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Democrats will try to pass a resolution affirming the right to emergency abortions after the deaths of two Georgia women that they blame on the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

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With six weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump will be campaigning in battleground Pennsylvania while Kamala Harris is in Washington to meet with UAE's president.

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Hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and his former bodyguard drugged, bound and violently raped a woman in 2001 — in a vicious attack he filmed and showed to friends, a bombshell new lawsuit claims. In court papers filed Tuesday, Thalia Graves accuses Combs and his former bodyguard Joseph Sherman of “mercilessly raping” her inside...

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz looks on during a stop on their campaign bus tour in Rochester, Pennsylvania, on August 18, 2024. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Now that the dust has settled after the first and perhaps only presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the state of the polling looks clear: Harris has a slight edge in a race that remains extremely close. Harris leads national polls, on average, by 2 or 3 percentage points. More importantly, she leads in the key electoral college states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by 1 to 2 points in recent polling averages. And if she wins all three, that would be just enough to give her the presidency (so long as she holds onto the other blue states, and Nebraska’s Second District). But it’s important to remember that a 1 or 2 point lead in polling averages is not a safe or reliable lead. A polling error underestimating Trump in these states — of the sort that occurred in 2016 or 2020 — could send Harris to defeat. As for the other swing states: Nevada has had few high-quality polls since the debate, but the averages currently show a very close race, with Harris leading by a point or less. But Trump has a slight lead — 2 points or less — in the averages for North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia.  The big picture, though, is that all seven of the swing states are close enough in polls that they could easily go to either candidate. The New York Times/Siena polls have shown some unusual results Though the news for Harris in post-debate polling has generally been good, some results from the New York Times/Siena College polls tell a more complicated story. This polling found Harris up by 4 points in Pennsylvania, the most important swing state, which is fantastic for her. But it also showed a tied race nationally — and larger than average Trump leads in North Carolina (3 points), Georgia (4 points), and Arizona (5 points). Typically, the best practice for looking at campaign polling is to throw it all into an average, since any one pollster’s results could be an outlier. But the Times polls are highly respected in political circles, so it may be worth contemplating what it would mean for the race if their recent polls turned out to be accurate. One takeaway is that though those polls are generally worse for Harris, the Pennsylvania result is actually quite good — better than average. Overall, the Keystone State polling has not looked great for Harris since she entered the race, leading to many takes about her purported Pennsylvania “problem,” second-guessing about whether she should have picked the state’s governor, Josh Shapiro, as her running mate, and a belief that the Electoral College math gives Trump an advantage. The Times polls, however, essentially point to a parallel world in which Electoral College bias doesn’t help Trump, and may even help Harris significantly. The Times has not polled Wisconsin or Michigan this month, but their polling of the states last month showed Harris up in those states — and in Pennsylvania — by 4 points.  Why would this be the case? Nate Cohn, the Times’ chief political analyst, has actually written since last year that Trump’s Electoral College edge might be fading. That could be because Republicans have gained ground in heavily blue states, like New York, but they’re still nowhere close to actually flipping those states — while Democrats have held on in the battleground states. The 2022 midterm results appear to be consistent with such a theory. For Biden in 2020, the decisive Electoral College state was Wisconsin, but his margin was nearly 4 points worse there than his national margin, a serious gap. For Harris this time around, polling averages have tended to show a smaller disadvantage — but they have typically shown her performing a bit worse in the pivotal state, Pennsylvania, than she does nationally.  The Times polling is unusual, though, in implying that the bias may go in the other direction this time around; that the Electoral College might actually help Harris. For now, this is an outlier result, but it’s certainly an interesting scenario. A less encouraging takeaway for Harris if the Times polls are accurate is that Trump has the advantage in Georgia, Arizona, and North Carolina. Other pollsters have also typically shown Trump with a narrow edge in those states, but the Times polls may be ominous, showing him with a 3-5 point advantage in them all, just after Harris’s well-received debate performance. If those states prove out of reach for Harris, she’ll be stuck relying on Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan as her only path to victory — the same “blue wall” Hillary Clinton hoped in vain would save her in 2016. Winning them, but not the other swing states, would put Harris at the narrowest possible 270 to 268 Electoral College victory. What could go wrong?

