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Ben Folds Reveals New Album ‘What Matters Most,’ Single “Winslow Gardens,” and 2023 Tour Dates

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Ben Folds has revealed the release of his new album, What Matters Most, his first in eight years, along with a new single and forthcoming tour dates.

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Co-produced by Ben and Joe Pisapia (K.D. Lang, Guster) and recorded in East Nashville, What Matters Most, out June 2, is Folds’ first album following his 2015 collaboration with the string ensemble yMusic and the 2010 release, Lovely Avenue , with British author Nick Hornby.

Along with featured guests, including Ruby Amanfu, Tall Heights, and dodge, the penultimate title track for What Matters Most was inspired by Folds’ friend, the late actor, and comedian, Bob Saget.

Within Folds’ cinematic scope, the collection of songs is bittersweet, on one end navigating tragedy and despair and on the other side hopefulness and new perspective with the more upbeat “Winslow Gardens,” centered around losing track time during isolation with a loved one.

“There’s a lifetime of craft and experience all focused into this one record,” said Folds of the album in a statement. “Sonically, lyrically, emotionally, I don’t think it’s an album I could have made at any other point in my career.”

Though it’s been nearly a decade since Folds’ previous album, he has kept busy over the past several years. In 2017, Folds became the first artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, and in 2019, he released his memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs . He also launched his podcast, Lightning Bugs , in 2021, featuring guests, including Saget, Sara Bareilles, Jon Batiste, and Rainn Wilson.

Folds, who is currently working on a new musical for TV and writing his second book, recently appeared as himself in three episodes of the Amazon Prime series The Wilds . In 2022, he was also nominated for an Emmy Award for composing and performing the theme song for The Peanuts Apple TV special, It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown .

To support What Matters Most , Folds will also kick off a worldwide tour, which begins on March 24 in Wisconsin with dates across the U.S. and the UK—including a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London—and throughout Europe, wrapping up in Germany on Dec. 4. Select dates will also include orchestra collaborations.

In retrospect, What Matters Most is an album Folds says is his most “true” to date. “I come from the vinyl era, and this perhaps more than any record I’ve made is a true album,” he says. “There’s a very specific sequence and arc to each side, all building up to this almost surreal positive finale, and that structure was really important to me.”

Folds adds, “More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful. I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have when you started.”

What Matters Most Track listing:

1. But Wait, There’s More 2. Clouds With Ellipses (feat. dodie) 3. Exhausting Lover 4. Fragile 5. Kristine From The 7th Grade 6. Back To Anonymous 7. Winslow Gardens 8. Paddleboat 9. What Matters Most 10. Moments (feat. Tall Heights)

Ben Folds – 2023 Tour Dates March 24 – Eau Claire, WI – The Pablo Center at The Confluence March 25 – Viroqua, WI – The Historic Temple Theatre March 26 – Dubuque, IA – Five Flags Theatre March 28 – Fort Wayne, IN – The Clyde Theatre March 29 – Urbana, IL – Krannert Center for the Performing Arts April 21 – Tallahassee, FL – Capital City Amphitheatre * April 23 – Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Symphony Hall * April 25 – Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati Music Hall * April 26 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre April 28 – Greensboro, NC – Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts * April 29 – Wilmington, NC – Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre April 30 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Gaillard Center May 30 – Chicago, IL – Orchestra Hall* June 13 – New London, CT – Garde Arts Center June 14 – Lowell, MA – Memorial Auditorium June 16 – Lewiston, NY – ARTPARK Mainstage Theater June 17 – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center June 18 – Louisville, KY – Palace Theatre June 20 – Wilmington, DE – The Grand Opera House June 22 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre June 23 – Greensburg, PA – Palace Theatre June 24 – Indianapolis, IN – Rock the Ruins at Holiday Park June 25 – Detroit, MI – Motor City Casino June 27 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium June 28 – St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre June 30 – Onamia, MN – Grand Casino Mille Lacs July 1 – Fargo, ND – Outdoors at Fargo Brewin July 22 – Columbus, OH – Bicentennial Stage at the Columbus Commons * August 2 – Bonner, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheatre * August 4 – Park City, Utah – TBA * August 8 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater August 9 – Cedar Rapids, IA – McGrath Amphitheatre August 10 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater August 11 – Salina, KS – The Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts August 13 – Arvada, CO – TBA August 15 – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center August 16 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern August 17 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater August 19 – Eugene, OR – Cuthbert Amphitheater August 20 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre October 6 & 7 – Minneapolis, MN – Orchestra Hall * October 20 & 21 – Dallas, TX – Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center * November 8 – Bath, United Kingdom – The Forum November 9 – Brighton, United Kingdom – Brighton Dome November 10 – Birmingham, United Kingdom – Symphony Hall November 12 – Oxford, United Kingdom – New Theatre November 13 – London, United Kingdom – Royal Albert Hall November 15 – Gateshead, United Kingdom – Sage Gateshead November 16 – York, United Kingdom – Grand Opera House November 17 – Manchester, United Kingdom – O2 Apollo November 18 – Edinburgh, United Kingdom – Usher Hall November 20 – Dublin, Ireland – The Helix November 23 – Zurich, Switzerland – Kaufleuten November 25 – Berlin, Germany – Admiralspalast November 26 – Wiesbaden, Germany – Kurhaus November 27 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TrivoliVredenburg – Grote Zaal November 30 – Paris, France – La Cigale December 1 – Antwerp, Belgium – De Roma December 2 – Dudelange, Luxembourg – Opderschmelz December 4 – Essen, Germany – Lichtburg

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Ben Folds Reveals New Album What Matters Most, 2023 Tour Dates

The post Ben Folds Reveals New Album What Matters Most, 2023 Tour Dates appeared first on Consequence .

Ben Folds has unveiled What Matters Most, his first studio album in eight years. The project is out today, June 2nd via New West Records. To support the release, Folds has mapped out an extensive tour.

Folds has been making music since the ’80s, and in a statement, he said What Matters Most is the culmination of all those years of writing, recording, touring, and otherwise putting in his 10,000 hours. “There’s a lifetime of craft and experience all focused into this one record,” he explained. “Sonically, lyrically, emotionally, I don’t think it’s an album I could have made at any other point in my career.”

“I come from the vinyl era, and this perhaps more than any record I’ve made is a true album ,” Folds continued. “There’s a very specific sequence and arc to each side, all building up to this almost surreal positive finale, and that structure was really important to me. More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful. I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have when you started.”

In addition to the standard streaming, CD, and black vinyl editions of the album, What Matters Most is available on limited edition autographed colored vinyl complete with a flexi disc cover of the Psychedelic Furs’ “The Ghost in You” as well as a limited edition autographed CD that features three live bonus tracks recorded at the Kennedy Center. Order your copy here .

Folds’ upcoming tour includes a mix of full band, orchestra, and solo performances. Check out the full schedule below, and grab tickets here .

To coincide with the release of What Matters Most , Folds selected 10 piano albums he thinks every music fan should own .

