July 21, 2024 5:06 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign has spent the last year-and-a-half viciously attacking Joe Biden, ridiculing his policies, mocking his fumbles and relishing a rematch they felt they were winning. But they have also spent weeks preparing for the possibility that Biden might exit the race, readying a bevy of attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris that they unleashed as soon as Biden made his stunning announcement Sunday that he would step aside. Biden soon after endorsed Harris, who was quickly winning support from Democrats to be the party’s nominee. The shakeup less than four months before Election Day lays out new challenges for Trump’s team, which had until recently been focused on contrasting the former president’s vigor and mental acuity with Biden’s.
July 21, 2024 5:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is moving swiftly to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their own party that he would be unable to defeat Donald Trump. Biden’s exit is a seismic shift to the presidential contest that upends both parties’ carefully honed plans for the race. Prominent Democratic elected officials, party leaders and political organizations have quickly lined up behind Harris since Biden announced he was dropping his reelection campaign. They’re trying to put weeks of intraparty drama over Biden’s candidacy behind them.
July 21, 2024 1:43 am
Multiple emergency responders were called out Friday afternoon to Speers Borough for reports of a vehicle that had left the roadway and went into the Monongahela River. Charleroi fire officials say one female was trapped in the vehicle. Rescue boats were called and a landing zone was set up. Crews worked what they said was a complicated rescue for approximately 30 minutes when the woman was extricated from the vehicle and loaded onto a boat, where she was transported down river to the landing zone. There’s been no word on the extent of her injuries. (Photo: Charleroi Fire Department Facebook Page)
July 20, 2024 6:15 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are not only split on whether President Joe Biden should quit his reelection race, they’re also not on the same page about what to do if he goes. Some Democrats want the president to tap Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him on the ticket. Other Democrats favor an open process at the party convention next month in Chicago to nominate their candidate, with Harris among those participating. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is among those who favor an open process, her thinking being that whoever emerges as the candidate will be in the strongest position to challenge Republican Donald Trump for the presidency.
July 20, 2024 6:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign released an update on the former president’s health Saturday, one week after he survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The memo, from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as Trump’s White House physician, offers new details on the nature of the GOP nominee’s injuries and the treatment he received in the immediate aftermath of the attack. According to Jackson, Trump sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear that came “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.” He also received a CT scan at the hospital.
July 20, 2024 4:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air after a faulty software update disrupted companies and services around the world and highlighted their dependence on just a handful of providers. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said the trouble with the update it issued that was affecting computers running Microsoft Windows was not a security incident or cyberattack. It said a fix was on the way. But hours later, the disruptions continued. Long lines formed at airports in the U.S., Europe and Asia as airlines lost access to check-in and booking services at a time when many travelers are heading away on summer vacations. Hospitals and doctors’ offices had problems with their appointment systems, and canceled surgeries.
July 20, 2024 4:06 am
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican Donald Trump will hold his first public campaign rally since he was injured in an assassination attempt, an event in the battleground state of Michigan alongside his new running mate. The joint rally with Ohio Sen. JD Vance on Saturday is the first for the pair since they officially became the GOP’s nominees at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Michigan is one of the crucial swing states expected to determine the outcome of the presidential election. With Vance by his side, Trump will deliver remarks in Grand Rapids, a historically Republican stronghold that has trended increasingly blue in recent elections.
July 20, 2024 4:03 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a week of campaign stops, interviews and a determined drive to confront Republican Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s efforts to revive his campaign have not softened the push for him to exit the race. Biden has weighty options before him this weekend. Almost 35 Democrats in Congress say it’s time for Biden to step aside — 12 coming forward on Friday alone — with more lawmakers expected to speak out in the days ahead. From his beach home in Delaware, Biden, 81, is isolating with a COVID infection, but the president’s team vows insisted he’s ready to return to the campaign trail next week to counter what he called a “dark vision” laid out by Trump.
July 20, 2024 4:01 am
Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has died. She was 74. The Democrat had represented her Houston-based district since 1995. Jackson Lee had previously had breast cancer and announced she had pancreatic cancer in June. Jackson Lee helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence, and to get Juneteenth recognized as a federal holiday. The holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free.
July 20, 2024 3:57 am
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court says that Israel’s presence in the Palestinian occupied territories is “unlawful” and called on it to end and for settlement construction to stop immediately. Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu quickly denounced the nonbinding opinion issued Friday by the 15-judge panel of the International Court of Justice. But the unprecedented and sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years ago could increase the country’s isolation. Friday’s decision is separate from South Africa’s case saying Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, a charge Israel vehemently denies.
