Here’s how a pro-Trump, Elon Musk-backed super PAC is getting Pa. voters’ personal info
A pro-Donald Trump super PAC funded by billionaire Elon Musk is collecting battleground state voters’ personal information through an ad pretending to help them register to vote. CNBC.com reported Friday that Musk’s America PAC is running an online ad that shows a young man scrolling through his cellphone while lying...
‘I’m asking you as president’: Marc Fogel’s mother appeals to Biden to bring her son home
A hint of despair has turned into a wave of determination. Malphine Fogel is on a crusade to get her son home. And arguably for the first time since Marc Fogel was detained in Russia three years ago, the federal government is taking notice, at least publicly. Malphine Fogel, at...
Favre challenges a judge’s order that blocked his lead attorney in Mississippi welfare lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says a Mississippi judge improperly blocked his lead attorney from representing him in a state civil lawsuit that seeks to recover misspent welfare money. Using another of his attorneys, Favre filed an appeal Thursday asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn the...
U.S. Homeland Security halts immigration permits from 4 countries
SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has temporarily suspended permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the United States and stay up to two years amid concerns about fraud by their financial sponsors, officials said Friday. Nearly 500,000 people from the four countries arrived through June under presidential...
Ohio expected to launch recreational marijuana sales next week
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Recreational marijuana sales in Ohio are likely to start next week. The state intends to issue operation certificates Tuesday that will allow existing medical marijuana dispensaries to begin selling nonmedical pot products, the Division of Cannabis Control said Friday. Several dispensaries have said they will be ready...
Poll: Few Americans trust Secret Service after assassination attempt
Most Americans have doubts about the Secret Service’s ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month’s attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. Only about 3 in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident the Secret Service...
Potential tropical cyclone could track near Outer Banks next week
Potential Tropical Cyclone Four, a wave meteorologists are watching near Cuba, has the potential to track up the East Coast toward the Outer Banks. The National Hurricane Center began advisories for Potential Tropical Cyclone Four at 11 a.m. Friday. Tropical storm warnings and watches have been issued for areas in...
Trump election subversion case returned to trial judge following Supreme Court opinion
WASHINGTON — The criminal case charging former President Donald Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election was returned Friday to the trial judge in Washington after a Supreme Court opinion last month that narrowed the scope of the prosecution. The case was formally sent back to U.S. District...
Harris has secured enough Democratic delegate votes to be the party’s nominee, committee chair says
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough votes from delegates to become her party’s nominee for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said Friday. The announcement was made before the online voting process ends on Monday, reflecting the breakneck speed of a campaign that is eager to...
An assassin, a Putin foe’s death, secret talks: How a sweeping U.S.-Russia prisoner swap came together
WASHINGTON — It was December 2022 and the U.S. government’s chief hostage negotiator had just delivered Brittney Griner back to America after her 10-month imprisonment in Russia. Roger Carstens went to his hotel room anticipating a quick snooze after several sleepless days and had just put his head on the...
SpaceX knocks out company’s 50th Space Coast launch of the year
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX shot up three Falcon 9 rockets from three launch pads last weekend once the Federal Aviation Administration gave its grounded rocket the OK to return to flight. Now it’s set to go another round. First up was a Falcon 9 launch of 23 more...
Masked assailants ransack Venezuela opposition leader’s headquarters as post-election tensions mount
CARACAS, Venezuela — A half dozen masked assailants ransacked the headquarters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in the latest escalation of violence against opponents of Nicolás Maduro following the country’s disputed presidential election. The raid occurred at around 3 a.m., Machado’s party said, adding that the assailants broke...
Police dog dies in hot car in Missouri after air conditioner malfunctioned
ARNOLD, Mo. — A Missouri police dog died when the air conditioner failed in the patrol vehicle he had been left in, police said. Vader, a 4-year-old K-9 for the Arnold Police Department in suburban St. Louis, died Wednesday. Temperatures this week have been in the 90s, with high humidity....
Scrapped fundraisers and watching from the treadmill. How Harris’ VP contenders wait for her choice
WASHINGTON — One is sparking speculation that he’ll be the choice by forgoing swanky fundraisers in the Hamptons. Another watched TV commentators speculate about his viability as the pick while getting in a workout. A third is sticking to praising the new presidential candidate who is closing in on a...
Heat deaths of people without air conditioning, often in mobile homes, underscore energy inequity
PHOENIX — Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn’t have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in Washington state as temperatures surged into the triple digits. For the last dozen years, the 61-year-old spent much of the year working near Pasco, Washington, sending money to...
Harris raised a massive $310 million in July, as she looks to reset November’s race against Trump
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris ’ campaign announced Friday that it raised $310 million last month, an eyepopping sum showing that donors who once seemed spooked about the prospects for November’s election with President Joe Biden are now offering mountains of cash to boost his former No. 2. The...
Trump is making his 2024 campaign about Harris’ race, whether Republicans want him to or not
NEW YORK — Donald Trump has found tremendous success from the very first moment he stepped onto the presidential stage by stoking racial animus. Democrats expressed new outrage this week at the former president’s derisive and false charge that Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage,...
Few Americans trust the Secret Service after a gunman nearly killed Trump, an AP-NORC poll finds
Most Americans have doubts about the Secret Service’s ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month’s attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. Only around 3 in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the...
Things to know about the largest U.S.-Russia prisoner swap in post-Soviet history
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Russia on Thursday completed their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, a deal involving 24 people, many months of negotiations and concessions from other European countries who released Russians in their custody as part of the exchange. Here are some things to know: Who...
Turkey blocks access to Instagram. It’s in response to removal of posts on Hamas chief, reports say
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s communications authority blocked access to the social media platform Instagram on Friday, the latest instance of a clampdown on websites in the country. The Information and Communication Technologies Authority, which regulates the internet, announced the decision early Friday but did not provide a reason. Yeni Safak...
3 newly freed Americans are back on U.S. soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia
WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free. Gershkovich, Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, a...
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Donald Trump, Kamala Harris have a quiet day scheduled on the campaign trail Friday
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump’s campaign schedules are sparse Friday, as both candidates prepare for larger events over the weekend and next week. Harris had no campaign event appearances scheduled Friday, bringing a break in a week that has brought the presumed Democratic presidential nominee to...
Florida governor declares state of emergency as coming heavy rain might cause ‘major disaster’
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for much of the state, excluding South Florida, ahead of a disturbance that might strengthen into a tropical depression. Forecasters are warning to expect heavy rain and floods even if the storm fails to form into a depression. DeSantis signed an executive...
Third-party candidates file to run for president, U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG — More than a dozen third-party candidates for president, U.S. Senate and three statewide offices filed paperwork ahead of Thursday’s deadline to get on November’s general election ballot in Pennsylvania, raising the possibility that they could play spoiler in high-stakes and close races in the battleground state. Pennsylvania is...
