With fewer than four months until the election, it’s not just the national races that are drawing harassment, intimidation and threats, but local candidates as well. Harassment of local officials, both Democrats and Republicans, has increased by 55% over the past two years, according to a new study.

More House Democrats came out over the weekend to urge President Biden to leave the race, both publicly and during a call of leading Democrats. However, at campaign events in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, the president insisted he is not going anywhere.

New cease-fire talks are scheduled to begin this week in the war between Israel and Hamas. Last week, for the first time, Israel’s military took foreign journalists into the city of Rafah. Israel says it had to go into the city near the border with Egypt because Hamas’s four remaining battalions were hiding there. Israel’s military claims it’s killed more than 900 militants in the city; however, it’s also killed civilians.