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Floridians evacuated for Hurricane Milton after wake-up call from devastating Helene
BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — Florida residents who fled hundreds of miles to escape Hurricane Milton made slow trips home on crowded highways, weary from their long journeys and the cleanup work awaiting them but also grateful to be coming back alive. “I love my house, but I’m not...
Are male voters reluctant to vote for a woman? Harris' backers are confronting the question head on
WASHINGTON (AP) — The concern has been there all along, but now it's being talked about openly: Are some men reluctant to vote for Democrat Kamala Harris because she’s a woman? The vice president rarely references her gender on the campaign trail, but her key supporters are...
Obama urges Black men to show up for Harris as he campaigns in critical Pennsylvania
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former President Barack Obama gave a blistering critique of his White House successor Donald Trump and urged Black men to show up for Kamala Harris as he opened a swing-state tour for the Democratic ticket. At a campaign field office to thank volunteers, Obama...
Ethel Kennedy, social activist and wife of Robert F. Kennedy, has died
BOSTON (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter, died on Thursday, her family said. She was 96. “It is with our hearts...
The Latest: Harris says it's not time to 'play politics' over hurricane recovery
As Florida grapples with the effects of Hurricane Milton, presidential campaigning remained in full swing in battleground states across the U.S. on Thursday Vice President Kamala Harris attended a Univision town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon. She will then go to an evening...
Figures and Dobson trade jabs in testy debate, Here are the key takeaways
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Congressional hopefuls Shomari Figures and Caroleene Dobson clashed in a contentious debate Thursday, exchanging verbal jabs over each other's background and sparring over abortion, immigration and the economy. Figures, a Democrat, and Dobson, a Republican,...
Immigrants brought to the US as children ask judges to keep protections against deportation
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Immigrants who built lives in the United States after being brought here illegally as children were among more than 200 demonstrators who gathered Thursday outside a federal courthouse in New Orleans, where three appellate judges heard arguments over the Biden administration's...
Woodward book reveals Trump's calls with Putin and Biden's private remarks on Obama and Netanyahu
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic, Bob Woodward reported in his new book, “War." The famed Watergate...
Today in History: October 9, Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 2024. There are 83 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen...
What polling shows about Black voters' views of Harris and Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black registered voters have an overwhelmingly positive view of Vice President Kamala Harris, but they’re less sure that she would change the country for the better, according to a recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll,...
