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Hungary’s Orbán interrupted by activist during EU presidency news conference

Oct. 08, 2024 12:25 PM EDT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An activist and municipal councilor for a Hungarian opposition party disrupted a news conference in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was laying out his plans for Hungary's six-month presidency of the European Union. ...

New analysis suggests national debt could increase under Harris, but it would surge under Trump

Oct. 07, 2024 16:47 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis of Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's economic plans. The analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget suggests a Harris presidency...

Trump says migrants who have committed murder have introduced 'a lot of bad genes in our country'

Oct. 07, 2024 16:07 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested that migrants who are in the U.S. and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes.” There are, he added, “a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” It’s the latest example...

Andy Kim and Curtis Bashaw clash over abortion and immigration in New Jersey Senate debate

Oct. 06, 2024 22:53 PM EDT

NUTLEY, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Rep. Andy Kim and Republican Curtis Bashaw clashed over abortion and immigration Sunday in their first debate for New Jersey’s Senate seat, open this year after Bob Menendez’s conviction on bribery charges and resignation. Kim, a three-term...

Ohio court refers case brought by citizens' group against Trump, Vance to prosecutors

Oct. 05, 2024 17:24 PM EDT

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio court has referred to county prosecutors a criminal case brought by a citizens' group against the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates over their comments about Haitian immigrants but rejected the group's call to issue arrest warrants or...

Attempts to cross the English Channel on small boats leave 4 migrants, including a child, dead

Oct. 05, 2024 13:42 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — French authorities said four migrants, including a 2-year-old child, died Saturday in two separate incidents as they attempted to cross the English Channel toward Britain. France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau deplored a “terrible tragedy" on X, saying that...

Biden pledged to campaign hard for Harris. So far, he's been mostly a no-show

Oct. 05, 2024 10:49 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the last day of August, President Joe Biden was asked about his fall campaign plans. He promised a Labor Day appearance in Pittsburgh and said he would be “on the road from there on.” Biden did campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris on Labor Day, but he...

The Biden administration isn't extending a two-year program for migrants from 4 nations

Oct. 04, 2024 19:03 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will not extend a two-year program that allows migrants from certain nations into the U.S. if they came by plane with sponsorship. The program began in 2022 with Venezuelans and was an effort to provide an alternative legal pathway for...

For migrant women who land in Colorado looking for jobs, a common answer emerges: No

Oct. 04, 2024 00:12 AM EDT

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — East Colfax Avenue was the best place to find a job. That's what everyone told Sofia Roca. Never mind the open drug use, the sex workers or the groups of other migrant women marching the sidewalks soliciting work at the very same Mexican restaurants and...

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...