WASHINGTON (AA) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday it is “too late to do another” debate after his contender Vice President Kamala Harris accepted an invitation from CNN to have a faceoff with the former president Oct. 23. “I will gladly accept a second presidential debate on October 23. I ho...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Three states began in-person early voting Friday, six weeks before the 2024 US presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Nov. 5. Minnesota, Virginia and South Dakota started taking in their first in-person balloting following a chaotic summer of politics ...
Florida lawmaker Anna Paulina Luna has expressed heightened concerns for her safety as a member of Congress. She says she feels less secure now than during her military service. In a recent interview on NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Luna highlighted the alarming trend of threats against lawmakers, noting, “It doesn’t feel safe right now to be in [&h...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced that the Senate will intervene to prevent a government shutdown set for October 1. This follows a failed funding plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson, which lacked bipartisan support. Schumer criticized House Republicans for their inaction, stating, “They don’t seem to have any pla...
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has criticized the alarming rise of Islamophobia in the US, spotlighting recent comments made by Senator John Kennedy during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. In an op-ed for British daily The Guardian, she said instead of addressing the intended focus on increasing hate against Muslim, Jewish, and Pale...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday that if he loses his bid to return to the White House in this November’s elections, the Jewish people would be partially responsible. Speaking at an event in Washington, DC, billed as combating antisemitism, Trump said: “If I don’t win this election – and the […]...
The Teamsters executive board says the union will not endorse a US presidential candidate in the November 5 election. General President Sean O’Brien said neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to the union to ensure the interests of working people. He said the union “strongly” encourages all members to vote in...
In Georgia, Ruwa Romman, the first Muslim woman elected to the state legislature, is highlighting a surge of transformative political “firsts” in the US. As discontent grows over the government’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza, Muslim Americans, through movements like National Undecideds and AbandonBiden, are mobilizing to make the...
More than 100 former Republican national security officials and ex-lawmakers have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. They are also condemning former President Donald Trump’s “chaotic and unethical behavior.” In a scathing letter, the group highlights Trump’s susceptibility to manipulation by leaders like Russia’...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that his government will fulfill its promise to restore the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, which was stripped of its autonomy and downgraded into a federally ruled territory in 2019. Modi was addressing his maiden election rally in Kashmir, a disputed t...
