This is cnn immigration, the economy, abortion, and masculinity. I m michael smerconish in philadelphia. It s labor day weekend. Usually this marks the start of the final dash toward election day. But of course we haven t stopped sprinting all summer long despite all the effort and expenditures by the candidates and their campaigns, the presidential election is neck and neck several polls were released at the end of this week and they all tell a similar story a new usa today suffolk poll shows vice president harris ahead of former president trump nationally 48, 43 big shifts from hispanic, black, and young voters are helping harris. But the biggest change came from lowerincome voters they supported donald trump over joe biden by three percentage points back in june harris now leading in that demographic, 58 to 35%, casting a 23 point advantage then there s a new wall street journal poll, which also shows harris with a narrow lead over trump 48, 47. That s in a headtohead match up the n
intervening. a federal judge ruled yesterday that arkansas s ban on these horrific procedures l. thenstitutiona so now we have the state sanctioned mutilation of children because that s exactly what our founders intended. this truly unfathomable, unfathomable ruling comes as texas governor greg abbott, he signed a bill banningr abbott oriented performances and the presence of minors otherwise peo known as drag shows for kids. but the left, they are doubling downr . npr celebrated san francisco s appointment of a so-called drag laureate. when you win a nobel priz e, you become a nobel laureate. the country also has a poet laureate. many states have poet laureates, and now there is a le drag laureate. npr s chloe veltman recently joinedat the country s first drag laureate on her inaugural public appearance, unfurling a pride flag outside san francisco city hall, rancis getting d arcy drawings ready for hecor first officialpearance appearance as san francisco drag laureate is
memorial day weekend. jonathan hunt does live with what we are learning tonight at. good evening, teach you, teresa. breaking news, we just heard from officials they ve arrested five people all under the age o 18 on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon. two marines curled in the fetal position trying to protec themselves from an onslaught by thousands of teenagers. out attacked that left official in the usually peaceful community in california horrified both by the violence and by the symbolism of it happening on the memorial day weekend. officials say the group of teenagers were setting up fireworks and generally causing a disturbance when the marines or off duty and not a uniform and they asked them to stop. the mayor believes the attack was likely did not know the men were marines and did not target them because of their military status. i think what you have here i a group of youths celebrating the school year in the beach area and getting a little out
of the hostages. a u.s. official tells cnn that they are not, not expecting americans to be in this first group of 13 women and children set to be released. it has been eight hours since the fighting was paused in gaza and thetismar temporary truce a be holding a column of tanks heading away from the gaza strip this morning. the israeli military says it is ready and prepared to receive the hostages. we are told that each helicopter for those hostages will have a medical team onboard and the released hostages will also be given noise-canceling headphones for that flight to provide a little bit of peace and quiet on that helicopter ride. meantime, southern gaza drone video shows families walking the streets of khan yunis after that. you can see that destruction from the airstrikes. part of the hostage deal was allowing desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza. this morning we have seen lines of trucks crossing into the region from egypt. and egyptian official says 200
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