David Knowles
An editor at Yahoo News, David has worked as a reporter and editor for Bloomberg Politics, the New York Daily News, The Daily and AOL, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the Hollywood Reporter. An active musician, he also served as a Senior Editor at Acoustic Guitar magazine, and was Editor of the quarterly publication, Ukulele. The author of the long-form essay “Remembering to Remember the World Trade Center,” he has published two novels, The Secrets of the Camera Obscura (Chronicle Books) and The Third Eye (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Judge postpones Trump sentencing for New York hush money conviction until after November election
Judge Juan Merchan announced Friday that he would postpone handing down former President Donald Trump’s sentence in the New York hush money trial until after the November election.
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Trump keeps saying some states allow the execution of babies ‘after birth.’ They don’t. Here’s how that falsehood got started.
Twice in the past week alone, former President Donald Trump has pushed his often-repeated falsehood that some U.S. states, in their zeal to protect abortion rights, allow for the killing of babies after they are born.
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Harris said she’d sign the bipartisan border bill that Trump stopped. Here's what's in it.
During Thursday’s interview with CNN, Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated her support for a bipartisan Senate bill that would have overhauled the country’s immigration system in an effort to cut down on the number of undocumented migrants crossing the southern U.S. border.
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7 takeaways from Kamala Harris's CNN interview
Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first in-depth media interview since becoming the Democratic nominee for president, answering questions Thursday from CNN’s Dana Bash.
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Extreme heat is transforming how Texas plays football
Texas officials released new safety guidelines for the 2024 football season in response to rising temperatures caused by climate change.
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Special counsel files new superseding indictment against Trump in response to Supreme Court immunity ruling
Special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment Tuesday in the Jan. 6 election interference case against former President Donald Trump that tailored the details of the allegations in light of the United States Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts.
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In DNC speech, Michelle Obama declares 'something wonderfully magical is in the air'
Former first lady Michelle Obama delivered a powerful speech Tuesday to the Democratic National Convention in her hometown of Chicago, where she declared that thanks to the ascendant candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, "hope is making a comeback."
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Trump's falsehoods show no sign of letting up as campaign enters final stretch
With the dynamics of the 2024 presidential election having dramatically shifted since President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, former President Donald Trump has looked to blunt Vice President Kamala Harris’s momentum by holding a series of rambling press conferences and interviews.
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Trump agrees to ABC News debate, proposes 2 more as campaign tries to adjust to Harris's candidacy
Seeking to recapture the momentum in a presidential race that he seemed likely to win just weeks ago, former President Donald Trump held a news conference Thursday at which he said he had agreed to hold three debates with Vice President Kamala Harris.
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How Harris's 'Not going back' message seeks to counter Trump's 'Make America great again' slogan
With the presidential tickets now set for 2024, Americans can expect to spend the next three months until Election Day hearing the repeated slogans and messaging that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris hope will resonate with voters.
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4 takeaways from Tim Walz’s first campaign speech as Kamala Harris’s running mate
Hours after being named as Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz introduced himself to American voters Tuesday with a forceful speech at a Philadelphia rally in which he sought to portray the Democratic ticket as full of optimism and “joy.”
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How Tim Walz's kids have influenced how he governs
As governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz has made no secret that his kids have played a big role in helping to shape his policy priorities.
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Is indoor summer the new normal? Climate change delivers scorching heat across America
For millions of Americans, rising global temperatures have transformed summertime, pushing them to spend more and more time each year inside air-conditioned spaces, sealed off from the sweltering outdoors.
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Harris tries to turn Trump’s strongest issue, immigration, against him
At Tuesday’s raucous rally in Atlanta, Vice President Kamala Harris went after former President Donald Trump on what polls show is his strongest campaign issue: immigration.
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4 key takeaways from Biden’s speech on his decision to ‘pass the torch to a new generation’
In a speech delivered from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, President Biden cast his decision to exit the 2024 presidential race as a choice to protect the country from the consequences should his party lose the White House in November.
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Are Democrats making a mistake by rushing to embrace Harris for president?
Though Vice President Kamala Harris has now secured the support of enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president, some in the party still want to hold a mini-primary.
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Replace Biden? Some Republicans say that's illegal and plan to file lawsuits to stop it.
While many Americans may have been stunned by Sunday’s news that President Biden had decided to drop out of the 2024 campaign and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him at the top of the ticket, some Republicans had quietly prepared for that moment.
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Democrats rally behind Kamala Harris in bid to avert divisive party convention
In the moments after President Biden announced Sunday that he had decided it was “in the best interest” of his party and country to exit the 2024 campaign, Democratic support quickly coalesced behind Vice President Kamala Harris, a move that could potentially spare Democrats a divisive nominating convention next month.
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Did the Pennsylvania shooting change Trump?
Was Donald Trump's convention speech evidence that his brush with death had left him more introspective? Therein lies the debate.
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Lara Trump uses Saturday's shooting to illustrate father-in-law's softer side
In her speech Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, Lara Trump, co-chair of the RNC, sought to soften the image of her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, much in the way that his eldest daughter had done in 2016.