Since entering the race July 21, Harris has enjoyed what election observers called a “honeymoon” phase—high poll numbers and enthusiasm in response to her unpopular boss’ unceremoniously exiting the race.
The honeymoon, however, could be at an end. Harris surged ahead of Trump in the weeks after she took the top spot on the Democratic ticket. However, polls now have Trump and Harris in a dead heat, with some predictive models giving Trump a substantial edge in the Electoral College.
Harris’ regression in the polls could be because her campaign seems to have bungled aspects of its launch. It took nearly 40 days for Harris to sit down for an interview with a major news outlet. It took nearly 50 days for her to put an “issues” page on her campaign website.
Media figures on the Right and Left, much less the Trump campaign, were starting to make a stink about Harris’ evasiveness.
Alternatively, Harris’ honeymoon could be at an end precisely because American voters are catching wind of her policy proposals and aren’t impressed.
On the Harris campaign website’s new policy page, the Democratic nominee claims that she will be the candidate to enact “tough, smart solutions to secure the border, keep communities safe, and reform our broken immigration system.”
The question, then, is why she has not done so as Biden’s vice president and appointed border czar. Nevertheless, Harris’ website adds, “as president, she will bring back the bipartisan border security bill and sign it into law.”
“At the same time,” the campaign website adds, “she knows that our immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.”
Lora Ries, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, says she isn’t buying Harris’ about-face on border security.
“No one believes Kamala Harris suddenly supports a secure border or wants to keep communities safe because, as vice president (really, as the acting president, given Joe Biden’s incapacity), she could change policies today to secure the border and keep criminals off the street. But she doesn’t,” Ries told The Daily Signal. “Remember, Harris repeatedly said during her CNN joint interview that her ‘values have not changed.’ With that, she was telling her base: ‘Don’t worry, I still believe what I did and said before July 2024.’”
“The failed Senate border bill,” Ries continued, “failed for a reason.”
The reason being that it wouldn’t have closed the southern border to illegal aliens.
Instead, “it would expand and codify the very open border tools the Biden-Harris administration has used to implement its mass migration agenda,” Ries told The Daily Signal. “The House-passed bill, HR 2, the Secure the Border Act, would, in fact, secure the border. The campaign’s final words are the buried lede–mass amnesty is Harris’ ultimate goal.”
Another key issue is the economy and inflation. Although inflation has slowed from its 9.1% peak in June 2022, it remains far above the 1.9% average during the Trump years.
The Harris-Walz campaign website claims that as president Harris would beat back inflation by “crack[ing] down on anti-competitive practices that let big corporations jack up prices and undermine the competition that allows all businesses to thrive while keeping prices low for consumers” and instituting “the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries.”
American Compass’ Duncan Braid told The Daily Signal that Harris’ proposed ban on price gouging is “a price control premised on gouging that isn’t happening.”
“Harris is targeting one of the lowest margin, most competitive markets out there,” Braid said. “Maybe instead she could propose some controls on Washington’s out-of-control spending.”
It seems like it was a catch-22 for Harris and her campaign: Either get attacked Tuesday night for not having a list of policies on her website, or list her policies and get attacked for those.
The campaign seems to have opted for the latter, but the risk Harris runs by releasing these policy proposals so close to the debate is having an incomplete mastery of her proposals when she goes onstage and contradicting herself yet again.
“We’re curious which Kamala Harris is going to show up to the debate,” Sen. Rick Scott, R. Fla., told The Daily Signal.
“Will it be the one who was the most liberal senator, more liberal than Bernie Sanders? Will it be Comrade Kamala who supported the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and amnesty and citizenship for illegal aliens? Or will it be the Kamala who has flipped on everything she believes via quotes from anonymous staffers?”
Whichever Harris shows up Tuesday night, the continuing positive media coverage likely will give Harris a tailwind.
“The media is trying to help package Kamala as new and the future,” Scott said. “She is not the future, she represents one of the oldest failed ideas in human history: socialism. That’s why she’s doing what most politicians like her do … lying about it.”
Scott said he believes—like Banks—that if Trump can keep it to the two candidates’ records and priors, Trump will be in the driver’s seat.
“The American people know Trump; they know how great our economy was and how safe our communities were when he was president,” Scott said. “Kamala is going to focus on viral gotcha moments, Trump is going to focus on real solutions to make our country great again. The American people want nothing to do with California socialism. That’s why he’s going to win the debate and on Nov. 5.”
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Three Israelis were shot and killed by a terrorist Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said.
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As Congress prepares to come back from August recess with less than two months before the Nov. 5 presidential election, House Republicans are taking aim at the Democratic ticket through a flurry of investigations and hearings.
With only three weeks of the congressional session left before Vice President Kamala Harris squares off against former President Donald Trump in the presidential election, Republicans in Congress have their work cut out for them. Not only does House Speaker Mike Johnson need to negotiate and pass a continuing resolution that protects conservative priorities to fund the government past Sept. 30, but Republicans in Congress also need to find a way to end the Harris honeymoon—which some polls suggest is already coming to an end—or risk defeat.
At least four separate House committee investigations, from the Oversight Committee to the Armed Services Committee, are looking to use subpoena powers to put pressure on the Democratic ticket.
The Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer, R.-Ky., has two separate probes trained on Harris and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota.
Comer on Aug. 6 announced the first investigation, which seeks to uncover Harris’ complicity in the ongoing illegal migrant crisis at America’s southern border. In a letter to Troy Miller, the Customs and Border Protection senior official performing the duties of the commissioner, Comer claimed the committee is “investigating Vice President Harris’s role in effectuating the worst border crisis in American history.”
“Since the Biden-Harris Administration assumed office, there have been more than 8 million illegal aliens encountered entering the country through the southwest border and over 1.6 million ‘getaways,’” Comer’s letter reads. “The mass illegal migration under the Biden-Harris Administration has contributed to murders, sexual assaults, and serious bodily injuries committed against numerous Americans at the hands of illegal aliens.”
Comer asked Miller to turn over any documents and communications from Customs and Border Protection to understand the vice president’s role in the Biden administration’s border policies.
The second House Oversight Committee investigation deals with Walz’s seemingly extensive connections to China. In an Aug. 16 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Comer announced the probe and requested information, documents, and communications from the FBI regarding possible connections to Chinese Communist Party-linked entities.
“Governor Walz has long-standing connections to CCP-connected entities and officials that make him susceptible to the Party’s strategy of elite capture, which seeks to co-opt influential figures in elite political, cultural, and academic circles to influence the United States to the benefit of the communist regime and the detriment of Americans,” Comer’s letter stated. “Reporting about Governor Walz’s extensive engagement with CCP officials and entities while serving in public office raises questions about possible CCP influence in his decision-making as governor—and, should he be elected, as vice president.”
As evidence of Walz’s alleged connections to the CCP, Comer said that Walz organized a Chinese government-funded trip to China when he was a teacher at Alliance High School in Nebraska. From 1994 to 2003, Walz coordinated annual trips to China for students using a company he started called Educational Travel Adventures Inc.
Walz himself has been to China an estimated 30 times.
“The [Chinese Community Party] has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials,” Comer said in a statement:
Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a long-standing and cozy relationship with China.
Mr. Walz has visited China dozens of times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the president of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders.
In a statement to The Washington Post, a Walz spokesperson claimed, “Republicans are twisting basic facts and desperately lying to distract from the Trump-Vance agenda: praising dictators and sending American jobs to China.”
Meanwhile, the House Education and Workforce Committee is subpoenaing the Democratic vice presidential nominee for documents relating to an alleged $250 million fraud scheme involving a nonprofit in Minnesota.
The nonprofit in question, Feeding Our Future, was ostensibly an organization meant to provide healthy, nourishing meals to at-risk children during the COVID-19 pandemic—with the help of taxpayer dollars.
Prosecutors accuse Feeding Our Future of defrauding the public of $250 million worth of pandemic funds by creating 50 distribution sites and then submitting falsified rosters of children supposedly receiving meals from the nonprofit. The Justice Department has charged 70 individuals caught up in the scheme—18 of whom have pleaded guilty. Five others have already been convicted.
In a June report from the Office of the Legislative Auditor for the state of Minnesota, the office claimed that the Minnesota Education Department failed to adequately monitor the state and federal funds to reimburse nonprofits such as Feed Our Future and that the Education Department’s “actions and inactions created opportunities for fraud.”
After the June report, Walz claimed at a news conference that there was no “malfeasance” on the state government’s part. “There’s not a single state employee that was implicated in doing anything that was illegal,” the governor added. “They simply didn’t do as much due diligence as they should have.”
Nevertheless, the House Education and Workforce Committee issued subpoenas to Walz, the Minnesota Education Department, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday regarding the alleged fraud. The committee is seeking all documents concerning the apparent failure to oversee Feeding Our Future.
“As the chief executive and the highest-ranking official in the state of Minnesota, you are responsible for the [Minnesota Department of Education] and its administration of [federal child nutrition programs],” Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., wrote in her letter to Walz:
Statements in the press by you and your representatives indicate that you and other executive officers were involved, or had knowledge of, [Minnesota Department of Education’s] administration of the [federal child nutrition programs] and responsibilities and actions regarding the massive fraud.
In early August, House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin seeking more information about Walz’s military service record. Walz has consistently lied about serving in combat, the circumstances of his departure from the National Guard, and the rank he achieved while serving.
“The American people deserve transparency into the military records of service members who serve in public office and especially when they represent such service as credentials for public office,” Banks wrote to Austin. “Misrepresentation and deceit intended to mislead the public about their service erode the integrity of our military and impact all Americans who choose to serve.”
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is also working to turn up the heat on the Harris-Walz ticket. On Friday, the committee held a hearing in Santee, California, titled “The Biden-Harris Border Crisis: California Perspectives.” The committee featured California politicians, law enforcement officers, and residents who explained how their communities have struggled due to a surge of illegal immigrants.
“We are a major artery of highways utilized by cartels and other bad actors to facilitate the trafficking of narcotics and human smuggling to other major cities and criminal hubs across the state and nation,” Don Sharp, undersheriff of Riverside County, California, told the committee. “The current administration could be complicit in the delivery of a child into the sex-trafficking world.”
While the Judiciary Committee’s hearing Friday was in Harris’ home state, they will also bring the probe back to Washington. A hearing, “The Biden-Harris Border Crisis: Victim Perspectives,” is scheduled for Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, one of the Judiciary subcommittees has a hearing focused on noncitizens voting in elections.
Some House Republicans are skeptical the barrage against Harris and Walz will have the intended effect. “We have an election to win. Don’t make these people martyrs,” one anonymous lawmaker told Axios. Others, such as Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., think the investigations are “fair,” but warned that Republicans need to “handle it professionally.”
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The retailer known as Big Lots is preparing to file for bankruptcy as other companies across the United States have recently done.
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A U.S. citizen who was part of an anti-Israel organization was shot and killed during clashes between Israeli soldiers and violent Palestinian protesters near Nablus on Friday in Samaria (the Northern West Bank).
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A U.S.-based residential solar panel company, part of whose goal is to "help the planet," has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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The Biden-Harris Pentagon is refusing to answer questions from Congress and the media on Democrat vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz's frequent travel to China — which poses risks for members of the military and can affect those seeking security clearances.
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The Israeli military has concentrated its attention on terrorist cells in the West Bank in the last several days, taking on Hamas in the town of Jenin and in the Jordan Valley.
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The feud between Libya’s two governments for control of its central bank intensified on Wednesday as more oil fields shut down and the eastern government demanded the return of ousted bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir.
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