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Today — 19 September 2024Main stream

Harris Warns of Mass Deportations and Detention Camps if Trump Is Elected

19 September 2024 at 05:57
Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to build support among Latino voters as polls show Americans trust former President Donald J. Trump over Democrats on the border.

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Vice President Kamala Harris at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institutes’s annual leadership conference in Washington on Wednesday. She said that former President Donald J. Trump had “pledged to carry out the largest deportation, a mass deportation, in American history.”

Melania Trump Defends Nude Modeling Work as She Promotes Book

19 September 2024 at 04:01
The former first lady called her past work a “celebration of the human form” in a video, the latest in a series promoting her memoir and appearing to reflect her deeply held beliefs.

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“Are we no longer able to appreciate the beauty of the human body?” Melania Trump asks in a video posted to her social media accounts.

Teamsters Won’t Endorse Trump or Harris in 2024 Presidential Election

19 September 2024 at 04:18
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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Former President Donald Trump granted Sean O’Brien, the Teamsters president, a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in July.

Trump Floats an Array of Expensive Tax Cuts to Win Votes

19 September 2024 at 05:11
Whether he is speaking to retirees, corporate executives or tipped workers, former President Donald J. Trump has made a habit of promising tax cuts that could cost trillions.

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Former President Donald J. Trump at a town-hall meeting in Flint, Mich., on Tuesday.

Trump’s Talk of Prosecution Rattles Election Officials

The former president has long claimed, despite evidence to the contrary, that elections are corrupt. What if he carries through with threats to prosecute the officials who run them?

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Former President Donald J. Trump has said on social media that election officials believed to be “involved in unscrupulous behavior” will be investigated and prosecuted if he wins the White House in November.

The Secret Service’s Failure to Halt a Tragedy at a Trump Rally

19 September 2024 at 01:00
Communications gaps, unguarded warehouses and a lack of written instructions opened an opportunity for a gunman at a rally in Butler, Pa., in July.

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Inadequately securing the warehouses next to the rally site in Butler, Pa., was a critical misstep. But it was hardly the only problem.

In Georgia, a New Showdown Is Brewing Over Election Rules

19 September 2024 at 00:16
The state election board was recently taken over by a conservative majority. Its latest proposals are dangerously late in the process and most likely illegal, according to the secretary of state.

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A lawyer for Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, sent a letter to the State Election Board on Monday, warning that the new election rules under its consideration are probably illegal.
Yesterday — 18 September 2024Main stream

111 Former G.O.P. Officials Back Harris, Calling Trump ‘Unfit to Serve’

18 September 2024 at 20:01
The signatories of a letter endorsing the Democratic vice president included former members of Congress, defense secretaries, C.I.A. directors and other national security officials.

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The 111 Republican signatories of a letter backing Vice President Kamala Harris included some who had not endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. against Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election.

A Fed Rate Cut Would Cap a Winning Streak for Biden and Harris on Prices

18 September 2024 at 17:04
Improved data on borrowing costs and price growth has buoyed consumers, but it might be coming too late to significantly affect the presidential race

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Recent weeks have brought a run of good data on consumer prices and interest rates for the Biden-Harris administration.

Far From Ohio, Haitian Americans Feel the Sting of Threats in Springfield

18 September 2024 at 17:05
They charged Donald J. Trump and JD Vance, who spread baseless rumors that Haitians in an Ohio city were eating pets, with imperiling their community for political gain.

© Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

“It may seem like just politics,” said Karl Racine, who served two terms as attorney general for the District of Columbia and immigrated to the United States from Haiti when he was 6. “But it’s serious business, with the real possibility of violence.”

Arizona’s Mormon Voters Are Divided on Trump

American Mormon voters have traditionally voted Republican. But members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona have become increasingly disillusioned by former President Donald Trump. Kellen Browning, a New York Times reporter who is on assignment in the swing states of the 2024 election, explains how the division among Mormon voters could help deliver a key battleground state to Democrats in November.

Trump, Hardly New York’s Favorite Son, Brings His Message to Long Island

18 September 2024 at 15:00
Donald J. Trump’s rally in Nassau County on Wednesday is another sign of the area’s shift to the right, but some question his choice to spend time in a non-battleground state.

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Former President Donald J. Trump says he has a “real chance” of winning New York, even as recent polls show him no closer than 14 percentage points behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump Tries to Close Off a Chief Line of Attack: That He’s a Danger to Democracy

18 September 2024 at 17:04
Donald Trump has tried to link Democrats’ charge that he poses a “threat to democracy” to threats on his life. Meanwhile, he has heightened his own attacks on his rivals.

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“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Trump Makes Big Promises, With Little Detail, for Michigan’s Auto Industry

18 September 2024 at 09:51
At his first campaign event since the apparent assassination attempt on Sunday, Donald J. Trump used dire language to insist that if he loses in November it would crush auto jobs.

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At his town-hall event on Tuesday night in Flint, Mich., former President Donald J. Trump repeatedly vowed that his tariffs would revitalize the auto industry in Michigan, a crucial battleground state.

Secret Service Scrambled After Trump’s Short Notice on Golf Outing

The agency did not sweep the area where a gunman lay in wait for the former president at his club in Florida.

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Law enforcement officers blocking the roads at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday.

Why the Story of the Golf Course Shooting Will Be Told Twice

18 September 2024 at 06:45
Florida’s governor says a state investigation is needed because federal agencies can’t be trusted.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, right, listens as Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody speaks during a news conference on Tuesday.

Ohio Woman Says She Regrets Sharing False Rumor About Haitians on Facebook

18 September 2024 at 06:35
The woman has since deleted the post claiming that one of her Haitian neighbors might have taken a neighbor’s cat. But it took on a life of its own.

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Downtown Springfield, Ohio, in August.

Harris Condemns Trump’s False Claims About Haitian Migrants Eating Pets

“This is exhausting, and it’s harmful,” Kamala Harris said during an interview. “And it’s hateful, and grounded in some age-old stuff that we should not have the tolerance for.”

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke on Tuesday in Philadelphia with three members of the National Association of Black Journalists.
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