Today marks one week until Election Day. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making their final arguments to voters. Harris is set to make her case today from the same backdrop on the National Mall where Trump made his Jan. 6 speech before a mob stormed the Capitol. American democracy will be a central theme of her speech. It is a return to the main argument President Biden tried to make during his campaign earlier this year. It didn’t have enough mass appeal back then, but the Harris campaign hopes it does the trick with independents and Nikki Haley Republicans in the final days.

The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post announced separately late last week that their editorial boards would not make a presidential endorsement, breaking with the decades-old tradition. The billionaire owners of both publications made the final last-minute calls, despite opinion staff having endorsements for Vice President Kamala Harris ready.

If you scroll on social media, you likely have seen a stream of celebrities joining Kamala Harris’s campaign in recent weeks. Last night, Bruce Springsteen hit the stage with former President Obama and Beyoncé is set to join Harris tonight in Texas.

Former top military officials from the first Trump administration are speaking out about what a second term would look like for the former president. John Kelly, a former four-star Marine general who was Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, told the New York Times this week that Trump meets the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law. He also recounted a story of Trump saying, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested on Tuesday, along with his partner Matt Smith and their alleged middleman, over a horrific criminal sex trafficking scheme between 2008 to 2015. The charges follow an investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors in New York, who allege Jeffries used his powerful position to exploit and abuse young men interested in modeling.

Two weeks to the election and there are a lot of questions about whether the polls are accurate: Right now, Vice President Kamala Harris has a one-point lead over former President Donald Trump in national polls. Accounting for a margin of error, it’s basically a tie. Notably, Harris’s polling has dropped a bit since the Democratic National Convention in August, when she led Trump by five percentage points.

Two high-profile billionaires— Mark Cuban and Elon Musk— have hit the campaign trail for their presidential choices in recent weeks. Campaigning for Kamala Harris, Cuban is taking aim at the former president’s tariff proposals. Meanwhile, Musk has gone after Democrats regarding what he calls the “woke mind virus” and the border crisis.

Israeli soldiers killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the man behind the Oct. 7 terror massacre in Israel, on Wednesday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Former President Donald Trump has doubled down on his sweeping plan for broad tariffs should he win the election in three weeks. Economists across the political aisle are sounding alarm bells. Trump says they are all wrong.

Protesters gathered outside Kellogg’s Battle Creek, Michigan headquarters on Tuesday to deliver a petition with over 400,000 signatures calling for the company to remove artificial dyes and preservatives from their cereals.

Some FEMA crews had to pause work over the weekend in hard-hit Rutherford County, NC, because of concerns over an armed militia threatening government workers in the region.

Some FEMA crews had to pause work over the weekend in hard-hit Rutherford County, NC, because of concerns over an armed militia threatening government workers in the region.

Questioning by ‘CBS Mornings’ anchor Tony Dokoupil during a recent interview with author/activist Ta-Nehisi Coates has led to an internal food fight inside the news network, and is raising questions about the state of American journalism. On Monday, network executives told staffers that Dokoupil’s conduct during a live conversation with Coates’ about his recent book regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not meet editorial standards.

The Justice Department says the FBI has arrested a 27-year-old Afghan man inspired by ISIS who was planning to target large crowds on Election Day in the US. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest on Monday that he and a co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs.

Hurricane Milton quickly intensified into a monstrous Category 5 storm on Monday, becoming one of the most powerful storms in history.

One year ago today, Hamas terrorists launched a massive attack by ground, sea and air on Israel, setting off the largest war in modern Israeli-Palestinian history. The terrorist group killed 1,200+ people and took 251 more hostage, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Israel estimates about 101 hostages are still in Gaza, half of which are likely alive. That includes four American citizens.

A week after Hurricane Helene made landfall— and carved a path of destruction stretching 600 miles— search and rescue missions are still underway for the hundreds of people missing.

About 45,000 East and Gulf Coast dockworkers, or longshoremen, head into their third day on strike Thursday, as they call for pay raises and try to prevent automation and robots at major ports.

After vowing revenge for the killing of several top terrorist leaders, Iran launched approximately 180 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday. Sirens rang over the entire country, sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters. No Israelis were killed or seriously injured, while one Palestinian man in the West Bank was killed by Iranian missile shrapnel that fell on him.

The Vice Presidential debate is tonight between two Midwestern guys: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R). While VP debates are typically inconsequential, this will be the last time voters get to see a clear side-by-side of the two tickets before Election Day. For many voters, it could be their introduction to both men.