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Month: August,2024

Fact-checking Kamala Harris at the Democratic convention on Day 4

Fact-checking Kamala Harris at the Democratic convention on Day 4

August 23, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoric but not many facts easily checked. Here are five claims made by Harris that caught our attention, in the order in which they were made. As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios […]
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How protests outside the DNC defied expectations, staying mostly calm

How protests outside the DNC defied expectations, staying mostly calm

August 23, 2024
CHICAGO — Democrats worried that protesters might derail their shining moment this week, pushing the spotlight from Vice President Kamala Harris to the devastation in the Gaza Strip. Republicans claimed that the Democratic National Convention was spiraling into chaos, disparaging this host city as a “Third World country.” But as the party wrapped up its […]
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Why Kamala Harris is looking to WhatsApp to win over Latino voters

Why Kamala Harris is looking to WhatsApp to win over Latino voters

August 23, 2024
Evelyn Lees was hiking across the mountains of northern New Jersey on Monday afternoon when her cellphone screen lit up with a notification that made the Puerto Rican middle school science teacher leap with joy: the Harris-Walz campaign had launched a bilingual WhatsApp channel for Latino voters. Lees, 53, said she ran to her car […]
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CBP agrees to pay $45 million to settle pregnancy discrimination case

CBP agrees to pay $45 million to settle pregnancy discrimination case

August 23, 2024
Under an image of the Statue of Liberty, set against a waving American flag, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website describes the agency’s commitment to “nondiscrimination in the workforce.” CBP’s self-praise includes its dedication “to preserving individual liberty, fairness and equality under the law.” But those notions of nondiscrimination and fairness took a big […]
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A close race brings fresh fears of election interference by Trump allies

A close race brings fresh fears of election interference by Trump allies

August 23, 2024
CHICAGO — As invigorated Democrats celebrated Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination this week, some of them were doing so with a wary eye on new developments in what they fear could be efforts by former president Donald Trump’s allies to create doubt about the election and muddy the result should it not go his way. […]
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Kamala Harris has put Trump in a box, and he’s struggling to break out

Kamala Harris has put Trump in a box, and he’s struggling to break out

August 23, 2024
CHICAGO — In his history as a candidate for president, Donald Trump has never experienced anything like the past month. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Black and Indian American woman, has pushed the White alpha male to the sidelines of the national conversation, denying him the spotlight he craves and constantly demands. Democrats concluded their […]
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Trump deflects, misleads in real-time reaction to Harris speech

Trump deflects, misleads in real-time reaction to Harris speech

August 23, 2024
Former president Donald Trump did not hold back as Democratic nominee Kamala Harris delivered her acceptance speech Thursday night, firing off a series of scathing, insulting and sometimes unrelated comments while Harris was speaking. Trump took to his Truth Social account to make a variety of comments, from accusing Harris of falsehoods to defending his […]
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Kennedy set to make an announcement on the future of his campaign

Kennedy set to make an announcement on the future of his campaign

August 23, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to make an announcement about the future of his campaign Friday, potentially shaking up the race for the White House a day after Vice President Kamala Harris wrapped up the Democratic National Convention with a speech calling for a “new way forward.” Kennedy has moved closer […]
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Ford delays new EV plant and cancels electric three-row SUV as it shifts strategy

Ford delays new EV plant and cancels electric three-row SUV as it shifts strategy

August 23, 2024
DETROIT — Ford Motor is delaying production of a next-generation all-electric pickup truck at a new plant in Tennessee and canceling plans for a three-row electric SUV, the company said Wednesday. Instead, Ford said it will prioritize the development of hybrid models, as well as electric commercial vehicles such as a new electric commercial van in 2026, followed by […]
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Fed minutes point to ‘likely’ rate cut coming in September

Fed minutes point to ‘likely’ rate cut coming in September

August 23, 2024
Federal Reserve officials at their July meeting moved closer to a long-awaited interest rate reduction, but stopped short while indicating that a September cut had grown increasingly probable, minutes released Wednesday showed. “The vast majority” of participants at the July 30-31 meeting “observed that, if the data continued to come in about as expected, it would likely […]
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U.S. added 818,000 fewer jobs than thought, adding to concerns about a slowing economy

U.S. added 818,000 fewer jobs than thought, adding to concerns about a slowing economy

August 23, 2024
U.S. job gains over the 12 months ending in March were revised downward Wednesday by 818,000 — a significant revision that adds to recent concerns that the economy has been slowing. The change means that roughly 2.1 million jobs were created in the U.S. in the past year, compared with about 2.9 million prior to […]
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Cryptocurrency ‘pig butchering’ scam wrecks Kansas bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years

Cryptocurrency ‘pig butchering’ scam wrecks Kansas bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years

August 23, 2024
The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had duped him in a “pig butchering” scheme that appealed to his greed, federal prosecutors said. The massive embezzlement by ex-CEO Shan Hanes in a series […]
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Why this former Republican presidential candidate is at the Democrats’ 2024 convention

Why this former Republican presidential candidate is at the Democrats’ 2024 convention

August 23, 2024
CHICAGO – It’s a sight you wouldn’t expect to see. A longtime Republican who ran for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination making the rounds at the Democratic National Convention. But that’s the case for former two-term Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. ‘I’m doing media. I’m not here to endorse the Democratic nominee,’ Hutchison said in an […]
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On Trump calling Harris ‘comrade,’ top Democrat surrogates argue ‘that boat doesn’t float’

On Trump calling Harris ‘comrade,’ top Democrat surrogates argue ‘that boat doesn’t float’

August 23, 2024
CHICAGO – Former President Trump has repeatedly argued that Kamala Harris is an ultra-liberal and has insulted the vice president as ‘comrade Kamala’ in the month since she replaced President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket. But top Harris surrogates argue that the attacks from the former president won’t fly with American voters. ‘That boat […]
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Flashback: Oprah Winfrey once called Trump a ‘folk hero,’ a contrast to comments made during the DNC

Flashback: Oprah Winfrey once called Trump a ‘folk hero,’ a contrast to comments made during the DNC

August 23, 2024
In a 1988 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the celebrity talk show host appeared to be amazed at Americans’ ‘fascination’ with Donald Trump and even described him as a ‘folk hero’ for being so popular.  ‘Various celebrities in New York, because it was the opening concert in New York, and there were all kinds of celebrities […]
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