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CNN said the former president had until noon on Thursday to accept an invitation to an Oct. 23 showdown with Vice President Kamala Harris, who already accepted.

Her media swing showed how she often responds to uncomfortable questions by acknowledging them, yet not fully answering them.

Former President Donald J. Trump said in a statement that he would seek to end the “double taxation” of Americans overseas.

The Republican firebrand trails in the polls and faces a large financial disadvantage. Wednesday night’s debate may be her last big chance to land a blow against her Democratic opponent.

In a lengthy sit-down, the veteran radio host extracted an array of new details about Kamala Harris’s life.

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota suggested at fund-raisers that he backed switching to a national popular vote. His spokesman clarified that this was not the position of Kamala Harris’s campaign.

Earlier surveys have shown higher support, but the state’s Republican governor is working hard to defeat the initiative.

The “historic” rule aims to eliminate a major source of lead poisoning and comes a decade after a drinking-water crisis in Flint, Mich.

As Harvard and a top biographer square off, proponents of a middle path see a tangled life in which the superstar of science was, and was not, a true Communist …