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Michigan GOP candidate’s ad aimed at Black voters has wrong election date

Tom Barrett, a Republican vying for a Michigan congressional seat, is facing calls for an investigation after an ad from his campaign incorrectly listed Election Day as Nov. 6 in a Black-owned Michigan newspaper.In a complaint filed Sunday with the state attorney general, the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus accused Barrett’s campaign of misleading Black voters to suppress turnout — something the group of Black state lawmakers said could violate a Michigan law that prohibits intentionally sprea...
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Harris, Trump converge on battleground state of Pennsylvania

Follow live updates on the 2024 election and Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump from our reporters on the campaign trail and in Washington.Policy positions: We’ve collected Harris’s and Trump’s stances on the most important issues — abortion, economic policy, immigration and more.Presidential polls: Check out how Harris and Trump stack up, according to The Washington Post’s presidential polling averages of seven battleground states. We’ve identified eight possible pat...
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Coast Guard rescues boat captain clinging to cooler after Hurricane Milton

A fishing boat captain headed into the water off the Gulf Coast to make repairs on his vessel hours before Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida.He ended up stranded in the storm, which made landfall on Wednesday night — battling waves up to 25 feet high and whipping winds of up to 90 mph.The U.S. Coast Guard spotted him — about 30 miles from shore off Longboat Key, Fla., clinging to a cooler in the water.“This man survived in a nightmare scenario for even the most experienced mariner,” Lt. Cmdr...
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Florida plans Hurricane Milton recovery; 2 million remain without power

Florida endured a second day of recovery and rescue operations after Hurricane Milton swept through the state late Wednesday, unleashing wind, rain and tornadoes, and pummeling communities still cleaning up after Hurricane Helene struck two weeks ago. At least 17 people were killed by Milton and its aftermath. During a briefing Friday, President Joe Biden said the damage from Milton alone is expected to cost nearly $50 billion — but vowed to storm victims that his administration would do “everyt...
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Milton shocked Florida with deadly tornadoes well ahead of landfall

The tornadoes added a sense of chaos and danger to the final hours of storm preparation, including along parts of Florida’s Atlantic coast far from expected landfall, where residents were not expecting to see storm impacts until late Wednesday or early Thursday — if at all.In what may prove to be some of the first fatalities from Milton, five people died when two tornadoes touched down Wednesday afternoon in St. Lucie County on Florida’s central Atlantic coast, St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pea...
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Nevada Republican convicted of taking money meant for officer memorial

A Nevada politician was found guilty of taking money meant for a memorial honoring a police officer killed in the line of duty and spending it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding.A federal jury on Thursday convicted Michele Fiore, a Republican justice of the peace and former Las Vegas City Council member, of six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Fiore, 54, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 6 and faces up to 140 years in prison — 20 for each...
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Two Argentina towns face a torrent of harassment. The culprit: Parrots.

Each day as the sun begins to set over Pedro Luro and Hilario Ascasubi, thousands of the vibrant green-, yellow- and red-feathered parrots swoop into town. Their screeching echoes long into the night, while their droppings blanket streets and parks. But the real disaster, according to TAXI FM Director Ramón Álvarez, is where these birds choose to roost: on the towns’ power lines.“It’s thousands and thousands of birds, and they’re not only biting through the cables, but their massive weight is al...
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No hazardous chlorine levels found in Atlanta after fire at nearby plant, authorities say

“Our teams are working around-the-clock to respond to the ongoing situation at our facility in Conyers, Georgia,” the statement on the BioLab website said. “We continue to work collaboratively with first responders and local authorities and have deployed specialized teams from out of state to the site to bolster and support their efforts. We are all focused on remediating the situation as rapidly as possible.”Videos shared online show greenish-orange plumes of gas billowing out of the Conyers fa...
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Bad Bunny launches billboard campaign against Puerto Rico’s ruling party

