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Explosions in the Sky Announce 20th Anniversary Reissues, World Tour

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Explosions in the Sky are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band with a double set of reissues and a global tour. The Austin group will unveil remastered and repackaged versions of 2000’s  How Strange, Innocence  and 2005’s  The Rescue on August 16th on vinyl and digital via Temporary Residence Limited. Two tracks, “A Song for Our Fathers” and “Day Six,” are now streaming ahead of the release. Both reissues are available for preorder .

The band will also tour in support of the reissues, with U.S. dates taking places this year to be followed by a European trek in 2020. The previously announced U.S. tour kicks off in Mesa, Arizona on September 11th and wraps up in Oklahoma City on October 24th. The European leg launches in Lisbon on February 1st and includes stops in Paris, London, Berlin and Manchester. Tickets for the European dates go on sale Wednesday July 10th.

Hi everyone, Today marks the official 20th anniversary of our band. — ExplosionsInTheSky (@EITS) July 4, 2019

Explosions in the Sky tour:

9/11 – Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 9/12 – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA 9/13 – Yost Theater, Santa Ana, CA 9/14 – Love Field, Point Reyes, CA 9/16 – Fox Theater, Oakland, CA 9/17 – Crest Theater, Sacramento, CA 9/19 – The Depot, Salt Lake City, UT 9/20 – Ogden Theater, Denver, CO 9/21 – Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO 9/22 – Taos Mesa Brewing Ampitheater, Taos, NM 10/10 – The Mill & Mine, Knoxville, TN 10/11 – The Ritz, Raleigh, NC 10/12 – Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ 10/13 – Knockdown Center, Queens, NY 10/14 – Asbury Hall at Babeville, Buffalo, NY 10/16 – Masonic Temple – Cathedral, Detroit, MI 10/17 – Castle Theater, Bloomington, IL 10/18 – The Sylvee, Madison, WI 10/19 – The Palace Theater, St Paul, MN 10/20 – Codfish Hollow Barnstormers, Maquoketa, IA 10/22 – The Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln, NE 10/23 – Liberty Hall, Lawrence, KS 10/24 – Criterion Theater, Oklahoma City, OK 2/1 – Aula Magna, Lisbon, PT 2/2 – La Riviera, Madrid, ES 2/3 – BARTS, Barcelona, ES 2/5 – Teatro Duse, Bologna, IT 2/6 – Fabrique, Milan, IT 2/8 – Salle de l’Alhambra (Antigel Festival), Geneva, CH 2/9 – La Cigale, Paris, FR 2/11 – De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, ENG 2/12 – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, SCT 2/13 – Vicar Street, Dublin, IRL 2/14 – Albert Hall, Manchester, ENG 2/15 – Eventim Apollo, London, ENG 4/26 – Autumn Falls @ De Roma, Antwerp, BE 4/27 – Autumn Falls @ Capitole, Gent, BE 4/29 – Rote Fabrik, Zurich, CH 4/30 – E-Werk, Cologne, DE 5/1 – TivoliVredenburg Grote Zaal, Utrecht, NL 5/3 – Huxleys, Berlin, DE 5/4 – Fabrik, Hamburg, DE

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Explosions in the Sky Extend “The End Tour” with 2024 Dates

In support of the band's latest album

Explosions in the Sky have extended their “The End Tour” to include a number of new dates in North America and Asia.

The band’s latest album, End , arrived this past September, marking their first full-length release in seven years. In support of the record, they embarked on a tour of North America and Europe this past fall. Now, they’re heading back out on the road for the new leg, which’ll begin with a pair of shows in Austin, Texas later this month.

Then, the band will take a few weeks off before heading to San Antonio, Texas for a show on January 19th. From there, they’ll bop around the Southwest and West Coast, playing cities like Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, and more. After that, they’ll head to Asia for a handful of dates. Tickets will first go on sale via an artist pre-sale (sign-up here ), and will become available to the general public via Ticketmaster on Friday, December 8th, at 10:00 a.m. local time.

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. As for the band’s overseas dates, you can secure your seats via Viagogo .

For each of the new dates, Explosions in the Sky will be joined by local opening acts. According to the press release, the band’s plan to “curate local opening acts rather than selecting one established support band for the entire tour” is meant to “embody the album’s thematic embrace of the cycle of life.”

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In November, Explosions in the Sky unveiled vinyl reissues in celebration of the 20th anniversaries of both 2001’s Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever and 2003’s The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place . Those albums, as well as End , are still available to purchase, with orders ongoing.

Explosions in the Sky 2023-2024 Tour Dates: Dec 15 – Moody Theater @ Austin, TX Dec 16 – Moody Theater @ Austin, TX Jan 19 – Paper Tiger @ San Antonio, TX Jan 20 – Lowbrow Palace @ El Paso, TX Jan 21 – Rialto Theatre @ Tucson, AZ Jan 22 – Van Buren @ Phoenix, AZ Jan 24 – The Wiltern @ Los Angeles, CA Jan 25 – The Wiltern @ Los Angeles, CA Jan 26 – Majestic Ventura Theater @ Ventura, CA Jan 27 –SOMA @ San Diego, CA Jan 29 – House of Blues @ Anaheim, CA Jan 30 – The Warfield @ San Francisco, CA Jan 31 – The Crown Room @ Lake Tahoe, NV Feb 2 – The Depot @ Salt Lake City, UT Feb 4 – Mission Ballroom @ Denver, CO Feb 6 – The Truman @ Kansas City, MO Feb 7 – Tower Theatre @ Oklahoma City, OK Feb 8 – Cain’s Ballroom @ Tulsa, OK Feb 28 – Capital Theatre @ Singapore Feb 29 – Jiospace Odeum @ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mar 2 – Pelupo Festival @ Pattaya City, Thailand Mar 4 – Rotunda KITEC @ Hong Kong, China

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Explosions In The Sky Reveal “The End” Tour

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For the first time since 2020, Explosions In The Sky are hitting the road. Their “The End” tour will have the band traversing the States from September 15 to October 3 before they make the trip overseas for a string of dates that will lead them into late November. Although there is no word on new music, the name of the tour has sparked rumors of the band calling it quits after these shows wrap up deep into Fall. 

The Austin natives have been staying under the radar since the release of their 2016 album, The Wilderness , their last studio effort. While the bad was the driving force behind the soundtrack to the 2021 film, “Big Bend”, the band has been laying low since their 20th Anniversary tour back in 2020. 

Since their debut record came out in 2000, Explosions In The Sky have been one of the most prolific and consistently impressive bands to emerge from their era. Their creativity hit a new high with the release of their critically-acclaimed 2003 album, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place . Since then the band has scored multiple appearances in film and television including providing full soundtracks for films like “Lone Survivor” (2014) and “Manglehorn” (2015). 

While specific details on the tour are slim, you can check out the full list of dates below and keep an eye out for any updates on an explanation of the cryptic tour name. 

Sep 15 – The Lawn at White Oak Music – Houston, TX

Sep 16 – South Side Ballroom – Dallas, TX

Sep 18 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN

Sep 19 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA

Sep 21 – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO

Sep 22 – The Admiral Theater – Omaha, NE

Sep 23 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN

Sep 25 – The Salt Shed – Chicago, IL

Sep 26 – Royal Oak Music Theater – Royal Oak, MI

Sep 28 – Agora Theater – Cleveland, OH

Sep 29 – Franklin Music Hall – Philadelphia, PA

Sep 30 – College Street Music Hall – New Haven, CT 

Oct 1 – Roadrunner – Boston, MA

Oct 3 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC 

Nov 6 – Vicar Street – Dublin, IE

Nov 7 – Albert Hall – Manchester, UK

Nov 8 – Troxy – London, UK

Nov 9 – Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, BE

Nov 11 – De Roma – Antwerp, BE

Nov 13 – TivoliVredenberg Grote Zaal – Utrecht, NL

Nov 14 – Astra – Berlin, DE

Nov 15 – Kantine – Koln, DE

Nov 17 – Bataclan – Paris, FR

Nov 18 – L’EpicerieModerne – Lyon, FR

Nov 19 – Sala Razzmatazz – Barcelona, SP

Nov 20 – Riviera – Madrid, SP

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Explosions In The Sky – The End Tour (Night 1)

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Support From Exit Angles End, the enigmatic seventh album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death.

“Our starting point was the concept of an ending—death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we’ve all expanded on and made its own world. Maybe it’s our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation—the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next,” says the band about the album.

End is perhaps the “grandest” Explosions in the Sky album – melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog, influenced by personal tastes stretching from classical to soul to experimental ambient music.

The title “End” furthers a story arc reflected in the album titles that started with the “innocence” of their first album (How Strange, Innocence), progressed through the idealism and romanticism of their second and third albums (Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever and The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place), followed by the introspection (All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone and Take Care Take Care Take Care) and big-picture focus (The Wilderness) of their most recent albums.

The band announced “The End Tour” this spring, bringing their legendary live show experience to 26 cities around the world in 2023. More dates are expected to be announced soon.

They are currently scoring a new, undisclosed, television series that will premiere in 2024. End is the band’s seventh, but not final, studio album.

Explosions in the Sky are an iconic instrumental rock band from Texas that have become the gold standard for bold, emotional, cinematic music and are known for their incendiary live concerts. They’ve slowly grown from playing DIY spaces and opening for Fugazi to having headlined Radio City Music Hall, Royal Albert Hall, the Greek Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House.

