By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Tairy Pagan,41, had no plans to vote next week, exhausted with politics and frustrated by the state of the economy. She changed her mind after a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally. Now she’s voting for Vice President Kamala […]
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In a Latino-majority city, outrage over rally insult, but some still back Trump
By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Tairy Pagan,41, had no plans to vote next week, exhausted with politics and frustrated by the state of the economy. She changed her mind after a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Rico at a Donald Trump rally. Now she’s voting for Vice President Kamala […]
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Trump recalls watching racial justice protesters flee D.C. There’s no evidence it happened.
By Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump has a new yarn to tell about 2020’s racial justice protests. For years, the former president has falsely claimed that he stopped protesters who were trying to pull down statues in D.C. by enacting or signing a new law that threatened anyone who vandalized a […]
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Trump recalls watching racial justice protesters flee D.C. There’s no evidence it happened.
By Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump has a new yarn to tell about 2020’s racial justice protests. For years, the former president has falsely claimed that he stopped protesters who were trying to pull down statues in D.C. by enacting or signing a new law that threatened anyone who vandalized a […]
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Bannon released from prison after serving sentence for contempt
By Spencer S. Hsu, Shayna Jacobs, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Stephen K. Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with a House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The influential right-wing podcaster and […]
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Bannon released from prison after serving sentence for contempt
By Spencer S. Hsu, Shayna Jacobs, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Stephen K. Bannon was released from prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with a House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The influential right-wing podcaster and […]
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Autocracy and ‘enemy from within’ are thrust to center of campaign’s final days
By Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post · Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey · NATIONAL, ELECTIONS, POLITICS, MEDIA · Oct 29, 2024 – 9:29 AM Inside a third-floor conference room of the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris was grappling with how to hone her closing argument to voters. How could she warn of the […]
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Autocracy and ‘enemy from within’ are thrust to center of campaign’s final days
By Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post · Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey · NATIONAL, ELECTIONS, POLITICS, MEDIA · Oct 29, 2024 – 9:29 AM Inside a third-floor conference room of the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris was grappling with how to hone her closing argument to voters. How could she warn of the […]
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In a race they cast as good vs. evil, Christian hard-liners are fired up for Trump
By Hannah Allam, The Washington Post (c) 2024 DESTREHAN, La. – An electric anticipation coursed through a church outside New Orleans where hundreds gathered on a recent night to pray for a victory they saw as just over the horizon, in a president who could bring them one step closer to their vision for a […]
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In a race they cast as good vs. evil, Christian hard-liners are fired up for Trump
By Hannah Allam, The Washington Post (c) 2024 DESTREHAN, La. – An electric anticipation coursed through a church outside New Orleans where hundreds gathered on a recent night to pray for a victory they saw as just over the horizon, in a president who could bring them one step closer to their vision for a […]