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What Matters Most Tracklist: 01. But Wait, There’s More 02. Clouds with Ellipses (feat. dodie) 03. Exhausting Lover 04. Fragile 05. Kristine from the 7th Grade 06. Back to Anonymous 07. Winslow Gardens 08. Paddleboat 09. What Matters Most 10. Moments (feat. Tall Heights)

Ben Folds 2023 Tour Dates: 06/13 — New London, CT @ Garden Arts Center + 06/14 — Lowell, MA @ Memorial Auditorium + 06/16 — Lewiston, NY @ ARTPARK Mainstage Theater + 06/17 — Huber Heights, OH @ Rose Music Center + 06/18 — Louisville, KY @ Palace Theatre + 06/20 — Wilmington, DE @ The Grand Opera House + 06/22 — New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre + 06/23 — Greensburg, PA @ Palace Theatre + 06/24 — Indianapolis, IN @ Rock the Ruins at The Vogue Outdoors + 06/25 — Detroit, MI @ Motor City Casino + 06/27 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium + 06/28 — St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre + 06/30 — Onamia, MN @ Casino Mill Lacs + 07/01 — Fargo, ND @ Outdoors at Fargo Brewing + 07/20 — Grand Rapids, MI – Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park * 07/22 — Columbus, OH @ Bicentennial Stage at the Columbus Commons * 08/02 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheatre * 08/04 — Park City, Utah @ TBA * 08/08 — Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater + 08/09 — Cedar Rapids, IA @ McGrath Amphitheatre + 08/10 — Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater + 08/11 — Salina, KS @ The Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts + 08/13 — Arvada, CO @ Center for the Performing Arts + 08/15 — Mesa, AZ @ Ikeda Theater at Mesa Arts Center + 08/16 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern + 08/17 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater + 08/19 — Eugene, OR @ Cuthbert Amphitheater + 08/20 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre + 09/12 — Lynchburg, VA @ Academy Center of the Arts # 09/13 — Bristol, TN @ Paramount Pristol # 09/14 — Greensville, SC @ Peace Center – Concert Hall # 09/16 — Huntsville, AL @ Mars Music Hall # 09/17 — Birmingham, AL @ Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center # 09/20 — Durham, NC @ TBA # 09/21 — Washington, DC @ TBA # 09/23 — Atlantic City, NJ @ TBA # 09/24 — Huntington, NY @ The Paramount# 09/27 — Portsmouth, NH @ The Music Hall Historic Theater # 09/28 — Portland, ME @ State Theatre # 09/30 — Troy, NY @ Troy Saving Bank Music Hall # 10/01 — New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theatre # 10/06 — Minneapolis, MN @ Orchestra Hall * 10/07 — Minneapolis, MN @ Orchestra Hall * 10/10 — Conway, AR @ Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts # 10/11 — Tulsa, OK @ Chapman Music Hall # 10/12 — Springfield, MO @ Gilloz Theatre # 10/14 — Midland, TX @ Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center * 10/17 — Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center # 10/18 — Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre # 10/20 — Dallas, TX @ Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center * 10/21 — Dallas, TX @ Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center * 11/08 — Bath, UK @ The Forum 11/09 — Brighton, UK @ Brighton Dome 11/10 — Birmingham, UK @ Symphony Hall 11/12 — Oxford, UK @ New Theatre 11/13 — London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall 11/15 — Gateshead, UK @ Sage Gateshead 11/16 — York, UK @ Grand Opera House 11/17 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo 11/18 — Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall 11/20 — Dublin, IE @ The Helix 11/23 — Zurich, CH – Kaufleuten 11/25 — Berlin, DE @ Admiralspalast 11/26 — Wiesbaden, DE @ Kurhaus 11/27 — Utrecht, NL @ TrivoliVredenburg – Grote Zaal 11/30 — Paris, FR @ La Cigale 12/01 — Antwerp, BE @ De Roma 12/02 — Dudelange, LU @ Opderschemlz 12/04 — Essen, DE @ Lichtburg

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“More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful,” says Ben Folds. “I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have when you started.”

The songs are bittersweet here, hilarious at times, but often laced with a quiet sense of longing and dread: a text message goes unanswered; an old classmate descends into the dark depths of internet conspiracies; a relationship unravels in the middle of a lake. And yet, taken as a whole, the result is an undeniably joyful record that refuses to succumb to the weight of the world around it, an ecstatic reminder of all the beauty and promise hiding in plain sight for anyone willing (and present enough) to recognize their moments as they arrive.

“There’s a lifetime of craft and experience all focused into this one record,” Folds reflects. “Sonically, lyrically, emotionally, I don’t think it’s an album I could have made at any other point in my career.”

In 2010, Folds teamed up with celebrated author Nick Hornby on a collaborative record titled Lonely Avenue; in 2014, he composed his first piano concerto; in 2015, he recorded an album with the classical ensemble yMusic; in 2017, he became the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, where he began curating a series of performances marrying contemporary artists with symphonic orchestration; in 2019, he released his New York Times best-selling memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs; and in 2021, he launched the Lightning Bugs podcast, an interview series on creativity and process with guests as diverse as Jon Batiste, Sara Bareilles, Bob Saget, and Rainn Wilson.

As if that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, Folds also revealed himself to be a prolific photographer with gallery shows in the US and Europe, appeared onscreen in films and television (most recently playing himself in three episodes of the hit Amazon Prime series The Wilds), composed music for a 25-minute stage adaptation of Mo Willem’s Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (which premiered at the Kennedy Center), and serves on the boards of the Arts Action Fund, the Nashville Symphony and Planet Word, a new immersive museum in Washington, DC, dedicated to celebrating the power of language.

“It can be difficult jumping back and forth from one discipline to another,” says Folds, “but you learn so much from moving between worlds and collaborating with so many different kinds of artists. I performed some of the songs on this record with the National Symphony Orchestra before I finished recording them for the album, and that context gave me so much insight into how I wanted to handle them in the studio.”

Working with friends Rob Moose, Ross Garren and Tall Heights, and with Dodie and Ruby Amanfu lending vocal harmonies, Folds tackled the recording process with an orchestrator’s ear, carefully arranging each instrumental element in relief to his electrifying, insistent vocal melodies. Such detailed deliberation didn’t supplant improvisation or spontaneity in the room, but rather it focused the music first and foremost on supporting the lyrics, which stand front and center even in the record’s most sonically wild and unexpected moments.

“One thing I’ve taken from all of my orchestral work is that music feels best to me when it’s an event,” says Folds. “It’s easy to lose sight of that now that you can digitally edit the life and reality out of everything, but I’m trying to take the audience on a ride with me, and a big part of that requires grounding everything in the spirit of storytelling and live performance.”

That marriage of sophisticated craftsmanship and raw energy is clear from the top of the album, which opens with the defiantly optimistic “But Wait, There’s More.” “Do you still believe in the good of humankind? / I do I do I do I do I do,” Folds sings over a minimalist keyboard sequence that lands somewhere between Steve Reich and Laurie Anderson before giving way to lush horns and propulsive drums. Like much of the album, the song revels in unpredictability, zigging when you expect it to zag as it offers an empathetic acknowledgement of just how exhausting it is to live perpetually perched on the edge. “Not sure that we can take too much more,” Folds confesses in the track’s final seconds. “Pray that there’s a bottom somewhere in sight / Brothers and sisters hold tight.”

