James Carville gives prediction for VP Harris’ debate performance against Trump
Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris would win the debate against former President Trump, and said that the former president “made a big mistake.”
“I think she’s well-prepared,” Carville said. “She’s got really top people preparing her. She’s going to have low expectations because President Biden did so horrible in June. It wasn’t that Trump did great, it was that President Biden didn’t do very well at all. And I have to say this, I could be eating my words on Wednesday, but I think she’s going to do quite well. And I think he made a big mistake by accepting this debate.”
Harris and Trump will debate on Tuesday for the first time on ABC News. Linsey Davis and David Muir are set to host the debate.
Carville argued, “I think Trump is walking into a giant trap.”
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Carville said in a recent guest essay for the New York Times that Harris “must enable exactly what his campaign is scared to death of: letting Trump be Trump.”
“She should let him talk over her,” he wrote. “Not just let him but goad him into spouting insane conspiracy theories about the previous election. She should use her sense of humor at key moments to get under his skin and show he’s not getting to her. And she should welcome the personal attacks as a badge of honor.”
“And each time, no matter how many times he does it, respond with this refrain: It’s the same old tired playbook, and I’m focused on a new way forward,” Carville continued.
He also encouraged the vice president to break with President Biden on key issues.
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“Put out a broad list of ‘new way forward’ policies that detail why she is breaking from the sitting president on the given issues and what change would deliver to the American people,” Carville wrote. “And after that rally, do a news conference on it, so media organizations stop cranking their clamshells about a lack of access. Don’t run from your differences with the president. Embrace them, respectfully and honestly.”
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Carville’s third piece of advice for Harris was that she must show a “growth mind-set” and clearly confront her previous policy positions, including on climate change, semiautomatic rifle buyback programs, and health care.
Kayleigh McEnany: Donald Trump has three secret weapons for debate night
“Outnumbered” co-host Kayleigh McEnany weighed in ahead of the ABC News presidential debate where former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris will face off for the first time.
“Donald Trump has three secret weapons: He has a plan, he has the record, and he has the experience,” McEnany said. “If he is measured and methodical in describing his record, with the experience as a seven-time presidential debater, he will prevail.”
“But here’s how he can end Kamala Harris’ political career as he did to Joe Biden. Be prepared, because they have said we are going to needle him on women’s issues. Here’s what you say. You say, here’s my childcare plan. It’s on Truth Social, it’s the Marco Rubio plan. Go look at it. Here’s my school safety plan…finally, here is my plan for women and paid family leave. Find my plan on Truth Social. You don’t have one, Kamala,” she continued.
Harris has faced heavy criticism for her campaign’s lack of policy proposals despite serving as the Democratic Party’s nominee for weeks.
Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris supports eliminating taxes on tips and expanding tax credits to parents and first time home buyers.
Harris recently revealed she supports ending taxes on tips for workers, mirroring a similar idea floated by former President Donald Trump throughout his campaign. The Democratic nominee also signaled that it is her intent to raise the minimum wage.
“It is my promise to everyone here, when I am president, we will continue our fight for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” Harris said during a campaign event in Nevada.
Similar to Sen. JD Vance’s proposed $5,000 child tax credit, Harris has also proposed a $6,000 tax credit for parents of newborns, available to families within their child’s first year. Harris also said she supports a tax credit of $25,000 for first-time home buyers.
The Biden-Harris agenda on tips also paints a picture for what a potential Harris presidency could look like. The Biden administration has advocated for tax credits for eligible Americans, previously pushing for citizens to receive the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
In what may be the defining moment of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump face off Tuesday in their first and potentially only debate.
And with a margin of error race with eight weeks to go until Election Day and early voting getting underway this month in some crucial battleground states, there’s no denying how much is on the line as Harris and Trump face-off for 90 minutes in primetime at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center.
“It’s high, high, high stakes. This is going to be a really, really important moment in the campaign,” longtime Republican strategist and veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns David Kochel told Fox News Digital.
