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KISS announces a final extension to its ‘End of the Road’ farewell tour

The legendary rock band Kiss has announced its final tour dates, taking a spin across North America and ending with a final bow in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. 

The “End of the Road Tour" lists 19 shows, kicking off Oct. 29 in Austin, Texas; hitting stops in California, Washington, Illinois and Canada; and closing with two final shows in New York City on Dec. 1 and 2. 

The iconic rockers, who kicked off their career in New York City, said ending the tour in Manhattan will bring their careers full circle. 

“KISS was born in New York City. On 23rd Street. Half a century ago. It will be a privilege and honor to finish touring at Madison Square Garden, 10 blocks and 50 years from where we first started,” the band said. 

The band’s lineup includes two original members, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, along with drummer Eric Singer and guitarist Tommy Thayer. Some of the band's biggest hits are “I Was Made for Lovin’ You,” “Rock and Roll All Nite,” “Detroit Rock City” and “Heaven’s on Fire”

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Kiss band members, from left, Tommy Thayer, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Paul Stanley participate in the ceremonial lighting of the Empire State Building on Thursday in New York.

In the 50 years since Kiss first kicked and thrashed its way onto the New York rock scene, the band has given the world sing-and-shout-along hits like "Detroit Rock City," "Crazy Crazy Nights" and "Beth," and live performances replete with blood-spattering, fire-breathing, pyrotechnics and gobs of cartoonish stage makeup.

"Their schtick lifted them up to the absolute top," music writer Joel Selvin , the author of numerous books about rock musicians including Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and Sly and the Family Stone, told NPR.

On Saturday, the memorable stagecraft that made Kiss one of the biggest selling hard rock bands in the world will come to an end, as its members perform what they are touting as their final show of their aptly titled, four-year-long "End of the Road World Tour" — at Madison Square Garden in New York. The concert will be available to watch live on Pay-Per-View .

"It has nothing to do with personalities in the band or tensions or a difference of opinion or musicality. It's purely practical," said Kiss co-founder, rhythm guitarist and vocalist Paul Stanley in an interview with the music publication Ultimate Classic Rock of the band's reasons for bringing five decades of Kiss to an end. "You can play beat the clock, but ultimately the clock wins."

The city has apparently gone Kiss-crazy in the days leading up to the occasion, with the appearance of Kiss-themed taxis, Metro cards and pizza boxes. On Wednesday, the New York Rangers hosted KISS Game Night , featuring Kiss-related activities and "limited-edition KISS x Rangers merchandise." Band members also made an appearance at an Empire State Building lighting ceremony on Thursday. Staged in honor of Kiss' swan song, Empire State emitted the colored lights associated with the band — silver, red, purple, green and blue.

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Despite all the hooplah, this may not in fact be Kiss' goodbye kiss. The band undertook a previous "farewell tour" more than 20 years ago. After a brief hiatus, it started touring again on and off in 2003. Live shows and album releases flowed on from there.

In interviews, band members have spoken about continuing on after Saturday's Madison Square Garden performance in one way or another. Both Stanley and co-frontman Gene Simmons have their own bands and say they aim at the very least to continue making appearances in those formats.

"Nobody ever really says goodbye," said rock critic Selvin, citing comebacks over the years by the likes of Cher, Steve Miller and the Grateful Dead. "It's a show business strategy. You take a bow. But there's always an encore."

Selvin said artists often reappear after retiring because they can make a lot of money owing to fans' pent-up demand. For example, the pop-punk band Blink-182 is earning four times as much on its current reunion tour than it did when it last re-united in 2009, according to Far Out magazine. (The band issued a statement in 2005 saying it was going on "indefinite hiatus," only to reunite four years later.)

"Personal life interferes, you want to disappear into the woodwork for a while and then demand builds and you go back to it," Selvin said. "Steve Miller took his band apart in '99. He was just tired. And he was out for six years. And then in 2005, he put his band back together and suddenly his price was up, and there was more interest in seeing him."

Meanwhile, some musical acts simply never retire. The Rolling Stones, for instance, are embarking on yet another North America tour in 2024. The band just announced additional dates .

Selvin doesn't think we've heard the last of Kiss.

"The rule of the farewell tour is that you have to say goodbye to every hall, and sometimes you have to say goodbye twice," Selvin said. "I do not expect this to be the last time that Kiss performs, any more than 'Fare Thee Well' was the last time The Grateful Dead performed."

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After more than 50 years of rocking out, Kiss is finally saying goodbye.

The legendary rock band plays their final concert tonight, Dec. 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and the show is livestreaming online as a pay-per-view special. Watch Kiss’ final stop on their “End of the Road Tour” live on PPV.com for $39.99 .

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Want to see the show in person? Last-minute tickets to the Kiss concert are still available on sites like SeatGeek and Vivid Seats . Both sites will deliver your tickets digitally via email or text, so you’ll be able to have them in hand for the show. Use promo code HOLLYWOOD10 to save $10 off your purchase at SeatGeek.com .

Kiss fans can also head to their nearest Rock & Brews   restaurant (the nationwide chain opened by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons) for a special watch party tonight, with the restaurants all livestreaming the concert and offering Kiss-inspired menu items, like a “Demon Chicken Sandwich” (an ode to Simmons) and the “It’s Cold Gin Time Again” cocktail, made with Kiss’ Cold Gin. Head to rockandbrews.com to find the closest location to you.

One of the marquee names in the entertainment industry for five decades strong, Kiss first announced their final tour in 2019. The aptly-named “End of the Road Tour” kicked off on January 31, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada and ran for a year before it was delayed due to Covid. The tour picked up again in the fall of 2021 and has taken the band around the world since then. Tonight’s show marks the end of 13 legs of the tour, and the band’s 250th tour date.

Based on the current leg, tonight’s setlist is expected to include Kiss hits like “I Was Made for Lovin’ You,” “Detroit Rock City,” “Beth” and “Rock and Roll All Nite.” Stanley and Simmons remain the only original members of Kiss that are still touring with the brand. The current lineup consists of them, Tommy Thayer (lead guitar, vocals), and Eric Singer (drums, vocals).

And while tonight’s show may be the end of the road for Kiss in more ways than one, don’t count the band as retired just yet — the rockers have teased that while their touring days are over, they’d be interested in exploring a Las Vegas residency and possibly recording new music.

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NEW YORK -- Kiss fans flocked to Madison Square Garden on Saturday for the band's final performance.

It was the last night of their End of the Road World Tour .

Kiss started here in New York City 50 years ago.

Fans reflected on what the band means to them.

"It's the greatest show on Earth. It's empowering, that's what it is. They don't think about what's going on in the world. They just sing about living in the moment," said Chris Pantelis, a fan from Australia.

"I think Kiss is a band that keeps finding another way to do things differently, and if anything it's inspiring, and like Chris said, it's empowering, so we can take from that and keeping moving forward," said Jim Skivalidis, another fan from Australia.

Kiss says it does not have plans to record another album.

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More than four years after KISS hit the road for its farewell tour, the glam metal band has announced there’s finally an end in sight.

