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Are minorities voting in US increasingly like ‘normies’?

Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states. “Never seen anything like this in thirty years,” said California Republican consultant Mike Madrid in an X post, referencing the sharp increase in Republican registration among California’s minority voters, ...

Trump makes more false claims about FEMA as he surveys NC storm damage

SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has been stymied by armed harassment and a deluge of misinformation, but he said he was not concerned that the aftermath of Hurricane Helene ...

Israel targets Hezbollah-run financial institution for strikes

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel said late Monday it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before and which it says uses customers' deposits to finance attacks against Israel. At least 15 branches of Al-Qard Al-Hasan were ...

Israel will target Hezbollah’s financial arm, strikes Beirut

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel's military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah's financial arm and will attack a "large number of targets" in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut's southern suburbs about an hour later. Evacuation warnings affected southern ...

Freedom of speech essential, even when it’s uncomfortable

Some Dickinson County politicians seem to be struggling with the idea of free speech. In August, the Dickinson County Fair Board continued its anti-speech policies by forbidding the political parties from distributing signs and demanded one of the vendors remove a political sign affixed to ...