Politics

The town of Springfield, Ohio, has been forced to cancel a planned cultural festival over safety concerns as Republicans continue to level racist attacks against the town’s Haitian community. On Monday, the city announced that Springfield’s annual CultureFest, scheduled to take place Sept. 27 and 28, has been called off …

There is no evidence that the man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Sunday fought in Ukraine, although he did travel there and tried to connect with a variety of officials and aid workers, sources tell Rolling Stone. During his time in Ukraine, the suspect routinely …

The Miami Heat has announced its solidarity with Haitians amid the Trump campaign’s racist misinformation campaign. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance have repeatedly asserted the false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and other pets, which they based on a …

A report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzed gun death data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which revealed that more than 48,000 people across the U.S. died from gun violence in 2022. Among those deaths, more than 2,500 children (ages one through nine) …

For the second time in two months, Donald Trump was the target of “what appears to be an attempted assassination” on Sunday, according to the FBI. In July, a would-be assassin shot at Trump with an AR-15 during a campaign rally in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, apparently grazing his ear, before …

The end of 2023 was not a great time for the crypto industry. In November, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, learned that no amount of Michael Lewis gymnastics could save him from being convicted on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy. He was eventually sentenced to …

I n early March of last year, Casey was nearly done with her opening shift at a McDonald’s in DeLand, Florida, when she saw an alert pop up on her screen. It was a text from a friend with reports of a new proposed state law, an early draft of …

Wittenberg University canceled all Sunday events after receiving a bomb threat targeting members of its Haitian community. The Springfield, Ohio, campus is just one of many institutions, including hospitals and elementary schools, that have been threatened after Donald Trump and J.D. Vance spread lies that Haitian immigrants are eating locals’ …

Donald Trump is furious. “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,” he posted to Truth Social on Sunday morning, days after the star endorsed Kamala Harris. “I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post that went live after …

J.D. Vance tripled down on his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are killing and eating local pets in Springfield, Ohio, while also admitting, “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to …