Over 24 years of being a band (with the same four members the entire time), they’ve achieved remarkable commercial success from an especially non-commercial corner of the music world, selling more than 1.3 million copies over six studio albums, and scoring five major motion pictures in the process. They’ve become the sound of modern sports films, documentaries and television, due largely to their genre-defining Friday Night Lights score, and they’ve been asked to tour with artist fans as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, The Flaming Lips, and Death Cab for Cutie, while managing to not sound like any other popular artist.

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Explosions in the Sky Announce 20th Anniversary Tour

Explosions in the Sky have announced a tour to celebrate their 20th anniversary. After a series of spring dates in Asia, they kick off the U.S. tour in September. “We hope to see some of you out there,” the band wrote on Twitter . “And thanks so much for sticking with us for so long. We truly appreciate it.” Check out their dates below, and find tickets here . (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Explosions in the Sky’s latest album, The Wilderness , arrived in 2016.

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05-09 Shanghai, China - Bandai Namco Dream Hall 05-10 Beijing, China - Tango 3F 05-12 Tokyo, Japan - O-East 05-13 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro 09-11 Mesa, AZ - Mesa Arts Center 09-12 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium 09-13 Santa Ana, CA - Yost Theater 09-14 Point Reyes, CA - Love Field 09-16 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 09-17 Sacramento, CA - Crest Theater 09-19 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot 09-20 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre 09-21 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater 09-22 Taos, NM - Taos Mesa Brewing Amphitheater 10-10 Knoxville, TN - The Mill & Mine 10-11 Raleigh, NC - The Ritz 10-12 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom 10-13 New York, NY - Knockdown Center 10-14 Buffalo, NY - Asbury Hall 10-16 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Cathedral 10-17 Bloomington, IL - Castle Theatre 10-18 Madison, WI - The Sylvee 10-19 St Paul, MN - The Palace Theater 10-20 Maquoketa, IA - Codfish Hollow Barnstormers 10-22 Lincoln, NE - The Bourbon Theatre 10-23 Lawrence, KS - Liberty Hall 10-24 Oklahoma City, OK - Criterion Theater

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Explosions in the Sky Announce 2023 “The End Tour” Dates

The post Explosions in the Sky Announce 2023 “The End Tour” Dates appeared first on Consequence .

Explosions in the Sky have very mysteriously announced a run of 2023 tour dates. The post-rock group will embark on “The End Tour” beginning this fall, and as for what the “end” actually entails here, your guess is as good as ours!

Much like Explosions in the Sky’s music, press materials for “The End Tour” are composed 0f very few words. We  do  know the dates, which begin on September 15th in Houston. The band will then make stops in cities including Dallas, Nashville, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Haven, before heading off to Europe; that leg will include shows in London, Dublin, Berlin, Barcelona, and more.

Still, no clues as to how “The End Tour” gets its name. For all we know it could be a farewell tour, a new album, or the anticipation of societal collapse. Either way, a ticket pre-sale begins tomorrow, April 19th, at 10:00 a.m. local using the fan code THEENDTOUR  or the LiveNation code VINYL . General sale follows this Friday, April 21st at 10:00 a.m. local, and you can grab yours at Ticketmaster .

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. See Explosions in the Sky’s “The End Tour” itinerary below.

In 2021, Explosions in the Sky provided the score to the PBS documentary Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas . They also landed on our recent list of the top 10 post-rock albums .

Explosions in the Sky 2023 Tour Dates: 09/15 – Houston, TX @ The Lawn at White Oak Music 09/16 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom 09/18 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 09/19 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern 09/21 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant 09/22 – Omaha, NE @ The Admiral Theater 09/23 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 09/25 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed 09/26 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theater 09/28 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater 09/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall 09/30 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall 10/01 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner 10/03 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 11/06 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street 11/07 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall 11/08 – London, UK @ Troxy 11/09 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique 11/11 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma 11/13 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenberg Grote Zaal 11/14 – Berlin, DE @ Astra 11/15 – Koln, DE @ Kantine 11/17 – Paris, FR @ Bataclan 11/18 – Lyon, FR @ L’Epicerie Moderne 11/19 – Barcelona, SP @ Sala Razzmatazz 11/20 – Madrid, SP @ Riviera

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Explosions in the Sky (formed in 1999) is an American post-rock band that has surpassed the popularity of the post-rock genre with their instrumental-driven, symphonic playing style, hailing from Austin, Texas, U.S.

Formerly of the moniker Breaker Morant, Explosions of the Sky was formed in 1999 by drummer Chris Hrasky and guitarists Michael James, Munaf Rayani, and Mark Smith. The band made their debut recording at KVRX with the track “Remember Me as a Time of Day”, followed by the group’s full-length debut “How Strange, Innocence”. Distributed locally on CD-Rs, the album earned Explosions in the Sky a small local following and rehearsal footage found its way onto the feature film “Cicadas”, which later won an Austin Film Festival award.

Shortly after, the band signed with Temporary Residence Limited after fellow Austin band The American Analog Set submitted an Explosions in the Sky demo. The group’s sophomore album “Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever” came under particular scrutiny for the connections with the September 11 World Trade Centre attacks. The album art work depicted an airplane with the caption “This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow” and was released on September 4, 2001. Explosions in the Sky supported the release opening for post-rock band Fugazi in 2002 and went on to release their poignantly-thick third studio album “The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place”. The album continued the band’s luscious and layered trend of musical production, however introduced an element of predictability that had been absent on its predecessors.

In 2004 the band scored the soundtrack to the 2004 film “Friday Night Lights”, and a year later re-released “Explosions in the Sky” to a growing and enthusiastic fan base. 2007’s “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone” once again introduced a beautifully layered and unpretentiously chaotic album, followed four years later by “Take Care, Take Care, Take Care” once again on Temporary Residence. With the success of “Friday Night Lights” the band scored the soundtrack to the David Gordon Green film “Prince Avalanche” in 2013 and “Manglehorn” in 2014.

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Let's start with the fact that I came in 40 minutes before the opening of the Roxy, did not expect, but in front of me stood 40 bodies, I met a friend from Russia, which left at the end, during this time i could see the bus for group and transport equipment. Czech warm-up appeared, they started playing music in the post-rock genre with psychedelic vocals in some moments, it is not surprising to me. After an hour they said goodbye, got good applause, and the time of waiting, when the first not much goes their chief technician and part of their main Rowdy and begins to check the equipment with other techniques, all of course professionally and very quickly. Well, that's the time when the band takes the stage smoothly, fly obligatory applause in length to the first composition, they are starting to make a re-review of its instruments, the setting, the group makes a lot of preparations before the concert, so the first few minutes of an organized moment. Traditionally Munaf says something on the language of the country where they stand, but he says that the Czech complicated language and could not understand it, in other matters, I understand it. When they played the first notes of Wilderness, I have as much goose bumps, next I'll be a little philosophize, Catastrophe, which is just awakened and opened the accumulated rage and let it go, it was very relaxed and easy on the soul. Greet Death, oh, it is simply a positive aggression that tells you "do in the life what you want and do not listen to anyone," a third-minute begins incredibly beautiful ambient instrumental that made me open it on a new, and love. Ecstatics returns positive energy and gives the mind a rest, First Breath After Coma, for me it is something more because combines motivation, struggle with himself, however this is not true obsession. Under The Birth and the Death I just withdrew into himself,i closed eyes, I had so many bright colors, sensations, I just enjoyed it. With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, for me it has always been a kind and difficult, but on a ninth minute waiting for a very nice surprise melancholic. Here eits acted very cleverly, Colors in Space, is perhaps the most relaxing for me, and it is smart because it really gives time to relax before two very beautiful and emotional creatures. I knew every song from the set list so it was very easy to listen and anticipate each note, it was clean, no bugs, traveled of delays, lost fingers on the other trouble, smooth, even too much, all perfectly trained. By tradition, the last 3 of the track: Your Hand in Mine, on something bracing, in my case it Disintegration Anxiety, to be prepared for a rather emotional and, in my opinion, with respect to the best The Only Moment We Were Alone, which may seem incredible if you listen to it several times.

At the last note Munaf effectively cut down the light, the rest of the band left to applause. That's all, my hands were given automatic applause for 5 minutes, as well as everyone do.

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Where, so often, post-rock live shows can represent exercises in overblown self-indulgence, Explosions in the Sky do their best to bring things back to basics. The Texans tick all of the right boxes for instrumental rock; setlist staple ‘The Only Moment We Were Alone’ has the exhilarating, sudden jumps between loud and quiet guitars covered, whilst cuts from latest record Take Care, Take Care, Take Care - such as the gorgeous ‘Postcard from 1952’ - have delicacy and nuance covered, too. They seem to have fallen into the positive habit of avoiding most of the obvious post-rock pitfalls, too; their sets tend to run to around the ninety minute mark, relatively pithy for their genre, and there’s no paranoid over-reliance on garish visuals to somehow make up for the lack of a frontman - the Texan state flag draped over an amp is about as showy as the spectacle usually gets. They’re living proof that instrumental music can be life-affirming without resorting to melodrama, and genuinely evocative without needing to be overly dark; with a seventh studio album surely not too far away now, it shouldn’t be long before a protracted UK absence is brought noisily to an end.

The post rock quartet Explosions In the Sky have been touring for over fifteen years and in this time they have become masterful instrumentalists due to the ability to continuously tweak and develop a live show whilst constantly testing out new material and differentiation with the baying crowds that continue to flock to their stage.

