PHILADELPHIA — The city’s oldest bar, McGillin’s Olde Ale House, is perennially festooned with Eagles ephemera, but on the night of the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, which happens to be taking place just down the street at the National Constitution Center, the televisions at McGillin’s …
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EL PASO, Texas — In a campaign visit to the Arizona–Mexico border in September, Vice President Kamala Harris promised to institute “more severe criminal charges” for people who attempt to cross the border without adequate paperwork, touting her record as a prosecutor. Five years ago, while campaigning for president, Harris …
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This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters In Natrona County, Wyoming, the Platte River runs alongside Casper Mountain, with its thick forests and astonishing vistas, and every year the local coroner assembles data into a package called the …
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Alyssa Fusaro believed that two Latina women working in the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, elections office the day after the November 2022 election were throwing away ballots. She went to a nearby desk, made a phone call, and allegedly called one of the women a racial slur. The women “were incredibly …
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“Everything you need to know about business or politics can be learned from Godfather I and Godfather II,” inmate 05635-509 told the assembled group of prisoners in Danbury Federal Correctional Institution. The inmate in a khaki prison-issued shirt and pants with an elastic waist to accommodate his girth — Steve …
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Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York was planned as a national moment for the former president’s closing campaign message and — much to the displeasure of some Republicans — it did exactly that. Trump and his ilk have not been particularly quiet about their views on …
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M idtown Manhattan is not usually a place to find someone wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Donald Trump lost the New York City borough by nearly 75 points in 2020, and by even more than that four years earlier. But on Sunday, ahead of Trump’s mega-rally at Madison …
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It is 103 degrees in October, on the 18th consecutive day of record-breaking heat in the city of Phoenix, and the streets downtown are deserted when an empty white sedan whizzes soundlessly past me, then pulls to the side of the road. I approach the Uber I’ve just called gingerly, …
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Politics is a spectator sport for most Americans. And not an entertaining one at that — it’s full of dread, doom scrolling, and confusion over fluctuations in swing-state polls. As with most anxieties, the only antidote is action — and the 2024 contest has many avenues for Americans willing to …
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With Election Day 2024 just over a week away, both the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump camps are anticipating a historically close outcome, with the winner being decided by a small number of votes in a handful of states. Both sides have assembled their respective legal war rooms, deployed their …
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