Harris puts Trump on defensive in fiery debate as pop star Taylor Swift backs vice president
A former prosecutor, Harris, 59, appeared to get under the former president’s skin repeatedly, prompting a visibly angry Trump, 78, to deliver a series of falsehood-filled retorts.
South African: White farmers accused of killing two women, feeding them to pigs in crime that echoes racism
Several political parties protested outside Mankweng Magistrates Court, calling for the men to be denied bail and face the harshest possible sentence. The South African Human Rights Commission called on the public not to take the law into their hands in retaliation.
No slip ups: Trump’s insults of Harris in debate are double-edged sword that cuts both ways
Trump has already levelled a series of racist and sexist attacks against Harris. The former president has falsely claimed Harris, who is Black and South Asian, only recently “became a Black person.” He reposted a vulgar online message suggesting she used sex to advance her career. He fired off insults that play into tropes about women and Black people, calling her “weak,” “dumb as a rock” and “lazy.”
Voter intimidation cited as Trump’s rhetoric on elections turns ominous as Election Day nears
Election experts and several state and local election officials were quick to condemn the former president’s comment, which they viewed in part as an attempt at intimidation as offices are preparing for the start of voting.
Blacks now most sought-after voters in Georgia as Trump, Harris duel in the battleground state
Before Biden dropped out, Trump’s campaign was so confident of victory in Georgia that it had spent less than $3 million on ad buys. Since Harris’ emergence, the campaign and an affiliated group responded by sinking more than $30 million into advertising in the state, outspending the Harris campaign through the month of August.
Democrats target college football games to pummel Donald Trump and his conservative Project 2025
A large portion of Saturday’s game crowds, meanwhile, may support Trump. Many college football fans hail from rural, more Republican areas, well beyond the confines of reliably Democratic college towns.
Trump struggles as Kamala Harris is endorsed by 90 company CEOs, 100 law enforcement officials
Laurene Powell Jobs, head of the Emerson Collective and widow of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, also endorsed Harris, as did the former chief executives of Merck, Aetna, GoDaddy, Blackstone and Starbucks, among others.
A Michigan judge who insulted gays and described Black people as lazy dumped
In the phone recordings, Ryan uses an anti-gay slur against David Coulter, the county’s highest elected official, who is gay. She also referred to Blacks in the US as lazy.
Two astronauts are left behind in space as Boeing’s troubled capsule returns to Earth empty
Boeing insisted after extensive testing that Starliner was safe to bring the two home, but NASA disagreed and booked a flight with SpaceX instead. Their SpaceX ride won’t launch until the end of this month, which means they’ll be up there until February – more than eight months after blasting off on what should have been a quick trip.
Republican former VP Dick Cheney to vote for Kamala Harris but Trump dismisses him as ‘irrelevant’
Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, has also been a vocal critic of the current Republican presidential candidate, including over the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters.