Despite having recently took off commercially in the US, they are still considered an acquired taste in the UK yet their latest tour could have easily turned around even the most skeptical of critic. Beginning with a celestial, dreamy 'Postcard From 1952' the band briskly gets to work proving exactly why they have garnered such critical acclaim.

The audience is instantly transfixed beneath the hazy multicoloured smoke as the band weave tales through their riffs and percussion. The poignancy of the vocal found on 'Catastrophe and the Cure' is chilling and by the finale of 'The Moon Is Down' the crowd is so secure and comfortable within the ethereal, majestic world of Explosions In the Sky it makes reality seem somewhat of a disappointment.

I've been lucky this summer. I've seen Explosions In The Sky twice. Thankfully, one of those shows was at a venue with a decent sound system. Or a decent sound guy. Or both.

Sadly, last night's show was a disappointment based purely on the sound. The visuals, marrying the amazing, emotive soundscapes with such atmospheric lighting creates a wildly impressive experience which worked in the Academy as well as at a much smaller venue earlier on this tour.

What really disappointed was the quality of sound coming from the stacks at the numerous drops, either screeching with feedback and little else or filling the room with the dull thud of the bass and low-range drums. I left well before the end, disappointed that a band with such captivating music failed to truly excite a partisan crowd.

Surely I wasn't the only one to feel sorry for both the band and the crowd who'd made as much effort to be there as the five guys on stage? The connection was clearly there, just not through the sound.

When I discovered Explosions in the Sky I was at least 15 years old and I was very impressed by the feelings they gave me when listening to their music, 15 years later the feeling is still alive and seeing them live has been, personally, one of the experiences most rewarding of my life, for the long wait, for the reward. The sound was beautiful, as far as they are concerned, its performance was impeccable (maybe the sound of the room was not the most appropriate but let's say that in terms of quality we give it 85%). Each passage of the concert has been magical and unforgettable. Many thanks to Explosions in the Sky for reviving me once again.

This was one of the very best live shows I have ever seen. The band hardly talks at all--they just show up and play with feeling. They didn't miss a single note, and the audience gets a chance to see how some of the more creative sounds are made (i.e., Munaf Rayani letting the reverberations from the different amps play the strings of his guitar). The music only stops when silence is the appropriate sound; the rest of the show is nonstop, one song bleeding over into the next. The synchronized lighting was true art. The band's capacity for putting 100% of their emotion into each song was amazing to see.

It's been a long 5 years since I've seen them and wasn't sure what to expect. I didn't think they could get any better than the last time I saw them live, but I was wrong. It was an Amazing show at Terminal 5. They've added another musician to the live act, which I was not aware of before the show. Originally wasn't crazy about the newest album, but I grew on me and after seeing 4 of the new songs performed live, I am now a huge fan of the new album. Setlist available at:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/explosions-in-the-sky/2016/terminal-5-new-york-ny-bfde93e.html

The venue is really nice and the performance was flawless. It was done in a way where one song blends with the next.

Acoustics of the Fox Theater suck for loud concerts though, the reverb was making it sound very busy at times and the subtleties of the new album's glitches and electronics were mostly gone.

As for the band, they not only don't have lyrics, they also don't speak to the audience at all. And there's no encores. So that was unusual.

All in all though, we enjoyed the concert a lot.

Incredible and moving. They played a continuous set for over 90 minutes, seamlessly bridging each song. It was a sonic opera/opus. I've never had a concert experience like it before. They gave a true gift to the audience, and as I was watching I had the repeated thought, "Thank God for artists!" Restored my faith that there are really good people in this nation even if crooks, liars and power-hungry scum dominate our media, corporations and politics.

Seeing EitS live compared to listening to them on a home setup is a completely different experience - their concert could best be described as a living wall of noise, with almost no let-up between tracks. A stunning lightshow further adds to the intensity of the experience.

My main gripe would be that they didn't play Your Hand In Mine live, which was heartbreaking as it was the deciding factor in making me buy tickets to go see them.

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Suspects in foiled attack on Taylor Swift shows were inspired by Islamic State group, officials say

Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts as part of her Eras Tour.

Swifties gather and sing in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

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Swifties, a term for Taylor Swift fans, trade bracelets in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

Swifties gather in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

Swifties trade bracelets in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

Outside view of the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

FILE - Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour on Friday, June 21, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner attends a press conference in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

Jenny from Vienna trades bracelets in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

Austrian police officers watch swifts gathering in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

A person wears a purple head as Swifties gather in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

Swifties fix bracelets on a tree in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

A dog is decorated with bracelets in the city centre in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in the stadium in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

VIENNA (AP) — Both suspects in a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows in Vienna appeared to be inspired by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, Austrian authorities said Thursday, and investigators found bomb-making materials at one of their homes. Officials said one of the two confessed to planning to “kill as many people as possible outside the concert venue.”

Three sold-out concerts were canceled Wednesday because of the plot, devastating Swifties from across the globe. Many of them had dropped thousands of euros (dollars) on travel and lodging in Austria’s expensive capital city to attend the Eras Tour shows at the Ernst Happel Stadium, which sat empty Thursday morning.

Europe is enamored with the American superstar: The German town of Gelsenkirchen renamed itself “Swiftkirchen” before its mid-July concerts.

Concert organizers in Austria said they had expected up to 65,000 fans inside the stadium at each concert and as many as 30,000 onlookers outside, where authorities said the suspects planned to strike. The foiled attack was planned for Thursday or Friday, according to Austria’s interior minister, Gerhard Karner.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer defended the decision to cancel the concerts, saying the arrests of the suspects took place too close to the shows, scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

“I understand very well that those who wanted to experience the concert live are very sad,” Nehammer told a news conference Thursday. “Moms and dads are looking after their daughters and sons, who were full of enthusiasm and anticipation for this concert. But it’s also important that in such serious moments as now, it’s inevitable that safety comes first.”

Swift is also scheduled to perform at London’s Wembley stadium in five concerts between Aug. 15 and 20 to close the European leg of her record-setting Eras Tour.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said that while he understood Vienna’s reasons for canceling, “We’re going to carry on.” Khan said the capital’s authorities were prepared for shows there following lessons learned from a 2017 attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people.

Outside view of the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)

A suicide bomber had set up a knapsack with explosives in Manchester Arena. The bomb detonated at the end of Grande’s concert as thousands of young fans were leaving.

Last month, an attacker in England killed three girls and wounded 10 people in a knife attack during a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class. Swift at the time said she was ‘’completely in shock’’ over the violence.

In Austria, the main suspect confessed that he had started planning the attack in July, authorities said. The 19-year-old just a few weeks ago uploaded to the internet an oath of allegiance to the current leader of the Islamic State group.

He was “clearly radicalized in the direction of the Islamic State and thinks it is right to kill infidels,” said Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence.

Haijawi-Pirchner added that the suspect “wanted to carry out an attack in the area outside the stadium, killing as many people as possible using the knives or even using the explosive devices he had made.”

During a raid of the suspect’s home in Ternitz, south of Vienna, investigators found chemical substances and technical devices that indicated “concrete preparatory acts,” said Franz Ruf, director general for public security at the Ministry of the Interior.

Authorities said they also found Islamic State group and al-Qaida material at the home of the second suspect, who is 17. That suspect, who has so far refused to talk, was employed a few days ago by a company providing unspecified services at the venue for the concerts. The 19-year-old is an Austrian with North Macedonian roots. The 17-year-old is an Austrian with Turkish and Croatian roots.

The North Macedonian Interior Ministry released a statement Thursday saying that it had received a request from Austria to look into the 19-year-old.

Both teens were arrested Tuesday. Neither of their names was released in line with Austrian privacy rules.

The suspects had undergone clear social changes recently, authorities said. The 19-year-old had quit his job but said he “still had big plans,” while the other broke up with his girlfriend. Neither suspect appeared to have a ticket to any of the shows, Haijawi-Pirchner said.

Karner said that Austria’s intelligence service had worked closely together with foreign intelligence services to capture the two teens. He did not identify the agencies, but added that the help was needed because Austrian investigators, unlike some foreign services, can’t legally monitor text messages.

The CIA declined to say Thursday whether U.S. intelligence agencies played any role in the investigation. The U.S. State Department and the broader U.S. government have been in contact with Austrian officials about the alleged plot, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.

No other suspects are being sought, though a 15-year-old who had been in contact with both suspects was also interrogated by police, Karner said.

“The situation is serious. But we can also say: A tragedy was prevented,” he said.

Concert organizer Barracuda Music said in an Instagram post late Wednesday that it had “no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety.”

Barracuda said all tickets would be refunded. The same message was posted under the Vienna dates on Swift’s official website . Austrian rail operator OeBB in the meantime said that it would reimburse fans for unused train tickets for the concerts.

Swift has not spoken publicly about the plot or canceled shows. “Taylor Nation,” a verified Instagram page widely believed to be run by her team, reposted the announcement from Barracuda Music in a “story,” which is only visible for 24 hours. Her main account has not posted anything.

Swift’s biggest fear has always been that such large-scale violence could take place at her concerts, the superstar told Elle magazine in 2019 ahead of her Lover Tour, which was ultimately canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The attack at Grande’s concert, as well as a 2017 mass shooting at an outdoor country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip where 58 people were killed, worried Swift as she prepared to circle the globe.

“I was completely terrified to go on (the Lover Tour) this time because I didn’t know how we were going to keep 3 million fans safe over seven months,” she told the magazine. “There was a tremendous amount of planning, expense, and effort put into keeping my fans safe.”