With the presidency up for grabs, the intense jockeying by both candidates and their camps has been heating up ahead of the debate.
“There’s no floor for him in terms of how low he will go. And, and we should be prepared for that. We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth,” the vice president charged in a radio interview on the eve of the debate.
The comment appeared to be the latest stab by Harris to roil Trump in the days leading up to the showdown.
Hours later, on Tuesday morning, another jab, as the Harris campaign launched a new ad that spotlights Trump’s age and seeming obsession with crowd sizes, as it used clips from former President Barack Obama’s much-talked about tweaks of Trump during his Democratic National Convention speech last month.
Trump has repeatedly insulted the vice president over her intelligence, mockingly nicknamed her ‘Comrade Harris,’ and even questioned her racial identity in the month and a half since Harris replaced President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifted course and called for his supporters to vote for former President Trump regardless of the state they live in Tuesday.
Kennedy had previously only urged his supporters to vote for Trump if they lived in a swing state. The former presidential candidate is working to remove his name from the ballot in several states after dropping out and endorsing Trump last month.
“No matter what state you live in, you should be voting for Donald Trump,” Kennedy said in a video posted to social media. “That’s the only way that we can get me and everything I stand for into Washington, D.C. and fulfill the mission of my campaign.”
“Right now, freedom of speech is under withering an relentless attack in America and across the globe, but at least we still have enough of it here that you can watch this video. We can still run an opposition political campaign,” he added.
Kennedy is one of two former Democrats to endorse Trump in 2024, with the other being former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Both have criticized the Democratic Party for moving too far to the left.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ shifting view on immigration represents a broader trend among Democratic politicians shifting towards the center as Americans’ views on immigration have changed since the pandemic years.
In 2016, Harris spoke out against immigration raids and, in 2017, then-Sen. Harris publicly swore to oppose any funding bill unless Congress took action to protect the 700,000 DREAMers that were then in the United States.
“I will not vote for an end-of-year spending bill until we are clear about what we are going to do to protect and take care of our DACA young people in this country,” Harris said at a press conference. “Each day in the life of these young people is a very long time, and we’ve got to stop playing politics with their lives.”
Recently, in 2021, Harris backed a bipartisan border bill that would have closed the border after a certain number of crossings and hired new border security and asylum officers.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley says Vice President Kamala Harris will have a difficult time at Tuesday night’s debate, arguing she has to both run from and defend her left-wing record.
Whately made the comments during a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria.”
“I think what we’re going to see tonight is a contrast of her trying to run from [her] record, but also trying to defend that record. I’m going to be very curious, I think millions of Americans are, to see which Kamala Harris is going to show up: Is she going to be the one that’s going to double down on an open southern border…or she going to try to walk back from those positions?”
He went on to say Harris has a long history of “word salads,” and he predicted that the vice president is likely to fumble again Tuesday night.
Whatley is among the Trump campaign surrogates who will talk to the press from the spin room after Tuesday night’s debate.
Former President Donald Trump has spoken out against Democratic efforts to forgive student loans, arguing that President Biden’s plan to forgive certain loans was a stunt to “get publicity with the election.”
Trump has also chosen a running mate who shares his view on the issue in Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who argued in 2022 that forgoing student loans would be a “massive windfall to the rich, to the college educated.”
“Republicans must fight this with every ounce of our energy and power,” Vance said in a post on X, then Twitter.
In an interview with Fox News later the same year, Vance said student loans “subsidize the life decisions of college-educated young people, primarily young people who are going to make a lot of money over the course of their lifetime.”
Republicans have resisted recent plans to forgive student loans in general, while recent court rulings have rolled back Biden administration efforts to forgive certain loans by executive action.
Vice President Kamala Harris derided former President Trump’s debate style as “old and tired” ahead of their Tuesday night matchup this weekend.
Harris made the comments while speaking to radio host Rickey Smiley.
