PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Former president Donald Trump, during a campaign rally Sunday in Arizona, proposed a dramatic expansion of the Border Patrol, looking to deepen his commitment to border security — an issue where his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has sought to challenge him. Addressing an enthusiastic crowd in this border state, Trump promised he would set ...
Two polls released Sunday show that former president Donald Trump is chipping away at Vice President Kamala Harris’s national advantage in the presidential race, as the candidates gear up for the final weeks of the campaign season. A new ABC News-Ipsos poll, conducted from Oct. 4-8, showed that among likely voters, Harris led Trump 50 percent to 48 percent, within ...
A man was arrested in Riverside County, Calif., and charged with illegal possession of a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine after he tried to enter a rally Donald Trump held in the desert area in Coachella, sheriff’s officials announced Sunday. The man, whom police questioned as he approached the venue in his car, claimed he was a journalist and ...
MERION STATION, Pa. — In a concession that the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and historic levels of antisemitism have some members of a core constituency newly in play, the Harris-Walz campaign and Jewish groups supporting it are more emphatically than before pressing Jewish voters to return to the Democratic fold in November. They’re pointing to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Jewish husband, ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is making a major push this week to boost her support among Black men, as Democratic leaders warn that she needs to do more to boost enthusiasm from a key group that former president Donald Trump has been courting with some success. In coming days, Harris plans to travel to urban locales including Detroit, Philadelphia and ...
Donald Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice if they hope to interact with Trump. Trump nearly backed out of an August interview with a group of Black journalists after learning they planned to fact-check his claims. The following month, he and ...
Police in Toronto, Canada, are opening a hate crime investigation after shots were fired overnight into the window of a Jewish girls’ elementary school – the second time this year the school was targeted by gunfire, officials said. The incident occurred around 4 a.m. Saturday at the Bais Chaya Mushka Girls Elementary School on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of ...
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has died at 69, according to statements from Scotland’s main political parties and UK media reports. Salmond was taken ill while in North Macedonia, collapsing after delivering a speech on Saturday, according to British media reports. “I will never be able to thank Alex for all his lessons, advice, guidance, mentorship, love and friendship ...
It was the perfect feel-good story, just in time for Christmas. On December 20 last year, the United States secured from Venezuela the release of 10 US citizens – six of them wrongfully detained – in exchange for a close ally of authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro and a commitment from Caracas that it would stop detaining Americans to use as ...
It seemed like an unlikely stage for Kanye West to unveil his new music. But last month the American rapper – now known as Ye – held not just one but two sold-out “listening parties” in China, a country that imposes some of the toughest censorship in the world. Playing on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, his first concerts ...