An official inquiry reported in 2023 that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, didn’t act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the Manchester bombing, the deadliest extremist attack in the United Kingdom in recent years.

Terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp, based at the Swedish Defense University in Stockholm, told The Associated Press by phone that any mass public event constitutes a potential threat now.

“So we shouldn’t be surprised that these extremely popular iconic popstars that attract a massive audience will also attract terrorists that want to create fear and destruction and mayhem,” he said.

Dazio and Grieshaber reported from Berlin. Associated Press writers Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark; Vanessa Gera in Warsaw, Poland; Danica Kirka in London; and David Klepper and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington contributed to this report.

Does the English Defence League still exist, and could it be banned in the UK?

Angela Rayner said the Home Secretary will "be looking at" whether the English Defence League should be banned in law. But what - if anything - is left of the organisation is in a very different state to when it was founded.

Sunday 4 August 2024 12:56, UK

A wave of violent protests around the country has raised questions about whether the English Defence League (EDL) - technically a defunct organisation - should be banned under UK terrorism laws.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will "be looking at" whether the EDL could be proscribed - banned under UK law.

The deputy prime minister condemned "thuggish behaviour" after violent scenes broke out following false reports that the suspect in the death of three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class was an asylum seeker.

UK protests latest: More clashes expected after some 90 arrests

But what is the EDL, does it still exist, and could it even be proscribed?

What does it mean when something is proscribed?

If an organisation has been proscribed, it has been forbidden under UK law.

Under the Terrorism Act 2000, the Home Secretary may proscribe an organisation if they believe it is concerned with terrorism, and it is proportionate to do so.

Under the act, terrorism means the use or threat of action which involves serious violence against a person, serious damage to property, endangers a person's life or creates a risk to life, to influence the government or intimidate the public.

It must also be carried out with the aim to advance a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.

What is the EDL and what does it believe?

The EDL was founded in 2009 and experienced its heyday in 2011.

Established in London, the group formed around several football hooligan firms protesting the presence of an Islamist group in Luton.

Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - a former member of the BNP who had a criminal conviction for assault, became the group's de facto leader shortly after it was formed.

Ideologically, it sat on the far right of British politics, rejecting the idea that Muslims can truly be English, while promoting Islam as a threat to European values and blaming a perceived decline in "English culture" on high immigration rates.

It distinguished itself from the traditional far-right by rejecting biological racism, antisemitism, and homophobia - evidenced by the existence of subgroups, including Jewish, Sikh and LGBT divisions.

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The group adopted the slogan "Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent" and claimed to be standing up for the white working class.

Yet despite this messaging, racist chants continued to ring out at EDL rallies.

Ivan Humble, a former EDL member, told Sky News once he joined the group, he "found a sense of belonging".

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Is the EDL now defunct?

The decline of the EDL mirrors that of the BNP, which saw significant support in the 2010 election but has since faded into electoral obscurity.

The profile of the EDL rose dramatically between 2010 and 2013, but soon began to lose momentum - partly due to in-fighting among the group's different factions.

The group was then revealed to have links to Norwegian far-right activist Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of a series of bombing and shooting attacks in July 2011 that killed 77 people.

In December 2011, two EDL supporters were convicted of plotting to bomb a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent.

By 2013, the number of members attending rallies was in decline, although the group did experience a brief resurgence in the wake of the murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby.

Robinson left the organisation that same year, amid fears he could not control the group's more violent followers .

By 2017, the EDL was still making headlines, but this time it was because a march was called off after just six people turned up.

These days, anti-racism group Hope Not Hate says it considers the organisation as non-existent, as does Robinson, the former founder, himself.

Robinson said on X: "The riots are by local residents fed up. Nothing to do with the EDL which closed down over a decade ago."

But although the organisation is now officially considered defunct, the sentiments feeding it - anger at immigration at the heart of it - have remained.

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Merseyside police said supporters of the EDL appeared prominent in the Southport disorder after rioters clashed with police outside a mosque on Tuesday night.

Misinformation, peddled by the far right , suggested that the 17-year-old arrested in connection with the knife attack was a Muslim immigrant who had arrived by boat in the UK. That was not true.

Labour MP for Sunderland Central Lewis Atkinson said flags on the street bore the reference to the North East Infidels, "a Nazi, EDL offshoot from the north east chapter of what was the EDL". Images online show flags from the North East Infidels present at Friday's clashes.

Mr Atkinson said individuals previously involved with the EDL are "still out there" and need to be monitored by police.

Could the EDL be proscribed?

This is something the Home Secretary appears to be looking into - but given the organisation is officially defunct, it is unclear what difference this would make.

However, there are rules around aliases, which means if the government believes the EDL to be operating under a different name, that too could be banned.

"You may end up missing the target if you proscribe the organisation," said Lord Walney, a government adviser on political violence.

The priority, he said, should be going after "individual ringleaders who are currently stirring things up and moving from area to area".

"If proscription can be seen to be part of an effective tool in enabling us to get to those individuals, then yes let's try and do it quickly. But because of that complication, I'm not sure whether it is the first thing you go to."

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Election 2024 live updates: Harris and Walz continue swing state tour with stop in Arizona; Trump to rally in Montana

What to watch on the campaign trail today

• Vice President Kamala Harris continued her swing state blitz a stop in Phoenix alongside her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Harris was briefly interrupted by protesters, prompting her to say “respecting the voices” of dissent was part of the "fight for our democracy."
• Former President Donald Trump 's itinerary for the day includes an event with North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, once viewed as a potential vice presidential pick. Burgum will host a dinner fundraiser for Trump before the former president holds a rally in Bozeman, Montana.
• Trump and Harris independently confirmed they had agreed to a Sept. 10 debate. Trump said he'd agreed to a total of three debates , and Harris signaled openness to participating in additional debates.

George Floyd’s brother endorses Harris-Walz, says Minnesota governor is ‘built for this’

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was just a year into his first term when in May of 2020 a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck  for nearly nine minutes,  spurring protests across the state and the nation.

To  Philonise Floyd , Walz’s compassion and dedication to ensure accountability for his older brother’s murder — and for other police brutality victims in Minnesota — is one of things that make him worthy of being the next vice president of the United States.

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Harris briefly addresses cease-fire deal when her remarks are interrupted

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Harris' remarks at her campaign rally in Phoenix tonight were briefly interrupted by chants that appeared to be about the Israel-Hamas war .

Harris paused briefly and said that a "fight for our democracy" includes "respecting the voices" of dissent.

"Let me just say this, on topic of what I think I’m hearing over there," Harris said. "I have been clear: now is the time to get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done."

She added that she and Biden "are working around the clock every day" to reach a deal and bring home hostages who remain captive in Gaza.

Trump takes aim at Joe Rogan after he praised RFK Jr. on his podcast

Trump took aim at Joe Rogan in a Truth Social post this afternoon after the podcast host said yesterday that he was a “fan” of Robert F. Kennedy .

"It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024," Trump wrote.

Rogan has provided commentary for the Ultimate Fighting Championship since 2002.

Rogan said on his podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience" yesterday that Kennedy was “the only one that makes sense to me,” describing the independent presidential candidate as "reasonable and intelligent."

Rogan tried to clarify his comments in a post on X today, saying, "For the record, this isn’t an endorsement." In the same post, he praised Trump's actions last month amid his assassination attempt, saying the raised fist and words "fight," uttered by the former president "is one of the most American f------ things of all time."

Walz quips about crowd size in apparent jab at Trump

Walz appeared to mock Trump at tonight's campaign's rally in Phoenix.

In talking about the large crowds at previous Harris-Walz rallies, the Minnesota governor quipped, "It’s not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything."

Trump yesterday t a lked about his supporters, saying, "Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me."

The former president then compared his “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, to Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech on the National Mall in 1963.

Sen. Mark Kelly praises Walz's military record amid GOP criticism

Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona spoke ahead of Harris and Walz at a rally in Phoenix and praised the Minnesota governor's military record .

Walz "served honorably in uniform for decades," Kelly said, adding that Harris' running mate "has brought that experience to everything he has done since--fighting for our service members, fighting for veterans, and fighting for military families."

The comments come as Republicans and Vance have a ttacked Walz's military record .

Kelly, who was on the short list of VP candidates for Harris, also contrasted Walz with Trump, saying the former president "has zero respect for any of us who have worn the uniform."

Tim Walz ‘misspoke’ when he discussed using weapons ‘in war,’ campaign says

Kelly O'Donnell

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “misspoke” in a 2018 video circulated by the Harris campaign earlier this week that included the vice presidential candidate talking about his handling of weapons “in war,” a campaign spokesperson said Friday.

The clarification comes after Republicans, led by veteran and vice presidential candidate JD Vance, have attacked Walz  over his military record .

Harris and Walz stop by Phoenix campaign office

Caryn Littler

Harris and Walz dropped by the North Phoenix coordinated campaign office to meet with volunteers making signs, who they then invited invited to join them in the motorcade to the rally.

“Aw, ‘Momala,’” Harris said reading a sign that made mention of her step kids’ nickname for her. 

The vice president laughed when she saw on person’s “Coconut > Orange” sign. That supporter said she likes the vice president’s past “fall from a coconut tree” remark, which has since gone viral .

The vice president talked about her political campaigns at the beginning of her career and volunteers stuffing envelopes. She said she wanted to come to say, “Thank you.”

Harris and Walz took a selfie in front of a large “Kamala and Coach” sign at the end of their visit. 

