CNN By Eric Bradner, Arit John, Daniel Strauss and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — On a night Republicans projected bravado around their 2024 presidential ticket, Donald Trump started his prime-time address by displaying a rare vulnerability. In his speech capping off the Republican National Convention as he accepted the party’s nomination for a third consecutive
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Bradner, Arit John, Daniel Strauss and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — On a night Republicans projected bravado around their 2024 presidential ticket, Donald Trump started his prime-time address by displaying a rare vulnerability. In his speech capping off the Republican National Convention as he accepted the party’s nomination for a third consecutive
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, Arit John, Daniel Strauss and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — On a night Republicans projected bravado around their 2024 presidential ticket, Donald Trump started his prime-time address by displaying a rare vulnerability. In his speech capping off the Republican National Convention as he accepted the party’s nomination for a third consecutive election,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — For those conservative voters long turned off by former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, his somewhat softened tone in accepting the Republican nomination Thursday night was a welcome relief. “He’s much improved,” said Dave Struthers, a 57-year-old farmer from Collins, Iowa, after watching the beginning of Trump’s speech in the basement
Continue ReadingCNN By CNN Staff (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday with the most dishonest speech of the four-day Republican National Convention, making more than 20 false claims by CNN’s count. Many of the false claims were ones Trump has made before, some of them for years. They spanned
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Donald Trump, somber and bandaged, accepted the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday at the Republican National Convention in a speech that described in detail the assassination attempt that could have ended his life just five days earlier before laying out a sweeping populist agenda, particularly on immigration. The 78-year-old former president, known best for his bombast and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump were at the Republican National Convention on its last night. Their presence Thursday was a rare appearance in support of former President Donald Trump’s third bid for president. The former first lady and the former president’s eldest daughter have largely steered clear of the campaign trail this year,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UMM AL-KHAIR, West Bank (AP) — First came the Israeli military bulldozers, which tore down a quarter of the homes in the West Bank Bedouin village of Umm al-Khair. Then came the settler attacks. In the aftermath, dozens of people were left homeless and without consistent access to water and electricity. Several were
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government late Friday announced a nationwide curfew across Bangladesh and ordered the deployment of military forces to maintain order following days of deadly clashes over the allocation of government jobs. The announcement was made by Obaidul Quader, the general secretary of the ruling Awami League
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A San Bernardino County man has been arrested for owning an illegal weapon and ammunition. On Tuesday, deputies from the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station coordinated with the California State Parole Fugitive Task Force in a joint operation to locate wanted felons. California State Parole was actively looking for Dakota Blaise-Parra, a 25-year-old resident of Twentynine
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has a delicate balance to strike: how to weigh the mounting opposition to President Joe Biden continuing his campaign with his loyalty to his former running mate. In recent days, Obama has taken calls from congressional leaders, Democratic governors and key donors in which he has
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, a majority of Democrats think his vice president would make a good president herself. A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Kamala Harris
Continue ReadingAssociated Press There’s a home movie theater with orange walls and plush recliners at the top of a steep hill on Matthew Rantanen’s ranch in Southern California. But on a recent afternoon, people weren’t flocking to the room to watch a movie or to escape the scorching heat, they were shining a beam of light
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Iranian-made drone sent by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Tel Aviv on Friday, leaving one person dead and at least 10 wounded in the group’s first lethal strike into Israel. The aerial strike rumbled through the center of the city near the U.S. Embassy, causing shrapnel to rain
Continue ReadingHard-line President Alexander Lukashenko has led Belarus for 30 years and intends to seek yet another term in office. The former collective farm manager has harshly stifled the opposition with arrests, beatings and long prison terms. He also has antagonized the West with human rights abuses and a close relationship with Moscow. Much of the
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef, Jennifer Hansler, Eyad Kourdi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Israel authorities are investigating the circumstances and potential security lapses around a deadly drone blast in Tel Aviv that killed one man and injured at least 10 others on Friday. The attack was claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in what the Iranian
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer EA Sports College Football 25, among the most highly anticipated sports video games of all time, has flooded the market as gamers who waited more than a decade for the franchise’s next installment rush to play. The game officially launched Friday, with EA Sports increasing its server capacity ahead of time to
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer EA Sports College Football 25, among the most highly anticipated sports video games of all time, has flooded the market as gamers who waited more than a decade for the franchise’s next installment rush to play. The game officially launched Friday, with EA Sports increasing its server capacity ahead of time to
Continue ReadingBy Associated Press (CNN) — Employees of the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the US repeatedly sexually abused and harassed children in their care for at least eight years, the Justice Department said Thursday, alleging a shocking litany of offenses that took place as the company amassed billions of dollars in government
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — For three decades, European leaders have come and gone by the dozens, but Alexander Lukashenko remains in absolute control of Belarus. His longevity is due to a mixture of harshly silencing all dissent, reverting to Soviet-style economic controls and methods, and cozying up to Russia, even as he sometimes
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