The previously announced final tour date was in 2021, but now the band is set to conclude its “End of the Road Tour” at the end of the year at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The final curtain call is scheduled for Dec. 2, 2023 — more than 50 years after the iconic band’s first show.

The tour kicked off in Vancouver on Jan. 31, 2019, and went on a pandemic-induced hiatus pushing shows set for 2020 to 2021. In 2022, the band admitted they weren’t quite ready to say farewell, and announced that they would be adding another 100 shows to their “End of the Road Tour.”

“It’s like painting a painting or writing a book. When somebody says, ‘When is it gonna be finished?’ You’re in the middle of it; you don’t know,” Simmons said in a 2022 interview with YouTube channel Chaoszine. “ ... this is a tour that will not stop until it stops.”

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The final leg of the “End of the Road Tour” lists 19 shows, beginning Oct. 29 in Austin, Texas. From there, the band will hit arenas in Palm Springs and Los Angeles, then onward to Washington, Canada, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois and Maryland before they close out where it all began in New York City on Dec. 1 and 2.

“KISS was born in New York City. On 23rd Street. Half a century ago. It will be a privilege and honor to finish touring at Madison Square Garden, 10 blocks and 50 years from where we first started,” the band stated on its website . “New York City has been a part of our ethos and storyline for more than four decades, so we felt it fitting to culminate our career on stage at Madison Square Garden.”

The musicians behind the makeup include two original members, frontman Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, along with drummer Eric Singer and guitarist Tommy Thayer.

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KISS, known for hanging from rafters with pyrotechnics sparking the stage, will perform greatest hits like “Rock and Roll All Nite,” “Shout it Out Loud” and “Beth” as well as other KISS Army favorites “Detroit Rock City,” “Deuce” and “Black Diamond.”

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KISS Announces ‘Absolute Final Shows' for Their ‘End of the Road' Farewell Tour

Kiss will perform across the u.s. and canada, ending with two shows at new york city's madison square garden on dec. 1 and 2., by gerardo pons • published march 2, 2023 • updated on march 3, 2023 at 12:18 am.

The iconic rock band KISS has announced the “absolute final shows of their final tour,” which will take the band for one last ride across North America which will then end with a cherry on top at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1 and 2.

The band's “End of the Road Tour,” which started back in 2018 and was originally scheduled to end in 2021 but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic, lists 19 shows and will kick off Oct. 29 in Austin, Texas with stops in California, Washington, Illinois, New York, and Canada.

As for the lineup, the band will bring back two original members, Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons, along with drummer Eric Singer and guitarist Tommy Thayer.

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“KISS was born in New York City. On 23rd Street. Half a century ago. It will be a privilege and honor to finish touring at Madison Square Garden, 10 blocks and 50 years from where we first started,” the band said. 

Tickets for the newly announced tour dates will go on presale on March 6, with a Kiss Army presale at 10 a.m. ET.

Here's KISS's full 2023 North America tour dates:

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• Oct. 29, 2023 Austin, TX Moody Center
• Nov. 1, 2023 Palm Springs, CA Acrisure Arena
• Nov. 3, 2023 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
• Nov. 6, 2023 Seattle, WA Climate Pledge Arena
• Nov. 8, 2023 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
• Nov. 10, 2023 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place
• Nov. 12, 2023 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome
• Nov. 13, 2023 Saskatoon, SK SaskTel Centre
• Nov.15, 2023 Winnipeg, MB Canada Life Centre
• Nov. 18, 2023 Montreal, QC Centre Bell
• Nov.19, 2023 Quebec, QC Videotron Centre
• Nov. 21, 2023 Ottawa, ON Canadian Tire Centre
• Nov. 22, 2023 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena
• Nov. 24, 2023 Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boling Arena
• Nov. 25, 2023 Indianapolis. IN Gainbridge Fieldhouse
• Nov.27, 2023 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena
• Nov. 29, 2023 Baltimore, MD CFG Bank Arena
• Dec. 1, 2023 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
• Dec. 2, 2023 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

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Kiss to Stream Final Concert Ever on Pay-Per-View: 'Rock Out One Last Time'

The heavy rock band is about to wrap up The End of the Road Tour in December

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As Kiss gets ready to “Rock and Roll All Nite” one last time, they’re inviting fans everywhere to join them. 

The legendary heavy rock band announced on Thursday that their final-ever show , held at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Dec. 2, will stream live on pay-per-view . 

According to a press release, the last stop of the band’s remaining, 25-date leg of their The End of the Road Tour will stream exclusively on PPV.com so fans worldwide can tune into the concert in real-time, starting at 8 p.m. ET. Although no additional details were revealed, it “promises to be a massive event,” per the release.

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To stream the show live, fans in the U.S. and Canada pay a one-time fee of $39.99, rather than signing up for a subscription. (Internationally, it costs $14.99 to watch the event.) 

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ final show will also air live through cable and satellite providers such as Xfinity, Spectrum, Contour, Optimum, Fios, DirecTV, DISH, Rogers, Telus and more in North America. 

To celebrate the news, the "I Was Made for Lovin' You" rockers shared a teaser trailer on Instagram featuring footage of them shredding and joined by pyrotechnics on stage.

"50 years of Rock ‘n’ Roll. 1 Final Show," the group wrote in the caption. "Rock out with @kissonline one last time! Their final concert ever, LIVE from @thegarden, streaming exclusively worldwide on PPV.COM."

The band featuring Gene Simmons , Paul Stanley , Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer kicked off their farewell tour back in 2019, before putting a pause on live appearances due to the pandemic. The “Detroit Rock City” group has since taken their send-off show across North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia.

Back in the spring, the heavy metal legends announced the final leg of The End of the Road Tour would commence this fall and wrap up in NYC where five decades ago they launched what became their storied career of many hit songs and stadium tours. 

Upon the announcement, the rockers shared a statement in a press release about returning to the place they started in the ‘70s for their last concert. They shared, "KISS was born in New York City. On 23rd Street. Half a century ago. It will be a privilege and an honor to finish touring at Madison Square Garden, 10 blocks and 50 years from where we first started."

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Simmons previously opened up to Chaoszine in July 2022 about the Lick It Up band’s decision to continue extending their farewell tour. "We don't know. We've never retired before. This is our first time," the vocalist/bassist said. "It's like painting a painting or writing a book. When somebody says, 'When is it gonna be finished?' You're in the middle of it; you don't know."

The frontman continued, "The crew is happy. Everybody's happy. So we've decided to add another 100 cities before we stop. I don't know how long that's gonna take."

Long before the hitmakers were approaching their final concert and just announcing that they were hitting the road for the last time , they shared a statement back in 2018 about their impending retirement. 

"All that we have built and all that we have conquered over the past four decades could never have happened without the millions of people worldwide who've filled clubs, arenas and stadiums over those years," KISS said at the time. "This will be the ultimate celebration for those who've seen us and a last chance for those who haven't."

