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The Current1:14:23America Votes: Stories from the Arizona border, its politics and its people When she turned 16 a few years ago, a young woman in Arizona thought she had reached the typical teenage milestones of applying for a driver’s licence and gaining more independence. Instead, she found out that her …
Read More »Former Washington Post editor accuses Jeff Bezos of ‘yielding to Trump’ by blocking Harris endorsement
As It Happens6:27Former Washington Post editor accuses Jeff Bezos ‘yielding to Trump’ by blocking Harris endorsement When Martin Baron was the executive editor of the Washington Post, he says owner Jeff Bezos always stood up for the paper’s editorial independence in the face of pressure from former U.S. president Donald …
Read More »Trump allies make crude, false and racist Harris remarks at NYC rally
Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults made by allies at New York’s Madison Square Garden Sunday. With just over a week before election day, speakers labelled Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” called Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris “the devil,” and likened the former California attorney …
Read More »Trump’s former chief of staff says he’s a fascist. Harris says it reveals who Trump ‘really is’
Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is” and the kind of commander-in-chief he would be. In interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic published Tuesday, John Kelly warned …
Read More »Musk, putting up over $70M US to help Trump, raises legal questions with million-dollar giveaways
Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor Josh Shapiro is among those calling for an investigation of billionaire Elon Musk, for his promise at a weekend pro-Trump rally to give away $1 million US each day until election day in the U.S. Musk on Saturday gave a $1-million US check to an attendee at …
Read More »Man with loaded gun arrested near Trump rally in Coachella, Calif.
A Nevada man with a shotgun, a loaded handgun and ammunition in his vehicle was arrested at a security checkpoint outside Donald Trump’s rally Saturday night in the Southern California desert, authorities said Sunday. He was released Saturday on $5,000 US bail. The suspect, a 49-year-old resident of Las Vegas, …
Read More »Trump acted outside his duties in pressuring Pence, officials after 2020 election loss: prosecutors
U.S. prosecutors said Donald Trump was acting outside the scope of his duties as president when he pressured state officials and then-U.S. vice-president Mike Pence to try to overturn his 2020 election defeat, in a court filing made public on Wednesday. The 165-page filing is likely the last opportunity for …
Read More »Melania Trump says women have right to abortion access
Melania Trump writes in her upcoming memoir that a woman has the right to an abortion, The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday, while her husband, Donald Trump, backs the ability for U.S. states to restrict the procedure. “Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine …
Read More »UBC investigating apparent professor’s social media post after Trump shooting
The University of British Columbia is investigating an apparent social media post possibly from a UBC professor. It was posted on X shortly after former president Donald Trump was injured in a possible assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pa. The post on X, which has since been deleted, …
Read More »Biden says it was ‘irresponsible’ for Trump to keep classified documents at Mar-a-Lago
U.S. President Joe Biden says the discovery of top-secret documents at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised and called it “irresponsible.” Biden, who rarely does interviews, spoke to CBS program 60 Minutes in a segment that aired Sunday. He said that when he heard about …
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