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“An alphabet soup of enforcement agencies” is doing its best to censor Americans, thunders Racket’s Matt Taibbi.

LAS VEGAS — Call it the pop-up that didn’t stay up. Not even 48 hours after word got out a 43-foot-tall nude effigy of Donald Trump hung suspended from a construction crane, the indecent artwork was gone. But for most of Saturday and Sunday, a mile or two off Interstate 15, a few hundred yards...

Singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson died on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at age 88. In this "Sunday Morning" interview originally broadcast on February 5, 2006, Kristofferson talked with correspondent Tracy Smith about his remarkable road to fame – from writing a hit for Johnny Cash, to first hearing a recording of Janis Joplin singing his song "Me and Bobby McGee" after her death, to sharing a bathtub with Barbra Streisand in "A Star Is Born.

Players, coaches and league executives from around the NBA have been taking to social media to honor the late Mutombo, who passed away on Monday at the age of 58 after a battle with brain cancer. 

Jim Urquhart/ReutersIsraeli ground forces entered southern Lebanon on Monday evening, the Israeli Defense Force confirmed, in a significant escalation in the country’s conflict with Hezbollah militias that has been boiling for weeks.“In accordance with the decision of the political echelon, a few hours ago, the IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon,” the IDF confirmed in a statement. The military said these were located in villages close to the border with Israel. “The IDF is operating according to a methodical plan set out by the General Staff and the Northern Command which IDF soldiers have trained and prepared for in recent months,”the statement continued.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Steve Cohen experienced his first true champagne celebration as Mets owner and wants the team's fans to join in from afar. 

The feds have announced charges against nine inmates at a Sunset Park detention center for a series of savagely violent assaults that left two men dead and others critically injured.

The "Good as Hell" singer shared her vulnerable moment on TikTok less than two weeks after she slammed a fan for accusing her of using Ozempic.

Samuel Eto’o no podrá acudir durante los próximos seis meses a los partidos de Camerún, cuya federación preside, anunció el lunes la FIFA.

Former President Trump is criticizing the Biden administration’s response to Hurricane Helene, even as his supporters call for cuts to federal agencies that warn of weather disasters and deliver relief to hard-hit communities

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance are set to face off Tuesday for their only vice presidential debate. Nancy Cordes has new insight into the candidates' tactics.

The Pentagon says it is sending thousands of additional American troops to the Middle East to bolster security. CBS News has learned Israel has told the U.S. it intends to launch a limited ground offensive in Lebanon to follow up on its aerial assault that wiped out most of Hezbollah's leadership. Chris Livesay and Imtiaz Tyab have more.

Few people in city government were closer to Mayor Eric Adams than Timothy Pearson, who had a role in handling migrant shelter contracts.

Fox News White House senior correspondent Peter Doocy asks the press secretary about convicted murderers on the loose after data released from Border Patrol.

Pete Rose, the baseball legend who was banned for gambling, has died.

Pete Rose, the 17-time MLB All-Star and three-time World Series champion who owns the most hits in MLB history, has died at 83 years old, his agent said Monday.

The photograph in question – posted on Harris’ official vice presidential X account on Sunday – shows the Democratic nominee appearing pensive and writing notes as she takes a call aboard Air Force Two.  

Worries of flooding had not been top of mind as the mountain-ringed city flourished in recent years as a haven for artists, chefs, brewmasters, entrepreneurs and retirees.

One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.

Brian E. Cordasco was one of two former high-ranking officials arrested earlier this month and charged with soliciting and receiving bribes to speed up safety approvals.

The alleged looters were being held on $20,000 bonds and expected to appear in court Monday.

La temporada de béisbol se va a extra innings.

More than 100 people are dead and more than 600 are missing after Hurricane Helene and its remnants wreaked havoc across the southeastern U.S. Helene crashed into Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, with storm surge above 10 feet. Then it was on to Georgia, where the governor compared the destruction to a bomb going off. But the highest death toll is in North Carolina, where the emergency is still unfolding. Skyler Henry reports from Asheville.

