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How Trump credits an immigration chart for saving his life and what the graphic is missing

Oct. 03, 2024 07:03 AM EDT

Ever since the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump has professed a unique fondness for a bar chart he credits for saving his life. Trump was addressing the crowd in Butler about illegal immigration and reviewing a chart that detailed U.S.-Mexico border...

Liz Cheney will campaign with Harris in Wisconsin while Trump holds a rally in Michigan

Oct. 03, 2024 06:35 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, will join Democrat Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Wisconsin on Thursday aimed at reaching out to moderate voters and rattling the former president. Cheney was the top Republican on the...

Hurricane Helene brings climate change to forefront of the presidential campaign

Oct. 03, 2024 02:41 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign after the issue lingered on the margins for months. Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Wednesday to see hard-hit areas, two days...

Middle East latest: UN ponders how to calm the conflict as Israel battles militants on two fronts

Oct. 03, 2024 00:29 AM EDT

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting Wednesday to address the spiraling conflict in the Middle East. Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. said his country launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel on Tuesday as a deterrent to further Israeli violence, while his...

Human connections bring hope in North Carolina after devastation of Helene

Oct. 03, 2024 00:17 AM EDT

BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Sarah Vekasi is a potter who runs a store in Black Mountain, North Carolina, called Sarah Sunshine Pottery, named after her normally bubbly personality. But these days she’s struggling with the trauma of Hurricane Helene and uncertainty about the future of her...

Haunted by 2016, some Michigan Democrats worry that Harris remains ill-defined in swing state

Oct. 03, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — Bill Clinton stood with Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell outside a suburban Detroit grocery store two days before the 2016 election when it was clear to both that Hillary Clinton would lose the state. “They didn’t listen to you,” Dingell recalled the former...

Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones

Oct. 02, 2024 22:16 PM EDT

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating and coping. At the...

Harris hands out meals, consoles families as she surveys Hurricane Helene devastation in Georgia

Oct. 02, 2024 20:18 PM EDT

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Helene’s “extraordinary” path of destruction through Georgia on Wednesday as she left the campaign trail to pledge federal help and personally take in scenes of toppled trees,...

US bans new types of goods from China over allegations of forced labor

Oct. 02, 2024 19:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it would ban the import of goods from a Chinese steel manufacturer and a Chinese maker of artificial sweetener, accusing both of being involved in the use of forced labor from China's far-west region of Xinjiang. ...

Mayorkas warns FEMA doesn't have enough funding to last through hurricane season

Oct. 02, 2024 18:42 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency can meet immediate needs but does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday. The agency is being stretched as it works with...