“He plays with a really old and tired playbook. There’s no floor for him in terms of how low he will go,” Harris said. She accused Trump of not being “burdened by telling the truth” and of fighting for himself instead of the American people.
“I think he’s going to lie,” she said. “And you know he has a playbook that he has used in the past, be it his attacks on President Obama or Hillary Clinton. So we should expect some of that will come out.”
Harris and Trump will face off in Philadelphia Tuesday night. Trump’s campaign has said it will be the first time Harris has had to defend her candidacy against tough questions in an unscripted environment.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ flip-flopping on the border wall is a reflection of Democrat’s shift towards the center on immigration and border security.
In 2016, then-Sen. Harris called Trump’s border wall a “medieval vanity project” and claimed that she would never support one, even if DACA protections were on the table. In a 2019 tweet, Harris said “Let’s get this straight: billions of dollars for a border wall is a waste of money. American taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for the President’s vanity project. We simply don’t need it.”
In 2021, Harris backed a Senate bill that, amongst other things, would include funding for border wall construction. Harris’ campaign has downplayed the significance of the border wall to the bill and has attacked the Trump camp for allegedly killing the bill.
In a 2017 tweet, Harris stated “Trump’s border wall is just a stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it.”
Two well-known former Democrats turned independents who are backing Donald Trump will be in the spin room at Tuesday night’s debate between the former president and Vice President Kamala Harris, to talk up Trump’s performance.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the well-known environmental activist and vaccine skeptic who last month suspended his own presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, will be on hand at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center, the Trump campaign confirmed to Fox News.
So will former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who unsuccessfully ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination before leaving the party and becoming an independent two years ago.
Gabbard, who’s become a favorite of many on the political right, backed Trump last month.
Joining Kennedy and Gabbard in the spin room at the debate – which is the first and potentially only face-to-face showdown between Harris and Trump before Election Day on Nov 5 – is a squad of high-profile Republicans.
Topping the list is Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
Also in the spin room for Trump: Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump, who is the former president’s daughter-in-law.
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Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly condemned the war in the Middle East since October, when terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel, pinning blame for the conflict on the Biden-Harris administration.
As Trump enters the final fall leg of the election cycle, he has argued that war would not have broken out in Israel were he president, pointing to his sanctions on Iran during his administration. Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon are terrorist groups that target Israel with the backing and direction of Iran.
“I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine, which would’ve never happened if I was president and the war caused by the attack on Israel, which would’ve never happened if I was president,” Trump declared during his nomination acceptance speech at the RNC in July.
“Iran was broke. Iran had no money. Now Iran has $250 billion. They made it all over the last two and a half years,” Trump continued.
The former president met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July, when Trump said he believes Vice President Kamala Harris had been “disrespectful to Israel.”
Trump told reporters during the meeting that if he’s re-elected to the White House, he would end the war in the Middle East “very quickly,” while continuing to argue the Biden-Harris administration showed weakness on the world stage that could lead to a “third world war.”
Media “malpractice” has increased the importance of Tuesday night’s debate for former President Trump, as reporters have failed to press Vice President Kamala Harris with tough questions, Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn argues.
McGun, a member of the Journal’s editorial board, says the debate may be the only opportunity for Harris to face real questions before Election Day.
“Press failure has inflated it into the seminal event of the Trump-Harris race. Because reporters haven’t insisted that Ms. Harris answer basic questions, the debate, moderated by ABC News, may provide the only moment in the 2024 election when Americans get to see how Ms. Harris performs under pressure,” McGurn wrote.
“This failure would be appalling at any time, but the circumstances of Ms. Harris’s campaign turn simple media bias into journalistic malpractice. The vice president secured the top slot on the Democratic ticket without having to contest a single primary—and therefore without having to lay out and defend her record. This leaves her largely unknown to American voters, a situation Ms. Harris is now exploiting to reinvent herself as a moderate challenger rather than a woke incumbent,” he added.
