Politics

Trump’s exaggerated claim that Pennsylvania has 500,000 fracking jobs

“And there’s very few states that benefit like you do from fracking. I mean, you have 500,000 jobs.” — Former president Donald Trump, remarks at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Sept. 29 “Kamala has said repeatedly, she wants to ban…

Early voting in Wisconsin slowed by label printing problems

MADISON, Wis. — Early voting kicked off in this battleground state this week with computer delays and long lines. Voters waited as long as three hours Tuesday to cast ballots in West Bend, a city of about 32,000, city clerk…

Donald Trump fixates on Harris aide Ian Sams, who goads him on Fox News

In the final three weeks of the presidential race, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have attacked one particular foe more than three dozen times: a little-known Kamala Harris aide named Ian Sams. The feud with Sams, a bespectacled…

Tucker Carlson says father Trump will give ‘spanking’ at rowdy Georgia rally

DULUTH, Ga. — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Wednesday night with a dark metaphor, bashing Vice President Kamala Harris and declaring that “dad” was coming home to mete out discipline….

A GOP operative accused a monastery of voter fraud. Nuns fought back.

Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night. The day before, a Republican operative in the battleground state falsely suggested to his nearly 58,000 followers…

American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show

A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s…