Reading archive 2024-09-18

Sarah Huckabee Sanders knocks Harris for not having biological children: “My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble,” Sanders said at an event with Donald Trump in Flint, Mich.

Opinion Sarah Sanders’s crude swipes at Kamala Harris notch a new low for GOP: Sarah Huckabee Sanders stumbles over her humility while warming up a crowd for Donald Trump.

How the Trump campaign has been forced to adapt to assassination threats: The situation has caused a grim mood on the campaign, as the once freewheeling candidate is hemmed in by new constraints.

Ukrainian drones hit missile warehouse deep in Russia in massive blast: The apparently successful drone attack comes as Ukraine is pushing its Western allies to lift restrictions on the missiles they have supplied for more such attacks on Russia.

What the Fed’s rate cut means for consumers, businesses and investors: The Fed’s first cut in four years will affect hiring, inflation, the housing market, stocks and borrowing costs.

Opinion The ominous implications of the pager attack against Hezbollah: An apparent masterstroke of Israeli sabotage could quash cease-fire talks in Gaza and spark a wider war.

They exposed a tax cheater. They’ll share a $74 million reward.: Three whistleblowers helped the IRS recover $263 million from a single individual, who lawyers say ran an offshore tax evasion scheme for more than a decade.

House looks poised to reject GOP bill to avert government shutdown: Lawmakers have until Sept. 30 to extend government funding. - "Defense hawks have voiced worries that a six-month spending bill would hamstring national security spending, preferring a shorter extension that would give Congress more time to agree on new spending levels for the rest of the fiscal year. Deficit-minded Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill out of hand, since many of them will back only regular full-year appropriations measures."

Teamsters will not endorse for president, in blow to Democrats: The last time the union didn’t endorse a presidential candidate was in 1996. - "The non-endorsement underscores a major division within the Teamsters, as well as other American unions with diverse membership. The results of two surveys of Teamsters membership released Wednesday by the Teamsters showed rank-and-file members strongly favoring a Trump endorsement over Harris — while several powerful Teamsters local chapters have broken with his leadership to urge members to vote for Harris.

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"The Biden-Harris administration is widely viewed by historians as one of the most pro-union in modern U.S. history. The administration appointed a pro-labor leader to the National Labor Relations Board and has enacted three major spending bills with pro-union provisions. Plus, in a major victory for the Teamsters, the White House secured a pension bailout that restored retirement accounts for about 600,000 union members." [ed. note: fuck 'em]

How the Boar’s Head plant closure could wreck this tiny Virginia town: For Jarratt, Va., a town accustomed to a long, slow slide, the Boar’s Head closure stands out as a sizable and sudden hit. - "'There wasn’t a whistleblower,' said Tanisha Bailey, 50, who works at a local mental health facility. 'We had to wait to see people die: A woman who made it through the Holocaust dies from listeria. … This is the cost you pay and the consequences when you don’t do your job effectively.'"