Since becoming the Democratic nominee, Harris has not held a single press conference. She has conducted one sit down interview, which she did on CNN alongside her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Tensions are sure to run high at tonight’s debate as it is the first in-person meeting of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Expect issues like abortion, the border, the economy and instability in the Middle East to arise, along with Trump’s personal attacks on Harris, like when he said she “happened to turn Black.”
The microphones will be muted between questioning after a back-and-forth over the rules. The Harris team had wanted open mics in the hopes that Trump might show himself in an unfavorable light by interrupting her.
“I’m speaking,” Harris said in a viral moment in a debate with former Vice President Mike Pence in 2020 when he spoke over her. Trump has often described Harris as “dumb,” “inexperienced” and “too liberal” and will likely try to paint her as such.
Harris likes to describe herself as the prosecutor and Trump as the felon. She’s framed him as “corrupt” and “dishonest” and claims he wants to set the country back and take away women’s reproductive freedoms.
Vice President Kamala Harris holds a one-point lead over former President Trump as the pair prepare to debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday, according to a new poll.
The NPR/Marist poll shows Harris at 49% among registered voters, compared to Trump’s 48%. The poll shows the race has tightened since August, when Trump trailed Harris by 3 points in a 48% to 45% matchup.
The NPR poll surveyed 1,413 registered voters from Sept. 3-5. The poll advertises a margin of error of 3.3%.
The poll also indicated that voters believe Harris to be the more radical of the two candidates, with 47% of Americans saying Harris is “too liberal.” Meanwhile, 43% of Americans said Trump is “too conservative.”
Harris and Trump will meet in Philadelphia for their first presidential debate on Tuesday night. ABC News his hosting the event and the moderators will be David Muir and Lindsey Davis. It is unclear whether there will be a second debate.
Pennsylvania is a must-win swing state in the presidential race, and both campaigns have been pouring money into media markets in the Keystone State. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 and Biden won it in 2020.
Trump and Harris are virtually tied in Pennsylvania and Georgia, and Trump’s debate with President Joe Biden was held in Atlanta.
While Election Day on November 5 is nine weeks away, early voting in Pennsylvania begins this month. Whoever wins Pennsylvania cinches 20 electoral votes.
Philadelphia is also conveniently situated on the northeast corridor between Washington, D.C. and New York City’s media hubs.
The first presidential debate, to be held Tuesday Sept. 10, will be moderated by ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis. Muir is the anchor of “World News Tonight” on ABC, while Davis anchors the Sunday edition of the program and hosts her own show “ABC News Live.”
Muir has been at ABC since 2003. He was former President Donald Trump’s first White House interview as president. More recently, he interviewed President Joe Biden on the anniversary of the famous D-Day invasion.
Davis, meanwhile, has been at the network since 2007. She previously interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris in July 2023, and also touts a long list of other high-profile subjects she has sat down with on camera.
Both Muir and Davis have previously moderated presidential debates in 2016, 2019 and 2020.
Among the most contentious rules of the upcoming debate is whether the candidates’ microphones will be muted when they are not speaking, or whether they will remain on. While former President Donald Trump has historically preferred the latter, his campaign wants to mute them.
Meanwhile, prior to President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance in July, his campaign wanted the microphones to be muted when Biden wasn’t talking, but now, Democrats want the mics to remain on for Harris, insisting it will “fully allow for substantive exchanges between the candidates.”
It was announced Wednesday that the two candidates agreed on debate rules that said the mics would be muted when a candidate is not speaking. Other rules for the Sept. 10 debate mirror much of the rules from the last presidential debate between Trump and Biden.
The candidates will stand behind lecterns, will not make opening statements and will not be allowed to bring any notes. The debate will last 90 minutes.
Top US surgeon breaks rank with warning about gender surgery for minors
One of America’s top surgeons cautioned against administering gender-affirming care for minors on Monday, telling Fox News the long-term effects are still unknown.