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KISS Officially Announce Final Date of Their Farewell Tour During ‘Howard Stern Show’ Appearance

During a highly publicized appearance on  The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, KISS have officially announced the final show of their End of the Road farewell tour, which will take place on Dec. 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the second of back-to-back nights. They've also unveiled a new batch of North American stops leading up to the finale.

There had been other proposed end dates for the rock legends just on this tour alone (which began in 2018) with manager Doc McGhee floating a couple loose timelines before declaring earlier this year that KISS will indeed put on their final tour performance in 2023.

Notably, this trek is not the first time the group has made an attempt to retire and there will surely be speculation about the legitimacy of this announcement.

Considering the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers booked a set of 2023 U.K. dates and mentioned it'd be their last shows in the region, it really does appear that KISS are winding down their 50-year touring career with lone mainstays Paul Stanley having turned 71 earlier this year and Gene Simmons set to turn 74 this summer.

The band specifically noted this is the end of the farewell tour, leaving the door open for other opportunities such as one-off shows, residencies or festival appearances. Only time will tell.

See all of KISS' upcoming tour dates at their website and for your chance to see them, perhaps for the final time, get tickets here .

See the latest tour dates directly below and look for those tickets to go on sale on March 10 at 10AM local time at Live Nation . A KISS Army pre-sale will begin on March 6 at 10AM local time.

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Oct. 29 — Austin, Texas @ Moody Center Nov. 01 — Palm Springs, Calif. @ Acrisure Arena Nov. 03 — Los Angeles, Calif. @ Hollywood Bowl Nov. 06 — Seattle, Wash. @ Climate Pledge Arena Nov. 08 — Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena Nov. 10 — Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place Nov. 12 — Calgary, Alberta @ Scotiabank Saddledome Nov. 13 — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan @ SaskTel Centre Nov. 15 — Winnipeg, Manitoba @ Canada Life Centre Nov. 18 — Montreal, Quebec @ Centre Bell Nov. 19 — Quebec, Quebec @ Videotron Centre Nov. 21 — Ottawa, Ontario @ Canadian Tire Centre Nov. 22 — Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena Nov. 24 — Knoxville, Tenn. @ Thompson-Boling Arena Nov. 25 — Indianapolis. Ind. @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse Nov. 27 — Rosemont, Ill. @ Allstate Arena Nov. 29 — Baltimore, Md. @ CFG Bank Arena Dec. 01 — New York, N.Y. @ Madison Square Garden Dec. 02 — New York, N.Y. @ Madison Square Garden

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Rock n roll legends KISS announced the addition of four new dates on their final tour, THE END OF THE ROAD TOUR . Produced by Live Nation, these final runs of shows will kick off this October and now include stops in Detroit, Nashville, St. Louis and Ft. Worth before wrapping up with a massive show in the city where it all began for KISS. New York City has been a part of the band’s ethos and storyline for more than four decades, so they felt it fitting to culminate an iconic Rock & Roll Hall of Fame worthy career on stage at New York’s famed MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.

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If you’re sad you won’t be able to make it there to catch the final show of their farewell tour, don’t be, cause the glam Rock legends are offering fans from all over the world a chance to watch the show via livestream pay-per-view.

Streaming worldwide exclusively on  PPV.com , fans will also be able to see KISS take their final bow on pay-per-view via cable and satellite operators in the United States and Canada. The concert will cost $39.99 in those territories and $14.99 outside of North America. No subscription is required. Indemand, the parent company of PPV.com, will also carry the event through its network of cable, satellite and telco providers, including Xfinity, Spectrum, Contour, Optimum, Fios, DirecTV and more.

When announcing that the run of shows would come to a close in New York, the band shared how fitting it would be, as that is where they first launched their career 50 years ago.

“KISS was born in New York City. On 23rd Street. Half a century ago,” they wrote at the time. “It will be a privilege and an honor to finish touring at Madison Square Garden, 10 blocks and 50 years from where we first started.”

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"It will be a privilege and honor to finish touring at Madison Square Garden."

KISS has finally announced an end date for their End of the Road Tour.

The band is set to wrap the trek, which they say is their final tour ever, with a two-night run at New York City's Madison Square Garden Dec. 1 and 2.

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"KISS was born in New York City. On 23rd Street. Half a century ago," the band said in a statement. "It will be a privilege and honor to finish touring at Madison Square Garden, 10 blocks and 50 years from where we first started."

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KISS' End of the Road Tour is set to relaunch April 12 in Brazil and returns to the U.S. May 27 in Columbus, Ohio.

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BØDO, Norway (Velo) – He’s won the Tour de France four times, the Vuelta a España twice and the Giro d’Italia once, but after years impacted by injury, muted form and non-selection for key events, Chris Froome has a more modest end of career goal.

Poised to retire after the 2025 season, the Briton hopes to raise his game and rendezvous again with the event that changed his life.

“Ideally, I’d love to get back to the Tour de France . And race that one more time,” Froome told Velo at this week’s Arctic Race of Norway , when asked what ambitions remain in the sport.

While he dominated the race in his heyday, returning to the Tour is not a given.

Despite being its most high profile signing, he has not been selected by his Israel-Premier Tech team for the past two editions of the race.

Given that goal, how can Froome best ensure that he will make the cut next summer and have that swansong participation in his favorite event?

“I think just having a seamless run in,” he said. “A build up without illness, without injury. I think that that would put me in the best place possible for that.”

Things were very different a decade ago.

In his prime Froome dominated the cycling’s top event, winning his first edition in 2013 when he beat Nairo Quintana by over four minutes.

He crashed out in 2014 but returned to triumph in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In all he notched up seven stage victories, and had a vice-like grip on the GC.

Indeed had he not suffered a near-catastrophic crash in 2019, he might have equalled or even exceeded the all-time record of five Tour wins.

However Froome hasn’t been the same since that serious accident during the 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné. He smashed into a wall during a time trial recon ride, fracturing his hip, femur, elbow and several ribs, and didn’t compete again that season.

He returned to racing the following February but was ultimately not selected for the Tour. His contract with Ineos Grenadiers was not extended and instead he signed a multi-year, multi-million euro deal with Israel-Premier Tech.

And while he and the team hoped the fresh start would reignite his success, things didn’t pan out that way. His win column has been empty since 2018, with his best result his third place on Alpe d’Huez in the 2022 Tour.

Because of that, spraying some champagne is his other big goal for 2025, if not sooner.

“The dream scenario would be to win somewhere. For sure,” he said.

“But even the smaller races these days are difficult to win. I think everywhere you go, there’s going to be a really high level of racing.”

A race program ‘still up in the air’

Froome is by far the biggest name at this year’s Arctic Race of Norway. His past achievements have led to his top billing and he was pleased to make his debut in the event.

Feted at the team presentation Saturday and at the start of stage one Sunday, he will likely receive a similar reception throughout the race.

However while he’s wearing the number 11 dossard, with the second of those numbers traditionally signifying team leadership, he makes clear others on the squad are much more likely to figure in the results than he is.

“This was a bit of a late call up for me, coming to the Arctic race,” he said, acknowledging a gap in competition since the Sibiu Tour at the start of July.

