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Earthquake shakes Hawaii’s Big Island as storms loom in the Pacific Officials said there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami was expected. A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the Big Island of Hawaii on Thursday as officials tracked two rapidly developing storms in the Pacific. The temblor was reported nine miles south of Continue reading

CHICAGO — This is a very different Democratic National Convention than the one delegates had anticipated just a few weeks ago when President Joe Biden was at the top of the ticket. But the change in their party’s nominee to Vice President Kamala Harris — and the historic nature of her run — has generated Continue reading

Bill Clinton jokes in DNC speech that he’s ‘still younger’ than Trump. On the third day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton took the stage. During his speech, Clinton’s main talking points included touting that 50 million jobs had been created under Democrats since the end of the Continue reading

NEW YORK — New York state lawyers urged an appeals court late Wednesday to uphold Donald Trump’s nearly $500 million civil fraud judgment, arguing there’s “overwhelming evidence” to support a judge’s finding that the former president lied for years about his wealth as he built his real estate empire. In paperwork filed ahead of oral Continue reading

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week, but remains at healthy levels Jobless claims rose by 4,000 to 232,000 for the week of Aug. 17, the Labor Department reported Thursday Slightly more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but the number of claims remains at healthy levels. Jobless claims Continue reading

My wife Diana and I met Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff in the summer of 2015, when Harris and I were both preparing to run for Senate. And by preparing to run, I mean traveling the country fundraising, because the amount of money it takes to run for the U.S. Senate requires you to spend Continue reading

In Walz’s hometown, locals at DNC watch party cheer on their former football coach Show Caption Hide Caption Tim ‘coach’ Walz defines himself to voters, gives America pep talk Minnesota Gov. MANKATO, Minn. – Krista Goettl, Mankato West High School class of 2002, remembered watching Mr. Walz run classroom to classroom to check in on Continue reading

CHICAGO (AP) — Kamala Harris summoned Americans on Thursday to reject political division and instead chart what she called a “new way forward,” as she accepted her party’s nomination while blending biography with warnings about electing Donald Trump again to the White House. Taking the stage to a thunderous standing ovation as she closed out Continue reading

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Backstage at a celebration of Indigenous peoples in Mexico City’s sprawling central square, Carlos CGH traced his fingers across a black and red “gabán,” which is similar to a poncho. The garment, native to the Triqui people in western Oaxaca, is a source of pride for the 24-year-old rapper and reserved Continue reading

The gunman who nearly killed former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month used encrypted messaging accounts on multiple platforms based in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to a House representative appointed to a congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., a retired Green Beret appointed to Continue reading