Trump announces he would make car loan interest deductible, end double tax on foreign income

Brendan McDermid/ReutersThe New York Times drew the ire of journalists for a headline that some said downplayed the outrageousness of comments former President Donald Trump made in which he suggested that immigrants have “bad genes.”Trump was discussing President Joe Biden’s immigration policy on The Hugh Hewitt Show Monday when he embarked on a eugenics-tinged rant.“How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers? Many of them murdered far more than one person,” he said. “And they’re now happily living in the United States. You know, now, a murderer—I believe this—it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

A tremendous season of growth in attendance and TV ratings is prompting the WNBA to expand both its playoff format and regular season.

Larry Hogan and Angela Alsobrooks faced off during a debate less than one month before the Senate election.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media on Thursday to commemorate the life of his late mother, Ethel Kennedy, in a heartfelt post.

A 13-year-old boy was stabbed in the back during a broad-daylight fight with a teen rival steps away from his Brooklyn school on Thursday, according to sources and police.

Former staffers are reportedly calling on CBS News to launch an independent probe into the editing of a "60 Minutes" interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Reuters reported that police attempted to resuscitate George Baldock after his body was found at the home just outside of Athens, Greece.

The sun blasted a coronal mass at Earth earlier this week, and after back-to-back major hurricanes, some are concerned it could impact the power grid.

Costas has been on the call alongside Ron Darling for TBS' coverage of the Yankees-Royals series, and the commentary on the iconic broadcaster has been vicious on social media.

Diddy doesn't like the meatballs in federal jail.

Mayorkas, 64, stonewalled a Fox News reporter who peppered him with questions about how Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi gained entry into the US, the vetting process involved and whether it is known if the 27-year-old Oklahoma City resident was radicalized before or after he arrived in the country. 

The operator of a sanitation company in north Fort Myers, Florida, captured the moment an alligator popped out of flood waters and bit at his van's tire early Thursday morning.

Alsobrooks, Hogan trade barbs on abortion, guns and the GOP in otherwise civil Senate debate.

She had an unexpected cellmate.

Kyle MacLean is lucky to come from a hockey family, with a father who was once a Stanley Cup champion for the Devils, but that was no guarantee of his own success.

The personal experience of “King of Reggaeton” Daddy Yankee features prominently in the new Peacock docuseries Reggaeton: The Sound That Conquered the World.

Luis Gil is a not-so-secret weapon that the Yankees can’t quite find the right time to deploy. 

To add to the absurdity, the ill-fated burglar also grabbed some merch from Law&Crime, including, “a bunch of hats.”

If the Liberty are the superteam, the Lynx are the everyteam. 

The weird Haason Reddick contract holdout just got weirder.

Clay Holmes lost his closer role earlier in the season but has become one of the most important parts of the Yankees’ postseason pen.

The PEMEX facility is a refinery that processes crude oil to produce gasoline, aviation fuel, diesel fuel and ship fuel.

The keffiyeh classes crave the moral rush of oppression, the thrill of persecution.

Harris fielded questions at a Univision town hall about immigration, the economy and healthcare — all issues that polls suggest are critical to the Latino voting bloc.

Third-year Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens' eye black during last Sunday's game against the Cowboys featured a message that included profanity.

ShutterstockAt least one person has died after an equipment failure trapped multiple people deep underground during a mine tour in Colorado, local authorities said.A total of 11 people have been rescued so far from the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine after the mine’s elevator had a “mechanical issue,” the Teller County Sheriff’s Office said. Another 12 people—11 tourists and one mine worker—are still trapped 1,00o feet beneath the surface.“At about 500 feet deep, we had a mechanical issue that created a severe danger for the participants,” Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said at a press conference on Thursday.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts plans to use Yoshinobu Yamamoto in some capacity during Game 5 of the NLDS against the San Diego Padres.

Girded by powerhouse performances from Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong, the Donald Trump biopic is better than the former president would like you to believe.

Sssay what? A UK family is reeling after they discovered a snake underneath their couch while they were watching television. The snake poked its head out from underneath the family’s couch, sending them running out of the house calling for help. The Pantziz family of Lincolnshire, England was relaxing with some tube on Sunday when...

Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander, has not been seen in public since Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive air strike on Beirut in September.

Detroit Lions veteran running back David Montgomery revealed that he dealt with suicidal thoughts during his time with the Chicago Bears, and fantasy football managers added to it.

Starting 5 is a great way to get geared up for the upcoming NBA season.

Authorities in Colorado were working to rescue several people trapped inside the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek.

The ALCS won’t begin until Monday and if the Yankees are still playing, Anthony Rizzo said he'll test the hand to see if his status might change.

Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz tried to align his position on the Electoral College with that of Kamala Harris' campaign after saying earlier he wanted to eliminate it.

The storm crashed across the breadth of Florida. flooding and flattening communities, but caused fewer deaths than authorities feared.

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Former President Trump had the hosts of the "Flagrant" podcast laughing as he explained his ability to "weave" in his rally speeches, denying that he rambles.

Former "Dancing with the Stars" professional Sharna Burgess is fighting back at accusations made about how she and her husband Brian Austin Green are raising their kids.

Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm, leaving 3 million Floridians without power. 

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office conducted dozens of rescues in the Tampa area after Hurricane Milton dumped heavy rain on the region. In Clearwater, Florida, hundreds of first responders were using highwater vehicles and boats to rescue families trapped in an apartment complex. Vladimir Duthiers and Jonathan Vigliotti report.

As Helene bore down on the mountains of North Carolina, an Asheville radio station helped coordinate wellness checks and connect the stranded with resources.

The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught of outright conspiracy theorizing and utter nonsense racking up millions of views across the internet. The posts would be laughable if they weren’t taken by many people as gospel. Among them: Infowars’ Alex Jones, who claimed that Hurricanes Milton and Helene were “weather weapons” unleashed on the East Coast by the U.S. government, and “truth seeker” accounts on X that posted photos of condensation trails in the sky to baselessly allege that the government was “spraying Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton” in order to ensure maximum rainfall, “just like they did over Asheville!”As Milton made landfall, causing a series of tornados, a verified account on X reposted a TikTok video of a massive funnel cloud with the caption “WHAT IS HAPPENING TO FLORIDA?!” The clip, which was eventually removed but had been viewed 662,000 times as of yesterday evening, turned out to be from a video of a CGI tornado that was originally published months ago. Scrolling through these platforms, watching them fill with false information, harebrained theories, and doctored images—all while panicked residents boarded up their houses, struggled to evacuate, and prayed that their worldly possessions wouldn’t be obliterated overnight—offered a portrait of American discourse almost too bleak to reckon with head-on.Even in a decade marred by online grifters, shameless politicians, and an alternative right-wing-media complex pushing anti-science fringe theories, the events of the past few weeks stand out for their depravity and nihilism. As two catastrophic storms upended American cities, a patchwork network of influencers and fake-news peddlers have done their best to sow distrust, stoke resentment, and interfere with relief efforts. But this is more than just a misinformation crisis. To watch as real information is overwhelmed by crank theories and public servants battle death threats is to confront two alarming facts: first, that a durable ecosystem exists to ensconce citizens in an alternate reality, and second, that the people consuming and amplifying those lies are not helpless dupes but willing participants.[Read: November will be worse]Some of the lies and obfuscation are politically motivated, such as the claim that FEMA is offering only $750 in total to hurricane victims who have lost their home. (In reality, FEMA offers $750 as immediate “Serious Needs Assistance” to help people get basic supplies such as food and water.) Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Fox News have all repeated that lie. Trump also posted (and later deleted) on Truth Social that FEMA money was given to undocumented migrants, which is untrue. Elon Musk, who owns X, claimed—without evidence—that FEMA was “actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping.” That post has been viewed more than 40 million times. Other influencers, such as the Trump sycophant Laura Loomer, have urged their followers to disrupt the disaster agency’s efforts to help hurricane victims. “Do not comply with FEMA,” she posted on X. “This is a matter of survival.”The result of this fearmongering is what you might expect. Angry, embittered citizens have been harassing government officials in North Carolina, as well as FEMA employees. According to an analysis by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, an extremism-research group, “Falsehoods around hurricane response have spawned credible threats and incitement to violence directed at the federal government,” including “calls to send militias to face down FEMA.” The study also found that 30 percent of the X posts analyzed by ISD “contained overt antisemitic hate, including abuse directed at public officials such as the Mayor of Asheville, North Carolina; the FEMA Director of Public Affairs; and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.” The posts received a collective 17.1 million views as of October 7.Online, first responders are pleading with residents, asking for their help to combat the flood of lies and conspiracy theories. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said that the volume of misinformation could hamper relief efforts. “If it creates so much fear that my staff doesn’t want to go out in the field, then we’re not going to be in a position where we can help people,” she said in a news conference on Tuesday. In Pensacola, Florida, Assistant Fire Chief Bradley Boone vented his frustrations on Facebook ahead of Milton’s arrival: “I’m trying to rescue my community,” he said in a livestream. “I ain’t got time. I ain’t got time to chase down every Facebook rumor … We’ve been through enough.”It is difficult to capture the nihilism of the current moment. The pandemic saw Americans, distrustful of authority, trying to discredit effective vaccines, spreading conspiracy theories, and attacking public-health officials. But what feels novel in the aftermath of this month’s hurricanes is how the people doing the lying aren’t even trying to hide the provenance of their bullshit. Similarly, those sharing the lies are happy to admit that they do not care whether what they’re pushing is real or not. Such was the case last week, when Republican politicians shared an AI-generated viral image of a little girl holding a puppy while supposedly fleeing Helene. Though the image was clearly fake and quickly debunked, some politicians remained defiant. “Y’all, I don’t know where this photo came from and honestly, it doesn’t matter,” Amy Kremer, who represents Georgia on the Republican National Committee, wrote after sharing the fake image. “I’m leaving it because it is emblematic of the trauma and pain people are living through right now.”Kremer wasn’t alone. The journalist Parker Molloy compiled screenshots of people “acknowledging that this image is AI but still insisting that it’s real on some deeper level”—proof, Molloy noted, that we’re “living in the post-reality.” The technology writer Jason Koebler argued that we’ve entered the “‘Fuck It’ Era” of AI slop and political messaging, with AI-generated images being used to convey whatever partisan message suits the moment, regardless of truth.This has all been building for more than a decade. On The Colbert Report, back in 2005, Stephen Colbert coined the word truthiness, which he defined as “the belief in what you feel to be true rather than what the facts will support.” This reality-fracturing is the result of an information ecosystem that is dominated by platforms that offer financial and attentional incentives to lie and enrage, and to turn every tragedy and large event into a shameless content-creation opportunity. This collides with a swath of people who would rather live in an alternate reality built on distrust and grievance than change their fundamental beliefs about the world. But the misinformation crisis is not always what we think it is.[Read: Florida’s risky bet]So much of the conversation around misinformation suggests that its primary job is to persuade. But as Michael Caulfield, an information researcher at the University of Washington, has argued, “The primary use of ‘misinformation’ is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.” This distinction is important, in part because it assigns agency to those who consume and share obviously fake information. What is clear from comments such as Kremer’s is that she is not a dupe; although she may come off as deeply incurious and shameless, she is publicly admitting to being an active participant in the far right’s world-building project, where feel is always greater than real.What we’re witnessing online during and in the aftermath of these hurricanes is a group of people desperate to protect the dark, fictitious world they’ve built. Rather than deal with the realities of a warming planet hurling once-in-a-generation storms at them every few weeks, they’d rather malign and threaten meteorologists, who, in their minds, are “nothing but a trained subversive liar programmed to spew stupid shit to support the global warming bullshit,” as one X user put it. It is a strategy designed to silence voices of reason, because those voices threaten to expose the cracks in their current worldview. But their efforts are doomed, futile. As one dispirited meteorologist wrote on X this week, “Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes.” She followed with: “I can’t believe I just had to type that.”What is clear is that a new framework is needed to describe this fracturing. Misinformation is too technical, too freighted, and, after almost a decade of Trump, too political. Nor does it explain what is really happening, which is nothing less than a cultural assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders. These jobs are different, but the thing they share is that they all must attend to and describe the world as it is. This makes them dangerous to people who cannot abide by the agonizing constraints of reality, as well as those who have financial and political interests in keeping up the charade.In one sense, these attacks—and their increased desperation—make sense. The world feels dark; for many people, it’s tempting to meet that with a retreat into the delusion that they’ve got everything figured out, that the powers that be have conspired against them directly. But in turning away, they exacerbate a crisis that has characterized the Trump era, one that will reverberate to Election Day and beyond. Americans are divided not just by political beliefs but by whether they believe in a shared reality—or desire one at all.

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris finally confronted the question of her candidacy’s primary-free path after 10 weeks as the presumptive and then actual Democratic presidential nominee. And it wasn’t a reporter who asked — it was an undecided voter at Univision’s Thursday town hall. “You earned your candidacy without going through the normal process,...

A CBS News crew on Thursday was surveying the destruction left behind by Hurricane Milton in a retirement community in Fort Pierce, Florida, when a dog was found in the debris of a home. Lulu, a small Shih Tzu, survived Milton, but her owners died. Morgan Raynor has more.

Algunos inmigrantes que crecieron en Estados Unidos después de que fueron traídos ilegalmente durante su infancia eran parte de los más de 200 manifestantes que se congregaron el jueves fuera de un tribunal federal en Nueva Orleans, donde tres jueces de una corte de apelaciones escucharon argumentos sobre la política del gobierno del presidente Joe Biden que los protege de la deportación.

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Un exagente de la DEA en Buffalo, Nueva York, fue declarado culpable de corrupción el jueves después de un segundo juicio por acusaciones de usar su puesto para proteger a narcotraficantes que creía relacionados con el crimen organizado.