Author: chiara
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Both Trump and Harris say they’ll build more border wall. In this county, the parts have been waiting, and rusting, since 2021.
Back in 2018, Kamala Harris and other Democrats labeled then-President Donald Trump’s wall a vanity project that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars. Harris even went so far as to post online that the barrier was “un-American.” Now, as a candidate for president, her border security plan includes filling in strategic sections of the wall along…
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Latinos are questioning family racial narratives as they uncover their ancestry
Through SlaveSocieties.org, this reporter confronted his own family’s slave-owning past: Notary records from Cartagena, Colombia — once the largest slave port in South America — revealed an 1831 will of a previously unknown fourth-great-grandmother who left her daughter three enslaved youths as well as 100 pesos to purchase yet another slave. This reporter never thought…
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Trump and Harris battle over male voters — and what masculinity looks like in 2024
One of the biggest fights playing out in this election is the battle for young, persuadable men of all races who appear to be less firmly in the Democratic column than they were just four years ago. For former President Donald Trump, that has meant appearing on podcasts and alternative media platforms popular with young…
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Pets are hitching a ride on the travel boom
Travelers have been crowding into airports in record numbers this year — including on four legs and leashes. Tom Carpenter and his wife travel with their Havanese dog whenever they can. “His day care would be $350 for a 10-day trip, so paying hotel fees and $100 each way to take him on a plane…
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Iran vows revenge for Nasrallah killing amid Lebanon strikes
The State Department last night offered assistance to U.S. citizens looking to leave Lebanon, warning that citizens who remain in the country should be ready to shelter in place for an extended period of time. The department said on its website that it “strongly encourages” Americans in southern Lebanon, near the borders with Syria or…
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Storm kills 64; 3 million customers still without power
Share Biden approves disaster declaration for North Carolina President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for North Carolina, where at least 10 people have died and flooding brought major destruction across the state. The approval makes federal funding available to people in 25 counties and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the White House…
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Netanyahu, not Biden, is setting the agenda in the Middle East
Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s longtime leader has driven home how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set the agenda in the Middle East in recent months, with a frustrated Biden White House unable to shape events or defuse a spreading conflict in the region. Officials in the Biden administration felt blindsided by the Israeli air strikes Friday in southern Beirut that…
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Multiple dead after plane crash at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport
MANTEO, N.C. — Multiple people died after a single-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon in a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport, the National Park Service said. The crash occurred at 5 p.m. as, according to eyewitnesses, the airplane was trying to land at the airport, the park service said in a…
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Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot sells for $137,500 at auction
DALLAS — Newly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway toward a hospital after he was fatally wounded sold at auction Saturday for $137,500. The 8 mm color home film was offered up by RR Auction in Boston. The auction house said the buyer wishes to remain anonymous. The film…
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Florida congressional candidate charged with threatening to kill primary opponent
The Justice Department on Friday revealed an indictment charging a Florida man for allegedly threatening to kill his political opponent in 2021. William Robert Bradock III, 41, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was charged with threatening two victims, one of whom the DOJ said was his primary opponent in the 2022 election for Florida’s 13th Congressional…