Here's a look at the top stories making headlines on the "CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell."

Former President Donald Trump visited the Helene storm zone in Georgia, and President Biden is planning a trip to North Carolina on Wednesday after saying he may ask Congress to return to pass an aid bill. Scott MacFarlane has details on the federal response and how the storm is affecting the presidential campaigns.

Pete Rose, the Cincinnati Reds legend and baseball's all-time hits leader who was banished from baseball for betting on the sport, has died at the age of 83.

Gary Gershoff/Getty ImagesPete Rose, the greatest hitter in Major League Baseball and a 17-time All-Star, has died. He was 83.Rose died on Monday at his home in Las Vegas, his agent confirmed to TMZ Sports.Rose played 3,562 games across five different positions during a 24-year career. He won three batting titles, two Gold Gloves, and was named National League Rookie of the Year for the Cincinnati Reds in 1963. He won the World Series three times, twice with the Reds and once with the Philadelphia Phillies.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The pop star has notably missed her man's past two away games this NFL season due to her busy schedule and "security concerns."

With son Bronny at his side for media day, LeBron James says, "I feel really good physically. Mentally, I feel really good. Looking forward to getting to work tomorrow."

California has sued a Humboldt County hospital after a patient said she was denied an emergency abortion earlier this year even as she feared for her life because of miscarriage risks.

Nathan Chasing Horse was arrested at his Las Vegas home in January 2023, accused of luring girls from California to Canada and allegedly raping them.

Iran clearly chose to transform Lebanon into the new center of gravity in its multifront war against Israel — and instead of waiting to be invaded again, Israel chose to win.

Hubo lágrimas de algunos, como las de la secretaria de Gobernación, Luisa María Alcalde, y no faltaron a la cita las titulares de Seguridad y Exteriores y los mandos del Ejército y la Marina.

