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Vice President Harris will face off against former President Donald Trump Tuesday for the first time since becoming the Democratic nominee. The playing field is different than it was two months ago when President Biden’s dismal debate performance spurred a wave of concern over his ability to defeat Trump, the Republican nominee. Since then, a lot has happened. Trump survived an assassination attempt, he accepted the GOP presidential nomination, Biden dropped out of the race and Harris then took over and clinched the Democratic party’s nomination.
Harris has since made up the ground Biden lost in swing state polls and now stands virtually tied with Trump. Despite a groundswell of support and reportedly record-breakingfundraising amounts, her campaign’s honeymoon phase is likely to end, especially as Trump and Republicans look to ramp up attacks.
The event will air at 9 p.m. ET for 90 minutes from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. ABC News anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis are slated to moderate the debate, which will be broadcast by the network and streamed on ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu.
The debate rules echo those agreed on for the June matchup. That means microphones will once again be muted unless a candidate is speaking, something the Harris team asked to change for this debate. It’s a rule initially proposed by the Biden campaign ahead of the first debate and was largely seen as a potential shake-up to Trump’s typical debate style. Instead, it ended up benefiting the former president, who has a history of interrupting in these settings to the point of his campaign’s detriment. Instead, the technical change helped Trump appear more controlled.
There will be no audience and candidates will not be permitted to question each other directly. In addition, neither will be allowed to bring pre-written notes or props onto the debate stage.
Harris has mostly campaigned from the trail in her brief time as a presidential contender — excluding a single sit-down interview with CNN at the end of August. She has also struggled in the past with unscripted moments as vice president, which will put the spotlight on her ability to perform in a debate while also laying out some of her platform and going on the offensive against Trump.
Harris has been putting an emphasis on protecting reproductive rights while campaigning, and she’s likely to address it Tuesday night. Leading up to the debate, the Harris-Walz campaign launched its “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” bus tour, pledging to make 50 stops in key states around the issues of abortion, IVF and reproductive rights.
Bar chart of the shape of the electorate in seven key states.
Trump is likely to link Harris to Biden’s handling of the economy and immigration, two areas where Republicans have heavily criticized the White House. He may also highlight aspects of her political record, including her past support for decriminalizing border crossings and banning fracking — two policies she backed during her 2020 presidential bid and has since pivoted on.
On the other hand, Harris has repeatedly tied Trump’s platform to Project 2025, a 900-page set of policy proposals for a potential second term put forward by a conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation. Trump has tried to distance himself from the plan — which includes further restrictions on abortion access among a slew of moves that would increase executive power.
Vice presidential candidates Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance will face off on Oct. 1 in a debate hosted by CBS News. (NPR)
On August 26, the third anniversary of the terrorist attack at the Kabul Airport, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that Congress will honor the 13 American service members killed in the attack by presenting their families the Congressional Gold Medal. The ceremony will take place in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol at 11am and Senator Daines will deliver remarks.
“Our country owes the 13 brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago a debt of gratitude we will never be able to repay,” said Daines. “These heroes dedicated their lives to serving our nation and protecting our security and freedoms both at home and abroad. With this Congressional Gold Medal, we memorialize their ultimate sacrifice and honor their memory.”
On August 26, 2021, during the final days of the Afghanistan withdrawal, a ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked the Hamid Karzai International Airport, tragically leaving 13 U.S. service members dead.
The following service members made the ultimate sacrifice that day and will be honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on September 10, 2024. Their bravery and courage will never be forgotten:
Navy Petty Officer Third Class Maxton Soviak of Berlin Heights
Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover
Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo
Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee
Marine Cpl. Hunter Lopez
Marine Cpl. Daegan Page
Marine Cpl. Humberto Sanchez
Marine Lance Cpl. David Espinoza
Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz
Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum
Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola
Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui
(Source: ABC)
More drama for Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. He has been accused of sexual assault in a new civil lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges he forced himself on her four years ago when he played with Houston. The woman is suing Watson for $1 million in damages.
The woman, identified only as Jane Doe in the court documents, said the incident took place after she invited Watson to her apartment. She said Watson undressed shortly after arriving and demanded a massage.
