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Harris and Trump bring their closing arguments to 2 key Southwest swing states

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By Tamara Keith The presidential campaign headed west on Thursday with Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump taking their closing arguments to voters in the critical swing states of Arizona and Nevada. With five days to go until voting closes on Election Day, the candidates are looking to win over Latino voters in the two states — and talk about border security, one of the biggest issues for the campaign. In Arizona, Harris criticized remarks made by Trump at a rally on Wednesday that he would protect women “whether the women like it or not.” She framed the

Trump rallies Pennsylvania voters as Harris makes final pitch in DC

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Vice President Harris and former President Trump spoke to voters at nearly concurrent events Tuesday evening, a week before Election Day. Harris made her closing argument in Washington, D.C., while Trump rallied a crowd in key battleground Pennsylvania. Harris spoke for just over 30 minutes Tuesday evening at the Ellipse, the same spot where Trump spoke to his supporters and encouraged them to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump took the stage shortly after the Harris began speaking at his rally in Allentown, Pa., which has a significant Latino population. Trump arrived to roars from the crowd just as the

Voting officials face an ‘uphill battle’ to fight election lies

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By Shannon Bond Last week, a video began circulating on X, formerly Twitter, purporting to show a person in Pennsylvania ripping up ballots marked for former President Donald Trump and leaving alone those marked for Vice President Harris. The person curses the former president multiple times and at one point says, “Vote Harris.” The video is a fake. The envelopes and ballots shown don’t match what that county actually uses to vote. U.S. officials said it was created and spread by Russia to sow doubt in the election. But the incident showed what has been clear for some time now: Online in 2024, the deck

1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared

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Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested. Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order during a ceremony in a Columbia courthouse just a few blocks from where he sat at that segregated table some 64 years before. Bouie remembered that promise as he went into the Eckerd Drug Store. He knew the governor at the time had warned African

Largest local Texas Teamsters union endorses Harris before her rally

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By Alex Gangitano Texas’ largest Teamsters union, Local 988, endorsed Vice President Harris before her rally in Houston on Friday. In a letter first obtained by The Hill, the union, which is based in Houston, said it surveyed more than 8,000 members before endorsing her. It cited the Biden administration’s protection of union pensions and Harris’s pledge to sign the PRO Act, which is pro-labor legislation, if elected. “There’s no doubt that politics can get bitter, complicated, and confusing,” Local 988 president Robert Mele said in a statement. “But Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have a proven track record of supporting workers

South Carolina to build state’s first individual monument honoring an African American

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South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. But Robert Smalls isn’t just being honored for his audacious escape. He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned to power and eliminated nearly all of the gains

Washington Post says it will not endorse a candidate for first time in 30 years

For the first time in over 30 years, the Washington Post announced on Friday its editorial board would not be making an endorsement of a candidate in a presidential election. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Will Lewis, the newspaper’s publisher and chief executive officer said in a statement on Friday, less than two weeks before the 2024 presidential election. The Washington Post editorial board has endorsed a candidate for almost every presidential election since it endorsed Jimmy Carter in 1976. Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of Amazon, bought the Post in 2013. The decision by the Post’s leaders not to endorse

Biden administration expands tax credit for producing solar, wind and battery components

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By Rachel Frazin The Biden administration is expanding a federal tax credit that seeks to incentivize domestic production of components for solar and wind energy, as well as batteries. The Treasury Department issued final guidance Thursday that details how a renewables manufacturing credit from the Democrats’ climate tax and health care law will be implemented. Compared to a proposed guidance issued late last year, the final guidance makes the credit more lucrative for industry — which officials said could help expand both domestic manufacturing and domestic mining. The tax credit applies to the production of a wide range of components

Harris eyes Howard University for her election night headquarters

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By Monica Alba Vice President Kamala Harris plans to spend election night in Washington, with her campaign eyeing her alma mater, Howard University, as a possible venue for her to speak from, according to seven people familiar with the planning. While it’s possible the election results could be known within hours and not days, the Democratic campaign is preparing for a much longer stretch — perhaps even an election “week” — without an outcome, these people said. That plan could include several different speeches and venues for delivering them. Precisely what Harris says publicly and the backdrop for her remarks would depend

Trump campaign files FEC complaint over Labour staff campaigning for Harris

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By Ashleigh Fields and Sarakshi Rai Former President Trump’s campaign team filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Monday, labeling the U.K. Labour Party’s efforts to support Vice President Harris as “election interference.” “In two weeks, Americans will once again reject the oppression of big government that we rejected in 1776. The flailing Harris-Walz campaign is seeking foreign influence to boost its radical message — because they know they can’t win the American people,” Susie Wiles, co-manager of the Trump-Vance campaign, said in a statement. The group offered to send 100 current and former Labour Party staff to battleground states such as Pennsylvania and North

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