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- www.bbc.com French President Emmanuel Macron announces new right-wing government
The new cabinet pulls in allies from the centre and right, despite left-wing parties winning France's election.
- www.theguardian.com Republicans step up effort to change Nebraska voting rules to help Trump
Key figures seek to bring about winner-takes-all allocation that would give Trump all five electoral college votes
- www.theguardian.com South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence of innocence
Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, killed by lethal injection days after state’s key witness recanted critical testimony
- www.foreignaffairs.com The Perils of Isolationism
The world still needs America—and America still needs the world.
The new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—populism, nativism, isolationism, and protectionism—tend to ride together, and they are challenging the political center.
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Generating support for an internationalist foreign policy requires a president to paint a vivid picture of what that world would be like without an active United States.
- www.theguardian.com Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey
Pro-building Labour group hopes study will spur on major planning reform and government drive to build 1.5m homes
- www.economist.com Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power
Tricks from the oil industry have produced a hot-rocks breakthrough
Geothermal energy may be approaching its Mitchell moment. George Mitchell, a scrappy independent oilman, is known as the father of fracking. Nearly three decades ago, he defied Big Oil and the conventional wisdom of his industry by making practical the hitherto uneconomic technique of pumping liquids and sands into the ground to force out gas and oil from shale rock and other tight geological formations. The enormous increase in productivity that resulted, known as the shale revolution, has transformed the global hydrocarbon business.
- www.theguardian.com Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests
Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’
- www.economist.com Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump look out of his depth
The presidential debate was a success for the vice-president
“Instant polls suggested viewers judged Ms Harris the victor. Her performance delighted Democrats, and she supplied far more of the punchy moments that tend to get highlighted in subsequent newscasts and shared online.”
- Oasis fans are angry but dynamic pricing benefits consumers toowww.theguardian.com Oasis fans are angry but dynamic pricing benefits consumers too | Larry Elliott
The price mechanism is an effective if brutal route to cheap flights abroad and, Labour hopes, affordable housing
- www.theguardian.com Voters beginning to think Conservatives are ‘weird’, research suggests
Tories found to have problems with relatability, and few voters can identify party leadership candidates
>The research by More in Common said the party struggled with relatability, particularly in Liberal Democrat areas, by focusing on topics “which excite the base, or the highly politically engaged” but were distant from ordinary people’s lives.
- fortune.com Goldman Sachs predicts stronger GDP and job growth if Democrats sweep White House and Congress
Trump’s likely tariff hikes on China, the EU and Mexico would lead to an inflationary bump, with a peak impact of 30 to 40 basis points on the Federal Reserve’s preferred price gauge, the bank’s economists wrote.
- www.nbcnews.com Liz Cheney endorses Harris for president
It's the latest high-profile Republican endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid.
“Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney said in a video of remarks posted to X. The university separately provided a clip of Cheney’s remarks to NBC News.
- www.bbc.com Tory MP Esther McVey criticised for 'repugnant' smoking ban post
Esther McVey used a poem about the Holocaust to criticise proposals for tougher rules on outdoor smoking.
- www.bbc.com Sudan war: Famine rages as peace talks fall short yet again
Aid begins to trickle in but it is far too little, too late, says analyst Alex de Waal.
Famine is ravaging Sudan.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) - which claims to be the government of Sudan - took a small step towards alleviating that famine earlier this week by allowing 15 UN aid lorries to cross the border from Chad to bring food to the starving.
- apnews.com Brazil top court threatens to suspend X operations in latest twist of ongoing feud
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice is threatening to shut down the operations of X in that country unless Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday threatened to shut down the local operations of X, formerly Twitter, unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.
- Supermajority of U.S. women ages 18-49 support legal abortion • Michigan Advance
While abortion remains one of the most contentious issues separating the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, a new survey finds that regardless of political affiliation, nearly 15% of women of reproductive age have had an abortion at some point in their life, while three-quarters of those same women believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases.