Jill Stein recruiting Palestinian Americans for her running mate position

Alex Seitz-Wald

Green Party nominee  Jill Stein  has been recruiting Palestinian Americans to be her vice presidential running mate, as she looks to exploit the community’s frustrations with Democrats’ support for Israel in its war in Gaza.

Two potential candidates told NBC News today that they've had multiple conversations with Stein about the job. A spokesperson for a third potential candidate, the Democratic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, confirmed Stein asked him if he was willing to be considered for the job — before realizing Hammoud   is too young to be constitutionally eligible.

Stein is  planning to announce  her running mate next Friday. It’s unclear if she has made her decision yet. The Stein campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump plane suffered mechanical issue before landing, Secret Service says

Jake Traylor

Former President Donald Trump ’s plane landed in Billings, Montana, on Friday night after suffering a mechanical issue, according to the U.S. Secret Service .

The Secret Service said the plane’s mechanical problem was not related to any security issue.

RFK Jr. says he'll be on the ballot in all 50 states

Annemarie Bonner

Katherine Koretski

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he will be on the ballots in all 50 states. But, as of now, he is only officially on the ballot in 15 states, according to ballot access tracking by NBC News.

"I'm in this race to the end and I'm in it to win it," he said this afternoon on Fox News. "That's my objective and that's my mission."

Kennedy's public poll numbers are dropping , from around 9% or 10% in national surveys before Biden dropped out, and they're about half that level now. He also has not had a public event since July 9.

Mitch McConnell lays out priorities for possible GOP trifecta

Nick Konopka

Isabelle Schmeler

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said today that tax cuts, judges, and the border would be top priorities for Republicans if they control Congress and the White House next year.

"The first thing I think we would do is to try to extend the Trump tax cuts from 2017," McConnell said during a conservative conference hosted by media personality Erick Erickson. "And we'd start filling judges."

McConnell, who announced in February that he would step down as the Republican leader in the Senate at the end of the year, added he believes that whoever succeeds him as the top GOP senator will "have complete confidence in at least those two things."

He also called the border "an administrative failure of gargantuan proportions," and said there is an obligation to address it, along with taxes and judges.

Arizona Republicans ask Supreme Court to allow law requiring proof of citizenship to vote

Daniel Barnes is reporting from the federal courthouse.

The leaders of Arizona's Republican-controlled Legislature and the Republican National Committee have asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order allowing the state to enforce a law that requires proof of citizenship to vote.

A divided panel of the 9th Circuit previously blocked the law from being enforced in the battleground state, affirming an earlier injunction by a district court.

“The district court’s injunction is an unprecedented abrogation of the Arizona Legislature’s sovereign authority to determine the qualifications of voters and structure participation in its elections,” lawyers for the Republican applicants wrote in their filing with the Supreme Court.

The filing was submitted to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who handles emergency requests from the 9th Circuit. She has requested a response to the application from activist groups that sued over the Arizona law. That response is due on Aug. 16.

In their filing, the RNC and the Arizona Legislature asked the court to rule on their request by Aug. 22 — the state deadline to print ballots for the general election.

Michigan's top Senate candidates are victims of 'swatting' hoaxes at their homes

Ben Kamisar

Jillian Frankel

Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers and Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who will face each other in the fall in one of the nation's pivotal Senate races, appear to have been victims of "swatting" incidents at their homes in Michigan.

A spokesperson for Slotkin said this morning that police responded to a false threat sent by email, while noting that Slotkin wasn't home at the time and police "confirmed no one was in danger."

"This is the latest in a disturbing trend of swatting incidents targeting members of Congress," spokesperson Lynsey Mukomel said in a statement. "Congresswoman Slotkin is deeply grateful for the swift and professional response by law enforcement to this unfortunate incident, and that U.S. Capitol Police will be following up to investigate and hopefully hold accountable those responsible."

Swatting is when someone makes a false threat that triggers a significant police response to someone’s home.

Hours later, Rogers spokesman Chris Gustafson confirmed that Rogers' family was targeted by a "swatting attempt at their home."

No one was home at the time, Gustafson said, and "thankfully no one at the home was harmed."

He also noted that Rogers had been a victim of swatting in 2013, and that the news about Slotkin adds to the "deeply concerning trend of political violence that has quickly become the norm."

"This kind of violence cannot be tolerated, and it is our hope that those responsible will be quickly prosecuted and held accountable," Gustafson said.

Smartmatic executives indicted for allegedly bribing Philippine official

Jane C. Timm

Two executives at Smartmatic, a voting machine company, were indicted yesterday in Florida for allegedly bribing officials in the Philippines to secure contracts ahead of the 2016 election there,  the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida announced .

Smartmatic president Roger Piñate and another executive, Jorge Miguel Vasquez, were  indicted on charges  that they laundered money across the world — including through Florida — to pay an estimated $1 million in bribes to a Philippine official in order to secure contracts surrounding their 2016 election.

Judge approves special counsel's request for an extension to propose next steps in Trump case

Rebecca Shabad

Reporting from Washington

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan today approved a request from special counsel Jack Smith to allow for more time to propose the next steps in the government’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

The decision came a day after Smith and fellow prosecutors asked the judge to delay the deadline to offer a new timetable in the case until Aug. 30.

Chutkan had given prosecutors and Trump’s legal team until today to submit a joint status report including a timeline for pretrial proceedings ahead of a scheduled Aug. 16 status conference.

Willie Brown says Trump helicopter story never happened

Gabe Gutierrez

Reporting from Washington, D.C.

Trump told a remarkable story yesterday about a near-death experience that is now under scrutiny. NBC News spoke with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown by phone today.

Asked about Brown, who dated Vice President Kamala Harris in the ‘90s, Trump said: “I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him, we thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing. This was not a pleasant landing and Willie was a little concerned.”

“He told me terrible things about her,” Trump added.  

Brown, however, said that didn't happen.

“I laughed,” he said. “I just assumed that he was on a helicopter with somebody Black and he just made a mistake and thought it was me.” 

As to whether he ever told Trump anything "terrible" about Harris, Brown said, "of course not.”

Trump did ride in a helicopter with Jerry Brown, then-governor of California during wildfires in 2018. A representative for Jerry Brown  disputed Trump’s account of that chopper ride , saying “there was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.

Harris goes after Trump on mifepristone access

Daniel Arkin

Harris pounced on Trump's apparent openness to banning the abortion pill mifepristone. The new attack comes after Trump, speaking to reporters yesterday, would not rule out revoking access to the pill, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions .

"Donald Trump’s abortion bans unleashed a health care crisis for women across our nation," Harris tweeted. She was referring to the fact that Trump appointed three of the six conservative Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in the landmark Dobbs decision.

"Now, he has made clear that he’d use the federal government to rip away access to medication abortion, effectively banning abortion nationwide," Harris added. "We will not let him."

In response to a question from NBC News about whether he would take steps like directing the Food and Drug Administration to revoke access to mifepristone, the former president said: "You could do things that .... would supplement — absolutely — those things are pretty open and humane."

Trump’s comments at his press conference appeared to be a shift from his position in June, when he  said at a CNN debate : “I will not block it.”

Pence distances himself from Trump's GOP

Former Vice President Pence made clear that he wants to distance himself from the way Trump has shaped the Republican Party. And he, again, refused to endorse the former president or say he'd vote for him in November.

Pence told attendees at The Gathering 2024, a conservative conference hosted by media personality Erick Erickson, that he could "never" vote for Harris. But he immediately pivoted to an argument that conservatives need to embrace their values, adding that while he's "staying out of the presidential campaign," he has core ideological issues with some of the ways Trump is shaping the GOP.

He panned the "growing abandonment of our allies on the world stage that’s taken hold in parts of our party," amid Trump's criticism of NATO and international concerns that another presidential term for Trump would jeopardize American support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

He blasted the party "marginalizing the right to life," specifically pointing to the 2024 Republican platform, which Trump and his campaign took ownership of and scrapped language backing a federal abortion ban .

And he repeated his disagreement with how Trump called for him to "set aside my oath to support and defend the Constitution and acted in a way that would have overturned the election."

The comments come as the Harris campaign has been rolling out endorsements from Republicans in the hopes of trying to woo Trump critics onto their side . The list includes a handful of former elected Republicans and Trump staffers, but other Trump critics, like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp , continue to reiterate their support for the ticket despite their disagreements with the former president.

Trump signals openness to banning abortion pill

Garrett Haake

Alexandra Marquez

During a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort yesterday, former President Donald Trump would not rule out  revoking access to mifepristone , one of the two drugs used in medication abortions.

“You could do things that .... would supplement — absolutely — those things are pretty open and humane,” Trump said in response to a question from NBC News about whether he would take steps like directing the Food and Drug Administration to revoke access to mifepristone.

“There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that,” Trump added, saying that “you also have to give a vote” to people about abortion.

Trump’s comments appeared to be a shift from his position in June, when the former president  said at a CNN debate : “I will not block it.”

Gov. Brian Kemp says he still plans to support Trump

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said at an event hosted by conservative Erick Erickson that he will still support Trump in November despite the former president's attacks on him.

"Despite all of that noise, my position has not changed," said Kemp, who added that he previously said that he was going to “support the nominee” before the GOP presidential primary even started. 

Kemp said that he's going to use his political operation to win in Georgia "despite past grievances" and help GOP candidates win up and down the ballot.

