Articles filed under Political Figures
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Trump rally speakers lob racist insults, call Puerto Rico ‘island of garbage’Oct 28, 2024 8:02 am - A comedian who warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Sunday described Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage,” attracting widespread criticism and triggering a Trump campaign statement disavowing the remark.
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Trump denigrates Detroit while appealing for votes in a suburb of Michigan's largest cityOct 26, 2024 6:07 pm - Donald Trump further denigrated Detroit while appealing for votes Saturday in a suburb of the largest city in swing state Michigan."I think Detroit and some of our areas makes us a developing nation," the former president told supporters in Novi. He said people want him to say Detroit is "great," but he thinks it "needs help."
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Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policyOct 25, 2024 2:32 pm - President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country.
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Harris, Beyoncé team up for a Texas rally on abortion rights and hope battleground states hear themOct 25, 2024 6:50 am - Vice President Kamala Harris will team up with Beyoncé on Friday for a rally in solidly Republican Texas aimed at highlighting the perilous medical fallout from the state's strict abortion ban and putting the blame squarely on Donald Trump.
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Allies hope a Trump win changes the system for mortgages. Some warn it will make them pricierOct 25, 2024 6:44 am - If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Republicans hope he will fulfill a longstanding GOP goal of privatizing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the Great Recession.
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Trump says gas should be $1.87 a gallon. Here’s what that would mean.Oct 24, 2024 1:08 pm - It’s become a common refrain during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign: Gasoline prices would plummet if he returned to the White House, falling as low as they were whe...
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6 key moments from the Kamala Harris town hall with CNNOct 24, 2024 9:14 am - Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to undecided voters at a town hall event hosted by CNN on Wednesday in Pennsylvania. Here are six key moments from Harris’s appearance ...
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Harris decries Trump after John Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler’sOct 23, 2024 12:18 pm - Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is" and the kind of commander in chief he would be.
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Harris bets her policies can attract Latino voters while Trump touts his time as president to themOct 22, 2024 2:28 pm - Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump see economic policy as their best chance to win Latino voters. But their approaches are very different.
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How Project 2025’s rightward vision became a flashpoint in this year’s electionOct 22, 2024 7:38 am - For the past year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential election, its far-right proposals deployed by Democrats as shorthand for what Donald Trump would potentially do with a second term at the White House.