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When Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris held their first — and probably their last — 2024 presidential debate in Philadelphia on September 10, the vice president hammered her GOP opponent relentlessly on reproductive rights.Trump tried to frame abortion as a states' rights issue, but Harris — an attorney since 1990 and former...
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The National Review's Jim Geraghty has written a lengthy column warning conservatives against writing off Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.While allowing that sometimes Harris "serves up some stinkers" when she's "speaking off the cuff," he adds that it would be a mistake for conservatives to dismiss her as a...
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CNN anchor Kate Bolduan roared disapproval at a political analyst Tuesday as he offered snarky advice to liberal voters ahead of Election Day.Panelists Van Jones, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, and Scott Jennings, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, were both scolded by the outraged host as they debated the twists and...
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Former President Donald Trump, whose Florida social club bathroom was raided by federal agents hunting for official White House documents he stored there, professed himself outraged Tuesday morning about mishandled classified information. Trump's rant on Truth Social Tuesday morning did not reference his own federal court case on Espionage Act...
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Polls at the moment are showing a dead heat between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump -- and Harris' own campaign believes that is an accurate representation of the state of the race.A lengthy report from CNN brings word that Harris campaign staffers see the campaign as a "jump ball" at the moment, although they have a...
ReadCBS News - Politics (36 minutes ago)
With Election Day just over two weeks away, the fight for every last undecided vote in battleground states is intensifying. Former President Donald Trump kicked off his closing arguments today, launching a two-day swing through North Carolina while ramping up his attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris. Robert Costa has more.
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Elon Musk is giving away big bucks to random voters who sign a petition from his political action committee. But there's a catch — and it's raising concerns about possible campaign finance violations. Jo Ling Kent has more on the controversial contest.
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The murder of a Punjabi rapper, repeated death threats against a Bollywood star and the killing of a Mumbai-based politician — all are alleged to be the work of Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Now, the RCMP is claiming the Bishnoi gang is targeting members of Canada's Sikh community, allegedly at the behest of the Indian government.
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Kamala Harris' reliance on the "joyful warrior” approach — and a reluctance to go for Donald Trump's jugular — is what could lose her the election, a political scientist warned Tuesday.Speaking to Salon, Professor M. Steven Fish of the University of California, Berkeley, said the Democrat's reluctance to mobilize a full on attack in the last...
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The crew on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday expressed disgust after Sen. J.D. Vance excused Donald Trump's rants about using the military to go after "the enemy within" by saying that the former president speaks "from the heart."Host Joe Scarborough started off by picking apart Vance's earlier attempts to suggest that Trump was being taken out of...
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Former President Donald Trump's new swing state attack ad against Vice President Kamala Harris is so full of exaggerations and falsehoods that it baffled a local authority and stunned a Washington Post fact-checker. Trump's recent pitch to Michigan autoworkers was described as "bombastic," "false" and "misleading" in a Washington Post analysis from...
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Pop star Liam Payne had multiple drugs including crack cocaine and methamphetamine in his system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina, according to initial toxicology reports cited by US media on Monday.The British singer and former One Direction member died last week at the age of 31, after plunging from a third-floor hotel...
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U.S. infant mortality surged in the months following the Supreme Court decision to overturn the national right to abortion, driven by a rise in the number of babies with birth defects, a study said Monday.The findings highlight the consequences of restricting abortion access across much of the country, according to the authors of the paper in JAMA...
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A new public opinion survey of the race in Florida's 13th Congressional District between conservative Republican Anna Paulina Luna and her Democratic challenger, Whitney Fox, shows the two tied at 46% as early voting began in the district on Monday. The survey, by St. Pete Polls, also shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 percentage...
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Cochise County Supervisor Peggy Judd has entered into a plea deal to avoid a felony after she and another supervisor delayed certifying the 2022 election over fears of non-existent voter fraud in Maricopa County. Attorney General Kris Mayes announced Monday that Judd entered into the agreement, pleading guilty to refusing to perform the duty of an...
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A House Republican from New York blasted a North Carolina Democrat on Monday, accusing her of denying his repeated requests to co-sponsor legislation in a scheme to boost his Democratic opponent. Rep. Marc Molinaro is running for re-election against Josh Riley in the Hudson Valley. Molinaro took to X on Monday to share screenshots of two emails...
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Cuba's capital remains paralyzed as the island braces for a fourth night of blackouts after Hurricane Oscar's landfall. Protests erupted in urban areas like Havana, with residents banging pots, blocking streets, and demanding water. The government issued stern warnings against unrest as six people were reported deadHurricane Oscar left six people...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken center stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics shared a common thread: AI.Indeed, many scientists – including the Nobel committees – are celebrating AI as a force for transforming science. As one of the laureates put it, AI's potential for accelerating...
