Four staff members of Mark Robinson‘s campaign resigned on Sunday, just days after a report alleged the North Carolina gubernatorial nominee used racist, antisemitic, and homophobic slurs in posts on a pornographic forum. In an email, the Robinson campaign announced that Conrad Pogorzelski, senior adviser; Chris Rodriguez, campaign manager; Heather Whillier, finance director; and Jason […]
House Republicans are moving forward with plans to vote on a clean stopgap spending bill that will extend government funding until mid-December, dropping a proof-of-citizenship voting measure backed by former President Donald Trump from their latest proposal. The continuing resolution, released on Sunday, would continue current spending levels until Dec. 20, buying lawmakers time to continue negotiations for the federal […]
Democrats are launching a campaign to combat the false claims by top Republicans accusing Haitian immigrants in Ohio of eating their neighbors’ pets by introducing a new House resolution to condemn racism and bigotry toward the demographic. Unveiled Friday by the House Haiti Caucus, the resolution would celebrate the “vast contributions of people of Haitian […]
Former President Donald Trump is planning on the 2024 election being his political finale, and says he will not return as a presidential candidate in 2028 if he loses to Vice President Kamala Harris this November. In a sit-down interview with host Sharyl Attkission’s Full Measure television program, Trump said “no” when asked if he […]
The New York City Police Department‘s interim commissioner, Thomas Donlon, revealed that federal authorities raided his home and work Friday. The raid comes just one week after Donlon’s predecessor, Edward Caban, announced his resignation amid a corruption investigation. Donlon announced the raid in a statement through the NYPD. “On Friday, September 20, federal authorities executed […]
Musician Janet Jackson questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s ethnicity, stating that she had heard Harris is “not black” and instead is of Indian descent. Jackson, the sister of the late Michael Jackson, was promoting her European tour in an interview when she was asked about the 2024 election and her thoughts about the prospect of […]
The budget motel chain Motel 6 is being acquired by the parent company of Oyo, a hotel operator based in India. The New York-based investment firm Blackstone, which owns Motel 6’s parent company G6 Hospitality, announced Friday that the deal would be an all-cash transaction worth $525 million. The transaction will also include the sale […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said. The bombs fell Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north of the center of Kharkiv, which is the second-largest Ukrainian city, local Gov. Oleh […]
LONDON (AP) — This should be a time of celebration for Britain’s Labour Party, which opens its annual conference Sunday less than three months after winning power in a landslide after 14 years in opposition. But it’s no victory lap for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. His government is facing a reckoning with a battered economy and an electorate […]
LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance Sunday since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties. Kate and her husband, Prince William, were seen Sunday attending church with King Charles III and Queen Camilla near their royal Balmoral estate in Scotland. Kate, 42, announced on Sept. 9 that […]
