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 Mike Segar/ReutersElon Musk amplified a flurry of false claims and misinformation Wednesday in a period of online activity which, even by his own standards, was fairly unhinged.
The billionaire edgelord is no stranger to a reckless post, already attracting the ire of the White House this week over a tweet in which he wrote "no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala." Musk deleted that post— which came just hours after the second apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump—while passing it off as a joke, though the Secret Service apparently didn't see the funny side.
Some people might decide to be more cautious online after such a snafu.
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Virtually everyone on Capitol Hill agrees that the Secret Service needs to do a better job. But Democrats and Republicans are at odds over whether to increase the agency's budget.
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New ads running in legal journals are warning lawyers: "Don't lose your law license because of Trump."
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We speak with Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, after she faced racist and hostile questioning from Republicans at Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, including Senator John Kennedy, who told Berry, "You should hide your head in a bag." The experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address, Berry says: "That kind of bigotry and hatred is difficult to hear from anyone, but to actually experience it at a hate crime hearing from a sitting member of this institution was pretty extraordinary." We also speak with Democratic Congressmember Delia Ramirez of Illinois, who has introduced a resolution to honor 6-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume, a Palestinian American boy stabbed to death in a Chicago suburb last October in an anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian attack. "His horrible bigotry and hate have real consequences in the Arab community and the Palestinian community, in other communities, and it makes us all less safe," Ramirez says of Kennedy.
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As the vice president was set to travel on Thursday to Michigan, home to many Muslim and Arab Americans, a leading group protesting U.S. support of Israel said she had not done enough to win its backing.
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We get an update from Beirut, after at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded in Lebanon on Wednesday when walkie-talkie radios across the country exploded without warning, the second day of an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah members by booby-trapping handheld communication devices. A day earlier, at least 12 people were killed and thousands more left with gruesome injuries when pagers began exploding across the country. Lebanon has banned pagers and walkie-talkies on all flights, while Lebanese citizens say they now live in fear that everyday household electronics could suddenly explode. Among those killed in the attacks are children, medics and other civilians. "This has been widely reported in the Western press as a sophisticated campaign that targeted alleged Hezbollah operatives, but the reality is that, for the most part, these explosions were occuring in civilian areas," says journalist Lara Bitar, editor-in-chief of the Beirut-based independent media organization The Public Source. Bitar warns that Israel's "terrorist attacks" could be a prelude to a larger assault. "The Israeli government has already taken a decision to escalate, to wage full-scale war on all of Lebanon."
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 Fox NewsDonald Trump appeared to express surprise Wednesday that "a woman," Kamala Harris, is "somehow doing better" than Joe Biden in the election race against him.
In a freewheeling and mostly lighthearted appearance on the Fox News talk show Gutfeld!, Trump as is typical rattled off a few recycled old bits—military pilots who look "better" than Tom Cruise and told him they saw UFOs, was brought back from June, for example.
But when it came time to discuss his second Democratic opponent in this year's presidential election, the Republican nominee appeared taken aback that someone of the opposite gender was doing comparatively well.
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Donald Trump's pledge to deport millions of immigrants often centers on those here illegally. But JD Vance on Wednesday admitted that they will define "illegal."
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The two are meeting in a suburb of Detroit at a virtual event called "Unite for America," which will featured members of some of the online groups that have coalesced around Ms. Harris.
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The immigrants are mainly in the United States under temporary protected status, which the executive branch can grant to people whose home countries are in crisis.
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Although it could simply reflect the normal variation of polling results, it may also point to a declining Trump edge in the Electoral College.
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The president's speech on Thursday won't be a "victory lap," officials said, but it will celebrate falling inflation and borrowing costs along with solid growth.
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 Bryan Bedder/Getty Images/Fox News/screengrabDonald Trump is firing back at Howard Stern for turning on him after years of seemingly cordial radio conversations. In Trump's estimation, everything changed after Stern went "woke."
During his first in studio appearance on the late-night Fox News show Gutfeld! Wednesday, Trump was confronted with a recent clip of Stern expressing "hate" for anyone "stupid" enough to vote for the Republican presidential candidate.
"I was on Howard Stern's show as much as anybody," Trump told host Greg Gutfeld. "He was great at that time, and then he went woke. And since he's gone woke his ratings have gone down the tubes. And he sort of went anti-Trump for a couple of reasons."
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Donald Trump told a raucous crowd that he would soon visit Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colo., two cities that are focal points of his exaggerated claims about migrants in America.
