SNL‘s Weekend Update addressed the assassination attempt of Donald Trump in July, as well as the more recent indictments of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and rapper Sean Combs. Co-anchor Colin Jost first called attention to how Trump earlier in the day delivered his latest smear against Vice President …
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If you are in the business of seeking out public information, it can be frustrating when an agency denies your public records request or refuses to waive any fees it might require before handing over documents. It’s normal to call up the agency and say, Hey! This is important! If …
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Donald Trump held a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, at the Bayfront Convention Center on Sunday. It was his second consecutive appearance in a crucial battleground state this weekend, following Saturday’s speech in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin,where he called Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris “mentally disabled” while delivering …
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JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow …
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In an excerpt from his new book OPUS: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church, author Gareth Gore examines the ties binding Supreme Court kingmaker Leonard Leo and Opus Dei, a radical organization on the fringes of the Catholic Church that is accused …
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Donald Trump is more than doubling down on spreading unhinged lies about the United States being “occupied” by migrants, apparently — as he claimed in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on Saturday — in “hundreds of towns” throughout the Midwest. Trump continued to push the idea that if he doesn’t win …
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Donald Trump vowed on Thursday to punish Google for — in his mind — favoring Vice President Kamala Harris in results generated by its search engine. “It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made …
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Vice presidential hopeful Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has already had to do damage control for public statements bashing his running mate, Donald Trump, throughout the 2016 election cycle, but new reporting indicated that Vance’s dislike for the former president continued throughout Trump’s time in the White House. According to text …
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Donald Trump has long criticized the Affordable Care Act; he ran and won the presidency in 2016 on a promise to “terminate” Democrats’ signature health care law. But after he won, he and the GOP-controlled Congress repeatedly failed to repeal the legislation, as promised. More recently, Trump has declared on …
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Much ado has been made about the competing economic visions presented by Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. As November’s election approaches, Harris’ campaign is attempting to bring younger voters into the fold by repackaging Donald Trump’s tariff-centric economic plan as a threat to a beloved pastime: …
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