"Regardless of, you know, all the different things that have happened, we cannot afford four more years of the Biden-Harris agenda," he said. "And now, the Harris-Walz agenda, which I think would be even more radical than the Biden-Harris agenda is."

Last weekend, Trump railed against Kemp, who didn't aid Trump's effort in 2020 to overturn the presidential election results. Trump said in a Truth Social post that the governor is a "bad guy" and criticized Kemp's wife, Marty, for not endorsing Trump for president.

RFK Jr.'s recent endorsements

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential campaign is fading on the trail and in the polls. But the long-shot contender has nonetheless recently racked up a few endorsements from media figures known for their anti-establishment or right-wing views.

Kennedy  posted a video on Aug. 2 announcing an endorsement from Russell Brand, the actor and comedian who has voiced contrarian and conspiratorial opinions in recent years. The high-profile podcast host Joe Rogan said yesterday he was a "fan" of Kennedy. This morning, the right-wing podcast host Tim Pool tweeted: "Ok I’m voting for RFK Jr now," though he later said he was joking.

Harris campaign releases new ad touting her border security work

Aaron Gilchrist

The Harris campaign released a new ad today focused on border security as Trump and his allies continue to attack her over her role in the Biden administration.

The ad, " Tougher ," will run in Arizona and Nevada just as the ticket visits those states today and tomorrow.  

Democrats' messaging largely has focused on Trump tanking the bipartisan border bill earlier this year, though she has in recent weeks leaned into her experience on the issue. An ad released last week compared the two head-to-head on immigration-related issues. This ad doesn’t mention Trump.

The ad touts Harris as a border state prosecutor who took on drug cartels and jailed gang members and as a VP who backed the bipartisan border bill. It also says that as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.

It ends with the tagline: “Fixing the border is tough… so is Kamala Harris.”  

Trump spokesman on apparent Jerry Brown-Willie Brown mix-up: ‘He has a lot of amazing stories’

Elleiana Green Elleiana Green is a Digital Politics intern with NBC News

Asked about Trump appearing to mix up Jerry Brown and Willie Brown yesterday, Trump campaign spokesman Karoline Leavitt told Newsmax this morning that the former president "has a lot of amazing stories."

"I would just refer you to President Trump's statement and what he said yesterday. The president has a lot of amazing stories from his life," she said. "As we all know, he was a businessman and a celebrity for decades prior to entering politics."

During yesterday's press briefing at Mar-a-Lago, Trump claimed he went down in a helicopter with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown , seemingly confusing him with former California Gov. Jerry Brown.

Firewall issues delayed Detroit’s primary election results

Detroit election workers had to drive election results across the county on Tuesday night after the state primary, delaying the reporting of unofficial results on election night.

The delays were due to a faulty firewall, said Dorian Tyus, a spokesman for the Wayne County Clerk’s Office. The issue kept local clerks from electronically submitting their results, which meant they had to physically transport the vote tallies into downtown Detroit.

Biden and Harris to travel to Maryland for a joint event next week

Rachel Gurevich

Biden and Harris will travel to Maryland on Thursday for their first joint event together since the president dropped out of the race.

The pair will "discuss the progress they are making to lower costs for the American people," the White House said in a statement.

Biden and Harris last publicly appeared together while welcoming the three American detainees returned from Russia in a historic prisoner swap.

Oldest Latino civil rights group announces its first presidential endorsement for Harris-Walz

Suzanne Gamboa

The 95-year-old League of United Latin American Citizens has endorsed Harris and Walz, breaking with its past practice of not formally supporting any political candidates.

The historic endorsement of the Democratic presidential ticket is the first for the civil rights group, which formed in 1929 to protect the rights of Americans of Mexican descent. LULAC leaders announced the endorsement first to NBC News and plan to join Harris and Walz at a rally in Las Vegas tomorrow.

“We are proud to endorse Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because of the real issues facing Latino communities and all Americans across the nation; we can trust them to do what is right for our community and the country,” Domingo Garcia, chairman of LULAC Adelante PAC and LULAC’s immediate past president, said in a statement.

Wisconsin voters weigh in on Harris, Trump and how they'll decide a key swing state

Wisconsin was decided by just 20,000 votes in 2020, remains deeply divided politically and is expected once again to be one of the most important states in this fall’s presidential matchup between Trump and Harris.

That’s why MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan traveled to the state to host four recent focus groups with Wisconsin voters, digging into what matters to voters on the ground, how they see the candidates and what might move people to change their minds in the final months of the 2024 campaign.

Trump appears to confuse former Mayor Willie Brown with former Gov. Jerry Brown

Trump yesterday appeared to confuse former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown with former California Gov. Jerry Brown in recounting what he characterized as a near-death experience.

During a news conference from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said he once flew with Willie Brown in a helicopter that “went down” when he was asked about Harris’ past relationship with the former mayor and whether he thought the relationship had played a role in her career path.

“In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing. This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was, he was a little concerned,” Trump said. “So I know him. I know him pretty well.”

Harris-Walz campaign touts Harris’ background in new ad

Nnamdi Egwuonwu

The Harris-Walz campaign released a new ad this morning touting Harris’ background, saying she had a middle-class upbringing and contrasting that with Trump's.

“Kamala Harris knows what it’s like to be middle class. It’s why she’s determined to lower health care costs and make housing more affordable,” a narrator says in the 30-second spot. “Donald Trump has no plan to help the middle class, just more tax cuts for bill billionaires.”

The new ad, “ Knows ,” is part of a $50 million paid media buy the campaign launched last month to target battleground state voters ahead of the Democratic National Convention.

Harris in recent weeks has sought to tout her upbringing, incorporating an anecdote about her work at a McDonald's into her campaign stump speech and often reflecting on her experience being raised by a single mother. The new advertisement refers to both.

“She grew up in a middle-class home. She was the daughter of a working mom, and she worked at McDonald’s while she got her degree,” the ad narrator says.

Harris’ late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her father, Donald J. Harris, is a professor at Stanford University. They divorced when Harris was 7 years old.

Harris has said “building up the middle class” would be a “defining goal” of her presidency should she win. She has backed policies she has framed as easing financial burdens on middle-class people, including increased access to affordable health care and child care.

She often refers to Project 2025, which her campaign has sought to tie to Trump, as “a plan to weaken the middle class.” Trump denies having any affiliation with Project 2025.

The new ad is one of several the Harris campaign has released over the last two weeks. Yesterday, she released a 60-second  biographical spot  detailing her rise to the vice presidency, and last month, she released  an advertisement  attacking Trump for his role blocking a bipartisan border security bill from passing.

Trump says he wants to face Harris in 3 debates in September

Trump said yesterday he would be open to debating Harris three times next month.

Speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump said that “I think it’s very important to have debates” and that he had accepted invitations from NBC News, Fox News and ABC News.

Harris softens Biden’s dark warnings about the state of democracy for a more ‘joyful’ message

Peter Nicholas

Gone are Joe Biden’s dark warnings about the life-and-death stakes for American democracy.

Instead, Kamala Harris talks animatedly about protecting abortion rights and capping drug costs, lowering inflation and boosting the middle class.

Whereas Biden dwelled on the MAGA movement’s threat to democracy, Harris is delivering a sunnier vision of a nation made up of “ neighbors, not enemies .”

Less than three weeks after Biden pulled out of the presidential race, his successor is in the early stages of retooling his campaign message, making it her own.

Harris is differentiating herself from Biden, amplifying positions that reflect her own priorities and commitment to running what she calls a “joyful” campaign. She expects to roll out more defined plans for what she’d do at the start of a presidential term, giving voters a clearer picture of how she would govern, people close to her said.

What's Trump doing today?

Olivia Palombo

The Trump campaign is pounding the pavement with two stops in Montana today.

The former president will first deliver remarks at a dinner fundraiser hosted by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum in Big Sky. He will then rally supporters in Bozeman.

He won Montana in 2020 and it is not viewed as competitive in the coming election.

What is Harris doing today?

Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, will rally in Phoenix today as part of their seven-state campaign trail blitz .

After Walz was announced as Harris' vice presidential pick Tuesday, the pair embarked on a swing state campaign tour, with key stops scheduled in battleground states Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona.

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Hall of Fame golfer known for swordplay on the greens, dies at 88

Rodriguez’s death was announced by Carmelo Javier Ríos, a senator in Rodriguez’s native Puerto Rico. He didn’t provide a cause.

Chi Chi Rodriguez celebrates after a great putt on the first hole during the SBC Senior Open at Harborside International Golf Center on July 17, 2002.

Rich Hein/Sun-Times

Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday. He was 88.

“Chi Chi Rodriguez’s passion for charity and outreach was surpassed only by his incredible talent with a golf club in his hand,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement. “A vibrant, colorful personality both on and off the golf course, he will be missed dearly by the PGA Tour and those whose lives he touched in his mission to give back. The PGA Tour sends its deepest condolences to the entire Rodriguez family during this difficult time.”

He was born Juan Antonio Rodriguez, the second oldest of six children, in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, when it was blanketed with sugar cane fields and where he helped his father with the harvest as a child. The area is now a dense urban landscape, part of San Juan, the capital of the U.S. island territory.

Rodriguez said he learned to play golf by hitting tin cans with a guava tree stick and then found work as a caddie. He claimed he could shoot a 67 by age 12, according to a biography provided by the Chi Chi Rodriguez Management Group in Stow, Ohio.