- www.bbc.com Why Harris campaign is fighting for unmuted debate mics
They will be muted when it's the other candidate's turn to speak - but Ms Harris's team are pushing back.
- Arizona Police Association endorses Ruben Gallego in Senate race
The Arizona Police Association announced Monday it is throwing its weight behind Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) in the Arizona Senate race, despite endorsing Republican Kari Lake in her gubernatorial bid last cycle.
- Comparison of the 3 main polling conglomerates current election predictions (From left to right in more ways than one: Five Thirty Eight, The Hill Decision Desk HQ, and Real Clear Politics)
538 predicts a 2020 sized Harris victory, Georgia and North Carolina flip. THQ predicts a tight Harris win, mostly in the Rust Belt & maybe a NC grab? RCP predicts a tight Trump victory via Pennsylvania.
All 3 agree on Georgia going red and Michigan and Wisconsin going blue. Those states have held their colors firm for quite some time.
- www.washingtonpost.com Column | Bill Clinton and the wide gap in job gains by presidential party
Speaking at the Democratic convention, Bill Clinton suggested that the partisan “score” on job creation since the Cold War was 50 million to 1 million. It is.
- www.economist.com Kamala Harris completes her reinvention
As the Democrats’ convention ends, the general election begins in earnest
Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention on August 22nd marked the culmination of one of the most rapid and comprehensive political reinventions in modern American history.
- www.nbcnews.com Fed Chair Powell says 'time has come' for interest rate cut
The central bank is primed to lower its key rate in September as inflation cools and the job market slows.
Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell said Friday he expects the central bank will cut its key interest rate in the near future in response to slower economic growth and cooling inflation.
- RFK Jr. plans to drop out of presidential race by end of week: Sourcesabcnews.go.com RFK Jr. expected to drop out of race by end of week, plans to endorse Trump: Sources
Robert Kennedy Jr. is planning to drop out of the presidential race by the end of this week, sources familiar with the decision tell ABC News.
Sources say Kennedy is leaning toward endorsing former President Trump.
- Where do you see the Pink and Cyan States ending up margin wise this year? The ones perpetually just outside being Swing States that everyone is constantly saying they'll get 'this time' and never do.
Whether former swing states, captured ex-solid states, or states that have always had close margins. I picked 7 for each side(I was gonna do 3, then 4, then 5, but the number on one side always felt awkward like one side had a weird outlier edge case or something. Pink has a clean base of 4 while Cyan has two main ones and then like, 5 is the next one where it all fits)
Pink States are Iowa, Ohio, and Florida(former Swing States in the 2000-2016 era), Texas, South Carolina, and Alaska (Red States weakening) and Indiana(2008 pick up that's been red before and after).
Cyan States are Virginia, New Mexico, Colorado, and New Hampshire(former swing states in the 2000-2016 era), plus Maine and Minnesota(perpetually teetering states) and New Jersey(Blue state weakening).
- www.theguardian.com Ex-Nikki Haley voters rally behind Kamala Harris: ‘I picked the side that had the least issues’
Some former supporters of Nikki Haley are now organizing for Harris, who they see as ‘the better choice’ over Trump
- www.huffingtonpost.co.uk Exclusive: Half The Country Believes Nigel Farage Is 'Responsible' For The Riots
The Reform leader comes just behind Tommy Robinson when voters are asked who they blame for the disroder.
- www.economist.com China’s rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
One has never been to China, the other has visited 30 times
- House Republicans target Tim Walz in new probe
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats' candidate for vice president.
- US, Brazil float new Venezuela election despite government, opposition rebuffs
SAO PAULO/WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES, Aug 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday seemingly backed a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rebuffs from Venezuela's ruling party and its opposition which both claim victory in the July 28 contest.
- Harris to Call for Expanded Child Tax Credit, 3 Million New Housing Units
Democratic nominee to address thorny economic issue by calling for more construction, tax incentives
- Immigrants Are Becoming U.S. Citizens at Fastest Clip in Years
The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens say they are looking forward to voting in November.
