THE WAR ROOM: Israel continued to hit targets in Lebanon today for a second day of intense bombing, levelling homes and buildings. Overnight the roads were clogged with carloads of people retreating to Beirut.   Israeli air and artillery strikes hit as …

THE SUNBELT STATES: Donald Trump has a strong lead in battleground states Arizona and Georgia and has a narrow edge in North Carolina, according to new polling by The NY Times/Siena College.   Their poll has Trump leading by five percent in …

THE WAR ROOM: Both the Israeli military and Hezbollah in Lebanon say an air strike in Beirut killed Ibrahim Aqeel, a top commander believed to have been behind the 1983 suicide bombings in Beirut that killed at least 360 people, the majority of …

THE WAR ROOM: Israeli forces say they destroyed 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers overnight as the conflict in Lebanon heats up.  The strikes were described as Israel’s most violent in the past year of back and forth attacks.    Israel is on the brink …

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 …