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The staggering reach of Trump’s misinformation — not just on Haitian migrants

By  Aaron Blake, The Washington Post, (c) 2024 , From Day One of his presidency to this day, Donald Trump has promoted an alternate reality that has caught on with a shocking proportion of his base. But we don’t often get good polling that shows just how much Trump’s misinformation has penetrated the country. Today, […]

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JD Vance explains the political utility of anti-immigrant hostility

By Philip Bump, The Washington Post, (c) 2024 Just about every part of Sen. JD Vance’s efforts on Sunday to defend his relentless fearmongering about Haitian immigrants was dishonest. To hear Vance (R-Ohio) tell it – as he told CNN’s Dana Bash and NBC’s Kristen Welker in separate news show appearances – the senator and […]

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Trump posts ‘I hate Taylor Swift,’ days after the star’s Harris endorsement

Lisa Rein (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Former president Donald Trump took his bitterness over mega-pop star Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to his social network, declaring in an all-caps tweet on Truth Social on Sunday, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT.” The post did not mention Swift’s endorsement following Tuesday’s presidential debate, […]

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Nebraska high court allows competing abortion measures on fall ballot

By Annie Gowen (c) 2024 , The Washington Post OMAHA – Nebraska’s competing constitutional initiatives on abortion can remain on the November ballot, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday, paving the way for an unusual, high-stakes battle on the issue to play out in the conservative red state. The court agreed that a proposed amendment […]

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The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok

By Drew Harwell  (c) 2024 , The Washington Post After Tuesday night’s debate, as former president Donald Trump worked the reporters in the spin room in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris’s TikTok team was busy appealing to a different crowd. In the digital “war room” at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., they hit the button […]

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Biden lashes out at Trump over false claims about Haitian migrants

By Matt Viser, Azi Paybarah (c) 2024 , The Washington Post President Joe Biden lashed out Friday at former president Donald Trump for his comments about a Springfield, Ohio, community that has seen an influx of Haitian migrants. “I want to take a moment to say something [about the] Haitian American community that’s under attack in […]

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Community members want deputy who killed Mescalero Apache teenager charged

By Bella Davis Calls for justice for a 17-year-old Mescalero Apache boy killed by a sheriff’s deputy in June rang out Sept. 7 as the sun disappeared behind the hills bordering the tribe’s reservation in southern New Mexico.  Drivers sped past, some honking to show support for the dozens of people walking along U.S. Highway […]

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NM Lawmakers hearing presentations on nuclear waste, uranium and oil and gas

By Danielle Prokop State lawmakers are meeting in Hobbs to tour oil and gas fields, hear presentations on uranium refinement, nuclear waste storage and consider future bills on addressing air pollution and wastewater. The Radioactive and Hazardous Materials interim committee will hear four presentations on Friday during a meeting scheduled to start at 9 a.m. […]