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Former President Donald Trump criticized President Biden, Democrats and the Big Three automakers over electric cars in remarks in the Detroit suburbs Wednesday night, as his Republican opponents were getting ready to take the stage in California for the second Republican presidential debate. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa reports.

Several conservatives took to social media to voice their frustrations over what turned out to be a chaotic second GOP primary debate.

Deploying the military was table stakes as candidates pushed ever-tougher measures

North Korea has amended its constitution to bolster and expand its nuclear force, with leader Kim Jong Un pointing to the growing cooperation between the United States, South Korea and Japan as "the worst actual threat" facing the isolated nation.

The 2024 Republican presidential candidate has come under fire for previously doing business with a company owned by the Chinese government.

Who won the second Republican primary debate? As the non-Trump candidates sought relevance, they often squabbled with one another

The Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, began on this day in history, Sept. 28, 1781. Surrounded by Washington's army and French allies by both land and sea, the British realized their cause was hopeless.

The second GOP debate unfolded under Reagan’s shadow, while Trump commands a party that has seemingly moved on from the Gipper.

The rest of the field will just continue to underscore their own irrelevance. Their own time for choosing is rapidly running out.

"I just want everybody that was involved to have their day. I want to know detail for detail on what happened to my brother," Kisha Logan said.

"Big?Energy," the newly single "Summer House" star shared on Instagram alongside photos from her Bahamas getaway.

Emmet Sheehan provided a strong outing, Freddie Freeman homered as the Dodgers locked up the No. 2 seed in the playoffs with a 8-2 win over the Rockies.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie decided to take up his speaking time to send a message to former President Donald Trump, who again chose to skip the 2024 Republican presidential debate.

Second presidential debate, again without Donald Trump, was an echo of the first as candidates jockeyed to be the chief alternative to the frontrunner.

The former President's message in Michigan was a populist pitch geared toward winning over working-class voters

A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creating abusive sexual content.

The Chargers' Austin Ekeler missed the last two games because of an ankle injury but has hopes to play against the Raiders on Sunday after practicing on a limited basis Wednesday.

GOP presidential hopefuls try to seize on one of their dwindling chances to make an impression as Trump again skips the debate.

It’s Ronald Acuña Jr.’s world and we’re all just living in it. 

"Don't rip it!"

Republican presidential candidates sparred Wednesday over whether to continue supporting Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself again an ongoing Russian invasion.

Francisco Lindor hit three home runs in the Mets' doubleheader split to join the 30-30 club, and Kodai Senga reached 200 strikeouts in his season finale.

The second Republican debate devolved into chaos with candidates fighting each other and the moderators for speaking time.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley didn't mince words on how she feels about entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy's intelligence.

A fan was denied entry into Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday when he attempted to get in with an emotional support alligator, per multiple reports.

