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- The Republican Party’s Midterm Nightmare Is Taking Shape
LEAWOOD, Kansas — The Senate map is less complicated than it appears. As with every modern presidential campaign, it runs through the Midwest. If Democrats flip Republican-held seats in Ohio and Iowa while retaining Michigan, they will almost certainly net the four seats total needed to take control of the Senate for President Donald Trump’s final two years. As the traditional start of the campaign season draws near, though, Republicans are increasingly worried they may be consumed by a worsening prairie fire. “He’s in serious trouble in farm country,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) told me. “He being Trump — and Trump is us. I’m not very optimistic.” The triple-whammy of tariffs, expensive diesel and fertilizer and now imported beef has created a crisis for agriculture-state Republicans. Over some brisket at Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que earlier this month, the pastor of the country’s biggest Methodist congregation said Kansans are at a breaking point. “Now some of those people are still not willing to say, ‘Hey, we don't like Trump,’ but they do expect their senator is going to speak up for them,” said Adam Hamilton, the pastor-turned-Democratic nominee against Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.). “What I'm hearing when I go across the state is people saying — and these are Republicans, not Democrats — we can't have six more years of this, or even two more years of this.” Hamilton said the only question is: “How many farms are going to go bankrupt?” Two hundred miles north up I-35, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Josh Turek echoed Hamilton. “We're going through a second farm crisis right now, Farmageddon,” said Turek, the Democratic state lawmaker running against Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) for an open Senate seat. It’s Iowa that’s more likely to flip — Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 — and I think the Hawkeye State is the bellwether in this year’s Senate battle. Should Iowa turn back to Democrats after supporting Trump in all three of his elections, and not electing a Democratic senator since 2008, it would be an unmistakable tell about the sort of voters who also backed Barack Obama twice. The alarm among Republicans, though, is that the contagion may spread beyond the heartland. While GOP incumbents in Kansas and Nebraska are facing the fight of their careers, Republican lawmakers in the South are also seeing unusually adverse polling data,… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 weeks ago - Juul can sell updated e-cigarette with age-verification system, FDA says
Juul plans to market the new device under the brand name Juul2, along with updated versions of its tobacco- and menthol-flavored cartridges. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 weeks ago - Will Kevin Warsh Squander a Huge Opportunity?In his first three months on the job, Kevin Warsh has firmly chosen not to use the bully pulpit that comes with the title of chair of the Federal Reserve, even as he’s hinted at an ambitious agenda to reshape the institution. That could change this week when he takes the stage in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in his inaugural remarks for the central bank’s storied annual conference — his first official speech in his new role. His comments will attract viewers from around the globe, including, no doubt, a certain resident of Pennsylvania Avenue who is keen to see interest rates go down. But Warsh’s most important audience on Friday is probably the one that will be physically in the room with him: his fellow Fed policymakers, who are increasingly divided on how to proceed in their fight against inflation and potentially skeptical of some of his plans for reform. Even as Warsh has declined ample opportunities at press conferences and congressional testimony to shed light on his plans, many of his colleagues at the Fed have continued to lay out their expectations for how the economy will unfold and what policy might be warranted. They’ve filled the silence left by Warsh and also fed the perception that he is leading from behind. Three Fed officials were already ready to raise rates in July and more may join them at the central bank’s next policy meeting in September, given new data showing that inflation is not yet abating. In other words, he can’t avoid the debate much longer. It’s time to build a case for whatever he thinks should come next and wield some of his power. It’s possible, of course, that Warsh might still cleave to the vagueness that has characterized his early tenure. Certainly, he’s unlikely to reveal whether a rate hike is coming next month, as he’s made abundantly clear that he’s not in the business of telegraphing such things. But making a public argument, at least about the current state of the economy if not what the Fed should do to shape it, is one of the central bank chief’s most important levers for building consensus. The vista of the Teton mountains that has loomed over several Fed chairs before him might coax him to pull it. William English, a former top staffer at the Fed who is now a professor at Yale University, noted several… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 weeks ago
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Fuelled by TikTok and street dance battles, the coupé-décalé offshoot is latest expression of Côte d’Ivoire’s pop cultureThe 400-strong crowd, perched on plastic chairs and wooden benches in Abidjan’s Yopougon-Selmer neighbourhood, roared with approval as Sauce Graine twisted and turned on the spot with breathtaking speed and dexterity.The dancer, named after the Ivorian palm nut delicacy, was competing in a series of street dance battles set to biama, a frenetic offshoot of coupé-décalé, a type of percussive dance music popular across west Africa that originated in Côte d’Ivoire around the turn of the century. Continue reading... [TheTopNews] Read More.2 months ago