“The song suddenly gets a little more serious at the end,” Folds reflects, “and I think that’s my way of kind of ushering everyone into this journey that’s about to begin.”

From there, Folds wields humor and pathos with surgical precision as he walks a delicate tightrope between the ridiculous and the mundane. The playful “Exhausting Lover” spins a surreal caricature of rock and roll debauchery over an utterly addictive groove, while the melancholic “Clouds With Ellipses” ruminates on the distinctly modern rhythms and anxieties that come with sharing our most intimate, vulnerable selves via text, and the spare “Kristine From the 7th Grade” watches an acquaintance retreat into their own reality of political misinformation and culture war nonsense.

“I’ve seen so many people who’ve been torn apart from their friends and families due to all sorts of agitating things in the media and on Facebook,” says Folds, who wrote much of the album in Australia, where he spends part of each year. “I wanted the song to acknowledge the sadness of that.”

Folds ultimately isn’t interested in simply lamenting the flaws of our times, but rather in finding ways to still connect to the magic and wonder of being alive no matter what the world may throw at us. The dreamy “Back To Anonymous” embraces the unexpected freedom of a world in which everyone is masked; the off-kilter pop of “Winslow Gardens” loses track of the passing time while isolating with a loved one; the aching title track “What Matters Most” finds new perspective in the face of tragic loss. By the time we arrive at radiant closer “Moments,” it’s clear that transcendence is always within reach, no matter how unlikely it may seem.

“I come from the vinyl era, and this perhaps more than any record I’ve made is a true album,” says Folds. “There’s a very specific sequence and arc to each side, all building up to this almost surreal positive finale, and that structure was really important to me.”

In the album’s opening moments, “But Wait, There’s More” comes off as a rather grimly sardonic tease. (We live in an age of overstimulation, overconsumption, and overwhelming self-absorption. Just how much more can we take?) But by the album’s end, the line feels more like a mantra of hope and perseverance, a reminder that there’s more to this life than meets the eye, more to celebrate, more to love, more to be grateful for. It’s hard to imagine a more generous offering than that.

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“More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful,” says Ben Folds. “I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have

“More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful,” says Ben Folds. “I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have when you started.”

Indeed, Folds’ masterful new collection, What Matters Most, isn’t so much a statement as it is an offering, an open hand reaching out to all those wounded and bewildered by a world that seems to make less and less sense every day. Recorded in East Nashville with co-producer Joe Pisapia, the album marks Folds’ first new studio release in eight years, and it’s a bold, timely, cinematic work, one that examines the tragic and the absurd in equal measure as it reckons with hope and despair, gratitude and loss, identity, and perspective. The songs are bittersweet here, hilarious at times, but often laced with a quiet sense of longing and dread: a text message goes unanswered; an old classmate descends into the dark depths of internet conspiracies; a relationship unravels in the middle of a lake. And yet, taken as a whole, the result is an undeniably joyful record that refuses to succumb to the weight of the world around it, an ecstatic reminder of all the beauty and promise hiding in plain sight for anyone willing (and present enough) to recognize their moments as they arrive.

Born and raised in North Carolina, Folds first rose to fame in the mid-’90s with Ben Folds Five, whose acerbic, genre-bending take on piano pop helped define an entire era of alternative rock. After scoring multiple hit singles and a gold record with the band, Folds launched his solo career in 2001, releasing a series of similarly acclaimed albums that would firmly establish him as one of the most ambitious and versatile songwriters of his generation. In 2010, Folds teamed up with celebrated author Nick Hornby on a collaborative record titled Lonely Avenue; in 2014, he composed his first piano concerto; in 2015, he recorded an album with the classical ensemble yMusic; in 2017, he became the artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, where he began curating a series of performances marrying contemporary artists with symphonic orchestration; in 2019, he released his New York Times best-selling memoir, A Dream About Lightning Bugs; and in 2021, he launched the Lightning Bugs podcast, an interview series on creativity and process with guests as diverse as Jon Batiste, Sara Bareilles, Bob Saget, and Rainn Wilson. As if that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, Folds also revealed himself to be a prolific photographer with gallery shows in the US and Europe, appeared onscreen in films and television (most recently playing himself in three episodes of the hit Amazon Prime series The Wilds), composed music for a 25-minute stage adaptation of Mo Willem’s Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs (which premiered at the Kennedy Center), and serves on the boards of the Arts Action Fund, the Nashville Symphony and Planet Word, a new immersive museum in Washington, DC, dedicated to celebrating the power of language.

“The song suddenly gets a little more serious at the end,” Folds reflects, “and I think that’s my way of kind of ushering everyone into this journey that’s about to begin.”

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If I had known in 2019 that the last concert I would have shot for nearly four years was LeAnn Rimes, I would have made better life choices. One of the few highlights the quarantine period of my life were the weekly Ben Folds live streams. Fans gathered together remotely to furiously chat song requests and take in piano lessons from a master. Concert after concert was canceled, but Folds gave freely of his time to entertain. It’s long past time I got back to what matters most to me: concert photography.

New London’s Garde Arts Center is a revived historic movie palace, built in 1926. The Moroccan styled interior has been restored to the golden era of motion pictures that rivals the grandeur of The Cap in Port Chester. Both the space and the staff are warm and inviting.

Without fail, Ben Folds’ opening acts are exceptional. Tall Heights is not to be missed and makes getting to the venue early worth it. The duo of Tim Harrington on acoustic guitar and Paul Wright on cello have laid back etherial harmonies. A stripped down slow tempo cover of Blink-182 ’s “Dammit” lulls you, while showing you the band’s humor. Tall Heights explained they recorded a new album, influenced by the way Folds records: with all the musicians together, playing live in a room. They treated the audience to a new song they hadn’t performed anywhere yet. For the final song of their half hour set, Wright and Harrington stepped away from the microphones and stood at the front of the stage. Their powerful harmonies could be heard clearly at the back of the venue.

A shadowy Ben Folds sips a drink as he strolls across the stage to his Yamaha baby grand piano to the cheers of the full venue. He flashes his signature toothy grin as the band of six settles in and they open with the tricky harmonies of “Family of Me,” a track off the Over the Hedge Soundtrack. Folds’ first line to the audience, “How great I am,” is met with more cheers.

The full band consists of Harrington and Wright from Tall Heights, Derek Wong on bass, Paul Dumas on drums and Ross Garren on harmonica and keyboards. The harmonies of Tall Heights blend with Folds seamlessly and help fill out what sounded to me as hoarse, at times perhaps a little thin vocals from Folds. Occasionally, the band slid into the right notes, and there were a couple of flubs on the piano. Folds explains between songs it’s the first time he’s felt nervous in a decade. The band is having fun together, and can be often seen locking eyes with each other and smiling. And the harmonica, can we talk about the harmonica for a moment? Where has this been all the years of performing live? It fit so well with songs off the new album as well as old songs. Dear Ben, never tour without a harmonica again.