“I only found out a few days ago that I was coming here. But I’m looking forward to it, looking forward to the racing. We’ve got a strong team here. I’m definitely going to be playing a team role here, helping.

“We’ve got a few cards to play. Joe Blackmore is probably our strongest rider to go for the general classification. And we’ve got one or two other guys who might go stage hunting as well. So it’s going to be an action packed few days of racing. I’m looking forward to it.”

✍️ @chrisfroome signing a norwegian fan tee-shirt #ArcticRace pic.twitter.com/fgxQyWcekR — Arctic Race of Norway (@ArcticRaceofN) August 3, 2024

Given its proximity on the calendar to the Vuelta a España, which begins on August 17, Velo had pondered if Froome might be chasing a strong performance in Norway to put himself in the frame for cycling’s third grand tour.

However that isn’t the case, with a decision already made. “I won’t be doing the Vuelta,” he revealed.

“It was a potential [before]. But that’s not looking likely at this at this point.”

What is next on the cards is unclear.

“It’s still up in the air a little bit,” he said. I’ll most likely be going to Guangxi in China towards the end of the season, but I’m not too sure what’s on the program before then.”

Once a rider with a very planned calendar, one designed to bring him to a peak for major events, Froome now sounds like he doesn’t have much of a say about the races he does.

He dearly wanted to return to the Tour this year, but that didn’t happen. Being on the sidelines for the second year running has got to be hard for a rider who previously dominated the race.

In that light, does he find it difficult to remain motivated for other events?

“Not really,” he answered. “I still obviously enjoy the training side, that dedication that it takes to just to keep going. I knew that whatever race I’d be doing, I’d need to be in decent shape for them.

“Ideally, I would have liked to have gone to the Tour but came out of Dauphiné with an injury and some tendinitis and a bit of illness as well So I knew straightaway I wouldn’t be going to the Tour.

“From then on it was just about getting myself fixed up and, after 10 days of rest and recovery, getting stuck back into training.”

What was a boost from afar was seeing how Biniam Girmay fared in the race. Froome was born and grew up in Kenya and while he competes under a British licence, he has long had a big interest in African cycling.

Seeing Girmay take three stage wins plus the green jersey was special.

“It’s been amazing to watch him,” he said. “Amazing to watch him do what he did in the Tour. I think he’s definitely an example for many young Africans of what’s possible. And clearly an inspiration.”

Asked what he intends to do post-career, he says things have yet to be decided, yet has leanings toward that same continent.

“I think it’s still a bit too early to say,” he said about post 2025 plans. “I’d love to stay involved in the sport.

“Ideally, I’d love to also see a big change in the African side of things. And personally I’d love to get involved in a project focused on developing the talent out there.”

Could he continue as a rider? He’ll be 40 next May so it’s looking unlikely, but he told Velo Monday that he might consider offers.

‘I really do count myself fortunate’

The end of a career is often difficult for riders. The glow of the glory years fades with age, with big performances tending to become more and more sporadic as the years click by.

That’s got to be hard to take, particularly with self-identity based around big achievements.

Salary aside, the hope for older riders is for one or two standout results which justify the hardship. Mark Cavendish is a good example: he drew level with Eddy Merckx’s Tour record in 2021, and fought ever since to get one more stage win and set the all-time record.

The Manxman gambled, delayed his retirement, and finally achieved his dream conclusion by winning stage 5 of the Tour de France. He was then feted by fans for the next two weeks and honored by race organiser ASO at the finish in Nice.

Cavendish could hardly have scripted it better.

Froome would love something similar –which athlete wouldn’t? – but he no longer talks about taking another yellow jersey to Paris. That had been an aspiration during his early years with his current team, but that dream has long since faded.

In many ways that’s logical. His last victory was the 2018 Giro d’Italia, now six long years ago. The sport has sped up, he has slowed down and a new generation is stomping up the mountains and tearing up the record books.

So what keeps him going, given all that has happened?

Cynics might point to his huge salary and, fair enough, that’s got to be a big factor. But he insists that there’s something else.

“That’s how it is,” he says stoically about the setbacks. “But at the same time, I really just do count myself fortunate to still be racing. To still be doing what I love, even though I’m obviously not racing the way I was five years ago.

“But I’m still enjoying racing my bike. And that’s keeping me going.”

There’s still a glimmer of something else, an unexpressed hope that he could yet do something big. Not Tour-winning big, of course, but something to be proud of.

The hint of that ambition came when asked if age is a factor in how things have become harder for him.

“I think it’s probably part of the story,” he answered.

“But there are still guys at my age who are able to perform. So that’s very motivating for me to see.”

Can he turn things around? Recent years have brought slim pickings but Cavendish shows things can still end on a better note.

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Remco Evenepoel of Belgium becomes the first to sweep the Olympic road race and time trial

Remco Evenepoel, of Belgium, celebrates winning the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Remco Evenepoel, of Belgium, centre, poses with the gold medal of the men’s road cycling event, flanked by silver medallist Valentin Madouas, of France, left, and bronze medallist Christophe Laporte, of France, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Remco Evenepoel, of Belgium, centre, poses with the gold medal of the men’s road cycling event, flanked by silver medallist Valentin Madouas, of France, left, and bronze medallist Christophe Laporte, of France, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Remco Evenepoel, of Belgium, celebrates past the Eiffel Tower winning the gold medal in the men’s road cycling race, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (Pawel Kopczynski/Pool Photo via AP)

Bronze medal’s winner Christophe Laporte, of France, right, celebrates with his teammate Julian Alaphilippe, after a men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Valentin Madouas, of France, celebrates clinching the silver medal after completing the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Silver medallist Valentin Madouas, of France, left, and bronze medallist Christophe Laporte, of France, celebrate after the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The pack of riders passes by the Louvre museum, during a men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Ali Labib, of Iran, rides past the Sacre Coeur basilica, during the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Tourists stroll around during the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Mathieu Van Der Poel, of the Netherlands, pedals during the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (Tim de Waele/Pool Photo via AP)

Riders pedal past a cheering crowd, during the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (Tim de Waele/Pool Photo via AP)

Cyclists ride past the Sacre Coeur basilica, during the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Alexey Lutsenko, of Kazakhstan, leads Ben Healy, of Ireland, during the men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (Tim de Waele/Pool Photo via AP)

Ben Healy, of Ireland, left, and Alexey Lutsenko, of Kazakhstan, ride past the Louvre museum, during a men’s road cycling event, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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PARIS (AP) — The only things that slowed Remco Evenepoel on his way to Olympic history were a flat tire and the finish line.

The Belgian cyclist has become the first rider to sweep the road race and time trial at the Summer Games , relentlessly attacking over three climbs of Montmartre and building such a lead on the run-in to the finish at the Pont d’Iéna that Evenepoel was able to swap out bikes in the final kilometers and still begin his celebration early.

He raised his arms in triumph as he crossed the bridge over the River Seine on Saturday, stopping a foot or two past the finish line to soak in the cheers, the Eiffel Tower providing one last picturesque backdrop to the road race at the Paris Games.