No one from Puerto Rico had ever made it to the PGA Tour and Rodriguez was determined to not only get there but to beat the best. “They told me I was a hound dreaming about pork chops,” he once told Sports Illustrated.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1955-57 and joined the PGA Tour in 1960 and won eight times during his 21-year career, playing on one Ryder Cup team.

The first of his eight tour victories came in 1963, when he won the Denver Open. He followed it up with two the next year and continued through 1979 with the Tallahassee Open. He had 22 victories on the Champions Tour from 1985-2002, and had total combined career earnings of more than $7.6 million. He was inducted into the PGA World Golf Hall of Fame in 1992.

His playing record doesn’t look like Hall of Fame material. He contributions to the game with his showmanship and charity and devotion to youth development was gigantic.

He started an academy for children in the Tampa, Florida, area in the 1970s, focusing on those who were at risk. “Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood,” Rodriguez once said.

And his humor never left him. He had a passion for baseball, and when the U.S. Senior Open went to Canterbury outside Cleveland in 1996, he was asked why he was why he gave up the sport. “I used to steal bases,” Rodriguez said as the room erupted in laughter.

Rodriguez was perhaps best known for fairway antics that included twirling his club like a sword, sometimes referred to as his “matador routine,” or doing a celebratory dance, often with a shuffling salsa step, after making a birdie putt. He often irritated fellow players in what he insisted was meant as good-natured fun.

A one-of-a-kind celebration. Chi Chi Rodriguez explains his signature “sword dance.” He will be missed. pic.twitter.com/XTsN9tzjCe — PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) August 9, 2024

He was hospitalized in October 1998 after experiencing chest pains and reluctantly agreed to see a doctor, who told him he was having a heart attack.

“It scared me for the first time,” Rodriguez recalled in a 1999 interview with The Associated Press. “Jim Anderson (his pilot) drove me to the hospital and a team of doctors were waiting to operate. If I had waited another 10 minutes, the doctor said I would have needed a heart transplant.

“They call it the widow-maker,” he said. “About 50% of the people who get this kind of heart attack die. So I beat the odds pretty good.”

After his recovery, he returned to competition for a couple of years but phased out his professional career and devoted more of his time to community and charity activities, such as the Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation, a charity based in Clearwater, Florida, founded in 1979.

In recent years, he spent most of his time in Puerto Rico, where he was a partner in a golf community project that struggled amid the recession and housing crisis, hosted a talk show on a local radio station for several years, and appeared at various sporting and other events.

He showed up at the 2008 Puerto Rico Open and strolled through the grounds in a black leather coat and dark sunglasses, shaking hands and posing for pictures but playing no golf. “I didn’t want to take a spot away from young men trying to make a living,” he said.

Where is Kamala Harris today? Here's what to know about her Arizona rally with Tim Walz

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz landed in Arizona on Thursday ahead of their Friday evening event at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale.

The visit will mark Harris’ seventh trip to Arizona as vice president, and her first as t h e 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

As Harris and Walz come to the state and introduce themselves as the new party leaders, Republicans are working quickly to define them in the minds of voters. Arizona Republican leaders, including GOP Senate nominee Kari Lake, held a press conference on Thursday to "highlight the failed policies of Kamala Harris" and other Democratic officials.

Here's what to know about Harris' visit to Arizona and her rally in Glendale.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to hold rally in Glendale on Friday night

Harris and Walz will gather supporters  at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale,  a venue that can hold 19,300 people, according to arena operator  ASM Global .

The campaign has not yet announced what time the rally will begin or released details about how the public can attend.

Some of Arizona’s top Democrats will be on hand for the event, including Attorney General Kris Mayes and Reps. Greg Stanton and Ruben Gallego. Sen. Mark Kelly, who Harris considered for the vice president slot, is expected to attend. So is Arizona Democratic Party Chair Yolanda Bejarano. Gov. Katie Hobbs won't be there.

Sam Campana, the first woman mayor of Scottsdale, described the political moment as a “sea change in attitude in Arizona.” Campana is a lifelong Republican and recently joined a GOP coalition backing Harris and Walz in Arizona .

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Arizona: Live updates from campaign events in Arizona

Where is Desert Diamond Arena?

Desert Diamond Arena, 9400 W. Maryland Ave., is located in Glendale near State Farm Stadium. The 19,000-capacity arena is just off Loop 101 between Cardinals Way and Glendale Avenue.

When did Kamala Harris arrive in Phoenix?

Harris arrived in Phoenix via Air Force Two on Thursday evening just before 6:30 p.m. at Sky Harbor International Airport's Lincoln J. Ragsdale Executive Terminal.

The aircraft arrived from the west, flying over metro Phoenix before taxiing in front of the executive terminal. Among local dignitaries receiving her were Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Arizona Attorney General Mayes.

Walz arrived at Sky Harbor around 7:10 p.m., about 40 minutes after the vice president landed in Phoenix.

The Minnesota governor arrived in an unmarked white aircraft, taxiing about a quarter of a mile west of Air Force 2.

Where is Kamala Harris going after Arizona?

Harris' and Walz's visit to Arizona is part of a tour of seven battleground states. The pair made their debut Tuesday in Philadelphia, with stops planned in Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada for the remainder of the week.

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The latest: harris and walz hold rally in arizona, while trump visits montana.

This combination of photos shows Vice President Kamala Harris, left, on Aug. 7, 2024 and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives on Air Force Two at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)

Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate held a rally in Arizona as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris passed over a prominent Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly , a former astronaut and gun control advocate, had been a top contender for running mate.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump was visiting Montana for a rally in support of Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy. The former president hopes to remedy some unfinished business from 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in a failed bid to oust incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.

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Rallygoers praise Harris’ stances on gun safety, reproductive rights

Democratic and independent voters in Arizona said they were energized by Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech Friday.

Phyllis Zeno, a 65-year-old grandmother from Maricopa, said she was thrilled to hear Harris’ message of unity and her policy positions, especially on health care and reproductive rights.

“Her message to me, it wasn’t just hope, but renewed faith in democracy, that we can do this,” Zeno said.

For Jen Duran, a 37-year-old mother and independent voter, it was Harris’ promise to fight for reproductive rights and gun safety measures that impressed her.

“I have an elementary school daughter who has been going to this school since she was 4, and today we got a notification that there was a lockdown drill,” Duran said. “So safety for our kids is really important.”

Harris makes border-state case on immigration

Vice President Kamala Harris drew on her prosecutorial background to make her first expansive pitch on immigration to border-state voters at a campaign rally in Arizona.

Harris, the former attorney general of California, reminded the crowd that she, as a law enforcement official, targeted transnational gangs, drug cartels and smugglers.

“I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won,” Harris said in front of a crowd of more than 15,000 in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix. “So I know what I’m talking about.”

Harris promoted a border security bill that a bipartisan group of senators negotiated earlier this year, which Republican lawmakers ultimately opposed en masse at Republican nominee Donald Trump’s behest.

“Donald Trump does not want to fix this problem,” Harris said. “Be clear about that: He has no interest or desire to actually fix the problem. He talks a big game about border security, but he does not walk the walk.”

Harris tells Gaza protesters ‘now is the time to get a cease-fire deal’

Vice President Kamala Harris paused during a campaign rally in Arizona to directly address Gaza protesters who interrupted her remarks.

“Hold on a second,” she said Friday at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale.

Harris said she has been clear that “now is the time to get a cease-fire deal” to end fighting between Israel and Hamas that has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Gaza. The Democratic presidential nominee said she and President Joe Biden “are working around the clock every day to get that cease-fire deal done and bring the hostages home.”

Harris added that, “I respect your voices, but we are here to now talk about this race in 2024.”

She responded differently earlier this week when Gaza protesters interrupted her during a Detroit-area rally. She talked over the protesters.

Trump plane heading to Montana rally was diverted

Donald Trump’s plane was diverted on its way to Bozeman, Montana, due to a mechanical issue but landed safely in nearby Billings, according to a staff member at the Billings airport.

The former president was heading to Bozeman for a Friday night rally in support of Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.

Trump’s campaign posted a video of him upon landing in which he said he was glad to be in Montana but did not mention anything about the landing.

Republicans ask Supreme Court to allow Arizona voter-registration restrictions to be enforced during legal fight

National and state Republicans are trying to get the Supreme Court involved in a fight over voter registration restrictions that Republicans enacted in Arizona in 2022 following President Biden’s narrow 2020 victory in the battleground state. In an emergency appeal filed Thursday, the Republicans want the justices to allow provisions to take effect requiring the rejection of some voter registration forms that don’t have proof of citizenship, while a lawsuit plays out.

The move came after a lower court blocked a requirement that called for state voter registration forms to be rejected if they are not accompanied by documents proving U.S. citizenship. A second measure, also not in effect, would prohibit voting in presidential elections or by mail if registrants don’t prove they are U.S. citizens. Federal law does not require proof of citizenship either to vote in federal elections or cast ballots by mail, though voters have to attest that they are U.S. citizens.

The high court is not expected to act before late August.

A confident Mitch McConnell says Republicans have avoided bad Senate nominees this cycle

Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is expressing confidence that the GOP will be able to win a majority in the November elections because the party has avoided nominating the kinds of weak candidates that have lost tough races in the past.

“What is the key in winning a Senate election in a competitive state? Candidate quality,” McConnell told conservative voters Friday at “The Gathering,” an annual convocation hosted by influential radio host Erick Erickson. “I’m not going to mention names,” McConnell said, “but over the course of 10 or 15 years, in four or five instances, we have not had candidates that appeal to a competitive state.”

