The extra tariffs on China-made electric cars will go ahead as planned, the European Commission has confirmed, despite ongoing talks with China. The European Commission has given the final green light to steep tariffs on electric vehicles (EVs) made in China, officially closing the probe that began one year ago. The tariffs will apply as of Wednesday and remain in place for the next five years. In the meantime, Brussels will continue negotiations with Beijing in an attempt to secure a...

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president.” Joe Biden is out. More than five decades after he won a county council seat in Wilmington, he is less than two hours away at his Delaware beach home when he gives up his fight to hold the Oval Office. His decision is made on a weekend spent with his family and closest advisers, and in such secrecy even people close to him are telling CNN’s MJ Lee just hours earlier there is no way he will quit. They were not deceiving...

Megyn Kelly tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” she found former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally speakers alienated female and Hispanic voters rather than uplifting them. Kelly, a noted Trump supporter who told NewsNation she finds Vice President Kamala Harris “empty-headed,” thinks that “there is zero point in offering man after man after man to call her the devil.” She said she doesn’t think the rally or its explosive backlash will have an...

Former President Donald Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris is running a “campaign of absolute hate” and her divisive rhetoric toward him is “shameful and really inexcusable” after facing two assassination attempts in recent months. Trump was highly critical of Harris, who called him “fascist” this week, during a press conference at his luxurious Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday morning. “She’s running on a campaign of demoralization and really a campaign of destruction,” Trump said. “But...

The question posed to Vladimir Putin in September about the U.S. election drew a wry smile and an arched eyebrow from the Russian president. Asked whether he preferred Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, Putin caught listeners up short with his teasing reply that also included a gentle jab at President Joe Biden. “Our ‘favorite,’ if you can call it that, was the current president, Mr. Biden,” he told the audience at an economic forum in the Far East port of Vladivostok. “But he...

At least 51 people have been killed in flash floods sweeping the eastern Spanish region of Valencia following torrential rain on Tuesday that left roads and towns under water, local authorities said on Wednesday. Rescuers using dinghies worked in the dark to scour the floodwaters, rescuing several people, television pictures from the town of Utiel showed, and emergency services were still working to reach the worst-hit areas. Carlos Mazon, the regional leader of Valencia, said some people...

Amid talk of the "bellwether counties" and "swing states," you may also hear about the "blue wall." Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have spent considerable time and resources in the blue wall states throughout their campaigns. The states were Democratic strongholds for decades until Trump flipped three of them in 2016, but President Joe Biden flipped them blue again in 2020. The blue wall refers to the collection of states that had...

As I write this, the Washington Post has reportedly lost over 250,000 paid subscribers after choosing not to endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election. There’s no guarantee that all of those unsubscribes are due to the decision — and the figure has come from an anonymous source — but there’s no doubt that many are fleeing the paper because they feel it betrayed their trust. In the era of the first Trump presidency, the Post adopted the slogan, “...

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow can't let an election go by without wheeling out the usual cadre of tired old neocons, with the latest to appear on her show being former State Department official Victoria Nuland. As expected, she sought to lump Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Vladimir Putin together in a segment on 'disinformation' this week. "He's at it again!" Nuland claimed of Putin, resurrecting talking points heavily featured in the prior two elections as well. She accused Musk of being in...

Two months after the Harris-Walz presidential campaign got caught changing news headlines in its ads on Google to make the nominees look favorable to the Democratic ticket, prompting a GOP congressman to demand answers from Google, an anonymous sleuth detailed another campaign effort to apparently manufacture the appearance of popularity on a tech platform that's already heavily progressive. The campaign is manipulating Reddit's algorithm in violation of platform rules, "...