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Austrian far-right party hopes for its first national election win in a close race

Sep. 29, 2024 00:21 AM EDT

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe. Herbert Kickl, a...

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

Sep. 28, 2024 21:18 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...

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...

District attorney's office staffer tried to make a bomb to blow up migrant shelter, police say

Sep. 27, 2024 18:45 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A paralegal at a New York City district attorney's office has been arrested after he attempted to make an explosive to bomb a migrant shelter located across from his apartment, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. Police said Derek Klever, a 27-year-old...

PHOTO COLLECTION: Panama Immigration

Sep. 26, 2024 18:27 PM EDT
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Top Haitian official denounces false claim, repeated by Trump, that immigrants are eating pets

Sep. 26, 2024 15:53 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A strange moment in American politics paid a visit to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, brought there by a top Haitian official. Edgard Leblanc Fils, the president of Haiti’s transitional council, spoke to world leaders about gang violence in his...

Mexico's most popular president in decades is retiring. What will he leave behind?

Sep. 25, 2024 21:08 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Many Mexicans will feel a deep sense of loss when folksy, charismatic, nationalistic President Andrés Manuel López Obrador leaves office on Sept. 30 — and that’s no surprise. López Obrador himself has spent an inordinate amount of time talking about his...

Harris will campaign on Arizona's border with Mexico in attempted show of strength on immigration

Sep. 25, 2024 20:03 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Friday as her campaign tries to turn the larger issue of immigration from a liability into a strength and hopes to counter a line of frequent, searing political attacks from former President Donald...

Trump warns he'll expel migrants under key Biden immigration programs

Sep. 25, 2024 19:33 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, who has made anti-immigration rhetoric a key part of his reelection campaign, warned Wednesday that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the country under two key Biden administration programs if he's reelected. ...