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Walz is to attend the University of Michigan football game before final prep for Tuesday's debate

Sep. 28, 2024 09:29 AM EDT

BELLEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is set to make his final major campaign appearance before the coming week’s debate at a football game between the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday. ...

After a chaotic Congress, lawmakers head home to ask voters: How about another term?

Sep. 28, 2024 07:43 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is off for the campaign season, as lawmakers from one of the most chaotic and unproductive legislative sessions in modern times try to persuade voters to keep them on the job. The House Republicans led the tumult — painstakingly electing their speaker...

Sharpton and Central Park Five members get out the vote in battleground Pennsylvania

Sep. 28, 2024 02:56 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A few dozen New Yorkers boarded a bus in Harlem on Friday with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and members of the group formerly known as the Central Park Five, bound for Philadelphia, where they toured the city hoping to energize the youth vote ahead of the 2024...

Jimmy Carter at 100: A century of changes for a president, the US and the world since 1924

Sep. 28, 2024 00:20 AM EDT

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, will turn 100 on Tuesday, Oct. 1, celebrating in the same south Georgia town where he was born in 1924. ...

Trump is set to respond to Harris on immigration during his visit to a small Wisconsin town

Sep. 28, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A day after Vice President Kamala Harris discussed immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, former President Donald Trump is expected to respond by again linking her to illegal border crossings at an event in a western Wisconsin river town. Trump heads Saturday...

Walz has experience on a debate stage pinning down an abortion opponent's shifting positions

Sep. 28, 2024 00:12 AM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz knows how to lean into abortion rights on the debate stage. He's done it before. Just ask his Republican opponent in the 2022 Minnesota governor's race, Dr. Scott Jensen, who was on the receiving end of Walz’s...

Vance exuded calm during a tense debate stage moment. Can he keep it up when he faces Walz?

Sep. 28, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When two of his Republican rivals for an Ohio Senate seat nearly came to blows on live statewide television two years ago, JD Vance appeared unimpressed. “Sit down. Come on,” said Vance, the youngest and least politically experienced of the remaining...

Indicted New York City mayor adopts familiar defense: He was targeted for his politics

Sep. 28, 2024 00:10 AM EDT

For months, New York City Mayor Eric Adams — a former cop — refused to criticize the federal authorities investigating his administration. Not anymore. The day news of his indictment on corruption charges broke, Adams defiantly suggested, without providing...

Harris walks fence at US-Mexico border as she works to project tougher stance on migration

Sep. 27, 2024 21:10 PM EDT

DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris walked a scrubby stretch along the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday and called for further tightening of asylum restrictions as she sought to project a tougher stance on illegal migration and address one of her biggest vulnerabilities in the November...

Where Trump and Harris stand on immigration and border security

Sep. 27, 2024 21:12 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration is one of the key issues in the November election, with many voters concerned over the numbers of migrants who have entered the U.S. during the Biden administration. Republicans have repeatedly hammered President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala...