La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris eligió al gobernador de Minnesota Tim Walz como su compañero de fórmula, culminando una búsqueda de vicepresidente corta a nivel histórico. Walz ascendió en la lista de finalistas gracias a su simpatía y su experiencia como gobernador. Así como su historial en el Congreso como representante de un distrito de tendencia […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, capping a historically compressed vice presidential search. Walz rocketed up the list of finalists on the strength of his folksy relatability, gubernatorial experience and congressional record representing a conservative-leaning district. “I am proud to announce that I’ve asked @Tim_Walz to be […]
Are Google and Meta putting their Big Tech thumbs on the scale to tilt the election in Vice President Kamala Harris’ favor? That’s what some social media users and supporters of Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump recently said. They accused Google of manipulating search results and Meta’s artificial intelligence tool of hiding […]
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has fought in the boxing ring for years, but now she is facing jabs of another kind: those questioning her gender. Some people are wondering whether she should be competing in the Olympics at all. Khelif’s performance at the 2024 Olympics has become a flashpoint in the discourse about allowing transgender […]
Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council said that President Nicolás Maduro won reelection July 28, but the U.S. government and other world leaders are calling for more transparency and have said evidence shows Maduro lost. The National Electoral Council has not released vote counts by precincts, as Venezuelan law requires. Maduro’s main challenger, Edmundo González Urrutia, […]
Authorities investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump found a number of “encrypted” applications on the shooter’s phone, sparking some Trump supporters to speculate that more than a lone actor had perpetrated the attack. During a July 18 Fox News appearance, Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., linked the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and reports that […]
In a contentious appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists annual conference in Chicago, former President Donald Trump argued with moderators and opened the conversation by baselessly accusing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, of only recently identifying as Black. Asked whether he agreed with some Republicans characterizing Harris as a […]
El expresidente Donald Trump participó el 31 de julio en una entrevista en vivo en la Convención de la Asociación Nacional de Periodistas Negros (NABJ, por sus siglas en inglés) en Chicago. Rachel Scott, una corresponsal senior de ABC News que reporta sobre el Congreso, Harris Faulkner, presentadora de FOX News, y Kadia Goba, periodista […]
PolitiFact fact-checked former President Donald Trump’s July 31 appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair in real time. Trump spoke for over a half-hour with three moderators: ABC News senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, FOX News anchor Harris Faulkner and Semafor politics reporter Kadia Goba. NABJ posted July 31 that the organization […]
Former President Donald Trump called on Christians to flood the polls in November, promising that if they vote him into office, they “won’t have to vote again” in four years. Trump’s July 26 comments came at The Believers’ Summit, a gathering intended to provide attendees with “practical knowledge and strategies to live out their faith […]
For the past few years, North Carolina Democrats have worried every time Gov. Roy Cooper has left the state — fearful that Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson would seize the opportunity as acting governor to issue executive orders and help the GOP-led legislature quickly pass conservative laws. Sometimes Cooper has even left in secret, not telling […]
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, is facing a reprise of attacks from some conservatives and their surrogates on her racial and cultural heritage, ethnic background and gender. A list recently shared across social media titled “Kamala Harris Facts,” contains wrong or missing-context claims about her background, including that she is “Not African […]