During a streamed town-hall discussion hosted by Oprah Winfrey, Vice President Kamala Harris offered a bit more detail on her comment at this month’s presidential debate about owning a firearm. “I’m a gun owner, Tim Walz is a gun owner,” Harris said, referring to herself and her running mate, the governor of Minnesota. Then, with a chuckle, she added: “If ...
A porn site user linked to North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson praised Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” in addition to declaring himself a “black NAZI,” according to screenshots obtained by The Washington Post. The user’s posts on porn forum Nude Africa vanished Thursday, the same day that CNN reported on the many ways the account resembled Robinson. A person ...
ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris blasted former president Donald Trump in a passionate speech about reproductive health during an event Friday in Georgia, blaming him for the deaths of women who did not receive proper medical treatment because of strict abortion bans. “This is a health-care crisis. And Donald Trump is the architect of this crisis,” Harris said during ...
The Republican Party is apparently stuck with Mark Robinson. Some Republicans and people working on behalf of Donald Trump’s campaign pushed Thursday for the North Carolina lieutenant governor to drop out of the governor’s race there amid ugly allegations about decade-old posts on a pornographic website, but Robinson has not done so. The deadline passed at midnight for the party ...
Former president Donald Trump spoke by phone this week with a Nebraska state senator as part of a last-minute push to change how the state allocates its electoral votes and block the easiest path Vice President Kamala Harris has to win the White House. State Sen. Merv Riepe (R) said he spoke briefly by phone with Trump Wednesday in the ...
The Arizona Supreme Court’s chief justice ruled Friday that nearly 100,000 voters should receive regular ballots this fall even though there is no record that they had submitted documentation to state officials proving they are citizens. The battleground state’s high court issued its ruling three days after officials told the justices they had recently discovered state computer systems had identified ...
Kamala Harris’s campaign raised more than four times as much as Donald Trump’s effort in August, capitalizing on the surge of Democratic enthusiasm during the first full month of her presidential campaign. But the super PACs aligned with Trump are continuing to raise large sums from high-dollar donors as the two candidates enter the final sprint before November. Harris’s campaign ...
Elon Musk’s X and Starlink face nearly $1 million in daily fines for allegedly evading ban in Brazil
Elon Musk’s X faces steep daily fines in Brazil for allegedly evading a ban on the service there, according to a statement from the country’s supreme court on Thursday. The fines, imposed by Brazil’s supreme court (Supremo Tribuno Federal or STF) amount to $5 million in Brazilian reals, about $920,000, a day. The court said it would continue to impose “joint liability” on Starlink, the ...
A unit of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant will be restarted as part of a new energy-sharing agreement with Microsoft, which plans to use it to power the data centers it operates as part of its push into artificial intelligence. In a joint release, Microsoft and Constellation Energy, Pennsylvania’s main utility, said Three Mile Island Unit 1, a unit ...
The main national body of the Teamsters union may have declined to endorse a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, but that hasn’t stopped local units from doing so. According to the Kamala Harris campaign, almost two dozen local Teamsters unions and joint councils representing approximately 1 million Teamster-affiliated workers have endorsed the vice president in recent days, including ones ...