“Too much drama,” Evenepoel said with a smile. “Being almost sure with four kilometers to go and then having a flat doesn’t help the stress and the excitement of the moment. But it’s a dream come true once again.”

Valentin Madouas, who tried to keep pace with him late in the race, held on for silver as French countryman Christophe Laporte took bronze from a group that included Matteo Jorgensen of the U.S., Ben Healy of Ireland and Marco Haller of Austria.

The two medals for France were its first in the men’s Olympic road race in 68 years.

“What they did for us,” said former pro-turned-French national team manager Thomas Voeckler, “it was magnificent.”

The longest Olympic road race in history had been a sleepy affair until a series of attacks near the end, when Evenepoel finally made his move. But it became high drama when he was passing in front of the Louvre and his tire began to go down.

The 24-year-old from Flanders threw up his hand for help, dismounted quickly and began to scream for his team to get his spare bike. It was ready in a matter of seconds, and Evenepoel was back on his way to a historic second gold medal.

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“He’s just a class above,” said Healy, who also tried to stick with Evenepoel before eventually fading to 10th. “When he’s got legs like that, yeah, what can you do? He’s a hard one to stay with when he has legs like that.”

The win capped a spectacular few weeks for Evenepoel that began with a third-place finish in the Tour de France.

“I achieved everything I wanted to achieve this month,” he said. “My season, I cannot describe it.”

The early breakaway of five riders formed quickly Saturday after the neutralized start from the Trocadéro, where fans gathered in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to see them off. With no real threats among them, the peloton was content allowing the break to build a sizeable gap of more than 14 minutes as the riders headed off into the French countryside.

They passed the Palace of Versailles, where the Olympic equestrian competitions are taking place, and the National Velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, before they began knocking off the 21 punchy climbs dotting the 273-kilometer (170-mile) route.

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The narrow roads soon turned back toward the French capital, and pressure mounted to bring back the break.

What makes that endeavor complex during the Olympic road race is that, unlike most professional races, riders are not allowed to use radios. So the only way the peloton can judge how far behind they are is the updated chalkboard held aloft by the rider of a motorbike, or by dropping back to the team cars and discussing the situation with their coaches.

It was the Dutch, Danish and Belgian teams that took leadership of the peloton on the drive back to Paris.

The field came together about 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the finish when Evenepoel made the first real attack, only for the peloton to react quickly to the newly minted Olympic time trial champion. More attacks served to ramp up the tempo, and riders who were unable to keep pace were suddenly shedding off the back.

The race favorites, led by Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands and Belgian rival Wout van Aert, attacked on the first of the Montmartre climbs, where thousands of flag-waving fans standing shoulder-to-shoulder had waited for hours on the steps of the white stone basilica of Sacre Coeur to see what everyone expected to be the defining moment of the race.

Evenepoel gave them a show to remember.

He bridged across to the leading group with an incredible display of power, worked briefly with Madouas and then left the Frenchman behind. Evenepoel quickly opened a gap of nearly a minute by the last of the Montmartre climbs, a time buffer that ultimately came in handy when his tire began to go down right in front of the Louvre.

“I knew Montmartre wasn’t the climb that really suited me. The other two bumps suited me better,” Evenepoel said. “But I just went all-in every time on the climbs and tried to keep it stable. At the end it was enough, so what can I say?”

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Aerosmith Retire From Touring: ‘Heartbreaking and Difficult’

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Aerosmith are officially retiring from touring, the band announced in an extensive statement on social media Friday, canceling the rest of what would’ve been their farewell tour as Steven Tyler struggles to recover from a vocal injury he suffered last year.

“As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other. He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his voice to where it was before his injury,” the band said Friday. “We’ve seen him struggling despite having the best medical team by his side. Sadly, it is clear, that a full recovery from his vocal injury is not possible. We have made a heartbreaking and difficult, but necessary, decision — as a band of brothers — to retire from the touring stage.”

It was 1970 when a spark of inspiration became Aerosmith. Thanks to you, our Blue Army, that spark caught flame and has been burning for over five decades. Some of you have been with us since the beginning and all of you are the reason we made rock ‘n’ roll history. It has been… pic.twitter.com/og43Q8Lwbt — Aerosmith (@Aerosmith) August 2, 2024

“We are grateful beyond words for everyone who was pumped to get on the road with us one last time,” Aerosmith said on Friday. “Grateful to our expert crew, our incredible team and the thousands of talented people who’ve made our historic runs possible. A final thank you to you — the best fans on planet Earth. Play our music loud, now and always. Dream On. You’ve made our dreams come true.”

The cancellation ends the touring career of one of the most-popular rock bands in history, with Aerosmith having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. “It was 1970 when a spark of inspiration became Aerosmith. Thanks to you, our Blue Army, that spark caught flame and has been burning for over five decades,” the band said. “Some of you have been with us since the beginning and all of you are the reason we made rock ‘n’ roll history.”

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Those who purchased tickets for Aerosmith on Ticketmaster will be automatically refunded, the band said, and others who bought tickets on secondary sites like SeatGeek or StubHub should reach out to their point of purchase for more details.

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It was 1970 when a spark of inspiration became Aerosmith. Thanks to you, our Blue Army, that spark caught flame and has been burning for over five decades. Some of you have been with us since the beginning and all of you are the reason we made rock ‘n’ roll history.

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Live Election Updates: Harris and Walz Rally in Arizona as Trump Visits Montana

The new Democratic ticket made its appeal in the battleground border state as the former president was set to stump for the Republican challenging Senator Jon Tester.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, took their campaign rollout to a crowd near Phoenix on Friday evening — part of a renewed push to put Sun Belt states back in play and keep Arizona’s 11 electoral votes in the Democratic column.

In Arizona, where immigration is a top issue and the border a daily reality, Harris approached the issue — seen as a political vulnerability for her — head on, saying she supported “strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.” She accused former President Donald J. Trump of having “no interest or desire to actually fix this problem,” pointing to his helping tank a bipartisan border security deal this year.

The Harris-Walz event again drew a big crowd, just as the campaign’s events in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin did earlier this week, showing renewed enthusiasm among Democrats. Mr. Walz commented on the packed arena , which has a capacity of 20,000 and looked pretty full, except for one section that had been closed off.

“It’s not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything,” he quipped, a reference to Mr. Trump, who often boasts without evidence of drawing the biggest crowds .

Mr. Trump is scheduled to campaign in the Northwest on Friday evening, with an event in Montana, a state where Republicans are seeking to win the Senate seat held by Senator Jon Tester, the Democratic incumbent. In a news conference on Thursday, Mr. Trump said he was going to Montana especially to assist the Republican Senate candidate, Tim Sheehy.

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On the border: The visit by the Harris-Walz ticket to Arizona, a battleground border state, came a week after Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Mr. Trump’s running mate, rallied there and attacked the Biden administration for its immigration policy. On Friday, a Latino rights group backed Ms. Harris , breaking with its 95-year history of abstaining from formal presidential endorsements.