“The real issue here is, as physicians, we’re driven by evidence, and our care also involves compassion and interaction with patients. But we have to really look to the evidence when we’re thinking about what the appropriate care is for patients, and this is a newly-developing field. For adolescents right now, the evidence, there’s just not enough of it yet,” Dr. Steven Williams, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, explained on “Fox & Friends First,” Monday.
Gender-affirming care can involve hormonal or surgical treatments that help the patient’s physical appearance or hormonal makeup more closely align with the gender identity they choose.
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Dr. Williams broke ranks on the issue as proponents insist that allowing a child to continue through their natural puberty without the influence of blockers or other gender-affirming care treatments is detrimental to their mental well-being.
Williams counters that claim by pointing to the potential long-term effects of such care, which are currently ambiguous.
“I think there are a lot of things to consider. One is safety. These techniques are still in development and this is a new field for adolescents,” he said.
“There are a lot of psychiatric and long-term results that we need to get better data on, and this is a particularly vulnerable population. Again, I think it’s important to distinguish that we’re talking about adolescent patients. For adults, this care is well-established.”
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Some who sought out gender-affirming care in their youth have since attempted to reverse the changes, including detransitioners Chloe Cole and Prisha Mosley, who have been outspoken in warning others of the potential consequences of gender-affirming care procedures.
As far as reversing the measures, Williams says some treatments are easier than others. He specifically cited top surgery, which involves reshaping the breasts to appear either more masculine or more feminine, as one of the less complicated procedures to reverse.
“However, it does leave scars. Every surgery leaves scars that have to be dealt with,” he continued. “And that’s the bulk of the procedures [that] are performed in adolescents in the United States at this time.”
Concerns over gender-affirming care for minors have led others to raise their voices in opposition. The U.K.’s formerly conservative government even imposed regulations to restrict the prescribing and supply of puberty blockers in the nation after listening to concerns from medical officials.
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FLASHBACK: DA Harris’ plan for drug dealers that was quickly shut down by police
Years before Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, she promoted a third-strike crime policy for drug dealers as San Francisco’s district attorney that was promptly shut down by law enforcement for being too easy on narcotics peddlers.
Harris served as San Francisco’s DA from 2004 to 2011, when she was then elected attorney general of California. In her second year in office as the Golden City’s district attorney, Harris proposed a drug enforcement policy that would have prosecuted drug dealers upon their third arrest. Under the proposal, dubbed “Operation Safe Streets,” police in the city would have detained and released drug dealers two times before finally charging them upon their third arrest.
The San Francisco Police Department, however, refused to take part in the plan, detailing in a letter to Harris that such a proposal would likely allow criminals back on the streets to re-offend immediately after being detained.
“This proposal asks us not to arrest, but instead detain and release observed narcotics sales suspects pursuant to Penal Code Section 849(b) P.C. When the same suspect is arrested the third time for narcotics sales, your office would then charge all three counts,” then-Police Chief Heather Fong wrote in a letter to Harris in 2005 which was obtained by Fox Digital.
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“The proposal would result in a double standard, as adults would be released while juveniles would be booked. Additionally, narcotics dealers who sell drugs near a school would be released after only a brief detention,” Fong argued. “Undoubtedly, this would send the wrong message to observant children who unfortunately witness drug dealing activity on a regular basis.”
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Fong added in the letter to Harris that while the left-wing city was sympathetic to those suffering with drug addiction issues, the police department and community did not hold drug dealers in high regard.
“The San Francisco Police Department fully supports treatment programs for users who desire to break their cycle of addiction. However, the community and the Police Department are not sympathetic to those who sell narcotics and exploit for profit the weakness of others,” Fong wrote.
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“We believe drug dealers should be held accountable for their actions. Therefore, we believe the public would not view a ‘detain and release’ program favorably.”
Fong capped off the letter by telling Harris that the department would not participate in such a proposal.