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 Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson's spending bill was rejected by Congress on Wednesday after 14 Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the stopgap measures—even after the speaker attached a Trump-endorsed voter registration act to the legislation.
The House now has until Sept. 30 to pass a spending bill or face a government shutdown.
Johnson previously scrapped a vote on the bill last week to spend the weekend rounding up support from hesitant members of his caucus. He also attached the SAVE Act to the legislation, which would prohibit states from registering non-citizens as voters—something Johnson himself has admitted is already illegal under federal law.
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 Ronda Churchill/ReutersA crowd assembled to hear Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance speak on Wednesday reacted strongly to a reporter's question about the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by half a percentage point, booing as the journalist pointed out that the move would take the strain off Americans struggling with rising prices.
"Just on the Fed cutting—it's a very Wall Street Journal-y question, but the Fed cut the interest rate today by a half a percentage point," the reporter can be heard saying in footage of the Raleigh, North Carolina rally, "[that's] going to alleviate inflation for a lot of people. And so if you have any reaction to that?"
As the audience jeered, Vance replied, "Look, my reaction is… half a point is nothing compared to what American families have been dealing with for the last three years."
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Both Republicans and Democrats opposed the stopgap funding bill, which was tied to new rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.
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At least 12 people were killed and over 2,800 people were injured Tuesday in Lebanon when electronic pagers used by many members of Hezbollah — who had switched to the older technology over concerns of mobile phones' vulnerability to security breaches — exploded simultaneously across the country in a coordinated attack on the group. Individual explosions occurred in supermarkets, cafes, houses and in other public places. Many of the injuries were sustained by civilians who were not carrying the pagers themselves, including at least two children who died from their wounds. According to a Reuters report, Israel's Mossad spy agency had managed to plant explosive material in a batch of pagers bought in recent months by Hezbollah, which has vowed to retaliate, deepening the risks of a broader regional war. We discuss the attack with three guests: Beirut-based journalist Mohamad Kleit, Human Rights Watch's Ramzi Kaiss and Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri. Kaiss says the "indiscriminate attack" on the Lebanese population — which Kleit additionally describes as "terrorist" — is "unlawful under the rules of war." "What the Israeli attack using the pagers did was completely throw out the rulebook," says Khouri, as eyes are on the region in preparation for another possible Israeli escalation.
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The Teamsters' much-anticipated non-endorsement came after a vote of its executive board in Washington.
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Sen. John Neely Kennedy used a hearing about hate crimes to accuse Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry of supporting terrorists.
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He made the same boast in 2016 and 2020, losing his home state by more than 20 points.
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Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
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The Teamsters president, Sean O'Brien, has shown an openness to former President Donald J. Trump, dividing the powerful union. Neither candidate will be the beneficiary of its considerable organizing muscle.
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The vice president has said the stories of pregnant women who have been denied or have been unable to gain access to medical care show the consequences of former President Donald J. Trump's actions.
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 Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesAmid continuing bomb threats to local schools and other city buildings that are leaving residents in fear, the mayor of Springfield, Ohio, says he would prefer Donald Trump didn't visit the beleaguered city after his inflammatory comments about immigrants eating pets.
"It would be an extreme strain on our resources," Mayor Rob Rue, a Republican, said on Tuesday, speaking with members of the media at City Hall, reports NBC News.
"So it'd be fine with me if they decided not to make that visit."
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The legislation would have restored prized tax breaks for businesses and expanded the child tax credit. It had passed the House with broad bipartisan support.
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The House Democrats' re-election arm is targeting GOP Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan by pumping up the Trump-backed challenger in next week's GOP congressional primary.
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 Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure package:
"I want to thank the Senate for passing the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will help deliver much needed relief to communities across our country. Among the many provisions with key DHS equities, this infrastructure bill includes additional funding for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mitigation grants. This funding will help build stronger communities, ensure they are better prepared for future disasters, and allow for adaptation and resilience investments to address the effects of climate change. The bill also includes additional funding for cybersecurity and provides DHS with the resources needed to support response and recovery efforts for public and private entities impacted by cyberattacks. Further, the bill includes additional resources vital to modernizing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and United States Coast Guard (USCG) facilities. The passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a key step toward protecting the American people, and the services and infrastructure on which we rely."
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The winner, an ex-homicide detective who once hosted a true-crime series based on his career, will end Charlotte's participation in Trump's effort to go after undocumented immigrants.
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