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‘She should be alive today’ — Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump

‘She should be alive today’ — Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump

By COLLEEN LONG, AMANDA SEITZ and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Kamala Harris blasted Donald Trump as a threat to women’s freedoms and their very lives, warning in a speech in the battleground…

Secret Service report details communication failures preceding July assassination attempt on Trump

Secret Service report details communication failures preceding July assassination attempt on Trump

By REBECCA SANTANA, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service’s performance during a July campaign rally where former President Donald Trump was shot…

Hunter Biden’s sentencing on federal firearms charges delayed until December

Hunter Biden’s sentencing on federal firearms charges delayed until December

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden will be sentenced on felony firearms charges in December after the judge agreed Thursday to a delay requested by the defense. In June, President Joe Biden ‘s son was convicted in Delaware federal court of…

Rare Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills Hezbollah commander and more than a dozen others

Rare Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills Hezbollah commander and more than a dozen others

By BASSEM MROUE and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such…

Georgia State Election Board approves rule requiring hand count of ballots

Georgia State Election Board approves rule requiring hand count of ballots

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand after voting…

Stock market today: Wall Street closes its record-setting week mixed as FedEx slumps and Nike jumps

Stock market today: Wall Street closes its record-setting week mixed as FedEx slumps and Nike jumps

NEW YORK (AP) — A record-setting week for Wall Street closed on a quieter note Friday, as U.S. stocks drifted around the highs they hit during a worldwide rally the day before. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%…