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Supreme Court won't hear appeal from Elon Musk’s X platform over warrant in Trump case

Oct. 07, 2024 12:28 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump. The justices did not explain their reasoning and there were...

Turning Point wants to revolutionize how Republicans turn out voters. Some are skeptical

Oct. 07, 2024 00:12 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Turning Point’s representatives have made two things clear in meetings with state and local Republican leaders — Donald Trump has blessed their conservative organization to help lead his get-out-the-vote effort, and local party officials ought to use the group's new voter...

Elon Musk makes his first appearance at a Trump rally and casts the election in dire terms

Oct. 06, 2024 09:58 AM EDT

Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk cast the upcoming presidential election in dire terms during an appearance with Donald Trump, calling the Republican presidential nominee the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America.” The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who also purchased X,...

Trump urges his supporters to deliver victory in his return to scene of first assassination attempt

Oct. 05, 2024 23:11 PM EDT

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump returned on Saturday to the Pennsylvania fairgrounds where he was nearly assassinated in July, urging a large crowd to deliver an Election Day victory that he tied to his survival of the shooting. The former president and Republican nominee picked up...

Photos: A visual look at Trump's return to Pennsylvania for a rally at site of assassination attempt

Oct. 05, 2024 21:48 PM EDT

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Thousands of supporters returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday to rally around Donald Trump at the same site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July. Many had lined up as the sun rose for the event billed as a “tribute to the American spirit."...

After the deluge, the lies: Misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud the recovery

Oct. 05, 2024 12:05 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene's destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of people missing. Yet this devastation and despair is not enough for the extremist...

Civilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe to the game

Oct. 04, 2024 15:25 PM EDT

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including “probably hundreds of hours” colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So when that same game studio, Firaxis, approached the tribal nation a...

Elon Musk to join Trump at rally at the site of first assassination attempt

Oct. 04, 2024 10:38 AM EDT

Elon Musk will join Donald Trump at his rally Saturday in Butler, the Pennsylvania city where the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt earlier this year. “I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on his social platform X on Thursday in a retweet of...

A 5th recall for Tesla Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview display

Oct. 03, 2024 12:49 PM EDT

Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertrucks because the rearview camera image may not activate immediately after shifting into reverse, the fifth recall for the vehicle since it went on sale late last year. Tesla has released a free software upgrade to address the issue and...

Today in History: September 29, Willie Mays makes “The Catch”

Sep. 29, 2024 00:04 AM EDT

Today is Sunday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2024. There are 93 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 29, 1954, Willie Mays of the New York Giants made a running, over-the-shoulder catch of a ball hit by Vic Wirtz of the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the...