On a quiet Sunday afternoon in the presidential race, a Secret Service agent opened fire on a man who poked a rifle through a fence as Donald Trump golfed. Just two months earlier, a different gunman tried to kill Trump at a campaign rally. The shooting left one dead and two wounded. Bomb threats have forced evacuations and lockdowns in ...
Democrats pushed again this week to spotlight Republican’s unpopular positions on reproductive rights, slamming Senate Republicans for voting Tuesday to block a bill to expand access to in vitro fertilization and accusing former president Donald Trump of putting women’s lives at risk. The Senate vote aimed to remind voters two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that ...
It’s important to establish a timeline on what happened in Springfield, Ohio, so let’s begin there. Over the summer, right-wing extremists and others began to promote baseless rumors that Haitian immigrants in that community were stealing and eating residents’ pets. Changes the city was undergoing were newsworthy, certainly; NPR and then the New York Times wrote stories about Springfield and ...
When Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris last Tuesday night, the news threatened to eclipse analysis of the debate between the vice president and former president Donald Trump. Whatever its ultimate impact, the megastar’s announcement puts renewed focus on the potential power of younger voters in the 2024 election — and the divergent paths of men and women. Celebrity endorsements generally ...
“President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.” — David Muir, ABC News moderator at the presidential debate, Sept. 10 “MASSIVE NEWS! The Department of Justice just released brand new Crime Data showing I was absolutely and completely right at the Debate. In fact, the Data is even worse than we ...
Less than two weeks after an assassin’s bullet hit Donald Trump in the ear this summer, he was held backstage at a Nashville event for more than an hour because of a potential security threat. A man had evaded security and disappeared into the crowd without being checked. There was a lengthy Secret Service search to review video, interview those ...
In a federal courtroom on Monday, storied fashion designer Michael Kors spoke about the steep challenge of staying relevant in a world where brands can rise and fall based on viral TikTok videos and photos of handbags on the arms of celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. Kors kicked off the week of testimony in the antitrust trial in ...
Amazon is requiring its workers to return to the office full time. In a note published Monday by the e-commerce giant, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who took over from founder Jeff Bezos in 2020, said the move to end the company’s hybrid model was designed toward ‘being better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other ...
Charter Communications CEO Chris Winfrey said he wants customers to think of reliability and credibility when they think of their cable and broadband provider. The cable giant told CNBC it is unveiling a series of changes Monday to bolster that goal, including rolling out new bundles and pricing, increasing internet speeds, offering credits for service outages and promising heightened reliability for ...
A mayoral debate in the Brazilian city of São Paulo turned ugly when one of the candidates attacked a rival with a chair. Video from the debate, broadcast live on Sunday by TV Cultura, shows a tense exchange between José Luiz Datena and Pablo Marçal before Datena swings the chair at his counterpart. Datena later told TV Cultura that he ...