GREEN BAY, Wis. — Vice President Kamala Harris chided Donald Trump on Thursday for his revisionist history on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — accusing him of “gaslighting” the American people with his recent assertion that it was a “day of love.” As she attempts to broaden her appeal to Republicans and conservatives in the final ...
For months, Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake has speculated that her opponent, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), had used the courts to hide “something really, really bad” in his divorce from Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego. But on Thursday, an Arizona court unsealed most of the case file — revealing what one judge called “one of the most garden-variety divorce files I ...
Hours after Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces, Iran remembered Sinwar as a martyr whose vision for a liberated Palestine would be carried forward. Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which prompted the ongoing war between the Jewish state and terror group in the Gaza Strip, was killed Thursday by Israeli forces ...
The State Department on Thursday said the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops presented an ‘opportunity’ for a potential cease-fire and an end to the yearlong war. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said until Sinwar’s death, ‘there’s been no path to ending this war because Sinwar has refused to talk about releasing the hostages.’ ‘We now ...
DURHAM, N.C. — Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for the first time alongside the Democratic ticket Thursday, appearing with Gov. Tim Walz and reprising his role as “explainer in chief” to make the case to North Carolinians to elect Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting here. “I don’t know how many more elections I’ll be involved with. ...
A former president, a Kennedy, a pop star, and a tech giant have all thrown their names behind a presidential candidate this year — but will it make a difference? Former President Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Taylor Swift are the only individuals to receive net positive personal ratings among nine figures tested, including the current presidential and vice ...
There is not a lot of complexity to the ongoing war in Ukraine. In early 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin amassed tanks and troops at the nation’s eastern and northern borders. He created a pretense under which he might present his country as protecting separatists operating in a portion of Ukraine occupied by Russia eight years prior. And then he ...
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and Democrats are seizing on recent comments made by former president Donald Trump in which he insulted Detroit, compared the largest city in the battleground state of Michigan to a “developing nation” and downplayed the skills required for autoworkers to do their jobs. Trump first bashed the Motor City during a meandering speech before the ...
New polling conducted by a bipartisan set of firms on behalf of Fox News offers seemingly incongruous results. In the new poll, released Wednesday, former president Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris by two percentage points nationally. But in a collection of six swing states, Harris has the lead, by six points. The story here isn’t really that the ...