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New York City turns to AI-powered scanners in push to keep guns out of the subway system

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is turning to AI-powered scanners in a new bid to keep guns out of its subway system, but the pilot program launched Friday is already being met with skepticism from riders and the threat of a lawsuit from civil liberties advocates who say the searches are unconstitutional. The Evolv scanner […]

Harris makes small but steady gains over Biden’s numbers in swing states: Polls

The race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is tightening, according to polls conducted after President Joe Biden’s historic campaign exit. While a Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump leading Harris by 2%, the GOP nominee’s performance is lagging from a 6-point lead he held against Biden before the Democrat dropped […]

Homeless people say they will likely return to sites if California clears them under Newsom’s order

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three years ago, Joel Hernandez built a small wooden shack under the 405 freeway cutting through Los Angeles. He had the help of a friend who lives in his own shack, just a few steps down the stairs he painstakingly dug out of the dirt hillside and reinforced with wooden planks. […]

Pete Buttigieg joins chorus of Kamala Harris VP contenders slamming JD Vance

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg excoriated Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) in a recent interview, becoming the latest potential running mate to join Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign who is attacking Donald Trump’s running mate. In an interview with the New York Times, Buttigieg sought to distance himself from Vance, who is also from the Midwest and […]

Harris’s early moves show where she expects vulnerabilities

With just a hundred days until the presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is moving to shore up support in critical voting blocs and swing states that could make the difference between a win and a loss this November.  From campaigning in Wisconsin and Georgia to gearing up enthusiasm from black voters and unions, here […]

Trump and Vance campaign in Minnesota in bid to flip the state for the first time in five decades

Former President Donald Trump is set to campaign with his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), on Saturday evening in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a state he hopes to make competitive against Democrats. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won Minnesota was in 1972 when Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern. However, Trump’s campaign has claimed […]

Autopsy confirms Sonya Massey died from gunshot wound to head, as attorney calls shooting senseless

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff’s deputy charged in her death, confirm that she died from a gunshot wound to the head. The report was released shortly before civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Massey’s […]

Democratic holdouts hesitate on Harris endorsement over border, energy, labor issues

Vice President Kamala Harris has already surpassed the 1,976 delegates needed to make her the likely presumptive Democratic presidential nominee when the party gathers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month. However, there are still some prominent and vulnerable Democratic holdouts who have not rushed to endorse Harris’s campaign after President Joe Biden […]

Trump backtracks on outdoor rallies ban

Former President Donald Trump said he will continue to hold outdoor rallies, reversing a decision after he was nearly assassinated to discontinue his signature events.  “I WILL CONTINUE TO DO OUTDOOR RALLIES, AND SECRET SERVICE HAS AGREED TO SUBSTANTIALLY STEP UP THEIR OPERATION,” Trump said on Saturday in a post to Truth Social. “THEY ARE […]

Republicans are not happy about Last Supper portrayal at the Olympics

The Paris Olympics is under fire from Republicans after hosting a controversial drag parody of a moment Christians consider sacred.  As viewers tuned in to watch the Paris Olympic’s opening ceremony, many decried a segment that depicted a scene from Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Da Vinci’s famous painting of a Biblical event revered […]
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