Not an endorsement: Joe Rogan, the world’s most popular podcaster, backpedaled on comments he made on Thursday that seemed to throw his support behind the independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After backlash from Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Rogan, the podcaster with a large, devoted following that leans young and male, posted on X that what he said was not “ an endorsement. ”

Generating buzz: A high school class lesson that Mr. Walz gave 31 years ago is getting fresh attention online . As a geography teacher in Nebraska in 1993, Mr. Walz asked his students to take what they had learned about the Holocaust to predict which nation was most at risk for genocide. “They came up with Rwanda,” Mr. Walz said, talking about the project at a conference last month . “Twelve months later, the world witnessed the horrific genocide in Rwanda.”

A debate confirmed: Mr. Trump said at a news conference on Thursday that he had offered to face Ms. Harris in a Sept. 10 debate on ABC, after previously saying he would back out of it . ABC later confirmed that both campaigns had agreed to the prime-time matchup.

A disputed helicopter story: Mr. Trump also recounted on Thursday a brush with death during a helicopter ride alongside Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor, though Mr. Brown said it never happened. On Friday, Mr. Trump said he had records to prove it , but did not provide them, and threatened to sue over the reporting.

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Harris has been holding rallies with thousands of attendees this week. At Trump’s rally in Montana this evening — his first since the Democratic ticket was solidified — the venue, which can seat more than 8,000 people, is nearly full. Montana is friendly territory for the former president; it is a state he won in 2016 and 2020 and is not widely considered a battleground this year.

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Even though this is a Trump campaign rally, several of the speakers who have taken the stage in the last hour have made it clear that their focus is as much on Montana’s Senate race as the presidential contest. “I want to welcome you to Jon Tester’s retirement party,” Steve Daines said to a cheering crowd, before pivoting to calling for Trump’s election in November.

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Harris just wrapped up speaking here in Glendale, ending with what has become a classic call-and-response line. “When we fight,” she began, and the crowd roared back: “We win!”

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In Arizona, where immigration is a top issue and the border a daily reality, Harris is citing her work as California attorney general, saying she went after “transnational gangs” and “drug traffickers.” This is a history she did not emphasize in the 2020 Democratic primary. But, as a general election candidate, it is a point of emphasis, including in a new television ad.

Harris is taking the issue of immigration — seen as a political vulnerability for her — head on, saying she supports “strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.” She accused Donald Trump of having “no interest or desire to actually fix this problem,” pointing to the fact that he tanked a bipartisan border security deal earlier this year.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and her chief of staff, Sheila Nix, watching her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, warming up the Glendale, Ariz., crowd from backstage at their rally.

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Walz had said that tonight’s rally in Glendale “might be the largest political gathering in the history of Arizona.” That’s a broad claim to make, and it’s hard to exactly measure, but there have been political gatherings of a similar size in Arizona. Trump claimed in 2017 that 15,000 people turned out for a rally in Phoenix, and a city official said that about 10,000 people were inside the rally with another 4,500 to 5,000 turned away at the door. The Harris campaign estimated that more than 15,000 people are at this rally in Glendale.

Senator Steve Daines of Montana, the leader of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told reporters that he thought Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was the best choice Kamala Harris could have made for a running mate from the perspective of the battle to control the Senate. While he thought that Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania would have helped Democratic Senate candidates in those states, Walz, he said, would not provide such a boost anywhere on the map.

Harris makes an explicit appeal to a crucial part of the Democratic coalition in Arizona: Native American voters. “As president, I will tell you, I will always honor tribal sovereignty and respect tribal self-determination,” she said.

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Harris, in a bit of local policy for Arizona’s large Native American population, said that as president she would respect tribal self-determination. “I know we have a number of Native leaders, and as president, I will tell you, I will always honor tribal sovereignty and respect tribal self-determination and fight for a future where every Native person can realize their aspirations,” she said.

Harris, interrupted by pro-Palestinian and anti-Gaza war protesters, addresses them directly: “I have been clear, now is the time to get a cease-fire deal,” she says.

Vice President Kamala Harris, now onstage, is complimenting Senator Mark Kelly, who was a finalist that she passed over to be her running mate. “I am so grateful, Mark, for your friendship and your leadership,” she said.

Walz's defense of I.V.F. and of the freedom to make reproductive health care decisions, peppered throughout his speech, could hit particularly hard in Arizona, where the State Supreme Court reinstated an 1864 near-total ban on abortion this spring. It was eventually repealed by the State Legislature, but there is still a 15-week ban on the books.

Walz called the prospect of electing Ruben Gallego to the Senate a “twofer,” because of who would not be elected instead: a reference to Gallego’s Republican opponent, Kari Lake. The lines criticizing Lake, a Republican who is enormously unpopular among Democrats — and some members of her own party — have gotten some of the biggest applause so far.

The crowd begins chanting “lock him up!” as Walz talks about Donald Trump, but he quickly counters: “Better yet, beat the hell out of him at the ballot box.”

The Harris-Walz ticket is less than a week old and already the crowd feels primed for some of the familiar lines from Walz’s speech. They were waiting for the word “joy” and exploded when it came.

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has taken the stage here in Glendale, Ariz., and the crowd started chanting: “Coach! Coach! Coach!” Walz comments on the size of the crowd, then quips, “It’s not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything.”

Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona is introducing Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. Kelly was a running mate runner-up, and like Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania earlier this week in Philadelphia, Kelly is introducing the new Democratic ticket in his home state.

The Harris campaign says there are more than 15,000 people at the rally here in Glendale. The stadium has a capacity of about 20,000 and, except for a section that has been closed off, looks pretty full.

Senator Steve Daines of Montana, the leader of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told reporters that he encouraged Trump to come to the state to support its Republican Senate candidate, Tim Sheehy. “I told President Trump well over a year ago that the most important thing that we can provide to him is the Republican majority” in the Senate, Daines said.

Daines also said that he thought Kamala Harris’s replacing Biden as the nominee would benefit Republicans by putting the focus on issues rather than on Biden’s age. He dismissed Harris’s recent poll numbers as a “honeymoon period.”

The largest applause of the Harris event so far comes for the entrance of former Representative Gabby Giffords.

Giffords is entering to U2’s “Beautiful Day.”

Giffords has captivated the crowd here like few other speakers so far. “Our lives can change so quickly. Mine did when I was shot. But I never gave up hope. I chose to make a new start,” she said. “I’m relearning so many things: how to walk, how to talk, and I’m fighting to make the country safer.”

Representative Ruben Gallego, the Arizona Democratic nominee for Senate , is slamming his Republican opponent, Kari Lake, as he speaks to the crowd here in Glendale. “This is the same person that is still trying to declare herself governor two years after losing an election,” he said, referring to Lake’s efforts to overturn the 2022 governor’s race, which she lost. “Kari Lake is not looking out for you; she’s looking out for herself.”

Maggie Haberman

Trump claims he has helicopter trip records and threatens to sue.

Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday afternoon vehemently maintained that he had once been in a dangerous helicopter landing with Willie Brown , the former mayor of San Francisco, and insisted he had records to prove it, despite Mr. Brown’s denial.