The unsigned ads spotted hanging over some of Puerto Rico’s most-transited routes soon fueled a frenzy of headlines and gossip — which only crescendoed after Bad Bunny, one of the biggest superstars in the world, announced he had bought them to show his love for his homeland. His ads — some of which said that voting for PNP was voting for corruption — were the latest twist in a long-brewing spat that has once again placed the musician front and center of the island’s politics.“We’re so used to s...
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OceanGate’s Titan prototype was ‘amateurish,’ expert says at hearing

The CEO of a submersible manufacturing company testified Friday that he checked out a prototype of OceanGate’s Titan submersible four years before the vessel imploded near the Titanic shipwreck — killing all five people aboard — and found it “amateurish.”Patrick Lahey, co-founder of Triton Submarines, told U.S. Coast Guard officials that he took a tour of the prototype in March 2019 at the invitation of OceanGate crew members. Although they were well-intentioned, he said, their “contraption” was...
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Kentucky governor bans conversion therapy, setting up legal battle

“Kentucky cannot possibly reach its full potential unless it is free from discrimination by or against any citizen — unless all our people feel welcome in our spaces, free from unjust barriers and supported to be themselves,” said Beshear, the only Democratic governor of a Southern state.Previous attempts to ban conversion therapy in Kentucky have stalled or failed in the state legislature. Opponents have argued that prohibiting the practice tramples parental rights and infringes on freedom of s...
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Why does the internet love baby hippo Moo Deng? There’s a science to it.

Her skin is always moist and her cheeks pink and peachy. She’s usually seen nibbling at her caretakers’ knees, running around her pen — belly rolls jiggling — or opening her mouth in an apparent scream.It’s Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become the internet’s latest obsession.Since she was born in July in Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Moo Deng — whose name roughly translates to “bouncing pig” or “pork patty” — has reached viral stardom. So far, she’s been meme-ified by the Utah Jazz N...
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What to know about the possible assassination attempt at Trump’s golf course

A man was charged Monday with two gun-related crimes after he allegedly pointed a rifle toward a golf course where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was playing in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday. The incident is being investigated by the FBI as another potential assassination attempt against the former president. Trump was not harmed. Trump and President Joe Biden spoke by phone Monday afternoon, according to two people familiar with the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity...
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Indigenous Colombian coca company challenges Coca-Cola’s trademark

Coca-Cola might be the world’s most recognizable brand. But what would it be with only half the name?An Indigenous business in Colombia, acting, it says, “in defense of the coca leaf,” is asking the government to revoke the beverage giant’s century-old trademark on the word “coca.”The coca plant, which is used to produce not only Coca-Cola but also cocaine, is a major legal crop in several South American countries.“This is as if David and Goliath were battling over colonialism,” David Curtidor,...
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Trump’s false claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets invokes racist trope

In response to questions from The Washington Post, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said people in Springfield were experiencing “very real suffering and tragedies” that have been “largely ignored by the liberal mainstream media until now.” A spokesman for Vance did not respond to requests for comment; earlier, a spokesperson told The Post that Vance’s office had received calls from Springfield residents with “concerns over crime and traffic accidents.” Spokespeople for Trump and Vanc...
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Colorado judge frees paramedic convicted in Elijah McClain’s 2019 death

A judge on Friday reduced the sentence of a paramedic who had been convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man whose death after being forcibly detained ushered in a sweeping police accountability law in Colorado.Peter Cichuniec, 51, was sentenced in March to five years in prison after a jury found him guilty of criminally negligent homicide for injecting McClain with a fatal dose of ketamine, a potent sedative, after police stopped him while he was walking home. Cic...
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Is the new statue of the late Queen Elizabeth II really that ... bad?

In the grounds’ Parterre Garden, a sculpture of Queen Elizabeth — clad in a headscarf, tartan skirt and quilted vest — now stands next to a previously erected statue of her husband, Prince Philip. The bronze couple, both crafted by Belfast-based artist Anto Brennan, look over a patch of pansies with two of the queen’s beloved corgis at their feet.“It looks nothing like her, but [to] be fair it’s not like there are images of her face all over the place,” one person remarked dryly on Reddit, mixin...
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