The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday announced it will not formally endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, ending months of speculation about whether the labor union would back Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris. The union’s general executive board said in a statement that its member polling showed no majority support for Harris, and no universal support for Trump.

The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the owner and operator of the container ship that rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, seeking $100 million in damages for the structure's collapse, which killed six construction workers and led to massive economic losses.

The FBI and other intelligence agencies revealed Wednesday that Iran attempted to share information stolen during its hack on the Trump campaign with the Biden campaign and continues to send material to various media outlets. “Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text...

The Harris-Walz ticket is on pace to do fewer interviews and press conferences than any major party's presidential pairing in modern U.S. history. Why it matters: Vice President Harris' team is betting she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, can avoid many tough interviews and still win as they run down the clock to Election Day. • That strategy comes even as many voters say they want to learn more about Harris — and as her campaign has said she's changed many of her past liberal...

JOHNSON: ‘WE RAN THE RIGHT PLAY’: The vote by House Republicans to reject Rep. Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) hybrid six-month temporary funding measure, that included a proof-of-citizenship voting requirement has sent the speaker, who has a penchant for football analogies, back to the drawing board. “We came a little bit short of the goal line, so now we go back to the playbook. We’ll draw it up. We’re already hearing good ideas from our members, and we’ve got time to fix this, and we’ll get it done,”...

Multiple Trump supporters claim they suffered a mysterious eye injury and were forced to seek medical attention over the “unbearable” pain after sitting behind the former president during his rally in Arizona. Mayra Rodriguez was among Trump’s most loyal backers seated in a confined portion of the right side of the stage behind the former president at Ronstadt Music Hall in Tucson on Sept. 12, KVOA reported. Rodriguez claimed she started experiencing eye irritation when she...

The Federal Reserve announced its first interest rate cut in four years Wednesday, one of its most consequential decisions in recent memory, a move likely to be panned by former President Donald Trump and celebrated by Vice President Kamala Harris. Interest rates can become a hot-button issue around elections, considering lower rates are a much more popular policy as they can boost personal finances with cheaper mortgages and lower interest on student...

The instances detailed in the reports from the EPA’s inspector general pertain to situations where the employees who were victims of alleged retaliation thought chemicals should be considered more toxic while top officials sought to consider them safer.  In one such case, EPA scientist Sarah Gallagher says she thought the agency should consider the chemical as toxic to fetal development while another official wanted to classify it as a lower-priority body...

One of the seminal moments of presidential debates came in a 1980 tussle between the Republican challenger and the Democrat incumbent. Challenging Jimmy Carter’s record as part of his closing statement , Ronald Reagan asked: “Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago?” Last Tuesday, in the very first question of her first presidential debate, Kamala Harris was asked that very thing — are Americans better...

Scores of Jews from around the world are visiting Israel to tour the grounds of the Nova music festival and burned out kibbutzim, bearing witness and reflecting on the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. The trips are shoring up Israel’s tourism industry after the war brought it to an abrupt halt—but critics say the narrow focus on this tragedy pushes the suffering of Gazans to the periphery, even as bombs drop less than 10 miles away from the tourists. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access...