In an angry phone call to a New York Times reporter as he landed several hours away from his planned rally in Bozeman, Mont., because of a mechanical issue on his plane, Mr. Trump excoriated The Times for its coverage of his meandering news conference on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and home, during which he told of an emergency landing during a helicopter trip that he said both he and Mr. Brown had made together.

Mr. Trump was expected to keep his rally schedule on Friday as planned, boarding a smaller plane to complete the journey.

Mr. Brown denied on Thursday that he had ever flown in a helicopter with Mr. Trump.

It appeared Mr. Trump may have confused Willie Brown with Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, with whom Mr. Trump traveled by helicopter in 2018 while surveying wildfire damage in the state. But Jerry Brown, who left office in January 2019, said through a spokesman, “There was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.”

Willie Brown, who was a boyfriend of Vice President Kamala Harris during the 1990s, knew Mr. Trump as a potential business associate during those years, when Mr. Trump, then a New York developer, was working on new projects. A biography of Ms. Harris, “Kamala’s Way: An American Life,” reported that Mr. Trump had sent his private plane for Mr. Brown and Ms. Harris in 1994 to fly them from Boston to New York City.

“We have the flight records of the helicopter,” Mr. Trump insisted Friday, saying the helicopter had landed “in a field,” and indicating that he intended to release the flight records, before shouting that he was “probably going to sue” over the Times article.

When asked to produce the flight records, Mr. Trump responded mockingly, repeating the request in a sing-song voice. As of early Friday evening, he had not provided them.

Mr. Trump has a history of claiming he will provide evidence to back up his claims but ultimately not doing so.

He has also told the helicopter story before, in his 2023 book, “Letters to Trump,” in which he published letters to him from a number of people, including Mr. Brown. In the book, Mr. Trump wrote, “We actually had an emergency landing in a helicopter together. It was a little scary for both of us, but thankfully we made it.”

The speakers here in Glendale are making appeals to independents and moderate Republicans, an acknowledgement of how they will need many of them to vote Democratic in November to carry Arizona. John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, Ariz., said he did not “recognize my party,” and Representative Greg Stanton said he was welcoming the “John McCain Republican who is sick and tired of the election denialism and divisiveness.”

Before their rally in Glendale tonight, Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris stopped at a campaign office in Phoenix, where Mr. Walz asked for a selfie in front of a sign calling him “Coach.”

About 90 minutes before Harris is set to speak, the crowd here is doing the wave.

The energy is high here at Desert Diamond Arena, in Glendale, Ariz., where thousands are awaiting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. “This ticket brought happiness and joy back into politics,” said Keyausha King, 49. “It just felt so heavy and stressful before.”

Some Tim Walz signage is being readied at Harris’s upcoming rally in Phoenix.

Donald J. Trump’s plane, which was en route to Bozeman, Mont., for a rally there and a fund-raiser in Big Sky, instead landed in Billings, well over 100 miles away, after a mechanical issue. My colleague Doug Mills, a photographer traveling with Trump, captured him on the tarmac walking to a smaller plane. He is expected to keep his schedule as planned.

Neil Vigdor

Two rivals in Michigan’s crucial Senate contest say they were both swatted.

The two leading contenders for Michigan’s open Senate seat disclosed that they had been targeted in separate “swatting” incidents in a span of less than 24 hours, just days after winning primaries in a crucial contest that could determine which party controls the chamber.

The first incident, involving Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, happened on Thursday night at her home in Oakland County, north of Detroit. The second one occurred on Friday at an address that had been listed on public records under the name of Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate and former House member, in neighboring Livingston County.

Politicians on both sides of the political aisle have increasingly been the target of swatting in recent years. The hoaxes — when false threats are deliberately made to law enforcement to draw a heavily armed response to a person’s home — have added to a climate of intimidation and the harassment of public officials.

Ms. Slotkin was not home at the time of the incident, according to a spokeswoman for her office, Lynsey Mukomel, who said in a statement that Michigan State Police troopers went to the residence after a false threat was emailed to a local official. She did not elaborate on the nature of the false threat. Michigan State Police confirmed they responded.

“Michigan State Police checked the property and confirmed no one was in danger,” Ms. Mukomel said, adding that U.S. Capitol Police would investigate the incident.

Mr. Rogers, a former longtime House member who was endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump, experienced a similar incident around 12:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, said Chris Gustafson, a spokesman for his campaign.

A person reported that a man was holding a woman at gunpoint at the property in Livingston County connected with Mr. Rogers, according to Mr. Gustafson, who said that Mr. Rogers currently does not live there but that other members of his family do.

Shanon Banner, a Michigan State Police spokeswoman, said that a sergeant had responded to a report about a domestic situation at a residence in Livingston County on Friday and determined that it was false. She was not immediately able to confirm whether it was the same property.

Mr. Gustafson, in a statement, said that it was the second time that Mr. Rogers had been targeted in a swatting incident. The first was in 2013, when he was a member of Congress.

“This kind of violence cannot be tolerated, and it is our hope that those responsible will be quickly prosecuted and held accountable,” Mr. Gustafson said.

The rivals are running for a seat that is being vacated by Senator Debbie Stabenow, Michigan’s senior senator and a Democrat, who announced last year that she would not seek a fifth term . Democrats control the Senate by a thin 51-49 seat majority.

Ken Bensinger

Joe Rogan would like to clarify: He did not endorse Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The world’s most popular podcaster has, sort of, but not really, thrown his support to one the 2024 presidential race’s least popular candidates.

On Thursday, Joe Rogan said he preferred Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as an independent, for president. “He’s the only one that makes sense to me,” Mr. Rogan said, as a guest on a podcast hosted by Lex Fridman, and called Mr. Kennedy a “legitimate guy.”

Mr. Rogan’s devoted following, one that leans young, male and numbers in the tens of millions, is highly coveted. His remarks about Mr. Kennedy, uttered on a show with a far smaller reach than his own, nonetheless set off a frenzied response.

Supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, worried that Mr. Rogan’s stance could carve off voters and hurt his electoral chances come November, quickly turned on the podcaster, standup comic and U.F.C. announcer. They questioned his intelligence and even mocked his height , a spectacle that was greeted with something akin to joy — or, at least, schadenfreude — among Democrats who have long written off Mr. Rogan as helpful to their cause.

By Friday morning, Mr. Rogan was backpedaling. “This isn’t an endorsement,” he posted on the social media platform X, and advised that he is “not the guy to get political information from.”

Mr. Trump himself weighed in on Friday afternoon, pondering “how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC ring” in a post on his social network that seemingly reflected his concerns that the influential podcaster could tip the scales against him.

“This takes straight from the Trump base,” said Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant. A New York Times/Siena poll in battleground states in May found that 54 percent of respondents who said they planned to vote for the former president had a favorable opinion of Mr. Rogan.

Mr. Kennedy, long before Mr. Rogan’s unwinding act, had already taken credit for the perceived nod, posting on social media: “From one ‘legitimate’ guy to another, thank you.”

