By Fredreka Schouten, Priscilla Alvarez and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris each unleashed a new wave of television ads Tuesday as they race to secure an advantage in a presidential campaign dramatically altered in recent weeks. In its first major ad blitz targeting Harris, the Trump
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. will pay for flu shots for farmworkers to try to prevent bird flu from getting worse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday announced it will spend $5 million to buy seasonal flu shots for livestock workers. Another $5 million will go towards promoting
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe provided new details about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering forceful testimony at a Senate hearing about the agency’s failures earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania. But at the joint hearing of the
Continue ReadingCNN By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe provided new details about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering forceful testimony at a Senate hearing about the agency’s failures earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania. But at the joint hearing of
Continue ReadingCNN By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe provided new details about the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on Tuesday, delivering forceful testimony at a Senate hearing about the agency’s failures earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania. But at the joint hearing of
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Authorities in Ireland say two men were killed when their helicopter crashed into a hog house in the central part of the country. The accident took place near Killucan in County Westmeath at about 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Authorities say the men were in their 40s when their chopper crashed into a
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The director of Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump term, has stepped down amid intense criticism including from the former president. Paul Dans, a former top adviser in Trump’s administration, steered Project 2025 as it carved a leading role in shaping
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three anti-abortion activists have been sentenced to three years of probation in federal court for their 2021 blockade of a Tennessee clinic. James Zastrow, Eva Zastrow and Paul Place were ordered on Tuesday to serve the first 90 days of their sentences on home detention. They were convicted in
Continue ReadingCNN By Tamara Qiblawi, Tamar Michaelis, Niamh Kennedy and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Beirut (CNN) — Israel says its strike in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday killed Hezbollah’s most senior military commander, who it blamed for a deadly attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said “Israeli Air Force fighter jets eliminated
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Anti-government activists across Venezuela are toppling giant statues of Hugo Chávez to express their anger over the alleged stealing of an election by the late president’s handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro. In the seaside city of La Guaira, outside the capital Caracas, twisted rebar and chunks of concrete lie
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer EAUBONNE, France (AP) — United States discus thrower Valarie Allman practiced her form on a quiet field. Weightlifter Mary Theisen-Lappen took instruction from her coach inside a training room with other American weightlifters. Breaker Jeffrey Louis, who goes by B-boy name Bboy Jeffro, moved his head and shoulders to a hip-hop beat
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Social Security Administration is telling some clients of disgraced Kentucky attorney Eric Conn that they no longer owe back money to the government. Conn was charged in a $500 million disability scheme nearly a decade ago. Hundreds of his former clients lost their benefits after his arrest. Some
Continue ReadingAP National Writer PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee spent the night before perhaps the biggest gymnastics meet of their lives restless. There was a tension in the air. They’d all been in the Olympic spotlight before, experiences that left them with medals but also the kind of scars — be
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Ports Authority says it moved a record number of automobiles across its docks in the 2024 fiscal year, bringing it neck-and-neck with the top U.S. auto port. Georgia Ports CEO Griff Lynch said Tuesday that 830,000 automobile imports and exports moved through the Port of Brunswick in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jon Gruden is asking the entire Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider a decision by a three-justice panel to throw out a lawsuit he filed against the NFL over emails leaked to the media before he resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders in 2021. Attorneys for Gruden filed
Continue ReadingCAZENOVIA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a New York state trooper recruit was arrested after he attacked a trooper and tried to grab his gun while attending a training academy last week. State police say the 22-year-old was at an upstate training academy on July 23 when he told troopers he wanted to drop out
Continue ReadingAP National Writer Instead of reexamining a drug-fighting law that Olympic leaders don’t like, a bipartisan group in Congress is proposing a new bill that would hold back funding for the World Anti-Doping Agency if it doesn’t do its job better. Republicans and Democrats joined in rolling out a bill that would make permanent the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Much has changed about the 2024 presidential election in the United States over the last month. Now that President Joe Biden is out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris is in, former President Donald Trump is having to pivot his campaign to a new challenger. Trump had honed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump in an interview on Tuesday claimed Vice President Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, “doesn’t like Jewish people” and seemed to agree with a radio host who called second gentleman Doug Emhoff “a crappy Jew.” Trump, in an interview on WABC radio
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