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Editorial: Hostile meddling: Russia and Iran want a vote in our election
Foreign governments trying to tip the scales of American elections is nothing new, but the brazenness with which Russia and Iran are meddling in the 2024 presidential election is notable.
In a DOJ indictment, federal authorities announced charges and sanctions against Russian-government-linked operatives for interfering to boost Donald Trump, ...Read more
AG opinion helps Gov. Brian Kemp skirt simmering Georgia election board controversy
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp won’t soon have to face a decision on whether to remove members of Georgia’s State Election Board who are under fire for approving new rules that critics say are designed to favor former President Donald Trump.
That’s because Attorney General Chris Carr, a Kemp ally, declined to issue an advisory opinion Friday...Read more
Republicans push to run up Trump tally in conservative Georgia´s Banks County
HOMER, Ga. — Plopped down in lawn chairs planted along historic Homer Highway, some folks showed up before 8 a.m. — two hours before the parade began — to claim prime spots for the 59th annual Labor Day Festival.
The crowd swelled that Saturday to well over 1,000 by noon. Kids scurried for candy thrown from passengers in shined-up 1950s ...Read more
Putin aide who leads disinformation efforts once was a reformer
The head of a russian propaganda campaign that allegedly aimed to influence the upcoming us elections began as a liberal politician before he became one of president vladimir putin’s closest advisers.
Sergei Kiriyenko, who is the first deputy head in Putin’s administration, oversaw a years-long Kremlin operation to meddle in U.S. elections...Read more
Crossing state lines to get an abortion is a new legal minefield, with courts to decide if there’s a right to travel
Almost half of the states in the country have made it harder to get an abortion since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the federal right to get an abortion. Fourteen states ban abortions in almost all circumstances, and another eight in almost all cases after 6 to 18 weeks of pregnancy.
Nonetheless, the number of abortions ...Read more
Trump campaign violated rules in Arlington National Cemetery visit, cemetery legal expert explains
The public furor continues over Donald Trump’s behavior during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 26, 2024.
Since that visit to the U.S. military burial ground outside Washington, D.C., news reports and campaign photos have emerged showing the former president grinning widely and giving a “thumbs-up” gesture while ...Read more
School shooting draws unwanted attention to Georgia on campaign trail
Republicans and Democrats are both adjusting approach to classroom safety
The national spotlight fell on Georgia on Wednesday following a shooting at Barrow County’s Apalachee High School that killed four and injured at least nine others.
The two major party candidates for president each responded quickly. Vice President Kamala Harris ...Read more
Kamala Harris’ purported ancestry highlights complicated backstory of Irish identity and enslavement
When Barack Obama was elected president, the people of Moneygall in Ireland celebrated. Birthplace of Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather on his white mother’s side, the village commemorated the victory – and a later visit from the 44th president – with pints of Guinness and a kitschy trade in “O'Bama” memorabilia.
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Editorial: Gold Star families rebuke Harris over cemetery attack
Kamala Harris is now attacking Donald Trump for mourning with the families of fallen service members. Even in a heated political environment, that’s shameful.
Last week, former President Trump participated in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the 13 fallen heroes murdered in Afghanistan three years ago. A suicide bomber killed them as they ...Read more
Missouri judge strikes down Ashcroft's 'misleading' description of abortion rights amendment
A Missouri judge on Thursday struck down Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s official description of an abortion rights amendment that would have appeared at polling places across the state on Nov. 5.
Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker found that Ashcroft’s language summarizing the amendment, called Amendment 3, was unfair and ...Read more
Trump, courting Jewish Republicans, predicts extinction for Israel if Harris is elected
Former President Donald Trump painted a dire picture of the effect of a Kamala Harris presidency on the future of Israel and the security of Jewish people in the United States as he courted Jewish Republicans on Thursday and urged them to convince their non-GOP friends to support him in the November election.
"Kamala Harris is the candidate of ...Read more
Trump floats US sovereign wealth fund as part of economic pitch
Former President Donald Trump in a speech to business leaders on Thursday called for the creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, a government-owned investment fund, to finance “great national endeavors.”
While offering few details, Trump said the fund would would yield a “gigantic profit” that could help “pay down the national debt�...Read more
Kamala Harris' August fundraising more than double Trump's
Kamala Harris reportedly raised about $300 million for her presidential campaign in August, more than double Trump’s $130 million haul, an edge that suggests she will continue to enjoy a financial advantage in the last two months of the race.
The Democratic nominee has not released exact figures for the late summer windfall, but NBC News ...Read more
Georgia's election board fight sets the stage for disputes and creates a headache for Brian Kemp
The expanding controversy over a State Election Board controlled by loyalists to former President Donald Trump is putting Gov. Brian Kemp and his Republican allies into exactly the position they hoped to avoid: a debate over the last election.
With two months until the November election, the three-member majority of the board is trying to ...Read more
Judge says election won't affect timeline for Trump prosecution
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday said she would not consider the upcoming election as she sets a schedule for the criminal prosecution in Washington against Donald Trump, an approach that could allow prosecutors to make public more evidence related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. ...Read more
Kamala Harris will stay in Pittsburgh as she prepares for next week's Philly presidential debate
Vice President Kamala Harris will arrive in Pittsburgh Thursday and is expected to stay in the city until Tuesday, when she will travel to Philadelphia to debate former President Donald Trump.
Harris is spending the weekend preparing in Pittsburgh to give her an opportunity to pop out for quick campaign appearances in a state that will be ...Read more
Harris campaign tries to beat Trump at his own game − ridicule
In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed her opponent, former President Donald Trump – not with scorn or outright condemnation but, as columnist Peter Nicholas put it, by taking a “cheekier tone.”
“In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man,” Harris said, ...Read more
Trump pleads not guilty to revised Jan. 6 election interference charges
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday in the new and streamlined federal Jan. 6 election interference case that was filed after the Supreme Court granted him significant immunity.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan accepted the plea from Trump’s lawyers and suggested she plans to consider whether prosecutors can move ...Read more
Hunter Biden intends to change plea to guilty in federal tax case
Hunter Biden intends to change his plea in his federal tax case, his lawyer told a federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday just moments before jury selection was set to begin.
The second son of President Joe Biden has been accused of nine misdemeanor and felony offenses. Prosecutors say the 54-year-old failed to pay $1.4 million in federal ...Read more
Democrat Sharice Davids wins Kansas Farm Bureau PAC endorsement, a first for KC-area rep
Rep. Sharice Davids has won the endorsement of the Kansas Farm Bureau’s political arm, with the state’s most influential agricultural group coming to view the Kansas City-area Democrat as a reliable ally as Congress struggles to pass a farm bill.
The nod marks the first time the Kansas Farm Bureau’s political action committee - Voters ...Read more
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