Tag: rally
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Election 2024 live updates: Harris to stump with Usher; Trump to rally in Pennsylvania
Election 2024 live updates: Harris to stump with Usher; Trump to rally in Pennsylvania
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Barack Obama contrasts John McCain with Trump at Arizona rally
TUCSON, Ariz. — Former President Barack Obama on Friday contrasted former President Donald Trump’s character to that of the late Sen. John McCain during a packed rally at the University of Arizona. Obama, who faced off against McCain in his successful bid for the White House in 2008, offered only kind words for his onetime…
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Trump’s Detroit rally beset by audio problems
“Hello,” Donald Trump said to a packed house gathered to hear him speak. The greeting came after a 17-minute audio failure that left the former president unable to communicate with the audience that gathered to hear him speak Friday night in Detroit, at a rally in one of the nation’s largest swing states. It’s the…
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Barack Obama to stump for Harris; Trump to rally in Michigan
Share Harris and Trump zero in on Michigan today Both Harris and Trump will hold multiple campaign events in the crucial swing state of Michigan today. Harris will make stops in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County, while Trump will stop in Oakland County and Detroit. It is unclear whether their timing will overlap in…
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Asheville musicians rally after Helene but fear losing an audience
Last Tuesday, Kenny Clark packed his three dogs and 20 guitars into the back of his car and headed west to Nashville, Tennessee, where he planned to raffle off the instruments for hurricane relief. “We had these couple days of overwhelming sadness and anxiety and confusion and wanting to help and not knowing what we…
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Boeing strike enters second month as workers rally in Seattle
SEATTLE — Boeing factory workers held a large rally in Seattle on Tuesday to demand a better wage deal, mounting pressure on new CEO Kelly Ortberg to end a bitter strike that has plunged the planemaker further into financial crisis. Hundreds of striking workers packed the main hall at their union’s headquarters chanting “Pension! Pension! Pension!” and “One…
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Menendez brothers’ relatives to rally outside L.A. courthouse as DA weighs resentencing
Erik and Lyle Menendez’s extended family is expected to gather outside a Los Angeles courthouse Wednesday as the district attorney weighs whether the brothers, found guilty of killing their parents almost three decades ago, should be resentenced and possibly released. Nearly two dozen family members will hold a news conference outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz…
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Man arrested near Trump rally denies he was trying to assassinate the former president
Vem Miller, the man arrested near former President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday in Coachella, California, denied in an online video Monday that he was trying to assassinate Trump. Miller, 49, of Nevada, who was arrested on state weapons charges a quarter-mile from the rally, said he is a longtime supporter of Trump. He said that…
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2 men wounded when a gunman opened fire on Trump at rally say Secret Service failed them
“It was like getting hit with a sledgehammer right in the chest,” Dutch said, adding that he could see chunks of the bleacher and metal “flying all around” until the shooting stopped. Copenhaver said he didn’t realize what was happening until he saw part of his sleeve get blown away. “I turned around to my…
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Investigation underway after man tried to enter Trump California rally perimeter with guns in vehicle
Federal authorities are investigating after a man with guns in his vehicle was arrested Saturday after he was stopped at a checkpoint near a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump. The Justice Department said Sunday that the Secret Service and the FBI are investigating the incident in Coachella, California, about a quarter-mile from the…