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LEAWOOD, Kansas — The Senate map is less complicated than it appears. As with every modern presidential campaign, it runs through the Midwest. If Democrats flip Republican-held seats in Ohio and Iowa while retaining Michigan, they will almost certainly net the four seats total needed to take control of the Senate for President Donald Trump’s final two years. As the traditional start of the campaign season draws near, though, Republicans are increasingly worried they may be consumed by a worsening prairie fire. “He’s in serious trouble in farm country,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) told me. “He being Trump — and Trump is us. I’m not very optimistic.” The triple-whammy of tariffs, expensive diesel and fertilizer and now imported beef has created a crisis for agriculture-state Republicans. Over some brisket at Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que earlier this month, the pastor of the country’s biggest Methodist congregation said Kansans are at a breaking point. “Now some of those people are still not willing to say, ‘Hey, we don't like Trump,’ but they do expect their senator is going to speak up for them,” said Adam Hamilton, the pastor-turned-Democratic nominee against Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.). “What I'm hearing when I go across the state is people saying — and these are Republicans, not Democrats — we can't have six more years of this, or even two more years of this.” Hamilton said the only question is: “How many farms are going to go bankrupt?” Two hundred miles north up I-35, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Josh Turek echoed Hamilton. “We're going through a second farm crisis right now, Farmageddon,” said Turek, the Democratic state lawmaker running against Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) for an open Senate seat. It’s Iowa that’s more likely to flip — Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 — and I think the Hawkeye State is the bellwether in this year’s Senate battle. Should Iowa turn back to Democrats after supporting Trump in all three of his elections, and not electing a Democratic senator since 2008, it would be an unmistakable tell about the sort of voters who also backed Barack Obama twice. The alarm among Republicans, though, is that the contagion may spread beyond the heartland. While GOP incumbents in Kansas and Nebraska are facing the fight of their careers, Republican lawmakers in the South are also seeing unusually adverse polling data,… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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Juul plans to market the new device under the brand name Juul2, along with updated versions of its tobacco- and menthol-flavored cartridges. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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In his first three months on the job, Kevin Warsh has firmly chosen not to use the bully pulpit that comes with the title of chair of the Federal Reserve, even as he’s hinted at an ambitious agenda to reshape the institution. That could change this week when he takes the stage in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in his inaugural remarks for the central bank’s storied annual conference — his first official speech in his new role. His comments will attract viewers from around the globe, including, no doubt, a certain resident of Pennsylvania Avenue who is keen to see interest rates go down. But Warsh’s most important audience on Friday is probably the one that will be physically in the room with him: his fellow Fed policymakers, who are increasingly divided on how to proceed in their fight against inflation and potentially skeptical of some of his plans for reform. Even as Warsh has declined ample opportunities at press conferences and congressional testimony to shed light on his plans, many of his colleagues at the Fed have continued to lay out their expectations for how the economy will unfold and what policy might be warranted. They’ve filled the silence left by Warsh and also fed the perception that he is leading from behind. Three Fed officials were already ready to raise rates in July and more may join them at the central bank’s next policy meeting in September, given new data showing that inflation is not yet abating. In other words, he can’t avoid the debate much longer. It’s time to build a case for whatever he thinks should come next and wield some of his power. It’s possible, of course, that Warsh might still cleave to the vagueness that has characterized his early tenure. Certainly, he’s unlikely to reveal whether a rate hike is coming next month, as he’s made abundantly clear that he’s not in the business of telegraphing such things. But making a public argument, at least about the current state of the economy if not what the Fed should do to shape it, is one of the central bank chief’s most important levers for building consensus. The vista of the Teton mountains that has loomed over several Fed chairs before him might coax him to pull it. William English, a former top staffer at the Fed who is now a professor at Yale University, noted several… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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The campaign has organized hundreds of stores since 2021 but still doesn’t have a collective bargaining agreement. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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Fuelled by TikTok and street dance battles, the coupé-décalé offshoot is latest expression of Côte d’Ivoire’s pop cultureThe 400-strong crowd, perched on plastic chairs and wooden benches in Abidjan’s Yopougon-Selmer neighbourhood, roared with approval as Sauce Graine twisted and turned on the spot with breathtaking speed and dexterity.The dancer, named after the Ivorian palm nut delicacy, was competing in a series of street dance battles set to biama, a frenetic offshoot of coupé-décalé, a type of percussive dance music popular across west Africa that originated in Côte d’Ivoire around the turn of the century. Continue reading... [TheTopNews] Read More.
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