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Vivek lost. The second Republican debate, like the first, took place in a parallel political universe in which Donald Trump was an obscure figure of no serious importance. The candidates who showed up at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California engaged in a largely vapid exchange of canned lines and talking points, repeatedly attempting to create “moments” that didn’t quite land. Nikki Haley showed some spirit in picking fights with her rivals, I guess. Ron DeSantis tried to seem above it all. Doug Burgum attempted to get someone to notice him, the “governor of an energy state.” No one had all that much to say about Trump. It is difficult for me to imagine how this debate will make any impact on the race. The central characteristic of the contest is still that Trump has a massive lead. A debate with extremely limited discussion of Trump was a useless waste of time. In a way, everyone on stage was a loser, for failing to shake up that underlying dynamic. In a way, everyone watching was a loser for having spent those two hours and gotten so little out of it. But some particularly earned that loser status. Loser: Vivek Ramaswamy Justin Sullivan/Getty Love him or hate him, Vivek Ramaswamy was the focal point of the first GOP debate. He was a new face whose rhetoric style contrasted with the career politicians onstage — and he often clearly drew their ire and contempt. Ramaswamy was the subject of much pundit conversation afterward. But despite some predictions, the buzz failed to translate into a bounce in the polls. And at tonight’s debate, Ramaswamy’s schtick sounded stale. When his rivals made him a punching bag again — Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pence all took their shots at him, saying he did business in China and that his Ukraine policy would help Russia — he failed to respond memorably. Most importantly, he didn’t really have an effective way to advance his argument about why he should be president. At one point, he acknowledged that some might view him as a “know-it-all,” and admitted he didn’t know everything and would have to seek advice from others. The affected humility wasn’t convincing given his general behavior throughout the race, but it also wasn’t a case for why he deserves to be in the Oval Office. If Ramaswamy wants to get out of the mid-single digits in polls, he’ll have to try something different. Loser: The moderators Justin Sullivan/Getty Debate moderators Fox News host Dana Perino and Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney Moderating a debate with seven candidates onstage so that it can be interesting, revealing, and coherent is no easy feat. Having said that, Dana Perino, Stuart Varney, and Ilia Calderón seemed puzzlingly reluctant to have the candidates actually, well, debate each other. In an attempt to retain tight control of the proceedings, the moderators regularly cut off exchanges between the candidates, rushing onward to get to the next question in their preset list. At one point, Perino even chided the candidates for mentioning each other too much, saying that would mean they’d get fewer questions. Those questions themselves were also often hyper-specific to each individual candidate. It was as if the moderators were trying to conduct “gotcha” interviews with seven people simultaneously. Do we really care whether Chris Christie flip-flopped on his immigration position of 13 years ago? A good debate draws out how the candidates differ from each other to inform voters about their choice, and for the most part, the moderators failed to do that. They also almost entirely avoided posing questions about the overwhelming poll leader: Trump. Seven candidates trailing badly in the polls were instead scrutinized by the moderators, while the poll leader got off scot free. Loser: Fox News Earlier Wednesday, Semafor’s Max Tani reported that Fox had to reduce its ad timeslot prices by hundreds of thousands of dollars for this debate, as compared to the first one, because interest was expected to be low. That’s a very tangible demonstration of Fox’s failure to make these debates matter — a failure that mainly stems from Trump making clear, yet again, that Fox needs him more than he needs them. Back on January 8, 2021, Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch wrote in an email that Fox News was “pivoting” because he wanted to “make Trump a non person.” And throughout 2021 and 2022, the network’s enthusiasm toward Trump seemed to have cooled, and its coverage did much to built up Ron DeSantis as a credible national rival to him. But those plans fell apart this year, as Trump’s candidacy and indictments made him impossible to ignore. As has been demonstrated whenever Fox tries to harm Trump, the network’s leaders and stars feel they are hemmed in by their viewers who love him. Trump has paid no price for skipping these two Fox debates — but Fox has. Winner: You know who MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty This was another debate where the guy leading by 40 points was not on stage and took only the slightest of blows from those who were on stage. (Sorry, Chris Christie, calling him “Donald Duck” is cheesy and ineffective.) It was also another debate where there was no clear winner — no breakout star that could be elevated to Trump’s main challenger. There was a time, earlier this year, when the polling between Trump and DeSantis wasn’t totally lopsided, and it seemed at least possible that Trump’s lead could be dislodged. That time has long passed. And any campaign event that fails to shake up that status quo is effectively one that aids Trump’s path to the nomination.

Brentwood senior quarterback Boone Lourd is carrying on a family football tradition started by his older brothers and writing his own chapter in the intersectional rivalry with Palisades.

Viewers of the second Republican National Committee (RNC) debate blasted the RNC as well as Fox News for including Univision as a partner in the event.

Angelina Jolie says her kids saved her, and she was much darker when she was younger: 'Maybe that part of me wants to push back.'

The White House should have fired Flaherty and pretended he had gone rogue. Instead, Joe Biden hired him for his 2024 campaign. Shameless. But who’s going to stop them?

Now it’s Simon Holmstrom’s turn.

Republican presidential candidates sparred over immigration, the Russia-Ukraine war and the economy during the second primary debate Wednesday night.

The first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Biden takes place Thursday. The GOP memo says the inquiry "will span the time of Joe Biden's Vice Presidency to the present, including his time out of office."

How disgrace plays out at the country’s No. 1 cable news network.