Even if it’s not a true endorsement, Mr. Rogan’s praise could come as a huge shot in the arm for Mr. Kennedy, who has seen his polling average drop from as much as 15 percent in early June to somewhere around 6 percent as of late last month.

While Mr. Kennedy drew national attention this week after acknowledging that he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park a decade ago, such headlines have not helped ease his struggles raising money . He’s also fighting to get his name on the ballots in critical states, or, in the case of New York , keep it there.

“He doesn’t attack people. He attacks actions and ideas, but he’s much more reasonable and intelligent,” Mr. Rogan said of Mr. Kennedy on the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” which has 4.1 million subscribers on YouTube.

Mr. Rogan’s fan base is much bigger. In March, Spotify said that “The Joe Rogan Experience” had 14.5 million followers , almost triple the platform’s second most popular program. He also has 19 million followers on Instagram and 17 million followers on YouTube.

A poll by YouGov last year found that 81 percent of his listeners are male and 56 percent are under 35 years old , feeding the perception that he has a direct line to a cohort that polling suggests tends to support Mr. Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.

“This is a group Trump needs strong performance with,” Mr. Madrid said.

During his interview with Mr. Fridman, he said that he was “not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form” and adding that he turned down multiple offers to have him on his show. “I’ve said no every time,” Mr. Rogan said. “I’m not interested in helping him,”

Mr. Kennedy sat for an interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” in June 2023.

Ruth Igielnik contributed reporting.

Jazmine Ulloa

Reporting from Washington

A Latino rights group breaks with its history to endorse the Harris-Walz ticket.

The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organizations, said on Friday that it supported Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the first formal endorsement of a presidential ticket in the group’s 95-year history.

Leaders of the group, known as LULAC, acknowledged that it had previously refrained from endorsing political candidates but said that members were stirred to action by concerns over the potential negative impact on Latinos if former President Donald J. Trump were elected again.

The endorsement was carried out through the group’s political action committee, the LULAC Adelante PAC, after internal conversations and a unanimous vote. Leaders said they decided to endorse Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz because they were better equipped to address the issues facing Latino communities.

“We can trust them to do what is right for our community and the country,” Domingo Garcia, the chairman of the PAC and a past LULAC president, said in a statement.

Latinos, a multiracial and multiethnic slice of the electorate that made up 10 percent of American voters in 2020, tend to vote Democratic.

But they have been at the center of a tug of war between Democrats and Republicans since Mr. Trump improved his standing with Latinos in 2020 compared with his 2016 campaign. As Mr. Trump and President Biden appeared to be headed for a rematch in the 2024 presidential election, a significant number of Latinos had been considering a third-party option .

Latino rights leaders and elected officials have quickly coalesced behind Ms. Harris since she replaced Mr. Biden at the top of the ticket. They said Mr. Trump’s pledges to cut low-income assistance programs and enact hard-line immigration policies would hurt Latino communities across the country.

Leaders of LULAC and similar groups said Ms. Harris’s candidacy had shot new energy into their outreach efforts. Some early polling has captured higher enthusiasm for her than Mr. Biden among Latino voters, but reliable data since the switch is limited.

LULAC, founded in South Texas by a group of mostly Mexican American veterans of World War I, has traditionally taken more conservative stances than other Latino rights groups. Its endorsement will allow its councils, which function as local chapters, to register voters and knock on doors in battleground states, particularly Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The organization has 535 councils nationwide and 140,000 members, 86 percent of whom are registered to vote and more than 75 percent of whom voted in the 2020 election, its officials said.

In a statement, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Ms. Harris’s campaign manager, called the endorsement an honor. “The stakes of this election require Latinos to unify and organize together like our lives depend on it,” she said.

The Trump campaign said that the LULAC endorsement came as no surprise. In a statement, Jaime Florez, the campaign’s Latino media director, argued such groups were out of touch with Latino voters, saying their lack of interest in what matters to Latinos had caused many to leave the party behind.

Until now, the closest LULAC had come to endorsing a presidential candidate was in 1956, when Felix Tijerina, then the group’s president, personally backed the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket. He wore an Ike pin on his lapel, according to news coverage from that time. Some members of the group were also active in clubs boosting John F. Kennedy in 1960, and others have supported local candidates, including Raymond Telles, the former mayor of El Paso.

Mr. Trump now points to the Eisenhower administration’s mass deportations of Mexicans and Mexican Americans as a model that his own administration would follow as he promises to undertake the largest deportation effort in U.S. history.

In an interview, Juan Proaño, LULAC’s chief executive, said the group’s values had evolved since the 1960s, when fierce wage competition and divisions between Mexican and Mexican American laborers initially put the Latino rights group in favor of Eisenhower’s mass deportations. The organization reversed its stance when it was no longer possible to ignore the devastation that the deportations inflicted on Mexican American neighborhoods and border regions.

Ahead of its endorsement, LULAC released an analysis of Mr. Trump’s promises. It cited a range of his proposals that would hurt Latinos, including cuts to education budgets and social safety net programs, and policies that would shut down the border, undo birthright citizenship and roll back protections for young people brought into the country illegally as children.

“We can’t risk mass deportations, we can’t risk family separations,” Mr. Proaño said.

Tim Walz’s class project on the Holocaust is drawing new attention online.

The prediction was spot on: Rwanda was barreling toward a devastating genocide.

It did not emanate from a think tank, but from a high school geography class in western Nebraska. The year was 1993. The teacher? Tim Walz, now the Democratic vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota governor.

Thirty-one years later, the class project is drawing new attention. Mr. Walz, a geography teacher at the time, had asked his students to take what they had learned about the Holocaust to predict which nation was most at risk for genocide.

“They came up with Rwanda,” Mr. Walz said, talking about the project at a conference last month . “Twelve months later, the world witnessed the horrific genocide in Rwanda.”

The project was reported on in a 2008 On Education column for The New York Times that has been widely shared in recent days. Mr. Walz had drawn the attention of the reporter, Samuel G. Freedman, for an earlier column because Mr. Walz was the only K-12 teacher serving in Congress at the time, Mr. Freedman said.

“While I was interviewing Walz for the initial column, he told me how the genocide project was one of his proudest moments as an educator,” said Mr. Freedman, who is now a journalism professor at Columbia University . That sparked Mr. Freedman to revisit the story later.

Mr. Walz, when he delivered the lesson plan, had been teaching global geography in Alliance, Neb., and had been chosen for a Belfer fellowship to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that was opening. Speaking at the conference last month, held by Esri, a company that makes G.I.S. software widely used in mapping, he said the project had a profound effect on his students and bred some cynicism.

“How could a bunch of students in western Nebraska, in Alliance, use a computer program and some past historical knowledge to come up with this?” he said. “Why was nobody doing anything about that?”

Several years later, when he was studying for his master’s degree in experiential education at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mr. Walz wrote his thesis on Holocaust education, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported .

As governor, Mr. Walz signed a bill last year that requires high schools and middle schools to teach about the Holocaust, along with other genocides.