NY vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge border crossing is attempted terror attack: sources  —  Rainbow Bridge, which connects Niagara Falls, New York to Niagara Falls, Canada, is currently shut down as the investigation unfolds  —  The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion Wednesday …

Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?  —  He is becoming frighteningly clear about what he wants.  —  In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of cultivated had hatred led to death on a horrifying scale.

Dean Phillips hits Biden over handling of Hamas hostages: ‘Absurd, shocking and dismaying’  —  Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) bashed President Biden Tuesday for the recently negotiated hostage deal between the militant group Hamas and Israel.  —  “No, because we have nine Americans held hostage right …

GOP official's wife convicted in months-long 2020 voter-fraud scheme  —  As Tam and Thien Doan tried to file for absentee ballots in Iowa in 2020, they were surprised to find out that votes had already been cast in their names.  The siblings, both Democrats, were even more astonished to learn …

Witnesses saw smoke, fire from vehicle at Rainbow Bridge  —  The Rainbow Bridge has been closed to all traffic amid reports of a vehicle explosion just outside the border inspections plaza on the American side.  —  Traveling down Niagara Street, the car sped onto the bridge plaza …

The GOP rallies around Musk after his self-inflicted antisemitism mess  —  Elon Musk's new lawsuit against Media Matters, which X Corp. filed late Monday, has been dismissed by legal experts as a frivolous effort to bully a prominent critic into silence.  But some Republicans apparently …

Plying Voters With Free Food, Ramaswamy Struggles to Win Them Over  —  The political newcomer's surge over the summer has fizzled.  But Vivek Ramaswamy is still spending freely to keep up a breakneck pace in Iowa and New Hampshire.  —  While many people were heading home for the Thanksgiving holiday …

Catholic women's college to accept transgender women  —  An all-women's Catholic school in Indiana will begin admitting transgender women in the fall 2024 semester, according to an email obtained by the Washington Examiner.  —  In a Tuesday evening email from St. Mary's College president Katie Conboy …

The Red State Brain Drain Isn't Coming.  It's Happening Right Now.  —  On Memorial Day weekend in 2022, Kate Arnold and her wife, Caroline Flint, flew from Oklahoma City to Cabo San Lucas for a little R&R. They had five kids, the youngest of them five-year-old twin girls, and demanding jobs as obstetrician-gynecologists.

Donor allegedly offered $20M to recruit a Tlaib primary challenger  —  The lucrative proposal to Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Hill Harper arrived on Oct. 16, according to a source with direct knowledge — and got rejected.  —  A Michigan businessman called Democratic Senate candidate Hill Harper …

Will ProPublica cross a picket line by publishing its next big scoop?  —  The media nonprofit's union wants to stop a collaboration with a newspaper whose reporters are on strike.  Editors say the story is more important than solidarity: 'We've got to do journalism on this'

Spyglass Says Melissa Barrera Was Fired From ‘Scream’ Due to Rhetoric That ‘Flagrantly Crosses the Line Into Hate Speech’ (EXCLUSIVE) … But now the production banner behind the hit horror franchise's revival is pushing back on a narrative that has quickly coalesced around the decision …

How Many Abortions Did the Post-Roe Bans Prevent?  —  The first estimate of births since Dobbs found that almost a quarter of women who would have gotten abortions carried their pregnancies to term.  —  The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans …

Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel  —  There have been five wars in the last 15 years between Israel and Hamas.  How do we end the current one and prevent a sixth from happening, sooner or later?  How do we balance our desire to stop the fighting with the need to address the roots of the conflict?

US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil  —  Washington warned India over concerns of government involvement in assassination conspiracy  —  US authorities thwarted a conspiracy to assassinate a Sikh separatist on American soil and issued a warning to India's government …

Susan Sarandon dumped by Hollywood agency UTA over anti-Jewish rant  —  Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has been dropped by top Hollywood agency UTA after saying frightened Jews are “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America,” Page Six can reveal.  —  The 77-year-old actress …

November 2023 National Poll: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden  —  A new Emerson College Polling national survey of registered voters finds former President Donald Trump with a four-point lead over President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, 47% to 43%, within the poll's margin of error.

Record percentage says they or someone in household owns a gun: Survey  —  More than half of American voters, a record-high number, say they or someone in their household owns a gun, a new NBC News poll found.  —  According to the survey, which has polled voters since 1999 …