Vice President Kamala Harris made a sharp, fiery case against Republican nominee Donald Trump during a freewheeling debate Tuesday, blasting the former president’s character and preoccupation with himself while pressing him to task on issues including abortion, democracy and foreign policy. Trump used the head-to-head event to attack Harris as a “Marxist” masquerading as a moderate and repeatedly turned the ...
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Vice President Kamala Harris accused former president Donald Trump of taking a soft tack with Xi Jinping, the leader of China, and other strongmen during Tuesday’s presidential debate. Trump sought to paint those relationships as a strength, baselessly claiming that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Gaza conflict would not have happened if he had won in 2020. Focusing her ...
KYIV — The top U.S. diplomat made a rare wartime visit to Kyiv on Wednesday, offering a sympathetic ear to its leaders as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mounted a push to win permission to use long-range U.S. missile systems to strike deep into Russia, despite being rejected last week by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Kyiv’s attempt to sway Biden administration ...
In their first and perhaps only presidential debate in the 2024 election, a defensive former president Donald Trump relied on many of his favorite falsehoods to combat attacks from Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris stretched the truth on occasion, but she was no match in the falsehood department against Trump. Here’s a roundup of 55 claims that caught our interest, ...
PHILADELPHIA — Ever since President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign, former president Donald Trump has been sour and on the defensive. His new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, made clear in their scorching debate here Tuesday night that she will spend the next two months trying to keep him there. If debates matter, this one should. But the overriding ...
After spending more than a week trying to secure a meeting with the president of the United Steelworkers union, Nippon Steel’s Takahiro Mori finally got an answer. But it was not the one he wanted. “I want to be direct with you,” David McCall, the USW boss, wrote in an April 5 email. “A one-hour meeting between the two of ...
The battle for Rupert Murdoch’s global media kingdom is headed to the biggest little city in the world. Murdoch, the 93-year-old billionaire press baron, reportedly wants to alter the terms of an irrevocable trust so that his eldest son, Lachlan, inherits his throne and keeps control of prized assets such as Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. But three ...
Internet service providers like Charter, Verizon and Comcast have quietly scaled back their efforts to revive the Affordable Connectivity Program, an expired federal internet subsidy that helped low-income households pay for broadband. The $14.2 billion program provided a discount of up to $30 per month for some qualifying households and up to $75 a month for households on eligible tribal land. But it officially ended in June after Congress ...
New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol will focus on improving the chain’s U.S. business in his early days on the job before he moves to fix its issues abroad, according to an open letter published on Tuesday. ″… In some places — especially in the U.S. — we aren’t always delivering,” Niccol wrote in the open letter addressed to customers, employees and stakeholders. “It can ...