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 Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesKamala Harris suffered a blow to her campaign Wednesday when the Teamsters, one of the most influential labor unions with long ties to the Democratic Party, declined to make a presidential endorsement.
The announcement from the leadership of the 1.3-million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters marked the first time in nearly three decades the union sat out a presidential election. In every presidential election since 1996—the last year the Teamsters did not endorse a presidential candidate—the union has endorsed a Democrat.
About two-thirds of the union's membership supports Donald Trump, recent electronic and phone surveys found. About a third supports Harris. Earlier this year, Joe Biden bested Trump in the organization's town hall straw polls.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 FacebookA Vermont local official was found shot to death along with his new wife and stepson in their home over the weekend, state police have said.
Brian Crossman, his wife Erica and her 13-year-old son, Colin Taft, were found in their house Sunday morning. A relative, whose clothes were soaked in blood, called the police, waited at a nearby school and led them to the grim scene, according to local paper the Bennington Banner.
Police have ruled all three deaths homicides, but no arrests have yet been announced.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Arizona officials discovered they have no records showing if nearly 100,000 longtime residents provided proof of citizenship, which is required by law to vote in state and local races.
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