By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Tairy Pagan,41, had no plans to vote next week, exhausted with politics and frustrated by the state of the economy. She changed her mind after a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally. Now she’s voting for Vice President Kamala […]
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Trump recalls watching racial justice protesters flee D.C. There’s no evidence it happened.
By Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump has a new yarn to tell about 2020’s racial justice protests. For years, the former president has falsely claimed that he stopped protesters who were trying to pull down statues in D.C. by enacting or signing a new law that threatened anyone who vandalized a […]
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Trump recalls watching racial justice protesters flee D.C. There’s no evidence it happened.
By Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump has a new yarn to tell about 2020’s racial justice protests. For years, the former president has falsely claimed that he stopped protesters who were trying to pull down statues in D.C. by enacting or signing a new law that threatened anyone who vandalized a […]
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Bannon released from prison after serving sentence for contempt
By Spencer S. Hsu, Shayna Jacobs, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Stephen K. Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with a House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The influential right-wing podcaster and […]
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Bannon released from prison after serving sentence for contempt
By Spencer S. Hsu, Shayna Jacobs, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Stephen K. Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with a House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The influential right-wing podcaster and […]
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Autocracy and ‘enemy from within’ are thrust to center of campaign’s final days
By Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post · Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey · NATIONAL, ELECTIONS, POLITICS, MEDIA · Oct 29, 2024 – 9:29 AM Inside a third-floor conference room of the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris was grappling with how to hone her closing argument to voters. How could she warn of the […]
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Autocracy and ‘enemy from within’ are thrust to center of campaign’s final days
By Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post · Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey · NATIONAL, ELECTIONS, POLITICS, MEDIA · Oct 29, 2024 – 9:29 AM Inside a third-floor conference room of the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris was grappling with how to hone her closing argument to voters. How could she warn of the […]
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New Mexico asks feds for emergency declaration for Roswell flooding
By Austin Fisher, Source NM New Mexico state officials asked the federal government to declare a major disaster over this month’s flooding in Roswell and surrounding Chaves County, which could unlock money to aid in recovery. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham made the request to President Joe Biden on Monday night. Lujan Grisham called the Oct. 18 […]
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New Mexico asks feds for emergency declaration for Roswell flooding
By Austin Fisher, Source NM New Mexico state officials asked the federal government to declare a major disaster over this month’s flooding in Roswell and surrounding Chaves County, which could unlock money to aid in recovery. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham made the request to President Joe Biden on Monday night. Lujan Grisham called the Oct. 18 […]
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Indigenous families with missing or murdered loved ones struggle for justice
By Bella Davis, New Mexico In Depth Indigenous families with loved ones who have gone missing or been murdered shared their experiences with state officials this week — sometimes through tears — and urged them to do more to confront a crisis that has long impacted communities but received scant attention until recent years. Their comments […]