Pope says both Trump and Harris are ‘against life’
Asked his advice to Catholic voters in the coming U.S. presidential election, Pope Francis said they must choose the “lesser of two evils” because “both are against life” — Kamala Harris for her support for abortion rights, and Donald Trump for closing the door to immigrants.
The big city is vibrant. Birds there may be getting less so.
Some popular city dwellers appear to be losing their colorful allure, and not just the dirty birds.
Biden administration ratchets up tariffs on Chinese goods
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday announced measures that will add tariffs to Chinese products worth tens of billions of dollars, a move intended to protect U.S. factories and project a tough-on-China approach before the presidential election.
Threats unnerve Ohio city after Trump’s false claims
WASHINGTON — The dogs and cats of Springfield, Ohio, appear to be perfectly safe, but many of its people are finding their lives upended this week by political rumormongering that has resulted in multiple bomb threats, school closures and a decision to dispatch the FBI.
Biden slams Trump over false story of pet-eating immigrants: ‘This has to stop’
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden angrily denounced former President Donald Trump on Friday for continuing to traffic in false rumors about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, unfounded tales that have roiled a community in Ohio and inflamed the presidential campaign.
When political memes take on a lie of their own
By the time the Arizona Republican Party’s digital billboards urging Phoenix residents to “EAT LESS KITTENS” and “Vote Republican!” went up on Tuesday, the story they referred to had already been widely debunked.
Harris, after a debate success, confronts a battleground ‘game of inches’
PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris’ strong debate performance has sent her campaign surging into the final weeks of the race with newfound confidence, sharper ideas about how to convince the country that former President Donald Trump is unfit for office, and a host of questions about what comes next.
First private spacewalk in SpaceX capsule achieves new milestone
Two private astronauts moved outside their spacecraft early Thursday morning, conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk.
What to know about the major wildfires burning in the West
Fueled by warm weather and gusty winds, more than 70 large fires were blazing across the United States on Wednesday. Most of them are in the West, where tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes to escape encroaching flames.
ABC’s matter-of-fact moderators built factual guardrails around Trump
PHILADELPHIA — Fifteen minutes into Tuesday’s debate, former President Donald Trump was delivering a circuitous answer about his stance on abortion rights when he made a statement with no basis in reality: that a governor had condoned executing babies after birth.
A temporary truce in the political wars as Harris, Trump and Biden mark 9/11
NEW YORK — Barely 10 hours earlier, they had been at each other’s throats, calling one another a “disgrace,” “horrible” and “grossly incompetent.” Then they put down their political swords on Wednesday morning and stood just a few feet apart to mark one of the most solemn moments on the modern American calendar.
Harris and Trump bet on their own sharply contrasting views of America
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s America is a grim place, a nation awash in marauding immigrants stealing American jobs and eating American cats and dogs, a country devastated economically, humiliated internationally and perched on the cliff’s edge of an apocalyptic World War III.
Harris outwitted Trump, but will that sway undecided voters?
Being drunk on hubris and narcissism is the surest way to lose a confrontation to a clever, clearheaded opponent. It’s a story that’s been repeated throughout history.
How false claims about dead cats became Trump campaign fodder
A falsehood that migrants have killed wild animals and household pets for food ricocheted around the internet this week, vaulting from fringe social media posts to a Trump campaign talking point in a matter of days.
PGA tour meets with Saudi fund in hopes of getting closer to deal
More than a year after the PGA Tour announced plans to combine forces with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund’s upstart LIV Golf league, the two sides met in New York on Tuesday in hopes of — finally — making headway on getting to a deal.
In booth, Brady has much to learn but much promise to build on
It is sort of endearing that the man whom many consider to be the greatest NFL player ever and who has a 10-year, $375 million contract to talk about football games came across as nervous to open his Fox broadcasting career.
Poverty increased in 2023 as prices rose and pandemic aid programs expired
The nation’s poverty rate rose last year even as incomes improved, the government reported on Tuesday, reflecting higher prices and the expiration of the last pandemic relief programs.
Harris put Trump on defensive, and kept him there
Vice President Kamala Harris took the debate stage Tuesday night, shook the hand of former President Donald Trump and then spent the next 90 minutes making every effort to burrow under his skin, hammering him over his criminal convictions, his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the size of his rally crowds and the foreign and military leaders who she said have called him a “disgrace.”
Almost 50 million Americans have had an Obamacare plan since 2014
WASHINGTON — Nearly 50 million Americans have been covered by health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces since they opened a decade ago, according to tax data analyzed by the Treasury Department and published Tuesday.
The sudden death of the Gaudreau brothers
On the narrow shoulder of County Route 551, a two-lane road in the heart of rural Salem County, New Jersey, a memorial appears suddenly among the fields of corn and soybeans. Bunched together are bouquets of flowers, miniature flags and dozens of hockey sticks: an incongruous signpost to a tragedy that shattered two extended families and left a community bereft.
