Japanese American civil rights leaders and advocates criticized former President Trump for comparing rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to those held in internment camps during World War II. “It’s flat-out offensive. It’s a night-and-day difference what happened," David Inoue, executive director of the Japanese American Citizens League, said in a statement...
The Supreme Court has overturned a decision of the Fifth Circuit that barred a lawsuit by Priscilla Villarreal, known as La Gordiloca, who was arrested for seeking and publishing nonpublic information from police on Facebook, in a victory for citizen journalists.
More than half of Republican voters in a new survey said they are worried poll workers could tamper with ballots during the 2024 election, now less than three weeks away. The poll, released Friday by YouGov, found that 55 percent of likely Republican voters think it’s “very or somewhat likely” that election workers will try...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said he would be a "fool" to try to predict the outcome of the 2024 election, arguing that the polling margins he's seen are "way too close to call." "I'd be a fool to answer that question because you're talking about margins we have never seen before in polling," Axelrod, who...
Former President Trump weighed in on Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this week, saying “that's sometimes what happens.” “My reaction is, he was not a good person,” Trump said Friday while visiting battleground Michigan, according to a video shared by an ABC News reporter on social platform X. “That's my reaction. That's sometimes...
Former President Obama took a swipe at former President Trump's competence Friday, mocking the GOP nominee for his recent rhetoric. “He called himself ‘the father IVF,'” Obama said during a rally in battleground Arizona. “I do not know what that means. You do not either. He said January 6th was ‘a day of love.’ You...
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman told the New York Post in an interview that Elon Musk's endorsement of former President Trump is "a concern" in the Keystone State.
The village of Lockland, Ohio says it is struggling with an influx of migrants from Mauritania, with what it says are dire financial consequences for the area.