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President Donald Trump has taken a one-point lead within the left-leaning Quinnipiac Poll at the national level, albeit within the margin of error, a two-point swing in his favor since late August, and since the presidential debate. The post Trump Takes 1-Point Lead over Kamala in Quinnipiac Poll; 2-Point Swing Since August appeared first on Breitbart.

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Joseph Amrine, who was exonerated two decades ago after spending years on death row, speaks at a rally to support Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams on August 21, 2024, in Clayton, Missouri. | Jim Salter/AP The upcoming execution of a 55-year-old Missouri man — who maintains he is innocent — is the latest of several recent cases to renew scrutiny of the death penalty.  In 2001, Marcellus Williams was convicted of the 1998 killing of social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, and sentenced to death. Since his sentencing, questions have been raised about how evidence in the case was handled and whether jury selection for his trial was fair.  Given these concerns, and Williams’s continued claims that he did not kill Gayle, he and St. Louis prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell have called for the state to vacate his conviction. While his execution was previously delayed twice before, the Missouri governor and state Supreme Court have declined to do so again this past week.  Those decisions, and the outstanding uncertainty in Williams’s case, have put a new spotlight on capital punishment and many problems that have been cited with it. Barring any action by the US Supreme Court, Williams is scheduled to be killed via lethal injection on Tuesday evening.  What are the new developments in Williams’s case? Williams was convicted for Gayle’s murder based on the testimony of two witnesses, including his girlfriend at the time, who said she saw the victim’s purse and laptop in his car. Williams was incarcerated at the time of his conviction in the Gayle case, and his then-cellmate Henry Cole also claimed that Williams had admitted to the killing.  Williams’s counsel argues that both witnesses had other motives for singling him out, including “reward money and a bargain for shorter sentences in their own criminal cases,” according to the Washington Post. As USA Today notes, there wasn’t forensic evidence linking Williams to the crime, and his DNA was not found on the murder weapon — a knife.  Since his conviction, Williams’s counsel has called for greater investigation of the DNA that was on the knife, as well as a review of racial bias in the jury selection process. Gayle’s family has also backed clemency and the possibility of a life sentence without parole.  Previously, Williams’s counsel convinced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens that new testing of the DNA evidence, which included DNA from another man, had the potential to exonerate him. That led Greitens to grant a stay of execution in 2017 and to convene a panel to investigate this evidence.  Attorneys have since learned, though, that the knife had fingerprints and DNA from a prosecutor who had touched the murder weapon without wearing gloves, contaminating the evidence.  Williams’ allies have also argued he faced racial bias in his trial after a former prosecutor said he removed a Black juror because of his resemblance to Williams.  Williams’ attorneys have called on the US Supreme Court to grant a stay of the execution due to this evidence of bias. But it’s not yet clear if the Court will.  The Missouri Supreme Court had declined to do so, with Judge Zel Fischer citing “no credible evidence of actual innocence or any showing of a constitutional error undermining confidence in the original judgment.” What concerns does this raise about capital punishment?  The use of capital punishment has waned in recent years as concerns about how well it works as a deterrent, how humane it is, and racial disparities in death sentences have grown. According to one 2016 study in Washington State, Black defendants are four times more likely to be sentenced to death than non-Black defendants in similar circumstances. Although 27 states still allow the death penalty, 14 of those have not conducted any executions in the past 10 years, according to CNN. Executions have also dwindled since 1999, which marked a recent high when nearly 100 people were killed. In 2023, 24 people were executed across five states; currently, 24 people are expected to be executed this year. Among the concerns raised by executions is the fear that innocent people could face these sentences. Williams’s team is adamant that his case is an example of this issue.  “Missouri is poised to execute an innocent man, an outcome that calls into question the legitimacy of the entire criminal justice system,” Tricia Bushnell, a Midwest Innocence Project attorney representing Williams, said in a statement.  According to the Death Penalty Information Center, at least 200 people who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death have been exonerated since 1973. And per a 2014 study estimate, roughly 4 percent of the people sentenced to death are innocent. 

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