It’s the latest legal entanglement for Watson, who settled 23 of 24 lawsuits against him in 2022 after two dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct and harassment during massage therapy sessions.
The Browns did not have an immediate response to the latest lawsuit. The NFL declined to comment. Watson could also face further discipline from the league.
And while he’s not using it as an excuse for his poor performance Sunday, Watson says the deaths of his father and a former teammate last week took an emotional toll on him. (TheScore)
Apple unveiled its iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus which harnesses cutting-edge hardware capabilities, an even more sleek and sustainable design, and introduces ChatGPT-powered artificial intelligence, allowing users to make even more nuanced commands. They also just unveiled the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max at 6.3 and 6.9-inch displays. Apple said it is the best iPhone displays ever with the thinnest borders of any product. They respectively start at $999 and $1,199. The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus start at $799 and $899, respectively. They are available on September 20 with preorders beginning September 13.
The iPhone, which comes in 6.1 inches or 6.7 for its Plus model, introduces a new camera-specific slide button on the phone’s lower half. This “camera control” feature automatically brings up the camera’s app and, when lightly tapped, allows users to toggle a drop-down of many high-end optic features to enhance pictures. The camera itself is 48 megapixels, four times the resolution of iPhone 14.
Next month, iPhone 16 users will test drive Apple Intelligence, a generative AI that has a bevy of writing and tone enhancements — Apple even says it can cushion Slack messages to your boss — among the ability to create custom images and emojis from written prompts. The company also urged a need for privacy with the major upgrades and noted there has been a “private cloud compute” option built that doesn’t even share data with Apple.
What’s in store for iPhone 16:
• A new camera hardware side button
• 48-megapixel camera
• Enhanced custom photo album collections
• ChatGPT-powered artificial “Apple Intelligence”
• Conversationally improved Siri
• Writing tools that can work with apps like Slack to send more professionally polished messages
• iPhone camera can now scan restaurants, books, flyers, and merchandise, and pull relevant information
• New AI privacy features
• iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max have the thinnest make
• It can create images and custom emojis from text prompts
• Action button has more features
• Siri also has a much more conversational ability to understand the context of conversations both spoken and written. It can scan text from messages and pull up music albums and other related things that are searchable.
• In the iPhone’s camera roll, the new software builds on searchable features as well. Now users can promptly filter through their images and videos by searching for names of people and actions they were doing to make collections of memories from specific dates.
• The iPhone action button has also been upgraded to quickly activate other abilities of the phone such as turning on its flashlight or pulling up a calendar.
(Source: New York Post)
NEWS: Apple has unveiled the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max.
• Bigger 6.3″ & 6.9″ displays (0.2” bigger)
• 33% thinner bezels, thinnest bezels ever on an Apple product
• Grade 5 Titanium with new micro blasted texture
• ~5% larger batteries, best iPhone battery life ever
•… pic.twitter.com/NyN55ovVMG— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) September 9, 2024
James Earl Jones, the revered actor who voiced Star Wars villain Darth Vader, starred in Field of Dreams and many other films and Broadway shows and is an EGOT winner, died this morning at his home in New York over the weekend. He was 93.
Beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Jones went on to appear in some of the most successful films of all time. He probably is best known for his voice role as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy. He also reprised the villainous role in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
He portrayed King Jaffe Joffer in Eddie Murphy’s 1998 comedy, Coming To America, and starred in the baseball drama Field of Dreams and the military thrillers The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games. Jones also voiced Mufasa both in The Lion King animated pic (1994) and hybrid/live-action film (2019). He also lent his sonorous voice to the famous “This is CNN” promo campaign for the cable news network.
He was nominated for a Lead Actor Oscar for his role in The Great White Hope (1971) and was given an honorary Oscar at the 2012 ceremony. An eight-time Emmy nominee, his two wins both came in 1991: Lead Actor in a Drama series for Gabriel’s Fire and Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for Heat Wave. (Deadline.com)
RIP to the GOAT, James Earl Jones pic.twitter.com/OuzdNqudFJ
— Meredith Loftus (@MeredithLoftus) September 9, 2024