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A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and adding to the growing swarm of space junk clouding our planet's neighborhood.The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000km above the Indian Ocean, in a geostationary...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out at his own party members who have turned against him, and warned them their own policies would deter Arab American voters from supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump took to Truth Social just before 1 a.m. Tuesday to hurl bitter complaints at two former Republican lawmakers who have...
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The Bulwark's A.B. Stoddard this week marveled at the way that former President Donald Trump is closing out his campaign by seemingly getting more unhinged.In her latest piece, Stoddard argued that the former president appears to be trying to blow his chances of winning the race as he isn't even trying to deliver a disciplined and coherent message...
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Gurpatwant Singh Pannun — a dual Canada-United States citizen and the target of an alleged assassination attempt in New York City last year — says the expelled Indian High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, is 'less of a diplomat, and more of a hypocrite.'
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Eric Trump on Monday falsely said his father, Donald Trump, saved the word "Christmas,” by declaring, "we're gonna call it a Christmas tree because we celebrate Christmas as a nation.”The ex-president's son falsely alleged President Barack Obama "weaponized the IRS to go after um, you know, Christian organizations…absolutely viciously,”...
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KINGSTON, NY — Former President Donald Trump's upcoming Madison Square Garden rally is a joke, if a "depressing” one, to many New York business owners. Tuesday, as the sun was still rising on a brisk, windless fall morning at the Wiltwyck Golf Club, down-ballot congressional candidates made their clunky pitches to local business owners, who...
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WASHINGTON — A new poll released Monday by a civic engagement group found that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris continues to grow her support with Latinos in critical battleground states. In a tight presidential race, both campaigns have tried to court the Latino vote — one of the fastest-growing voting blocs. The poll for Voto...
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A new report out Monday puts "into numbers the trend that ordinary Americans have known to be true for years," said economic justice advocates behind the analysis: "Their everyday struggles of affording a home are made worse by the sweeping influence that billionaires have over the market."The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) joined Popular...
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New Mexico and federal officials continued to survey damage in Chaves County on Monday after deadly flash floods ripped through Roswell over the weekend, washing away cars, submerging buildings and leaving much of the city under a layer of silt. State police blame the flooding for two deaths, though officials have not yet released their names or...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook was in China for the second time this year, he said on social media Tuesday, as the US technology giant seeks to shore up slumping sales in a crucial overseas market.The iPhone maker remains popular among Chinese consumers but has ceded ground to domestic rivals in recent years as the Asian nation faces slowing economic growth...
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump falsely accused his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris of abandoning North Carolina residents impacted by Hurricane Helene in a Greenville rally Monday afternoon — one of many distortions he made after his first visit to the western part of the state post-Helene. "When the people of North Carolina were...
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North Korea has not sent troops to Russia to help Moscow fight Ukraine, one of its United Nations representatives said Monday, dismissing Seoul's claims as "groundless rumor".Seoul's spy agency said Friday that Pyongyang sent a "large-scale" troop deployment to help its ally, claiming that 1,500 special forces were already training in Russia's Far...
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"Gov. Greg Abbott's office condemns Texas House lawmakers that intervened in Robert Roberson's execution" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's...
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Disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with a form of bone marrow cancer, US media reported Monday, a month after he was indicted on a new sex crime charge.Weinstein, 72, has chronic myeloid leukemia and is undergoing treatment in a New York prison, according to NBC News and ABC News, citing sources.His reported...
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A federal judge on Monday dismissed defamation lawsuits against three Missouri state senators who made social media posts incorrectly identifying a Kansas man as an undocumented immigrant and the shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory celebration. Denton Loudermill, the plaintiff in the case, had not shown that the Kansas federal...
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The untold story of how around 1,000 children were rescued from Rwanda during the bloodiest and most chaotic days of its genocide is finally coming to light three decades after they were saved from the slaughter.Aid workers risked their lives to get the children -- mostly orphans -- out to safety in neighbouring Burundi in a series of Swiss...
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A Peruvian court on Monday sentenced former president Alejandro Toledo to more than 20 years in prison for accepting multi-million-dollar bribes from scandal-hit Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht.The Superior Court accepted the prison term recommended by the prosecution, it announced at a hearing attended by the 78-year-old, who led the...
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Chile has launched a vaccine described as the first of its kind that sterilizes dogs for a year and is expected to be sold in several dozen countries.The injection prevents sexual behavior and reproduction, offering an alternative to irreversible surgical castration, its creators say."This is the first vaccine of this type in the world for dogs,"...
