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Walz attends Michigan-Minnesota college football game before final prep for Tuesday's debate

Sep. 28, 2024 19:53 PM EDT

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Tim Walz’s dual role as Minnesota’s governor and Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate was on full display Saturday as he attended a tailgate with Michigan football fans before going on the field to meet with Minnesota’s coach. Walz visited Ann...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes kill Hezbollah leader Nasrallah

Sep. 28, 2024 19:52 PM EDT

Smoke rose from Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday after the area was pummeled by heavy airstrikes that Israel said killed multiple Hezbollah commanders, including leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese militant group confirmed the death of its longtime leader, whose killing could...

Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a 'measure of justice'

Sep. 28, 2024 19:20 PM EDT

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah was a “measure of justice" for victims of a four-decade “reign of terror,” President Joe Biden said Saturday. The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier...

Trump lists his grievances in a Wisconsin speech intended to link Harris to illegal immigration

Sep. 28, 2024 18:53 PM EDT

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump meandered Saturday through a list of grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris and other issues during an event intended to link his Democratic opponent to illegal border crossings. A day after Harris discussed...

Medicare Advantage shopping season arrives with a dose of confusion and some political implications

Sep. 28, 2024 09:06 AM EDT

Thinner benefits and coverage changes await many older Americans shopping for health insurance this fall. That’s if their plan is even still available in 2025. More than a million people will probably have to find new coverage as major insurers cut costs and pull back from markets...

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. ...

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...

'Saturday Night Live' launches 50th season with Jean Smart, Jelly Roll and maybe Maya as Kamala

Sep. 28, 2024 00:08 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” is set to set off its 50th season with host Jean Smart and musical guest Jelly Roll. Smart, the 73-year-old “Hacks” and “Designing Women” star who just won her sixth Emmy, has never hosted the NBC sketch comedy institution before...

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...