Typical of a Ben Folds performance, there are frequent breaks for story telling. Folds talks about his Patreon group assignments; members were tasked with finding headlines to turn into songs. Kristine from the Seventh Grade is a twist where Folds writes a fictional backstory about an author who’s headline he didn’t care for. The title track of What Matters Most came into being as Folds was clearing out the junk in his storage unit and he received “the worst text message” of his life: his friend Bob Saget had passed away. The process had already been a reflective moment for Folds, but took on a new meaning now, and it was time to focus on “What Matters Most.”

The audience found ways to interact with the show throughout by singing harmonies and a lone shouted request to Rock this Bitch. Folds jokes that he’s created a monster, but acquiesces with a toy piano version of places they visited in New London. The band never misses a beat and all take a solo. After the shortest encore pause in the history of live performances, New London must have a strict noise ordinance, Folds and band play an additional two songs. The final of the night, “Zak and Sara,” cause a couple audience members to stand in the aisle and dance with reckless abandon. It was one of those moments that was a joy to watch others having such joy at a show; one that I’ve missed sorely for years.

This was a different Folds concert. In the past, I’ve preferred seeing him as a solo act, but the addition of a full band to perform these songs just makes sense. As I thought about what was different on the ride home, it hit me: he didn’t perform a single Ben Folds Five song. This was Ben Folds. Full stop. He’s made a few comments that this is the last “pop” album he’s going to put out (until the urge hits him), and turn his focus on orchestral ambitions. If so, this tour truly is a celebration of what Folds has created over the decades of his solo career. There were a few shaky steps on the first night of the tour, but nothing the band won’t work out once these songs become routine.

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Widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation, Folds’ masterful new collection, What Matters Most, isn’t so much a statement as it is an offering, an open hand reaching out to all those wounded and bewildered by a world that seems to make less and less sense every day.

The album marks Folds’ first new studio release in eight years, and it’s a bold, timely, cinematic work, one that examines the tragic and the absurd in equal measure as it reckons with hope and despair, gratitude and loss, identity, and perspective.

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Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.

He's created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records.

For over a decade he's performed with some of the world's greatest symphony orchestras, and currently serves as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

Ben released his first book - a collection of interrelated essays, anecdotes and lessons about art, life and music - in 2019, which debuted as a New York Times Best Seller, and he hosted a podcast series spinoff of his book entitled “Lightning Bugs: Conversations with Ben Folds.” In addition to solo rock and orchestral touring, he's also developing a new unscripted tv series with Fred Rogers Productions, continues to appear in various film/tv guest starring roles, and is working on two new albums.

An outspoken champion for arts education and music therapy funding in our nation's public schools, Ben has served for over five years as an active member of the distinguished Artist Committee of Americans For The Arts (AFTA), and serves on the Board of AFTA's Arts Action Fund.

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Ben Folds 'What Matters Most' UK Tour

Wed 08 Nov 2023–Sat 18 Nov 2023

Ben Folds November UK Tour Dates

Wed 8 - Forum, Bath

Thur 9 - Dome, Brighton

Fri 10 - Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Sun 12 - New Theatre, Oxford

Mon 13 - Royal Albert Hall, London

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Ben Folds is one of the major music influencers of our generation. His body of genre-bending music includes a string of classic albums with Ben Folds Five and a glorious mix of collaborations and special projects.  He returns with What Matters Most , his first studio album in eight years.   Released in June on New West Records,  What Matters Most  is a bold, timely, cinematic work.   

Ben Folds will combine his new album with his own choice of songs from his whole career on the  What Matters Most Tour  in November, playing some of the greatest concert halls across the country including the Royal Albert Hall. 

Ben Folds will be joined by a full band featuring guitarist Tim Harrington and cellist Paul Wright from Tall Heights, as well as bass player Mandy Clarke!

He's chosen guitarist and singer Lau Noah to open these shows - she's a thrilling new voice from Catalonia via New York.

“More than anything I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful...This perhaps more than any record I’ve made is a true album” Ben Folds

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“Eleven percent of our voters are independent,” McCormick said. “Most of them are really unhappy with the future of the country and the future of Pennsylvania. Some of them are in supportive of President Trump, many of them are. I am hoping I can make a big push to get those folks very engaged.”

He said he believes the way to win this campaign is to make the choice between him and incumbent Sen. Bob Casey “very stark and clear.”

Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Joe Hamm, who was part of the round table, said he has told Trump’s team members they need to be more disciplined in their messaging when they have asked him what he is hearing and seeing in the state.

“His messaging is killing us when he’s talking about how [Harris] identifies, you know, with her race. Who cares? Let’s talk about the border. Let’s talk about inflation and how, you know, hard work from Pennsylvania’s Americans are struggling to make ends meet. Let’s talk about their policies and what it’s done to our Commonwealth and this nation,” Hamm told McCormick.

McCormick responded, “When I talk about my campaign, it’s a team score. It is up and down the ballot. Hopefully my race can have an effect both up the ticket and down the ticket.”

Supreme Court temporarily rejects Biden administration request that would expand Title IX protections

Lawrence Hurley

Reporting from Washington, D.C.

The Supreme Court on Friday barred the Biden administration from enforcing parts of a major regulation on sex discrimination in education that is embroiled in litigation over its protections for transgender students.

The court rejected a request from the administration to allow less contentious parts of the regulation, many of which have nothing to do with gender identity, to go into effect in states where it has been challenged while lower courts wrangle over the contentious transgender issues.

Gov. Roy Cooper: 'I have that 2008 feeling'

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who pulled out of consideration to be Harris' running mate , said in a CNN interview that he has "that 2008 feeling," referring to the last time his state voted for a Democratic presidential nominee.

"I said earlier today, 'I have that 2008 feeling,' and people in North Carolina know what that means. That's the last time we voted for a Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama," he said. "I have that same feeling now. I'm getting that vibe from voters that they want to make history again."

Trump campaign adviser says former president's schedule to 'increase'

Isabelle Schmeler

Corey Lewandowski, a newly appointed Trump senior campaign adviser, said in a Fox News interview that the former president's schedule will pick up.

"You’re going to see him on the road all week long, and you’re going to see the president’s schedule continue to increase, because I believe that the president’s best when he’s talking directly to the American people," Lewandowski said.

When asked what needed to change on Trump's campaign, Lewandowski pointed to wanting Trump to be "in front of the American people."

"I want him to talk to small gatherings, big gatherings, rallies, the policy speeches," he said. "That’s where he excels, and that’s where he’s the best. And I think the more people who get to see him and hear him, the more likely it is they’re going to support him."

Walz joins TikTok or, as he puts it, 'TimTok'

Walz is officially on TikTok, announcing his move in his first video on the social media site today.

The governor filmed the 10-second video alongside his dog, Scout, at a dog park.

"Hey everybody, Tim here with Scout at the dog park along the Mississippi doing our first entry into TikTok," he said. "Or as he and I say: TimTok. Right, Scout?"

Former U.S. Secret Service director now herself under protection amid threats

Zoë Richards

Former U.S. Secret Service director, Kimberly Cheatle has been designated a Secret Service protectee, after resigning her position in the wake of assassination attempt on Trump last month in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Threats have been directed at Cheatle following the shooting, criticism over security failings and her appearance on Capitol Hill, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Cheatle resigned on July 23.

She served as an agent of the Secret Service from 1995 to 2019, She then spent roughly three years in the private sector as a senior security official for Pepsi before she was named director of the Secret Service in 2022.

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to address the DNC on Wednesday

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Julie Tsirkin

Sahil Kapur

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will deliver a speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene, of Washington, and Rep. Tom Suozzi, of New York, will also make remarks on the same day.

Suozzi is expected to discuss immigration, the issue that made him a national figure after his rightward shift on the border helped him flip George Santos’s district in a special election this year.

Republicans have leaned into immigration and border issues as a primary line of attack against Harris, aiming to tie her to the issue.

Punchbowl News first reported the Wednesday speaking slots.

Cornel West disqualified from Michigan ballot

Jane C. Timm

Cornel West has been disqualified from appearing on Michigan's presidential ballot because the independent candidate's paperwork was not properly notarized, the state's board of elections announced Friday.

West was required to include a notarized affidavit of identity when filing to appear on Michigan’s ballot, but the Colorado notary who filled out the paperwork left out key details. The notary’s stamp was also on a separate piece of paper and not included with her certificate.

In a letter detailing the decision that was shared with NBC News, Michigan Director of Elections Jonathan Brater said officials reached out to West’s team in early August but did not hear back.

A spokesperson for West's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The development is a boon for Democrats, who have worried that West might pull votes from their presidential ticket. Republicans have boosted West's efforts to get on the ballot in key battleground states.

Mark Brewer, an attorney and former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party, filed a challenge in July and a lawsuit this week to keep West off the state's ballot. Brewer successfully challenged the candidacy of five Republican gubernatorial candidates in 2022 after finding fraudulent signatures in their ballot qualification paperwork.

GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson plans to do whatever it takes to help Trump win with $100 million PAC

Brian Schwartz, CNBC

Billionaire Republican megadonor Miriam Adelson appears to have a blank check policy when it comes to her support of former President Donald Trump , as she aims to help get him back to the White House .

Adelson’s political aide Andy Abboud was overheard telling attendees at a campaign event at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. , on Thursday that whatever Trump needs from Adelson, he’s going to get, according to Abboud and a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

This person and one other in this article were granted anonymity to speak freely about private matters.

“We’re going to do whatever it takes for him to win,” Abboud said in a brief phone interview Friday with CNBC, confirming his comments overheard at the event. “In her [Adelson’s] mind, and in the minds of those who run the political action committee [Preserve America], we are going to do whatever it takes for him to win.”

Trump's voice featured on new song with rappers Kodak Black and Fivio Foreign

Nnamdi Egwuonwu

Donald Trump's voice is featured on a new rap song with New York rapper Fivio Foreign and Florida rapper Kodak Black titled “ONBOA47RD.”

Both rappers have publicly expressed support for Trump, particularly Kodak Black, whom Trump pardoned toward the end of his first term.

“Rap music imitates reality and these artists are showing their support for President Trump, which has become a common sentiment in the Black community,” Janiyah Thomas, campaign Black media director, said.

Clips of Trump speaking are used on the song’s intro and bridge: “I’m not supposed to be here tonight. I’m here today to announce a brand-new plan to deliver more opportunity, more security, more fairness.”

Both rappers made reference to Trump during their respective verses.

“I look at the gang and I pledge the allegiance. So we’re all Donald’s secret,” Foreign said.

“The government gave me a proclamation, turn my birthday to holiday,” Kodak Black said, referring to Trump’s pardon.

Kodak Black and Fivio Foreign have 30 million combined monthly listeners on Spotify, with the former a platinum selling artists and billboard chart topper.

Vance campaign plane makes emergency landing in Milwaukee

Alec Hernández

Reporting from aboard Vance's campaign plane

Minutes after taking off en route to Ohio, Vance's campaign plane made an emergency landing in Milwaukee after experiencing a mechanical issue with one of its doors.

"The pilot advised there was a malfunction with the door seal. After declaring an emergency, Trump Force Two returned to Milwaukee. As soon as the issue was resolved, the plane returned to its originally planned flight path back to Cincinnati,” Vance spokesperson Taylor Van Kirk said in a statement.

Campaigning in Milwaukee earlier this afternoon, Vance was set to return to his home base in Cincinnati after wrapping two stops in the area. The campaign's plane first took off just after 1:06 p.m. CT and touched back down safely 16 minutes later after declaring the emergency.

Nearly an hour later at 2:18 p.m. CT, the plane took off again headed to its original destination with the issue resolved.

Harris claims Trump tried to cut Medicare in office. Not quite.

In her North Carolina speech, Kamala Harris said of Trump, “He tried to cut Medicare every year he was president.”

It’s a misleading line that Democrats have been using for years, based on Trump’s budget proposals that restricted payments to Medicare providers and suppliers. As NBC News has reported , Trump’s budgets didn’t cut Medicare benefits. The spending cuts for health care providers and suppliers have been embraced by Democrats, including in the Affordable Care Act, which Harris touted on Friday and vowed to protect.

In response to the Harris claim, Trump campaign spokesman Brian Hughes said, “Their shameless lies about President Trump are an attempt to distract from Harris’ abject failure in the White House.”

Harris contrasts her vision for America's economic future with Trump's

Elleiana Green Elleiana Green is a Digital Politics intern with NBC News

Finishing out her speech in Raleigh, Harris contrasted her economic proposals with those of the Trump campaign.

"Donald Trump plans to devastate the middle class, punish working people and make the cost of living go up for millions of Americans," she said.

She added that her administration would "bring down costs, increase the security and stability financially of your family, and expand opportunity for working and middle-class Americans."

Harris' promise to expand the child tax credit could face congressional opposition

Alexandra Marquez

In her speech, Harris promised "to not only restore [the child] tax credit, but expand it," adding that she would provide $6,000 to parents in the first year of a child's life.

If elected, Harris' proposal would almost surely face pushback in the Senate, which voted this month to block a smaller, bipartisan plan to impose a child tax credit.

Harris says she will 'end American housing shortage' as president

Harris said that her economic plan will "end America's housing shortage by building 3 million new homes and rentals."

"I know what home ownership means. It’s more than a financial transaction. It’s so much more than that. ... It’s a symbol of the pride that comes with hard work. It’s financial security. It represents what you will be able to do for your children," she said.

She added, "Sadly, right now, it is out of reach for far too many American families. ... As president, I will work in partnership with industry to build the housing we need both to rent and to buy."

