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Sep 11, 2024, 12:07 AM | Updated: 12:54 am
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Republican Liz Cheney to join Kamala Harris at Wisconsin campaign stop
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, will join Democrat Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Wisconsin on Thursday aimed at reaching out to moderate voters and rattling the GOP nominee. Cheney was the top Republican on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, […]
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Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters to be sentenced for voting data scheme
A former Colorado county clerk and one-time hero to election conspiracists is set to be sentenced Thursday for leading a data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that voting fraud altered the result of the 2020 presidential race. A jury found Tina Peters guilty of most charges against her in August for orchestrating the […]
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Spider lovers scurry to Colorado town in search of mating tarantulas and community
LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. It’s tarantula mating season, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of […]
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How Black leaders in New York are grappling with Eric Adams and representation
NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t a shock to many Black New Yorkers that Mayor Eric Adams has surrounded himself with African American civil rights leaders, clergy and grassroots activists since his indictment last week on federal bribery charges. Adams, a Brooklyn native who rose from the city’s working class to its highest political office, […]
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Middle East latest: Israeli strike in Beirut killed 7 health and rescue workers
An Israeli strike the Lebanese capital Beirut killed seven health and rescue workers early Thursday, an Islamic health organization said. The airstrike early in the residential Bashoura district targeted an apartment in a multi-story building that houses an office of the Health Society, a group of civilian first responders affiliated to Hezbollah. It was the […]
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Stock market today: Asian shares slip and the yen weakens against the dollar
Asian shares were mostly lower on Thursday after U.S. stocks stalled as investors awaited developments in the Middle East. The U.S. dollar gained against the Japanese yen as officials downplayed the likelihood of an interest rate hike soon. That helped push Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index higher. It gained 2% to 38,552.06, while the dollar traded […]
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