ReutersSwifties and Sunday Night Football are about to go from strange bedfellows to a match made in heaven.For Taylor Swift, one Kansas City Chiefs game just wasn’t enough. After all but breaking the internet by appearing in a luxury suite at Arrowhead Stadium to cheer on Travis Kelce last Sunday, the singer-songwriter is set to do it all again—this time in New Jersey, according to multiple reports.Both Front Office Sports’ Michael McCarthy and NFL Insider Jordan Schultz reported on Wednesday night that the “Cruel Summer” singer plans to attend the Chiefs’ matchup against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. The news will no doubt fuel both the rampant rumors of the pair’s burgeoning “Love Story,” as well as ticket prices to the game, with the so-called Swift effect having already caused sales of Kelce-themed merch to spike nearly 400 percent.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The judge assigned to the US Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com has recused himself from the case, according to a court document filed on Wednesday.

ReutersNikki Haley didn’t hold back when going after Vivek Ramaswamy in Wednesday’s second GOP debate, flaming her fellow presidential hopeful for having a TikTok account despite its ties to China. In response to a question on why he joined the social platform after a dinner with the influencer Jake Paul, Ramaswamy explained that posting to TikTok was necessary to reach young voters and win back the White House. Haley scoffed at the response and unleashed on Ramaswamy in a rant.“This is infuriating because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have and, honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say,” she quipped. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Officers found two victims unconscious and not breathing and a third conscious and breathing at 14th Street and Saratoga Avenue.

Mike Blake/ReutersCrosstalk and candidates attacking fellow candidates was one of the big takeaways from the second GOP debate Wednesday night, but another lesson America learned is that the 2024 challengers on stage apparently have terrible senses of humor.The zingers were not zinging, but many in the audience were, indeed, cringing.Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie typified the kitschy tone of the evening, issuing a stern warning to the campaign’s frontrunner that came off less stern and more mortifying.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Which Republican presidential candidate made an impression—and who faltered—during the second primary debate Wednesday evening?

"That is crazy! He's trying to fight!"

The second Republican debate devolved into chaos with candidates fighting each other and the moderators for speaking time.

Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla/LionsgateWhen it debuted in the early aughts, the Saw franchise was almost instantly slapped with the dreaded “torture porn” label. The series, about a serial killer called Jigsaw who kidnaps victims he deems “unworthy of the gift of life”—trapping them in grotesque, nearly inescapable machines meant to test their will to live—was likened to the most banal subgenre of horror films. But though the franchise shares some qualities with movies like Hostel and I Spit On Your Grave, it never quite deserved to be denigrated in that company. Saw always paired its gratuitous gore with legitimate questions about humanity, teeing up moral quandaries that made the films something more than just blood and guts. (Whether the franchise was always successful in executing that is another story entirely.) That virtuous undertone, combined with traps of increasingly delightful absurdity, earned the Saw films a massive cult following across its first nine installments.After several false endings and a franchise “reboot” of sorts, the tenth film in the series, Saw X, arrives in theaters Sept. 29, bringing with it a whole new host of traps, victims, and ethical queries. With a noticeably increased production value, plus the exhilarating return of the fan-favorite characters, Saw X was already destined to please Saw’s most devoted supporters (Saw-pporters, if you will). But by cleverly setting its timeline between the series’ first two installments, Saw X is both an invigorating thrill ride on par with the franchise’s best entries and a trenchant, timely charge against industrial systems set in place to keep humans sick.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Menswear guy has some tips for the Republican presidential hopefuls.

The alert would be sounded. “Bingo, bingo, bingo!’’ The center had noticed something that he needed to convey, quickly and succinctly, to the players lined up next to him, the right and left guard. Maybe the center noticed the hand of a defensive player looked light, as if it was not going to get stuck...

Donald Trump was absent as Republican candidates clashed in a debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, but his supporters made up for it.

Shares in embattled Chinese developer Evergrande Group and its two subsidiaries were all suspended from trading in Hong Kong on Thursday, after fears grew about its ability to restructure its mammoth debt and stave off a liquidation of the business.

CLAIM: Republican primary presidential candidate Chris Christie claimed former President Donald Trump did not attend Wednesday's debate because he was afraid of debating not because he has a massive lead in the polls.