SPARKS, Nev. — Ed Lawson, the longtime mayor of this smalldesert city of about 110,000 just outside Reno, said he has never voted for a Democrat. That will change next month when he plans to vote for Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) over her Republican challenger, Sam Brown. “Sam Brown doesn’t get it,” Lawson said in an interview. “He certainly hasn’t ...
Vice President Kamala Harris has so over-used her talking points about ‘growing up in a middle class family’ and about her ‘love of the American people and our ‘hopes, dreams, ambitions, and aspirations,’ that they have become punch lines to jokes. That’s not a good macro-political sign for her presidential campaign. And neither are some of the numbers emerging from ...
After allegations of plagiarism levied against Vice President Harris, the New York Times quoted an expert who insisted Republicans were ‘mak[ing] a big deal’ out of minor violations that were ‘an error and not an intent to defraud.’ Meanwhile, speaking to the Washington Post, the same expert blamed Harris’ plagiarism on technical difficulties. Despite the benign reaction to the revelations ...
After allegations of plagiarism levied against Vice President Harris, the New York Times quoted an expert who insisted Republicans were ‘mak[ing] a big deal’ out of minor violations that were ‘an error and not an intent to defraud.’ Meanwhile, speaking to the Washington Post, the same expert blamed Harris’ plagiarism on technical difficulties. Despite the benign reaction to the revelations ...
The United States has attacked five military sites controlled by Houthi forces in Yemen by using B-2 bombers for precision strikes against weapons storage locations. ‘U.S. forces targeted several of the Houthis’ underground facilities housing various weapons components of types that the Houthis have used to target civilian and military vessels throughout the region,’ Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin ...
DORAL, Fla. — Donald Trump on Wednesday at times appeared to attempt a more measured tone on immigration, even as he reprised some false, alarmist attacks against migrants during a town hall that will be televised on the Spanish-language network Univision. Trump has frequently warned of a migrant “invasion,” and he has used dehumanizing language to describe undocumented immigrants, including ...
The environmental fight that played out insidethe Supreme Court on Wednesday was unusual in many ways: It featured poop, a whopping $10 billion fine and one of the nation’s greenest cities — San Francisco — battling the Environmental Protection Agency over water pollution rules in a case that could reverberate beyond the Bay Area. During lively oral arguments, the justices ...
A Georgia judge on Wednesday blocked a series of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board, admonishing the board in stinging language that the rules are “ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VOID.” The judge struck down more than a half-dozen new rules, including one that allowed county election officials to launch investigations of irregularities, which critics ...
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord, a veteran of America’s clandestine operations who served as the point man for the transactions in the Iran-contra affair, the arms-for-hostages scandal that metastasized into the most serious crisis of the Reagan administration, died Oct. 15at a nursing home in Port Orange, Fla. He was 92. A grandson, John Secord Jr., confirmed ...
Powered by small-dollar donors, Democrats have seized control of the fundraising game in the battle for the House and the Senate, leaving Republicans at a disadvantage — and increasingly reliant on a small clutch of mega-rich donors. In 25 of the 26 most competitive House races, the Democratic candidate raised more than the Republican in the third quarter, including 16 ...