Harris talks about Trump raising taxes on basic necessities

Rebecca Shabad

Harris talked about Trump raising taxes on necessities, referring to the former president saying he wants a 10% tariff on imported goods .

"It will mean higher prices on just about every one of your daily needs," she said. "A Trump tax on gas, a Trump tax on food, a Trump tax on clothing, a Trump tax on over-the-counter medication."

Trump told Fox News earlier this year that it could be 60% — maybe even “more than that” — on imports of Chinese goods.

Crowd applauds after Harris says she'll give cash to first-time homebuyers

"While we work on the housing shortage, my administration will provide first-time home buyers with $25,000 to help with the down payment on a new home," Harris told rallygoers in North Carolina, to big cheers.

"We can do this," she added.

Harris says she will go after 'bad actors' who raise prices

During the event to unveil her economic plan if she is elected president, Harris said she "will go after the bad actors" to protect consumers.

"Look, I know most businesses are creating jobs, contributing to our economy and playing by the rules, but some are not, and that's just not right, and we need to take action when that is the case," Harris said.

The former California attorney general said that she went after companies that illegally increased prices and won more than $1 billion for consumers. She said she'll do more as president.

Harris refers to her own middle-class upbringing

During her speech unveiling an economic policy platform, Harris told her family's story, sharing with attendees: "For most of my childhood, we were renters. My mother saved for well over a decade to buy a home."

"Later in college, I worked at McDonald's to earn spending money," Harris said, before acknowledging that "some of the people I worked with were raising families on that paycheck."

"They worked second or third jobs to pay rent or buy food. That only gets harder when the cost of living goes up," Harris added.

Harris says she would work to pass first U.S. ban on price-gauging on food

Harris said that, as president, she would work to pass the first federal ban on price-gauging on food.

"My plan will include new penalties for opportunistic companies that exploit crises and break the rules, and we will support smaller food businesses that are trying to play by the rules and get ahead," Harris said.

She continued: "We will help the food industry become more competitive ... more competition means lower prices for you and your families."

Harris says she'll lay out full her economic vision 'in the weeks to come'

Harris told the audience in Raleigh that she'll lay out her full economic vision "in the weeks to come," but today she will focus exclusively on the cost of living.

"I will address in greater detail my plans to build an opportunity economy, and today, I will focus on one element that's on the minds of many Americans as they pay their bills at the kitchen table or walk the aisles of a grocery store, and that is lowering the cost of living," she said.

She continued: "Look, the bills add up: food, rent, gas, back-to-school, clothes, prescription medication. After all that, for many families, there's not much left at the end of the month."

Harris says she will cut 'red tape' and build up middle class

During her speech in Raleigh, Harris said her economic plan as president will "focus on cutting needless bureaucracy and unnecessary regulatory red tape."

She added: "As president, I will bring together labor with small businesses and major companies to invest in America. ... Key to creating this opportunity economy is building up our middle class."

Harris acknowledges economic progress but admits that 'costs are still too high'

In her speech focused on the economy, Harris said that the country has come a "long way" under the Biden administration.

"We were facing one of the worst economic crises in modern history, and today, by virtually every measure, our economy is the strongest in the world," Harris said.

The administration, she said, has created 16 million new jobs and has made historic investments in chips, manufacturing, clean energy and inflation is under under 3%.

"And as president of the United States, it will be my intention to build on the foundation of this progress," she said. "Still, we know that many Americans don't yet feel that progress in their daily lives, costs are still too high and on a deeper level for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to just be able to get ahead."

Harris said her administration would build what she calls "an opportunity economy."

Harris shouts out Gov. Cooper, who was on running mate shortlist

In her remarks, Harris mentioned North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who was once considered on her shortlist of running mates, before he withdrew from consideration .

Harris begins speech saying that she's been to North Carolina 16 times as VP

Harris began her speech in Raleigh by noting how many times she's been to North Carolina, a potential battleground state, since she became vice president: 16 times.

Arizona open primary initiative has enough signatures to make the ballot

A constitutional amendment to create open primaries in Arizona has more than enough signatures to make the ballot, a judge ruled today. The measure had 536,216 signatures, more than 150,000 over the required amount.

If the amendment is approved by voters, it would create an open primary for state, federal and county candidates. For most elections, between two and five of the top vote-getters would advance to the general election.

Supporters say opening up primaries to all voters would reduce extremism in politics and engage more Americans, while critics say the parties are entitled to nominate candidates as they choose. The measure would likely engage more of Arizona’s nearly 1.5 million unaffiliated voters in primaries; currently, they have to request a partisan ballot to participate in the primary election.

Earlier this month, the measure also survived a legal challenge that claimed it violated state law and the Arizona constitution. The case has been appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to aid in Trump's debate prep

Garrett Haake

Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, will help Trump prepare for his debate against Harris, campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed.

“He does not need traditional debate prep but will continue to meet with respected policy advisors and effective communicators like Tulsi Gabbard, who successfully dominated Kamala Harris on the debate stage,” said Leavitt.

The former representative had her own exchange on the debate stage with Harris in 2019.

The news was first reported by The New York Times.

Vance says Trump wasn't 'denigrating' veterans in Medal of Honor remarks

In remarks to the Milwaukee Police Association, Vance defended Trump from criticism he's received after the former president claimed that a top presidential civilian award is "better" than the nation's highest military honor.

"Trust me, the veteran community is very, very much behind Donald Trump," Vance told officers in Milwaukee.

"He’s a guy who loves our veterans and who honors our veterans," Vance added. "I don’t think him complimenting and saying a nice word about a person who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in any way denigrating those who received military honors."

Vance was referring to Trump's remarks yesterday at a campaign event where he shared a story about giving Republican donor Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom and told attendees that that award is "the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead."

The Harris campaign and other Trump critics quickly rebuked the former president for the remarks.

New polling digs into the Jewish vote, which could be the swing Pennsylvania demographic

Allan Smith

Jewish voters recently surveyed in battleground Pennsylvania favored Harris over Trump by 12 points, 55%-43%, according to a poll conducted by the Honan Strategy Group earlier this month and shared with NBC News.

The survey is actually somewhat encouraging for Trump. It’s not a frequently polled demographic, so there is little other data to compare to in Pennsylvania. But anywhere from 60% to 70% of Jewish voters nationally backed Democrats at the presidential level in recent elections, according to past research, so the survey may show some small amount of movement toward him.

And Pennsylvania is the swing state with the most Jewish voters, so even a small swing toward the former president could make a big difference.

The pollster assembled the sample by contacting voters with common Jewish surnames, and respondents then self-identified when asked. The group polled 400 Jewish voters from July 26 to Aug. 1, with a margin or error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

The survey was conducted on behalf of the TEACH Coalition/Orthodox Union, Jewish advocacy groups that have gotten involved in recent elections, including the successful primary campaign against Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., earlier this year.

“What was surprising was how close the numbers were between Harris and Trump,” said Maury Litwack, founder of the TEACH coalition. “If you look at the Jewish vote in presidential elections, the Democratic candidate usually wins in the 60s, sometimes in the low 70s, but you don’t see it tracking as closely as you do here.”