“After carefully considering the pros and cons of this proposal, we decline to participate in such a program. We would prefer a program where a suspect has been arrested three times for narcotics sales without being rebooked, be bundled together for a District Attorney warrant. Under such a program, the evidence against a defendant would be tripled and the case(s) would certainly have more jury appeal.”
A local outlet, The Daily Journal, reported in 2006 that Harris’ chief of the criminal division in the DA’s office responded to Fong that he was willing to risk potential negative media from the program and that the city should plow ahead with the plan.
“It is true that San Francisco is home to some media outlets that may perceive of this program as being too tough on narcotics offenders, because more dealers will wind up behind bars as a result of this approach,” then-Criminal Division Chief Jeff Ross wrote, according to the outlet.
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“I’m sure you would agree that we must pursue effective enforcement approaches without regard to whether there might be critical media coverage.”
The proposal ultimately failed and did not go into effect.
Fast-forward to the current election cycle, Harris’ 2005 plan was resurrected by California critics who say the vice president’s bravado as a “tough” prosecutor is rewriting history.
The Harris campaign has broadcast ads touting Harris’ record on law and order, focusing on her years as a prosecutor in Alameda County, San Francisco and as attorney general of the state.
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“As a tough prosecutor, Kamala Harris dealt with men like Trump all the time: Rapists, con men, frauds, criminals – she’s used to guys like Trump, used to putting them in their place,” a narrator for a pro-Harris ad released last month stated.
Law enforcement and Republicans in the state hit back against such ads, the Daily Mail reported.
“The campaign is trying to completely reinvent reality,” Republican California Rep. Kevin Kiley said. “Those of us who have actually lived in California – in particular in San Francisco where she was DA but Los Angeles as well – know all too well what the reality was.”
“She was a champion of San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy, she wanted drug dealers to go without being prosecuted until the third attempt, and she herself said in her own book that she was a progressive prosecutor.”
Kevin Cashman, who was deputy chief of the San Francisco Police Department when Harris proposed the drug dealer proposal in 2005, told the outlet that police officers were “shocked” by the proposals.
“We immediately saw that it wouldn’t be effective for our mission of keeping San Francisco safe,” he told the Daily Mail.
“The District Attorney called the strategy she recommended Operation Safe Streets. We in the police department called it Catch and Release, because we would have to catch them, identify them, and then release them back in the community without any action taken.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign about the 2005 proposal but did not receive a response by the publication deadline.
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Company tells employees it will begin tracking their location in mere months
One of the world’s biggest consulting and accounting firms plans to monitor its employees’ locations to ensure compliance with a stricter return-to-office policy set to take effect next year.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, known as PwC, announced that its U.K. branch is “placing more emphasis on in-person working.” It initiated a new policy that requires staff to spend at least three days a week, or 60% of their time, in the office or with clients. That’s up from the previously mandated two to three days in the office or with clients, according to the firm.
In an internal email, staffers were told that the company would be sharing their location data with them on a monthly basis, a PwC spokesperson told FOX Business.
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“The new policy tips the balance of our working week into being located alongside clients and colleagues,” PwC U.K. Managing Partner Laura Hinton said, adding that “this feels right for our business and right for our people, given our focus on client service, coaching, and learning and development.”
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The policy takes effect in January, which PwC says will give staff time to “plan for these arrangements.”
If an employee’s data shows they are “consistently breaching the policy,” PwC would first seek to understand why, a spokesperson said.
There has been a wave of companies, especially in the tech sector, that have required employees to come back to the office as the pandemic subsided.
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In 2023, Amazon, now requiring employees to be in person three days a week, warned that employees who don’t comply with its return-to-office policy could get fired. It would also jeopardize an employee’s chance of getting a promotion, according to several reports.
Meta employees who weren’t fully remote were also required in 2023 to come back to the office at least three days per week.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has been vocal about flaws associated with working from home. His firm, along with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs took steps in the fall of 2022 to reduce remote work.
