By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Shortly after the dust settled on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s allies went to great and strained lengths to distance the then-president from the insurrectionists who had stormed the U.S. Capitol. They falsely linked the attack to antifa and supposed government “provocateurs” – claims that had no […]
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Edgewood mayor who voted for controversial abortion ordinance runs for state House
By Alice Fordham, KUNM The mayor of the town of Edgewood, Republican Ken Brennan, is challenging incumbent Democratic Representative Matthew McQueen for House District 50, south of Santa Fe. In April last year, Edgewood’s commissioners, including Mayor Brennan, voted to join a handful of other municipalities in passing an ordinance citing a century-old federal law to […]
Posted inNew Mexico Statewide News, Syndicated
Edgewood mayor who voted for controversial abortion ordinance runs for state House
By Alice Fordham, KUNM The mayor of the town of Edgewood, Republican Ken Brennan, is challenging incumbent Democratic Representative Matthew McQueen for House District 50, south of Santa Fe. In April last year, Edgewood’s commissioners, including Mayor Brennan, voted to join a handful of other municipalities in passing an ordinance citing a century-old federal law to […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
‘Off the charts’: How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies
By Jeff Stein, David J. Lynch, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would likely raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of the world. Trump’s […]
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‘Off the charts’: How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies
By Jeff Stein, David J. Lynch, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that would likely raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of the world. Trump’s […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
One in 6 presidential votes will likely be cast by mail for Harris
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post (c) 2024 In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, election observers, state officials and the media repeatedly articulated that results would be slow in coming. The coronavirus pandemic had triggered an expansion of remote-voting options across the country, with the side effect of increasing the number […]
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One in 6 presidential votes will likely be cast by mail for Harris
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post (c) 2024 In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, election observers, state officials and the media repeatedly articulated that results would be slow in coming. The coronavirus pandemic had triggered an expansion of remote-voting options across the country, with the side effect of increasing the number […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Former president Jimmy Carter casts early ballot in Georgia
By Amy B Wang, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Jimmy Carter, who had said he wanted to live long enough to vote in this year’s presidential election, cast an early ballot Wednesday in his home state of Georgia, according to the Carter Center. Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1, has been in […]
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Former president Jimmy Carter casts early ballot in Georgia
By Amy B Wang, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Jimmy Carter, who had said he wanted to live long enough to vote in this year’s presidential election, cast an early ballot Wednesday in his home state of Georgia, according to the Carter Center. Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1, has been in […]
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Trump wages campaign against real-time fact checks
By Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post (c) 2024 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 […]