The survey found Harris’ net favorability among those surveyed at +10, while Trump’s was -19. On Israel, 53% said they believed Harris supported the Jewish state while 39% said she did not or was actively against the country. For Trump, 44% said he was excellent or good at handling U.S./Israel relations.

Roughly two-thirds of respondents said the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and a rise in antisemitism made them more likely to vote.

Interestingly, the survey found the inclusion of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, as Harris’ running mate would have made essentially no difference in her polling versus Trump.

'We're rewriting history:' Biden signs proclamation to designate 1908 Springfield Race Riot site a national monument

Joined by civil rights advocates and members of Congress in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation today to designate the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot a national monument.

"We're rewriting history. We're allowing history to be written as what happened. So our children, our grandchildren and everybody understands what happened and what could still happen," Biden said.

The landmark, where mobs of white residents tore through in 1908 to attack two Black men, became the site of a deadly riot where the white mob took their anger out on the city's Black population. By the end of the riot, two innocent Black men were hanged and homes and businesses in Springfield's majority-Black neighborhoods were demolished and burned to the ground.

The proclamation comes weeks after Sonya Massey was shot and killed in her Springfield home after she called 911 for help.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., who previously worked to make the site a national landmark in Congress, joined Biden in the Oval Office today to commemorate the joint effort.

"Good things can come out of bad things, as long as you don't forget what happened," Duckworth said.

'We're closer than we've ever been,' Biden says about Israel-Hamas cease-fire negotiations

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Biden told reporters at an Oval Office event to designate the site of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, as a national monument that a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is closer than ever.

"One of the reasons why I was late for you all was I was dealing with the cease-fire effort in the Middle East, and we are closer than we've ever been," he said. "I don't want to jinx anything, but as my grandfather used to say, with the grace of God ... and a lot of luck."

"We may have something, but we’re not there yet," the president added, saying an agreement was "much, much closer than it was three days ago. So keep your fingers crossed."

Mediators wrapped up two days of talks today with a final so-called bridging proposal aimed at shoring up the remaining disagreements and bringing about a quick end to the conflict and the release of hostages held by Hamas. Both sides agreed to a blueprint Biden outlined on May 31 , but talks dragged on as Hamas and Israel accused each other of trying to kill the deal with various demands.

A new Harvard study shows that celebrity endorsements make a difference in presidential elections as well as in political and civic engagement.

Vance is traveling with a special guest: the family dog

Vance, on his way to Wisconsin for midday remarks, is traveling with a special guest today: his family dog.

Atlas, a 9-month-old German shepherd, traveled in the senator's motorcade from the Vances' Cincinnati home to the airport for the quick one-hour flight to Milwaukee.

He lurched up the steps onto the plane a few strides ahead of the senator who held his leash in one hand and an umbrella in the other. Vance's wife, Usha Vance, is also joining today's campaign trip.

White House plans staff moves as aides switch to Harris campaign

Monica Alba

Two White House staffers are expected to depart the Biden administration soon to join Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, as the operation expands in the final 80-day sprint to election day, according to two administration officials and one campaign official familiar with the moves who were granted anonymity to discuss internal decisions.

With the departures, the White House is promoting deputy communications director Herbie Ziskend to an elevated role to help handle messaging around President Joe Biden’s legacy, as he nears his final months in office, one of the officials said.

Kristen Orthman, White House principal deputy communications director, will be leaving her post to join the Harris campaign in a planning role that will coordinate across several departments, these people said.

Ian Sams, the White House counsel spokesman for oversight, will move over to the campaign as a senior spokesperson. His departure was first reported by The Washington Post.

The Harris campaign plans to announce more new staff roles as early as today, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Speaker Johnson to fundraise with GOP candidate who backed Jan. 6 arrestees

Sarah Mimms

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will fundraise for Trump-endorsed candidate Joe Kent tomorrow as Kent takes another swing at capturing a western Washington congressional district this fall.

Kent, a veteran and Trump loyalist, drew criticism during his 2022 campaign, suggesting that the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol may have been an “ intelligence operation ” aimed at entrapping Trump supporters. He was one of two congressional candidates who spoke at a September 2021 rally in support of Jan. 6 arrestees, casting them as “ political prisoners ,” eight months after the Capitol riot.

Trump endorsed Kent in 2022 and again this year. Kent is facing a rematch with Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., who defeated him last cycle and flipped a Republican-held district that voted for Trump in 2020. Washington's 3rd District is a top GOP target and is expected to be highly competitive again this year.

Harris campaign blasts Trump's Medal of Honor comments

Harris' campaign ripped Trump today over his comments yesterday calling the Presidential Medal of Freedom a "much better" award than the Congressional Medal of Honor, claiming those who receive the latter award have often been killed or badly injured.

"Donald Trump knows nothing about service to anyone or anything but himself," Harris campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said today in a statement. "For him to insult Medal of Honor recipients, just as he has previously attacked Gold Star families, mocked prisoners of war, and referred to those who lost their lives in service to our country as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ should remind all Americans that we owe it to our service members, our country, and our future to make sure Donald Trump is never our nation’s commander in chief again,"

Speaking at a campaign event yesterday, Trump lauded Miriam Adelson, whom he awarded the Medal of Freedom during his presidency, saying, "That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor."

“But civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead," Trump added, drawing condemnation from Democrats.

New Jersey governor appoints former aide to fill Sen. Bob Menendez’s seat

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced he is appointing his former chief of staff George Helmy to temporarily replace Bob Menendez when the disgraced Democratic senator resigns next week following his conviction on corruption charges .

Helmy first served as Murphy’s chief of staff in 2019. He left the post last year and has been working for a major health care company in New Jersey .

Before he worked in the governor’s office, Helmy spent several years working for Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., in various roles, including state director . Helmy also spent time in the private sector and was an aide to the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, according to the governor’s office .

Read the full story here .

Health care workers tout key Biden-era law in open letter backing Harris, critiquing Trump

A coalition of 500 health care professionals have signed an open letter repudiating efforts by Republicans to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, citing attacks on the law by Trump and a call to repeal it in the Heritage Foundation’s "Project 2025" materials.

In the letter , first obtained by NBC News, the signatories call Harris and Walz "the only candidates in this race who will fight for our patients and lower health care costs."

"At a time when too many families struggle to afford medical care, we have to take steps to increase affordability and lower costs. We can’t go back to a time when seniors rationed their insulin because they couldn’t afford it," the letter reads. "The IRA must stay, and be strengthened."

The law instituted a $35 cap on the cost of insulin, a popular achievement that has been all over Democratic campaign ads. It also lowered some prescription drug costs and enabled Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription drugs with pharmaceutical companies, which Biden and Harris touted during a joint event in Largo, Maryland, yesterday.

The release of the letter coincides with the two-year anniversary of the law and comes as Harris proposes other measures to reduce health costs during a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina, this afternoon.

Harris campaign to hold bus tour across western Pennsylvania

The Harris campaign says it's set to hold a bus tour across western Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, on Sunday.