JPMorgan had return-to-office pushes for top trading staffers in late 2020 and for managing directors in 2023.
Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill breaks silence after bodycam footage of detention is released
Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill posted a four-word message on social media following the release of the bodycam footage of the officers involved in his detention on Monday.
“Let’s make a change,” he wrote on X.
He then appeared on CNN and elaborated on what he meant with those words.
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“I’m not a big believer in diving people,” Hill said. “I don’t believe in all that. I believe in bringing people together because that’s my purpose in life. I do football camps all across the world trying to bring different people together … because we in this together, baby. We’re on this Earth together. We gotta live together.
“So, when I say, ‘Let’s make a change,’ let’s do it together. So, Miami PD, really all officers across the world, one officer doesn’t make the whole group look bad. Everybody has bad apples. Every team has bad apples. It’s my job to use my platform and my resources so that way I’m able to align with these different stations.
“We done tried it all. We done protest. We even took a knee. We done did walks. So what’s next? Me and my wife are brainstorming on how we can be a part of this change. It’s important to us. We want to be able to change lives all across the world – not just Miami.”
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Hill said if he wasn’t a celebrity athlete there would have been a different story playing out, suggesting he may have been shot or hauled off to jail.
The bodycam footage was released earlier Monday. The footage captured the intense moments which saw Miami-Dade Police officers stopping Hill, then taking him out of his vehicle and putting him in handcuffs as the situation escalated.
The Dolphins called for punishment for the officers involved in the incident.
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Hill still managed to play on Sunday and scored an 80-yard touchdown. He celebrated the score by poking fun at his detention.
Study shows which state you should live in to maintain the happiest lifestyle
A new study revealed which states in America are the happiest — and the top spot may or may not surprise you.
WalletHub released the 2024 list of the happiest states in the United States after conducting research across all 50 states in three key dimensions: Emotional & physical well-being, work environment and community and environment.
Additionally, the Miami, Florida, based personal finance company looked at 30 additional metrics to curate the list, such as social well-being, sports-participation rate, life expectancy, current unemployment rate, ideal weather and safety.
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Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others, WalletHub reported these states as being the “happiest” in the country.
Chip Lupo, a Wallethub analyst, said the happiest states have to be great all around.
“In addition to pursuing your passions, having a good work-life balance and maintaining an emotional support network, another key way to boost your happiness is living in the right place,” he said in a media statement.
Lupo added, “The happiest states are those that provide above-average quality of life in a wide variety of areas, from strong state economies and high quality physical and mental health care to adequate amounts of leisure time and good weather.”
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10 happiest states in America
10. Massachusetts
9. Nebraska
8. Idaho
7. Connecticut
6. Minnesota
5. Delaware
4. Utah
3. New Jersey
2. Maryland
1. Hawaii
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WalletHub found that Hawaii was the happiest state in the United States thanks to its “residents reporting the highest levels of life satisfaction in the nation and the lowest depression rate.”
Additionally, Hawaii was known to have great physical health and the longest life expectancy in the U.S., per WalletHub.
Hawaii has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation at 2.8% and the second-highest share of households with an annual income above $75,000.
Maryland and New Jersey ranked second and third, respectively, for the happiest states in America thanks to people’s supportive relationships and the love they have in their lives, according to WalletHub’s findings.
Maryland residents also reported that they are motivated to achieve their goals at the third-highest rate in the U.S., while New Jersey residents have the ninth-lowest share of people who get anxious when thinking about personal finances.
States near the bottom of WalletHub’s list include New Mexico, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas and Louisiana — which came in last place.
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The study also found that Tennessee, Maine, West Virginia, Arkansas and Oklahoma are the states with the highest share of adult depression.
Hawaii, West Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, Ohio and Arkansas were named states that have the lowest adequate sleep rate. Vermont ranked the highest on that list.
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Fox News Digital reached out to WalletHub for additional comment.
