PITTSBURGH — Former president Barack Obama on Thursday made a direct, impassioned plea to black men to support Vice President Kamala Harris — a key demographic she is struggling to mobilize — at times admonishing them for thinking about sitting out the presidential contest and suggesting sexism might be at play. During an unannounced stop at a campaign field office ...
LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday presented the stakes of the 2024 election to Latino voters — many of whom fled authoritarian regimes — as a fight for the future of American democracy in the face of Donald Trump’s vow to be a dictator on his first day in office. Harris faced intense questions during a Univision ...
As Republican candidates regularly turn any question into a hit on immigration, the presidential campaigns are overlooking the disturbing conditions migrants face in detention facilities that fail to meet government standards. Because of those deficiencies, a new federal watchdog report says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is hindered in its “ability to maintain a safe and secure environment for ...
When clients tell Mercury Public Affairs, a consulting and lobbying shop with 18 offices worldwide, that they’re concerned about Donald Trump’s possible return to office, the firm has just the person to ease their nerves: Bryan Lanza. Lanza, a Mercury partner and longtime Republican strategist, is well-suited to the task. In between client breakfasts in far-flung parts of the world, ...
As Hurricane Milton approached landfall in western Florida on Wednesday, the Biden administration warned consumers and businesses of the heightened risk of potential fraud, price gouging and collusion that accompanies major natural disasters. “Wrongdoers are looking to exploit opportunities and victims of natural disasters for their own personal gain,” U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Gathe Jr. for the Middle District of Louisiana said ...
TD Bank pleaded guilty Thursday to multiple criminal charges and agreed to pay a whopping $3 billion in fines and other penalties to the Department of Justice and financial regulators for failing to monitor money laundering by drug traffickers and other criminals. As part of the deal, TD Bank, whose U.S. unit is the 10th-largest American bank by assets, also will have limits to its ...
AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia’s data center graphics processors, known as GPUs. The Instinct MI325X, as the chip is called, will start production before the end of 2024, AMD said Thursday during an event announcing the new product. If AMD’s AI chips are seen by developers and cloud giants as a ...
The Italian government is facing a new set of challenges as it prepares to open two migrant processing centers in Albania in October where men rescued at sea en route to Italy will be processed for asylum. It’s a move which the hard-right administration says will combat human trafficking and allow in only those who have a genuine right to enter the European Union, but which ...
Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak were perched high on the snowy face of a Himalayan mountain when disaster struck their quest to become the first to summit its peak. At more than 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) above sea level, a falling rock sliced through the rope carrying Manners’ bag, leaving the climbers stranded in the inhospitable wilderness without vital ...
A pilot who died when he crashed a helicopter into a hotel in Australia had “significant blood alcohol content” during the unauthorized flight, according to an official report into the incident. Hundreds of guests and staff were evacuated from the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Cairns in Far North Queensland on August 12, when the aircraft hit the top floor ...