The tour will include appearances by Harris, her running mate Gov. Tim Walz, her husband Doug Emhoff, and Walz's wife, Gwen Walz. They will focus on meeting voters, and the stops will include phone banks and canvassing, among other things, the campaign said.

The tour will start in Pittsburgh and continue with stops through Allegheny and Beaver counties.

"The Vice President and Governor Walz will expand upon the 2020 coalition in Pennsylvania, in part by highlighting their efforts to strengthen organized labor and the more than 500,000 Pennsylvania jobs created under the Biden-Harris administration through historic programs like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act," the campaign said.

Trump says presidential civilian award is ‘better’ than top military honor whose recipients are ‘dead’ or ‘hit’ by bullets

Jake Traylor

Ginger Gibson Senior Washington Editor

Trump lauded a wealthy donor on whom he bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom as having gotten the “better” award compared to the top military honor, the Medal of Honor, because those recipients are often deceased or injured.

Speaking at a campaign event intended to discuss antisemitism, Trump was introduced by Miriam Adelson, a wealthy Republican donor and widow of Sheldon Adelson, who pumped millions of dollars of his own money into electing Republican candidates. He died in 2021 .

“That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump said, referring to the highest military honor bestowed for valor in combat. The Medal of Honor is often mistakenly called the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Trump staffs his presidential transition team with advisers and family

In a press release, Trump announced that his presidential transition team would be led by Linda McMahon, Howard Lutnick, Sen. JD Vance, and two of his sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

McMahon was the Small Business Administration administrator in the Trump administration and currently serves as the board chair for the America First Policies Institute, a conservative group.

Lutnick is the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald.

The launch of this transition team comes later than in previous presidential campaign cycles. In 2016, Trump's campaign announced his transition leadership in May. In 2020, Biden launched his in April.

Harris looks to sharpen economic message with a focus on cutting costs

Shannon Pettypiece

For much of his presidency, Joe Biden struggled to convince Americans their financial condition was better than they perceived. Now, Vice President Kamala Harris will try to shake those negative perceptions as voters continue to fret about the trajectory of the economy.

Harris will lay out more details on her economic policy agenda during a speech in North Carolina today where she is expected to focus on lowering prices, including a plan to prevent price gouging by major food producers and grocers, the campaign said. Harris will also propose a crackdown on acquisitions among food companies if those deals could lead to higher grocery prices.

The economy and concerns around rising costs have been among the top issues for voters, who have consistently given Biden low marks. While Biden sought to emphasize the positives, like relatively low unemployment and strong economic growth, he was unable to improve voters’ sentiments amid decades-high inflation. Former President Donald Trump has sought to tie Harris to the view on Biden, frequently asserting that she bears responsibility for all of the current administration’s policies.

Officials explore equipping election workers with ‘panic buttons’ to combat rising threats

Lisa Cavazuti

Officials in a key county in battleground Georgia are taking a new step to ensure election workers’ safety amid rising threats, equipping them with so-called panic buttons that would allow them to quickly contact authorities in emergencies.

The Board of Commissioners in Cobb County, a suburban area northwest of Atlanta, this week approved $47,250 in funding to purchase around 200 devices for election workers ahead of another heated presidential election this fall.

The panic buttons are being sold by Runbeck Election Services, an Arizona-based company that prints ballots and sells election equipment, including printers, to counties across the country, through a partnership with the Ohio-based security company Response Technologies. The devices are roughly the size of a credit card and can be worn on lanyards or tucked in pockets. They pair with users’ cellphones to dispatch GPS locations to the authorities when activated.

Trump owns more than $1M in crypto and made $300K on branded Bibles, financial disclosure shows

Trump owns more than $1 million in cryptocurrency and made $300,000 on branded Bibles , a personal financial disclosure form released yesterday shows.

The branded Bible, listed in the disclosure as “ The Greenwood Bible ,” sells for $59.99 and includes a handwritten chorus to the song “God Bless the U.S.A.” by country singer Lee Greenwood, according to the branded Bible’s website. A limited edition copy bearing Trump’s signature is also available on the website for $1,000.

The disclosure included details about a cryptocurrency wallet and “virtual ethereum key” holdings that he valued at $1 million to $5 million.

Trump’s public positions on crypto have shifted since he first took office, when he said the digital currency was a scam .

Harris campaign to hold a 'weekend of action' ahead of the convention

The Harris campaign says it's holding a "weekend of action" ahead of the Democratic National Convention next week in Chicago.

The campaign is expected to hold 2,800 events in battleground states including phone banks, canvassing, meet-ups, organizing booths and even "Project 2025 message trainings," the campaign said.

More than 10,000 people have volunteered to participate in the events, the campaign said, adding that Democratic leaders and surrogates will also take part. They include Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who was the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee, as well as a number of House Democrats, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, and celebrities such as actress Emmy Rossum and singer Ben Folds.

Harris to endorse protections for renters and removal of key tax benefits for Wall Street investors buying homes

Yamiche Alcindor

Harris’ campaign rolled out some of her housing policy proposals yesterday, including her support for efforts aimed at lowering the cost of rent and helping renters who are struggling financially, according to details obtained by NBC News from a campaign official.

Harris is proposing plans to stop data firms from driving up lease rates and plans aimed at stopping Wall Street investors from buying up and reselling homes in bulk at a higher price, according to the proposal.

Jill Biden to honor her husband at convention Monday — an appearance that once was going to be much different

First lady Jill Biden will have a role at the Democratic National Convention on Monday as part of a larger tribute to her husband, President Joe Biden, as both will appear in different capacities than was planned just a few weeks ago when he was still the party’s presidential nominee.

It is expected to be a particularly poignant moment for a first lady who has often been his fiercest defender, marking a public transition for the couple after they navigated the most challenging political chapter of their lives.

The first lady has privately expressed dismay at some Democrats who were quietly supportive but publicly did not stand by her husband while he was weighing whether to stay in the presidential race, according to two people familiar with her thinking.

She now wants to ensure that his legacy of decades of public service is protected, these people said.

Trump dodged a question on his pending federal cases from NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard, who asked if Trump would ask an attorney general to dismiss his federal cases if elected as president. Trump responded that he didn’t want to speak about the cases.

Harris to propose tax cuts in North Carolina speech

Harris will propose a range of new tax cuts during her remarks in Raleigh, North Carolina, later today, according to Harris-Walz campaign officials.

Her proposal will include cutting taxes for middle-class families with kids, restoring the American Rescue Plan’s expanded Child Tax Credit, providing up to $3,600 per child tax credit for middle-class families, and introducing a $6,000 child tax credit for families with children in the first year of life, her campaign said.

The decision to unveil a new tax platform in North Carolina mirrors Trump, who delivered a speech on his economic proposals — and a host of other subjects — in the Tar Heel State on Wednesday.

Where's Biden today?

Carly Roman

Biden will begin his day at the White House, where he will receive the president’s daily brief. Later, he will sign a proclamation to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument .

Later, Biden will depart the White House en route to Camp David.

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