Everything to know about the US Open’s iconic drink behind this viral clip
Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner might not have been the only winners of the U.S. Open. The distinction could also be shared with the Honey Deuce, the tennis tournament’s signature cocktail that was as much a character at this year’s event as the players themselves.
Sales of the pink-colored cocktail have been revealed to Fox News Digital as the drink surged in popularity amid samplings by superstars.
Retired Grand Slam champion Serena Williams and American pop star Taylor Swift are just some celebrities who have recently flocked to Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York, for tennis and, well, to sip on the Honey Deuce.
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Swift was seen drinking a Honey Deuce during her appearance alongside Kansas City Chiefs tight end and boyfriend Travis Kelce at Sunday’s men’s final.
Those behind the U.S. Open X account took to the platform to share a photo of Swift reaching for the drink, along with the caption, “Taylor Swift getting the full US Open experience!”
Williams tried the vodka-infused cocktail for the first time a few weeks ago, sampling it and sharing her thoughts on social media.
“It is good,” Williams, who took a sip, can be heard saying in the video, which has been viewed more than 586,000 times on TikTok.
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It’s estimated that more than 556,000 Honey Deuces were sold at this year’s tournament, a representative for Grey Goose, which is the official vodka provider for the U.S. Open, told Fox News Digital.
That number equates to roughly $12.8 million in sales generated from the Honey Deuce alone.
“We are thrilled to have exceeded our goal for this year with well over 550,000 Grey Goose Honey Deuce cocktails sold,” Aleco Azqueta, Grey Goose’s vice president of marketing for North America, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “You really can’t say you went to the U.S. Open without having a Grey Goose Honey Deuce and this year that was more evident than ever.”
The U.S. Open sold about 460,000 Honey Deuces in 2023, Chris Studley, the USTA’s managing director of event services, told Fox News Digital, fetching about $10.1 million in sales.
But that was when the drink cost $22. The price for a Honey Deuce increased to $23 in 2024.
“Similar to other sporting events that might have their own signature cocktail, that’s what the Honey Deuce is for the U.S. Open,” Studley said, calling it “a great drink for the summer.”
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Being a summer event, the weather may have been a factor in boosting Honey Deuce sales.
“We had probably one of the best weather stretches in years for the U.S. Open,” Studley said.
It also couldn’t hurt to have the endorsement of celebrities who were in attendance.
“It just reinforces the hype around it, right,” Studley said. “I mean, you have your official cocktail for the tournament, and then you see a celebrity drinking it and it just kind of cements it in place for people to try it.”
This was the first year that the Honey Deuce had its own merchandise like shirts and hats, Studley said.
He also pointed out that the length of stay is “much longer” at the U.S. Open than other sporting events like football or basketball.
“It’s not uncommon to find people that have been there for seven-plus hours,” he said.
Nick Mautone, a mixologist and hospitality industry consultant who once served as brand ambassador for Grey Goose, spoke to Fox News Digital last month about the inspiration for the viral drink he created during social media’s infancy in 2006.
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The New York native, who now lives in Seattle, said he was on his way home when he stopped to pick up some items to create a dessert salad that he intended to make for guests who would be visiting. On the grocery list were honeydew melon balls.
“Immediately the thunderbolt went off and I said, ‘Holy cow, these look just like tennis balls,'” Mautone said. “So, from that moment on, I knew that that was the garnish, non-negotiable.”
Mautone first played around with “a couple of iterations” of the cocktail, including one version that used blackberry liqueur, before settling on the final recipe.
It includes Grey Goose vodka, fresh lemonade, a “drizzle” of Chambord black raspberry liqueur and, of course, the honeydew melon balls.
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The goal, Mautone said, was to avoid making “a very complex drink so that the bartenders can actually serve it without getting frustrated.”
“Lo and behold, it’s become a cultural icon,” Mautone said.
For those who missed out on the Honey Deuce, it isn’t going away anytime soon, Studley said.
“The Honey Deuce will be back,” he said, affirming its return in 2025.