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Venezuela soldiers raid Tocoron prison Sept. 2023

Tren de Aragua: What we know about the Venezuelan gang Donald Trump promised to deport

Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has stoked fear about what he calls “migrant crime,” despite a nearly 50-year low in violent crime and studies showing that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. Approaching Election Day, Trump has zeroed in on one group — the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan prison gang.  […]
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A Pennsylvania Republican said she was arrested for telling voters to stay in line. Was she?

“Do not get out of line! Do not get out of line!” a woman in a video shouts as two police officers whisk her away. Off camera, the person filming the incident can be heard saying, “Wow, wow, wow. That’s crazy. You locked her up? That is insane, man.”  “She is influencing people,” one observer […]
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Burned ballots from drop box in Clark County, Wash.

Overwhelming majority of ballot boxes are secure, rare for ballots to be lost or destroyed

Millions of Americans have already cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election, at polling places or by dropping them in the mail or at ballot boxes — long a popular way to return completed ballots. When some ballots were damaged Oct. 28 in fires intentionally set at ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington state, […]
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WMUR debate Joyce Craig and Kelly Ayotte. 10-30-2024

Fact-checking the New Hampshire gubernatorial debate on WMUR

In New Hampshire’s gubernatorial race, the nation’s closest, former Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and former Democratic Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig met for a largely cordial debate Oct. 30 hosted by WMUR-TV. The candidates were asked to address their positions on abortion, immigration and homelessness.  One of the more contentious moments came when WMUR moderator […]
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Noncitizen voting is already rare in local elections, but 8 states want to ban it

As noncitizen voting has taken center stage in the 2024 presidential election, voters in eight states will decide whether to ban noncitizens from voting in any elections, including local ones — a practice that’s already rare. U.S. citizenship is required to vote in federal, state and the vast majority of local elections. Only the District […]
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5 ways Senate candidates in toss-up races tried to mislead voters, fact-checked

Candidates have been waging high-stakes, high-dollar campaigns in Senate races across the country this year, as Senate control rests on a few swing states. Democrats, who now control the Senate with 51 seats, are playing defense, looking to protect incumbents in competitive races and stop Republicans from gaining open seats in Michigan and Arizona.  Republicans […]
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Donald Trump in Rocky Mount, N.C., 10-30-2024

Trump is talking more about ‘the enemy from within’ near Election Day. Who is he talking about?

In the 2024 election’s final weeks, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly spotlighted what he calls “the enemy from within.” On Oct. 9, he told supporters in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that Vice President Kamala Harris is surrounded by “very smart, very vicious people” who are “the enemy from within.” On Oct. 13, he told Fox News’ […]
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Not knowing all the results on election night is normal. Here’s why.

Former President Donald Trump recently told his supporters that the United States should have a system to know results on election night. Calling for “quick, fair elections” at an Oct. 19 Pennsylvania rally, Trump said, “We spend all this money on machines, and then they announce, ‘We expect to have the results like seven days […]
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Ad Watch: One of Donald Trump’s closing ads uses deceptively edited news stories to mislead

When campaigns include on-screen citations in campaign ads, it’s intended to validate the arguments with reliable, nonpartisan sources. But in a closing ad from former President Donald Trump, on-screen quotes are deceptively edited to distort what the source material said.  The ad criticizes the economy under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and […]
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In ad, Harris says Trump would gut Medicare and preexisting condition coverage. Here are the facts

Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out her closing argument for president in a new TV ad that attacks former President Donald Trump on health care, entitlement programs and taxes. “What would a Trump second term look like? It’s all laid out in his Project 2025 agenda,” the narrator says. “He’d let insurance companies deny […]
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Fact-checking Kamala Harris’ ‘closing argument’ speech at the White House Ellipse

WASHINGTON — In a speech from the Ellipse adjoining the White House, one week from Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris drew a sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump, calling him a “petty tyrant” and repeating a line she has used in recent days, that she would begin her presidential term not with an […]
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Ad Watch: Fact-checking Donald Trump’s closing economic arguments

As Election Day nears, former President Donald Trump released an ad chock-full of economic claims. Many are misleading or wrong. Here’s a look at some of the claims in his Oct. 25 ad, “Never Quit.”  “When I first came into office, I cut taxes more than any other president.” This is a falsehood Trump said […]
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