The Kentucky Republican was alluding to candidates like Herschel Walker, the controversial 2022 nominee who lost to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a year where Republicans swept all other statewide elections in the state.

Republicans need to net just two additional seats to command a majority in January, and it’s widely presumed that they already will pick up West Virginia, where Democratic-turned-independent Joe Manchin is retiring. Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Jon Tester of Montana are running in states former President Trump won twice and is expected to win again.

“We need to take the Senate as an insurance policy against what these people will do to the country,” McConnell said. The longest-serving Senate leader in history, McConnell is stepping down from his leadership post in the new Congress that will convene in January.

Mike Pence won’t vote for Trump — or Harris — and says GOP in 2024 is ‘unmoored’

Vice President Mike Pence confirmed Friday that he’s sitting out the presidential race this November. But he explained his decision with a complex mix of praise and criticism for Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump – and made clear he is not remotely interested in supporting Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

“I cannot endorse President Trump’s continuing assertion that I should have put aside my oath to support the Constitution, and act in a way that would have overturned the election,” Pence told an assembly of conservative activists hosted by radio personality Erick Erickson.

Trump has argued that Pence should have used his power presiding over the Electoral College to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“President Donald Trump was not only my president, he was my friend,” Pence said, adding that is “part of what made the way our administration ended much more difficult.”

Pence said multiple times that he was proud of the Trump administration’s accomplishments, and he lauded Trump for his reaction to being nearly assassinated.

But the former vice president was critical of the direction the Republican Party has taken under the former president in his comeback bid. He was especially critical of GOP support for tariffs, a more isolationist U.S. role on the world stage and the move away from calling for a national ban on abortions.

“The fact that we have a platform that made no mention of the national debt, advocated massive taxes at our borders, and abandoning commitments we have to our allies around the world is troubling,” Pence said, explaining the current GOP identity as “a populism unmoored to conservative principle.”

Former GOP candidate Ron DeSantis says Harris-Walz candidacy ‘manufactured’ by a biased media

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, once viewed as Donald Trump’s most threatening GOP presidential primary rival, says Democrats are manufacturing Vice President Kamala Harris’ and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s candidacy “out of whole cloth.”

“This is all manufactured,” DeSantis said at radio host Erick Erickson’s annual conservative assembly, “The Gathering.”

DeSantis, who regularly complained about the national political media during his failed White House bid, reprised the approach Friday, arguing that “corporate media” are exaggerating Democratic enthusiasm since President Joe Biden ended his campaign and endorsed Harris.

“They’re trying to create a cultural phenomenon around this candidate and for her running mate,” DeSantis said.

He offered an especially harsh assessment of Walz, panning his fellow governor as a leftist who is posing as a man with Midwestern, heartland values.

DeSantis mocked Walz’s quip about conservative opposition to abortion rights and LBGTQ civil rights. “This from the guy who set up a COVID snitch line encouraging Minnesotans to tattletale on their neighbors.”

Republican elected officials and conservative commentators have in recent days hammered Walz for how he governed during the coronavirus pandemic.

For all his criticisms, though, DeSantis does not think running mate choices – Walz or Sen. JD Vance for Republicans – will affect the outcome in November.

Georgia Gov. Kemp calls Trump attacks ‘noise’ and says he’s still focused on winning

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp insists he’s not getting bogged down by Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump’s intraparty attacks over Kemp’s refusal to help overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The Republican governor called Trump’s recent broadsides at an Atlanta campaign rally and on the Truth Social platform “a lot of noise” and jokingly compared Trump to a tropical storm.

“This big storm came through the state this week – and now we’re dealing with Tropical Storm Debby,” Kemp said at conservative radio host Erick Erickson’s annual conference, “The Gathering,” in the Buckhead section of Atlanta.

Kemp repeated his pledge to support the GOP nominee and renewed his warnings that Republicans should stop focusing on the 2020 election and false assertions that Biden won Georgia and nationally because of fraud.

“We’re going to use our political operation to win Georgia despite past grievances,” Kemp told Erickson, adding that the efforts would “help Republicans up and down the ticket.”

Of course, Kemp’s political operation is focusing on competitive Georgia legislative districts that are key to maintaining GOP majorities at the statehouse, meaning potential Republican voters in other swaths of the hotly contested state may not be reached by the Kemp organization before November.

Throughout the discussion with Erickson, Kemp did not say Trump’s name.

Democrats and Republicans descend on western Wisconsin with high stakes up and down the ballot

For a brief moment this week , the fierce competition for swing voters in swing-state Wisconsin converged on the tarmac of the tiny Chippewa Valley Regional Airport.

Minutes after Vice President Kamala Harris landed with her new running mate Tim Walz for their first campaign stop in the state, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance arrived. He walked across the tarmac to check out Air Force Two, just missing Harris.

The close encounter of the political kind could be written off as a coincidence if it happened anywhere other than Wisconsin, one of a small number of states that will not only determine the winner of the presidential race but could also shape the balance of power in Congress. But it sent a much louder signal that both parties understand the importance of a region that could tip the balance of power in more ways than one.

Harris and Walz head to Arizona, where a VP runner-up could still make a difference

Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate will hold a rally in Arizona on Friday as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris passed over a prominent Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly , a former astronaut and gun control advocate, had been a top contender for running mate. He’s won two tough races in politically divided Arizona.

In passing over Kelly, Harris may have also lost the chance to win over people like Gonzalo Leyva, a 49-year-old landscaper in Phoenix. Leyva plans to vote for former President Donald Trump, a Republican, but says he would have backed a Harris-Kelly ticket.

“I prefer Kelly like 100 times,” said Leyva, a lifelong Democrat who became an independent at the beginning of Trump’s term in office. “I don’t think he’s that extreme like the other guys.”

Trump heads to Montana in a bid to oust Sen. Tester after failing to topple the Democrat in 2018

With control of the Senate potentially at stake, Donald Trump is visiting Montana on Friday hoping to remedy some unfinished business from 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in a failed bid to oust incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.

Tester has tried to convince voters he’s aligned with Trump on many issues, mirroring his successful strategy from six years ago. While that worked in a non-presidential election year, it faces a more critical test this fall with Tester’s opponent, former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy , trying to link the three-term incumbent to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

A win for the Harris-Walz ticket would also mean the country’s first Native American female governor

If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are elected this fall, not only would a woman of color lead the country for the first time, but a Native woman also would govern a state for the first time in U.S. history.

Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota and a citizen of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, is poised to serve as the state’s next governor should Walz step down to accept the role of U.S. vice president. Her rise to power has been watched closely by Indigenous peoples in Minnesota and across the country who see her as a champion of policies that positively affect Native Americans.

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Sky Tells Staff To Go Home Early Amid UK Riots Hitting London As ITV & BBC Send Notes To Employees Signposting Help – Updated

By Jake Kanter , Max Goldbart

UPDATED 09.21 a.m. PT with ITV & BBC all-staffers

EXCLUSIVE : Sky staff have been told to leave the company’s Isleworth campus early amid reports that UK riots will be staged in Brentford, West London, while ITV and the BBC have urged employees to stay at home if they are concerned.

Amid increasing unease over disorder on British streets, Deadline hears that Comcast -owned Sky has asked employees to prioritize their safety if they are able to work from home.

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We are told that other big media companies in the area are also signposting support for staff. This includes Warner Bros. Discovery UK, which has a campus in Chiswick, relatively near Sky, and Disney, which is based in Hammersmith.

In a statement on Wednesday, Ruth Cadbury, the Labour MP Brentford and Isleworth, condemned any plans to target the community. She said there will be an increased police presence in the area.

There are reports online that Brentford is one of the areas being targeted for disorder tonight. Please see my full statement below & an update about this deeply distressing situation. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/72ErXh2U3F — Ruth Cadbury (@RuthCadbury) August 7, 2024

“Residents across our borough share my revulsion at the explosion of violent Islamophobic and racist behaviour taking place across the UK over recent days,” Cadbury said. “These riots are randomly attacking businesses, individuals and are targeting mosques and asylum hotels. I can only imagine the impact this is having on many local residents.”

ITV & BBC Tell Staff To Stay At Home If Concerned

The riots, which broke out after the Southport stabbings, have led both ITV and the BBC to send notes to staff, both of which Deadline has seen, offering support and telling workers to stay at home if they feel uncomfortable.

ITV CEO Carolyn McCall said the events have “had an impact on colleagues across ITV, with many people of colour and Muslim communities being particularly affected.”

“I would like to reiterate that, for those who feel unsafe and want to avoid city centres or travelling, we support working from home if you feel more comfortable to do so during this time,” she added, while also paying tribute to the teams across ITV News.

Qadeer said he was “deeply concerned” for staff “fearful and anxious going about their daily routine, leaving their homes and travelling,” and urged them to speak with line managers if they are concerned.

“This is a very worrying and challenging time for many across the UK,” he said. “No one should ever face fear or prejudice, and it is essential that we act with empathy and humanity, taking extra care to support each other in these troubling times.”

The violence has broken out across the UK after the fatal stabbing of three girls at a  Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport  last week.

The unrest was initially fuelled by social media misinformation that the suspected assailant, Cardiff-born Axel Rudakubana, was an asylum seeker. Anger has continued to be whipped up online, not least by X/Twitter owner Elon Musk, who has been critical of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and claimed that Britain is on the brink of civil war. Earlier on Wednesday, Deadline revealed that The Traitors producer Studio Lambert had emailed employees to decry the disorder and offer welfare support.

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