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Trump’s Claim About Harris’ ‘Crime of the Century’ Has a Major Problem

An irate, bumbling former president Donald Trump posted an indignant broadside Sunday asserting that Vice President Kamala Harris should be impeached, prosecuted, or both over U.S. immigration policy.But his withering attack made reference to data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which, according to the Department of Homeland Security, is being “misinterpreted.”The oft-misleading, oft-misinformed Republican nominee for president, taking to his Truth Social site, also bl
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Trump Floats a Plan to End Crime Which Is Basically ‘The Purge’

Donald Trump on Sunday called for “one really violent day” to address crime in America.Speaking at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, the former president falsely claimed that crime has gone “through the roof” and that the phenomenon was “largely because of migrant crime.” He then proposed a solution which sounded disturbingly similar to The Purge—the dystopian 2013 movie in which violence is legalized for a brief window as a means of addressing crime—in which law enforcement would be temporarily pe
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Trump Drags Hurricane Helene Into the Election Campaign

As the government rolls out assistance to the hundreds of thousands affected by Hurricane Helene over the weekend, the Republican campaign appears engaged in a slightly different kind of damage control.The Trump camp has scheduled a Monday pit-stop for the Republican candidate in Valdosta, Georgia—a key battleground state, where at least 17 people are reported to have died—after his suggestion at a Walker, Michigan rally that hurricane victims will “be OK” sparked outcry on Friday.He’s expected
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Opinion: Rudy Giuliani Ruling Shows Why We Must Insurrection-Proof Our Courts

The District of Columbia courts recently disbarred disgraced lawyer Rudy Giuliani for his making repeated false statements in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the courts. This followed a decision from July of this year disbarring him in New York as well. These after-the-fact actions have come nearly four years after the events that justify this punishment. Some might hope that such discipline might deter other lawyers from seeking to take similarly improper actions to challenge the r
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Here are the candidates and races South Florida will vote on for the general election

Voters in Miami-Dade and Broward counties will vote on races for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, the Florida Legislature, sheriff and local school boards and city commissions. There will also be constitutional amendments on issues like recreational marijuana and abortion, and proposed changes to municipal charters governing things like term limits and residency requirements for elected officials.
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Police investigate Topanga shooting that killed a 19-year-old

A 19-year-old man was killed and another victim was injured in a shooting on Saturday in Topanga, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police said officers responded to the 11:50 p.m. call about a shooting in the 8300 block of Northgate Avenue. When responders arrived, they found two victims suffering from gunshot wounds and […]
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Trump Is Already Providing Clues to How He May Contest 2024 Election

Donald Trump is seemingly setting the stage to contest a potential loss in November by blustering about the election’s legitimacy and portraying the other party as a bunch of “cheaters” on the campaign trail.Ranting loudly and incoherently about stolen elections is not a new tactic for the former president—famously, he did it so much in 2020 that it triggered an attempted insurrection by his supporters. Nor has it been absent from the 2024 campaign trail, with Trump repeatedly refusing to commit
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