ECON 101: The federal reserve yesterday cut interest rates by half a point … that’s big for them … in the first rate cut since 2020 as the Fed eases its battle against inflation.   The cut lowers rates to about …

INCOMING MESSAGE: Nearly 3,000 people were wounded and twelve killed yesterday when pagers belonging to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon simultaneously exploded. Lebanon’s health minister said in a press conference that the dead included a child and at least 2,780 people were wounded, …

BAD BOY: Music mogul Sean “Puffy” Combs was arrested at a New York hotel last night following his indictment by a federal grand jury. The indictment was sealed but it’s expected that Combs is charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, and possibly …

SHOTS FIRED: Gunshots rang out yesterday at Donald Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida and the FBI said the former president was safe after what may have been a foiled assassination attempt.   A man named Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was taken …

BY THE NUMBERS: Vice President Kamala Harris now has a clear lead in some of the polls following Tuesday night’s presidential debate.    Reuters and Morning Consult have Harris leading Donald Trump by five points. The pro-Trump New York Post gives Harris …

OVERTURNED: A North Dakota judge has overturned the state’s near-total ban on abortion saying that the State Constitution protects a woman’s right to abortion until fetal viability.    “The North Dakota Constitution guarantees each individual, including women, the fundamental right to make …

A GAME OF INCHES: Vice President Kamala Harris still faces a game of inches following her strong debate performance against Donald Trump on Tuesday night. As of this morning there are no post-debate polls to indicate whether she moved any new …

DEBATABLE: In his campaign to win the presidency through fear, Donald Trump last night repeated the internet myth that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating household pets. “The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating …

IT’S POLITICAL: The bloom is off the Kamala rose as the Vice President tonight in Philadelphia engages in what could be her only debate with Donald Trump. Harris’s dramatic surge in the polls over President Biden’s numbers has stalled and now …

DELAY AND APPEAL: The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal fraud case delayed the September 18th sentencing until after election day leaving the country in suspense as to whether he would send the former president to prison.   “This is not a decision …