Smoke rises after a chemical fire broke out on the roof of a BioLab plant, forcing mandatory evacuations and road closures in Conyers, Georgia, on September 29, 2024. | Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images Amid the devastation and mass flooding wrought by Hurricane Helene, the Atlanta metropolitan area had yet another disaster: A chemical fire released a massive plume of potentially toxic gasses into the air. And it’s spreading. Early Sunday morning, a fire erupted at BioLab, a chemical plant specializing in pool and spa water care, in Conyers, just 30 miles east of Atlanta in Rockdale County. It’s unknown what caused the fire as of publication, but local fire department officials say water from the triggered sprinkler system had reacted with the various chemicals in the building. Around 11 am ET on Sunday, officials requested that all church services be closed. By 11, several local roads were closed, and by around 1 pm officials ordered about 17,000 people in Conyers to evacuate, as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Georgia’s environmental protection division ran air quality tests, where they detected chlorine around the facility. Chlorine is a toxic gas that can have negative short- and long-term health effects. Around noon, as first responders were putting the initial fire out and removing products from the facility, the fire reignited.  “We are all focused on remediating the situation as rapidly as possible,” the company said in its most recent statement. Officials then instituted a shelter-in-place order late Sunday evening for Rockdale County, which comprises around 90,000 people. Fulton County, which includes parts of Atlanta, has reported “a haze and strong chemical smell” this morning, which local officials stated is likely due to the BioLab fire. Although acute exposure to chlorine gas causes various symptoms, including coughing, irritation in the eyes and nose, skin irritation, and a burning sensation in the chest, multiple agencies said that the chlorine in the air does not pose a threat to most people. At time of publication, health agencies have not identified any specific high-risk populations such as those with preexisting respiratory conditions. All of this comes after Hurricane Helene’s wreckage, leaving resources and communication from local officials stretched thin. It’s an alarming glimpse at what can happen when multiple disasters occur at once, and it highlights the need for better preparation for such cases. Delays in official communication A shelter-in-place order is still in effect in Rockdale County. Officials recommend local residents keep their windows and doors closed and the AC off, presumably to prevent toxic gasses from getting in. All Rockdale County government facilities are closed, as are several roads in the area. County officials advised businesses to keep their operations closed until the shelter-in-place order is lifted.  On its Facebook page, the county posted a video showing the aftermath of the fire. The front, left, and right sides of the plant “totally collapsed,” according to Marian McDaniel, the county’s chief of fire rescue. She said that once they’ve removed debris from the fire, they will bring down the remaining side and retrieve the remaining “product” from the ruins of the facility. “Nothing that we can do or will be done to make this product any worse than it already is,” McDaniel told the press. The clouds and smoke should go away once the remaining chemicals are removed from the building.  But as the gas dissipates, which may take days, it’s also moving toward other parts of Georgia — cities and towns that may not have had clear directions on what to do. That’s on top of dealing with the fallout from Helene. The Georgia Emergency Services and Homeland Security Agency issued a local area emergency Monday afternoon to residents living within a 50-mile radius of the BioLab fire, a full day later. At that point, thousands of residents in nearby Fulton and Gwinnett Counties had already left their homes to go to school, work, doctor’s appointments, and more, unsure why the air smelled adjacent to a swimming pool. The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department conducted air quality tests Monday afternoon to detect chlorine and other chemicals in the air across the city. They said they’ve found “no immediate life safety issues,” but didn’t provide further information about chlorine levels. They also have requested additional testing from state and federal agencies.  Georgia’s Department of Public Health has added that there is “no significant toxicity identified in the smoke” so far, but that people with heart or lung disease may be particularly affected and experience symptoms, such as shortness of breath. What’s next? While the immediate focus is on cleaning up the damaged facility, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how the BioLab fire will affect neighboring communities in the future. Currently, there is no publicly available information about how much chlorine has escaped into the air or what levels local residents are being exposed to.  Long-term exposure to chlorine can cause prolonged health issues such as potentially irreparable lung damage. Even a one-time exposure to high levels of chlorine can have negative health effects, which makes the question of how much is currently in the air over Georgia only more pressing. This isn’t the first fire to break out at this BioLab plant in Conyers — there have been at least three in the past two decades. The last fire happened just four years ago. It raises the question of accountability, whether the plant has done anything to meaningfully prevent these disasters, and the impact of repeated exposure to chemical fires and leaks on communities.  It’s also too early to tell what, if any, accountability BioLab will face after this fire. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the chairman of Rockdale County’s governing body, Oz Nesbitt, said that the Board of Commissioners will be speaking with BioLab’s leadership about “their safety and their mitigation plan and their security plan inside their operations.” While multiple agencies responding to the incident have assured residents that the fire poses little to no harm to human health, many residents are unsatisfied and have left comments on Rockdale County’s Facebook page expressing their concern and frustration about the uncertainties.  “Who is going to jail over this?” wrote one commenter. “Just asking, considering how many people are going to be injured by this, and how much damage will be done to the local environments? This facility is a known problem, and has been for years.” 

Las reclamaciones de compensación laboral aprobadas cubren atención médica, salarios perdidos y beneficios por muerte para las familias.

SD Bullion, a U.S.-based bullion dealer, analyzed data from the United States Geological Survey creating a list of the top states where Americans are most likely to find gold.

Christine Brennan’s questioning of Carrington highlights an ugly trend in discussing Caitlin Clark’s rookie year.

Major League Baseball legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, confirmed to ABC News on Monday.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) public liaison for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests — who taught a senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci how to “make emails disappear” — is refusing to testify before a House committee investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an Aug. 5 letter signed by her lawyers,...

