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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

A Florida sheriff released the mug shot and video of an 11-year-old child charged with a felony for allegedly making a written threat of a mass shooting. read more


We are former national security and foreign policy officials who served in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress. We have served in the White House, the Departments of Defense, Treasury, State, Justice, Homeland Security, Commerce, and other agencies and in Congress. We believe that the President of the United States must be a principled, serious, and steady leader who can advance and defend American security and values, strengthen our alliances, and protect our democracy. We expect to disagree with Kamala Harris on many domestic and foreign policy issues, but we believe that she possesses the essential qualities to serve as President and Donald Trump does not. We therefore support her election to be President. We firmly oppose the election of Donald Trump. read more


The FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service on Tuesday were investigating the origin of suspicious packages that have been sent to or received by elections officials in more than a dozen states ... read more


Vice President Kamala Harris has supported bipartisan border security solutions and has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to working with regional partners to address the root causes of irregular migration. The current administration's focus evolved to leading a hemisphere-wide effort to mitigate, manage, and order migration through creating and adopting the landmark Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection alongside 21 partners from across the region - notably the first time such a hemispheric-wide agreement directly involved the United States and Canada. read more


This fall, Ohioans' ballots will falsely inform them that an amendment to END gerrymandering would actually REQUIRE gerrymandering. A brazen lie, now greenlit by the Ohio Supreme Court. It is, as one dissenting justice put it, a "fraud upon the voters." read more


Black voters make up about a third of the population in Georgia. Their votes will matter. read more


Has Elon Musk's careless posting finally caught up with him? Just one day after having to play off his horrific take on the second attempted assassination of Donald Trump as a "joke," the Tesla CEO is back in the hot seat again for sharing anti-Ukrainian content that, as it turns out, was actually generated by a Russian psychological operations team. read more


The Federal Reserve on Wednesday enacted its first interest rate cut since the early days of the Covid pandemic, slicing half a percentage point off benchmark rates in an effort to head off a slowdown in the labor market. read more


Dr. Francis Collins has been at the forefront of the world's most advanced biomedical research. He led the Human Genome Project and was the longest-serving director of the National Institutes of Health. He is drawing on his career to focus on what he sees as the core pillars of wisdom during a time of deep polarization. Geoff Bennett sat down with Collins to discuss his book, "The Road to Wisdom." read more


City Manager Bryan Heck fielded an unusual question at City Hall on the morning of Sept. 9, from a staff member of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance. The staffer called to ask if there was any truth to bizarre rumors about Haitian immigrants and pets in Springfield. "He asked point-blank, Are the rumors true of pets being taken and eaten?'" recalled Heck. "I told him no. There was no verifiable evidence or reports to show this was true. I told them these claims were baseless." read more


A judge has denied a request from Mark Meadows, who was Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, to move the Arizona election-subversion-related prosecution against him from state court to federal court. read more


Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Mo., unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible. read more


The number of migrants trekking toward the US through the dangerous Darien jungle route fell to a two-year low after President Joe Biden and Panama's new government imposed tighter controls. read more


A Voters of Tomorrow spokesperson said a phone bank conducted jointly with Swifties for Kamala volunteers helped it hit one million voter engagements, which includes 200,000 calls and 800,000 texts mostly to Gen Zers - a generation that encompasses 41 million people eligible to vote in November. Its main goal is registering voters and helping them make a plan for voting. read more


Donald Trump has already found a new town to harass with racist claims that immigrants have overrun it, and it's in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. read more


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