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Löchriger als angenommen könnte der Ampel-Haushalt für das kommende Jahr sein. Heute beginnt die Steuerschätzung, und die Zahlen werden nicht besonders rosig aussehen. Wo der Finanzminister noch sparen will, wo die Koalitionäre keinesfalls übereinkommen werden und wie ein Kompromiss aussehen könnte, analysiert Gordon Repinski. Im...
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A slightly uncomfortable moment on CNN surfaced Monday night after former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson offered her analysis on Donald Trump's recent lewd remarks about golf legend Arnold Palmer – which prompted awkward laughter on the set."I don't know why you guys are so flustered,” Carlson said Monday night on a CNN panel which included...
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Joking with his audience that the fast-approaching 2024 election is "surreal,” comedian Jon Stewart kicked off "The Daily Show" on Monday night by teasing Donald Trump for his appearance at a Pennsylvania McDonald's, quipping: "This campaign cannot get any weirder.” The comedian began his opening monologue with the state of the race in the...
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The president of the United Auto Workers slammed former President Donald Trump's visit to a Pennsylvania McDonald's, calling it a "joke" on CNN and saying Trump was simply playing "dress-up."Trump visited the fast food chain in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday, working the fry station of the McDonald's, which was closed to the public during his...
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Donald Trump's bizarre town hall last week that turned into a 40-minute dance party was part of a "great week” the former president had on the campaign trail, a comment made by an ex-Trump adviser that prompted laughter on CNN Monday night.The moment came during "The Source” with anchor Kaitlin Collins when longtime Trump supporter David Urban...
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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are demanding that CBS release the full, unedited transcript of Vice President Kamala Harris' "60 Minutes" interview and accused the network and show producers of intentionally misleading the public by broadcasting an edited interview."60 Minutes" on Sunday night said in a statement that Trump's...
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has a few choice words to say about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and his loyalty to former President Donald Trump.Cheney, who was ultimately kicked out of the House GOP over her criticisms of the former president and vote to impeach him, gave the remarks at a forum with anti-Trump conservative commentator Charlie Sykes,...
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Vice President Kamala Harris has picked up a wide range of endorsements in the presidential race, from self-described "democratic socialist" Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to arch-conservative former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), to major entertainment figures like Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen and...
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Politico published a story on Monday that critics say sanitized Donald Trump's speech in storm-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina — even as the article acknowledged several other chaotic developments and actions the former president has taken in the previous few days."After a weekend of headlines about Donald Trump's entertainment-focused message...
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Concerns about Michigan's election system spurred members of a local Republican party to explore submitting "inconsistent signatures with absentee ballots” in an effort to test the battleground state's voting verification process. Citing a newsletter the Clinton County Republican Party released Saturday detailing their ill-fated plan, The Detroit...
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The GOP's lawsuits seeking to block some overseas ballots from being cast in Michigan and North Carolina have been turned away by state judges, CNN reported Monday.It's a blow to former President Donald Trump's ongoing efforts to obstruct the management of elections across the country."The RNC sued in Michigan and North Carolina to block state...
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Crystal's baby was born in jail while she waited for her case to be processed. Her wait for justice is not uncommon in the NT, where the courts are so backlogged that unprecedented numbers of people are being left to languish on remand.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler this week took on the tall task of going through stories that former President Donald Trump tells at his campaign rallies that he notes are entirely "made up."Among the many Trump whoppers he dissects in his lengthy fact check are claims that hydrogen cars hydrogen cars explode like "a massive bomb being...
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Republicans in Congress are threatening a new investigation into progressive firebrand Federal Trade Commissioner Lina Khan, this time for what they allege might be illegal campaigning from public office, Bloomberg reported Monday."Republicans including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio said Khan's reported appearances with...
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The first winners of an Elon-Musk-backed organization's $1M giveaway — aimed at getting voters to cast their ballots for former President Donald Trump — were already registered as Republicans — and had already voted prior to winning the money, according to a new report.The tech billionaire's America PAC launched a controversial $1 million...
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Calling it a "thorny issue” for Department of Justice prosecutors to untangle, CNN's Elie Honig floated the idea that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk could be violating federal election law with his offer to pay voters to sign his pro-Donald Trump petition, but added that legal charges aren't expected before Election Day."This is yet another...
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Gurpatwant Singh Pannun — a dual Canada-United States citizen and the target of an alleged assassination attempt in New York City last year — says the expelled Indian High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, is 'less of a diplomat, and more of a hypocrite.'
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