Pete Rose, the MLB legend and all-time hits leader whose historic career was followed by a lifetime ban over a gambling controversy, has died.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.This weekend, at his rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump descended into a spiral of rage and incoherence that was startling even by his standards. I know I’ve said this before, but this weekend felt different: Trump himself, as my colleague David Graham wrote today, admitted that he’s decided to start going darker than usual.At this point, voters have everything they need to know about this election. (Tomorrow, the vice-presidential candidates will debate each other, which might not have much of an impact beyond providing another opportunity for J. D. Vance to drive down his already-low likability numbers.) Here are some realities that will likely shape the next four weeks.Trump is going to get worse.I’m not quite sure what happened to Trump in Erie, but he seems to be in some sort of emotional tailspin. The race is currently tied; Trump, however, is acting as if he’s losing badly and he’s struggling to process the loss. Other candidates, when faced with such a close election, might hitch up their pants, take a deep breath, and think about changing their approach, but that’s never been Trump’s style. Instead, Trump gave us a preview of the next month: He is going to ratchet up the racism, incoherence, lies, and calls for violence. If the polls get worse, Trump’s mental state will likely follow them.Policy is not suddenly going to matter.Earlier this month, the New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote about very specific policy questions that Kamala Harris must answer to earn his vote. Harris has issued plenty of policy statements, and Stephens surely knows it. Such demands are a dodge: Policy is important, but Stephens and others, apparently unable to overcome their reticence to vote for a Democratic candidate, are using a focus on it as a way to rationalize their role as bystanders in an existentially important election.MAGA Republicans, for their part, claim that policy is so important to them that they’re willing to overlook the odiousness of a candidate such as North Carolina’s gubernatorial contender Mark Robinson. But neither Trump nor other MAGA candidates, including Robinson, have any interest in policy. Instead, they create cycles of rage: They gin up fake controversies, thunder that no one is doing anything about these ostensibly explosive issues, and then promise to fix them all by punishing other Americans.Major news outlets are not likely to start covering Trump differently.Spotting headlines in national news sources in which Trump’s ravings are “sanewashed” to sound as if they are coherent policy has become something of a sport on social media. After Trump went on yet another unhinged tirade in Wisconsin this past weekend, Bloomberg posted on X: “Donald Trump sharpened his criticism on border security in a swing-state visit, playing up a political vulnerability for Kamala Harris.” Well, yes, that’s one way to put it. Another would be to say: The GOP candidate seemed unstable and made several bizarre remarks during a campaign speech. Fortunately, Trump’s performances create a lot of videos where people can see his emotional state for themselves.News about actual conditions in the country probably isn’t going to have much of an impact now.This morning, the CNN anchor John Berman talked with the Republican House member Tom Emmer, who said that Joe Biden and Harris “broke the economy.” Berman countered that a top economist has called the current U.S. economy the best in 35 years.Like so many other Trump defenders, Emmer didn’t care. He doesn’t have to. Many voters—and this is a bipartisan problem—have accepted the idea that the economy is terrible (and that crime is up, and that the cities are in flames, and so on). Gas could drop to a buck a gallon, and Harris could personally deliver a week’s worth of groceries to most Americans, and they’d probably still say (as they do now) that they are doing well, but they believe that it’s just awful everywhere else.Undecided voters have everything they need to know right in front of them.Some voters likely think that sitting out the election won’t change much. As my colleague Ronald Brownstein pointed out in a recent article, many “undecided” voters are not really undecided between the candidates: They’re deciding whether to vote at all. But they should take as a warning Trump’s fantasizing during the Erie event about dealing with crime by doing something that sounds like it’s from the movie The Purge. The police aren’t allowed to do their job. They’re told: If you do anything, you’re going to lose your pension; you’re going to lose your family, your house, your car … One rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word will get out, and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know? It’ll end immediately. This weird dystopian moment is not the only sign that Trump and his movement could upend the lives of wavering nonvoters. Trump, for months, has been making clear that only two groups exist in America: those who support him, and those who don’t—and anyone in that second