President Biden, Vice President Harris, former President Donald Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance all attended a ceremony at the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York Wednesday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 lives lost in the terror attacks 23 years ago today.
None made formal remarks at the solemn event, where the names of those who died were read by their families.
Around midday, Biden and Harris visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., for a wreath-laying ceremony. Trump also laid a wreath at the site later in the afternoon.
Trump and Vance visited a New York fire station, while Biden and Harris visited a fire station near the Shanksville site.
Biden and Harris concluded the day with an event alongside Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
Their trip to all three major memorial sites mirrors President Biden's 2021 itinerary to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks.
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The Ink — Kamala won by being all the things
...The most important new thing I saw her do was prebunking. Pre-, not de-. Debunking is waiting for someone to lie and then hitting back with the truth. It doesn’t work in politics as much you would hope it would in an age saturated by lies. But prebunking works better. Prebunking is explaining to people how they are being (or, better yet, will be) manipulated, what the motive is, how the con works, how the lie will be crafted and how it will function, and, for extra credit, who benefits from it and how. In the age of Trump, too many of his opponents have been all debunk, no prebunk.
But in last night’s debate, again and again, Harris rose to the meta level and explained Trump’s ways in advance so as to inoculate against their infectiousness. “I’m going to tell you all, in this debate tonight, you’re going to hear from the same old, tired playbook, a bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling,” she said in the first minutes. In another moment, she prebunked any professions Trump might make to be admired by foreign autocrats for his strength: “It is absolutely well known that these dictators and autocrats are rooting for you to be president again because they’re so clear, they can manipulate you with flattery and favors.”
Trump is a challenge for anyone, because he is a weird mix of super dangerous and a joke... think of how much harder this challenge grows for a woman running against him. Play up his danger, and you risk being seen as shrill, or weak, or scared, or hysterical. Belittle him, and you risk coming off as a bitch, a ballbreaker, a nag, a witch. It was remarkable, then, to see Harris’s comfort last night in treating Trump as both of these things at once, a danger and a clown.
She loves her a Venn diagram, and in the debate she seemed to find the lens-shaped intersection of what supremely dangerous wannabe autocrats and semi-retired, narcissistic, imploding clowns have in common: They are not thinking about you.
Mayor Adams’ pick for New York City’s top lawyer played a pivotal role in helping Chevron escape liability for a toxic legacy of pollution in Ecuador.
At the start of what would turn out to be a grueling 11-hour confirmation hearing before the New York City Council last week, Mayor Eric Adams’ pick for the city’s next top lawyer introduced himself as a “happy warrior” and “lifelong Democrat” with a laundry list of progressive accomplishments. He did not, during that introduction, mention his work as a lawyer for Big Oil.
...A longtime trial attorney who worked as deputy mayor for Rudy Giuliani, Mastro’s nomination for Corporation Counsel has been met with heavy skepticism from many of the City Council’s 51 members. In April, the Council’s Black, Asian and Latino Caucus stated that “Mastro is unfit to serve as the city’s chief lawyer” given his “professional track record representing dubious clients.”
Indeed, Mastro’s list of clients include former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during the “Bridgegate” scandal, New Jersey in its effort to block congestion pricing initiatives in New York, landlords fighting a local ordinance requiring buildings to make energy efficiency upgrades, and oil giant Chevron, in its years-long pursuit to evade liability for oil spills and billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Donald Trump’s sons want to turn their father’s growing bromance with the cryptocurrency industry into the new family business. So far, the project’s troubled rollout has succeeded in creating only one thing: a potential political liability for the former president.
Trump’s eldest sons — Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — have been teasing their plans to unveil a crypto startup called World Liberty Financial for weeks. But the launch has been marred in recent days by a series of apparent scams that have redirected fans to fake pages and compromised the social media accounts of other Trump relatives.
The incidents have begun to rattle some of Trump’s allies within the crypto world. They’re warning that his family should shelve a project that they say creates unnecessary political risks and reflects poorly on the industry
“This is a huge mistake,” said Nic Carter, a Trump supporter who is a founding partner at the crypto-focused venture capital firm Castle Island Ventures. “It looks like Trump’s inner circle is just cashing in on his recent embrace of crypto in a kind of naive way, and frankly it looks like they’re burning a lot of the good will that’s been built with the industry so far.”
Francine slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane that knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of customers and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a potentially deadly storm surge rushing inland along the Gulf Coast. Despite quickly weakening to a tropical storm, it was packing a strong punch.
Francine crashed ashore in Terrebonne Parish, about 30 miles southwest of Morgan City, the National Hurricane Center announced at 4 p.m. CDT. Packing maximum sustained winds near 100 mph, the storm then battered a fragile coastal region that hasn't fully recovered from a series of devastating hurricanes in 2020 and 2021.
...The National Hurricane Center urged residents to stay sheltered overnight as Francine blows inland. The storm's projected path included New Orleans, where forecasters said the storm's eye could pass through.
...Francine drew fuel from exceedingly warm Gulf of Mexico waters, strengthening to a Category 2 storm hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center said. Category 2 hurricanes are classified as having winds of between 96 to 110 mph that are capable of extensive damage.
When Biden took office in 2021, he faced the prospect of responding to a number of Trump’s decisions made during his chaotic final year in office — including one important one made about oil
As Donald Trump patches up the ever-growing hole in his finances resulting from his ongoing legal escapades with fossil fuel money, it looks as if a late-game gamble the former president made during his last year in office may be finally paying off.
That gamble may have also set up Joe Biden to deal with the effects of higher gas prices just as he was taking office a year later.
When Trump ran for re-election in 2020, he did so with a palpable sense of desperation. Early on, it was clear that the Republican president was worried about his opponent, Joe Biden. That impression was only made clearer after it came out that Trump had sought to pressure the president of Ukraine to open a criminal investigation into Biden with the intention of damaging his rival politically.
...When Biden took office in 2021, he immediately faced the prospect of responding to a number of Trump’s decisions made during his chaotic final year in office. That didn’t just include his meddling in global oil production; most famously, Biden was burdened with carrying out the politically fraught task of ending America’s longest-running war in Afghanistan. Oil prices, which kept climbing through 2021, seemed to reach a peak a year after the 2020 election, only to begin surging once more a few months later when Vladimir Putin and Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine.
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