group, by his definition, is “scum,” and his enemy.Some of Trump’s supporters agree and are taking their cues from him. For example, soon after Trump and Vance singled out Springfield, Ohio, for being too welcoming of immigrants, one of the longtime local business owners—a fifth-generation Springfielder—started getting death threats for employing something like 30 Haitians in a company of 330 people. (His 80-year-old mother is also reportedly getting hateful calls. So much for the arguments that Trump voters are merely concerned about maintaining a sense of community out there in Real America.)Nasty phone calls aimed at old ladies in Ohio and Trump’s freak-out in Erie should bring to an end any further deflections from uncommitted voters about not having enough information to decide what to do.I won’t end this depressing list by adding that “turnout will decide the election,” because that’s been obvious for years. But I think it’s important to ask why this election, despite everything we now know, could tip to Trump.Perhaps the most surprising but disconcerting reality is that the election, as a national matter, isn’t really that close. If the United States took a poll and used that to select a president, Trump would lose by millions of votes—just as he would have lost in 2016. Federalism is a wonderful system of government but a lousy way of electing national leaders: The Electoral College system (which I long defended as a way to balance the interests of 50 very different states) is now lopsidedly tilted in favor of real estate over people.Understandably, this means that pro-democracy efforts are focused on a relative handful of people in a handful of states, but nothing—absolutely nothing—is going to shake loose the faithful MAGA voters who have stayed with Trump for the past eight years. Trump’s mad gibbering at rallies hasn’t done it; the Trump-Harris debate didn’t do it; Trump’s endorsement of people like Robinson didn’t do it. Trump once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote. Close enough: He’s now rhapsodized about a night of cops brutalizing people on Fifth Avenue and everywhere else.For years, I’ve advocated asking fellow citizens who support Trump whether he, and what he says, really represents who they are. After this weekend, there are no more questions to ask.Related: Trump is taking a dark turn. Peter Wehner: The Republican freak show Here are three new stories from The Atlantic: North Carolina was set up for disaster. Will RFK Jr.’s supporters vote for Trump? Hussein Ibish: Hezbollah got caught in its own trap. Today’s News Israeli officials said that commando units have been conducting ground raids in southern Lebanon. Israel’s military is also planning to carry out a limited ground operation in Lebanon, which will focus on the border, according to U.S. officials. At least 130 people were killed across six states and hundreds may be missing after Hurricane Helene made landfall last week. A Georgia judge struck down the state’s effective six-week abortion ban, ruling that it is unconstitutional. Dispatches The Wonder Reader: The decision to have kids comes down to a lot more than “baby fever”—and it may be about more than government support too, Isabel Fattal writes. Explore all of our newsletters here.Evening Read Director Bartlett Sher, star Robert Downey Jr., and writer Ayad Akhtar OK McCausland for The Atlantic The Playwright in the Age of AIBy Jeffrey Goldberg I’ve been in conversation for quite some time with Ayad Akhtar, whose play Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013, about artificial generative intelligence and its impact on cognition and creation. He’s one of the few writers I know whose position on AI can’t be reduced to the (understandable) plea For God’s sake, stop threatening my existence! In McNeal, he not only suggests that LLMs might be nondestructive utilities for human writers, but also deployed LLMs as he wrote (he’s used many of them, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini included). To my chagrin and astonishment, they seem to have helped him make an even better play. As you will see in our conversation, he doesn’t believe that this should be controversial. Read the full article.More From The Atlantic Putin can’t keep his private life private. The abandonment of Ukraine America needs a disaster corps, Zoë Schlanger argues. “Dear Therapist”: I ran into the man who raped me. Culture Break Amanda Marsalis / Trunk Archive Remember. Kris Kristofferson’s songs couched intimate moments in cosmic terms, pushing country music in an existentialist direction, Spencer Kornhaber writes.Debate. Twenty years after Lost’s premiere, the mistreatment of Hurley on the show (streaming on Netflix and Hulu) has become only more obvious, Rebecca Bodenheimer writes.Play our daily crossword.Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.

The Israeli military says it has begun a "limited, localized" ground operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.

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“Less is more. And for some of our critics, even less would be even more," Martin said. 

US and Israeli officials say it is a limited incursion aimed at taking out outposts used by the terror group.