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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is facing allegations of plagiarism after numerous passages from the Democratic presidential nominee’s 2009 book “Smart on Crime” were discovered to closely resemble — or perfectly match — wording from other sources.Harris, then San Francisco’s district attorney, wrote the book promoting a reform-minded approach to prosecuting crimes alongside ghostwriter Joan O’C. Hamilton — who told The Post when contacted Monday that she was surprised to learn about the alleged copying.Conservative activist Christopher Rufo published the allegations Monday and credited an investigation by Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber — with Rufo posting screenshots on X...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ past statements in support of renaming Columbus Day resurfaced Monday, prompting the Trump campaign and others to accuse her of trying to “cancel American traditions.”During the Democratic nominee’s failed 2020 presidential campaign and vice presidential tenure, she repeatedly said in public remarks that she was supportive of labeling the federal holiday “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”“Count me in,” Harris told a voter who asked during a February 2019 campaign stop in Portsmouth, NH, whether she would change the name of the day via federal law.“People did not want to deal and accept and, most importantly, admit that we...

Kamala Harris will sit down with Fox News‘ Bret Baier for her first formal sit-down interview with the network ever.The interview will be conducted in Pennsylvania and will air on Special Report with Bret Baier at 6 p.m. ET. Baier is the network’s chief political anchor and executive editor of the newscast.Harris has upped her media appearances, having sat down with Stephen Colbert, 60 Minutes‘ Bill Whitaker and Howard Stern, among other personalities. But she’s also been urged to make an appearance on Fox News.Earlier in the day, Fox News will air a town hall with Donald Trump, moderated by...

President Joe Biden praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for doing a “great job” dealing with Hurricanes Helene and Milton on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris criticized him in harsh terms.On Monday, Harris accused DeSantis of “playing political games” after NBC News reported that he had not been taking her calls ahead of Milton making landfall.***snip*** On Tuesday, Biden was asked about DeSantis and whether he was being “cooperative” as both Florida and the federal government brace for Milton.“The governor of Florida has been cooperative. He said he’s gotten all that he...

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Hurricane Helene makes the ILA action 'simply unacceptable.' Florida’s Governor is launching a potential end-run around a work stoppage by the International Longshoremen’s Association, saying cargo ships bringing imports that aren’t being offloaded can bring their goods to Florida.“There are ships that have nothing to do with these negotiations. They may need a place to be able to come and we just want to send the message: You can come to the state of Florida,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said during a media availability in Anna Maria.The Governor said the Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard “will be deployed to...

CNNThe Miami-Dade Police Department placed an officer on administrative leave Sunday after Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill was detained prior to the start of the season-opening game.On Sunday morning, just hours before kickoff, Hill was detained for a short time by police after a traffic incident, the team said on social media. Miami-Dade Police Department Director Stephanie V. Daniels said Sunday that an investigation has begun into the incident and one of the officers involved is being placed on administrative duties. A second Dolphins player said he was also handcuffed when trying to discuss the situation with officers at the...

Sen. Josh Hawley said he’s been informed by whistleblowers that most of the agents assigned to protect Donald Trump during the assassination attempt at his Butler, Pa., rally in July were Homeland Security personnel who had minimal protective training. Instead of having dozens of Secret Service agents on his detail for the July 13 rally, Trump was mostly guarded by Homeland Security agents who only received online webinar training before the event, Hawley (R-Mo.) said in an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Tuesday evening.“A two-hour, online webinar. And I’m told that half the time, the sounds to the webinar didn’t...

COCHISE COUNTY, Az. (TND) — A man accused of threatening to kill the Republican presidential nominee and former president was taken into custody.Cochise County Sheriff's Office confirmed over the phone that Ronald Lee Syvrud was taken into custody without incident.This comes after authorities posted Thursday morning that they were looking for Syvrud due to "suspicious activity."The National Desk learned that. authorities were looking for Syvrud because they believed he made threats against Donald Trump.Cochise County Sheriff's Office confirmed that they identified a threat that stated a presidential candidate would be killed.Syvrud, who has several outstanding warrants, was sought by authorities...

Republicans bashed Vice President Kamala Harris after her plane circled an extra 15 minutes so she could watch second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s speech.Emhoff was one of the star speakers on the second night of the DNC, speaking ahead of former first lady Michelle Obama and former President Barack Obama. Harris was flying at the time of his speech, coming back from a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to CNN, Air Force Two circled the airport for 15 extra minutes so she could watch her husband’s speech uninterrupted.

“PBS NewsHour” senior correspondent Judy Woodruff issued an apology Wednesday after her comments about former President Trump’s role in Gaza cease-fire talks sparked criticism.“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the prime minister of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because … it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” Woodruff said while broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention on Monday.****snip*** In a post on social platform X, Woodruff said Wednesday she wanted to clarify her comments. “As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office won’t oppose former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his upcoming sentencing in his Manhattan criminal case, prosecutors said in a letter Monday, potentially punting the ex-president’s sentencing until after the election as he appeals an upcoming ruling over whether the verdict against him should be thrown out. Trump has asked for the sentencing in his criminal case, now scheduled for September 18, to be postponed until after the November election, arguing he should have time to appeal a ruling set to come out on September 16 over whether the verdict against him should be...

The Secret Service has made another concerning security mishap while protecting former President Donald Trump. During the former president's campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday afternoon, a female Secret Service agent allegedly left her position without telling the site agent - the individual in charge of security. The agent departed her post just minutes before Trump's motorcade arrived at the venue to breastfeed her child in a side room meant for agency work, RealClearPolitics first reported. When the site agent conducted a last-minute walkthrough of the route Trump would take, they noticed the agent's absence and later discovered...

CNN — The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the ongoing mpox outbreak in Africa a global health emergency. WHO convened its emergency mpox committee amid concerns that a deadlier strain of the virus, clade Ib, had reached four previously unaffected provinces in Africa. This strain had previously been contained to the Democratic Republic of Congo.Independent experts on the committee met virtually Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the severity of the outbreak. After that consultation, he announced Wednesday that he had declared a public health emergency of international concern — the highest level of alarm under...

Vice President Kamala Harris is behind former President Donald Trump in both a recent national poll and one conducted in the key swing state of Georgia. A CNBC/All-America Economic survey of 1,001 U.S. adults shows that Harris is 2 points behind her Republican rival in the 2024 election (48 percent to 46). The results are within the margin of error, and Trump's lead is unchanged from the previous poll in July when President Joe Biden was still in the race (45 percent to 43).Elsewhere, an AARP Research survey of 1,254 likely voters in Georgia showed that Trump is beating Harris...

MILWAUKEE — The Trump campaign on Wednesday said it would not commit to a date for a vice presidential debate, suggesting it was still uncertain who would be on the Democratic ticket. “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention,” senior Trump campaign adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement. “To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate.”——— snip———-…. the Trump campaign is seizing on the hand-wringing among Democrats about...

Ahead of former President Trump’s rally on Saturday, local police informed the Secret Service that they didn’t have the manpower to station a patrol car outside the building a gunman later climbed to shoot at the presidential candidate, The Washington Post reported. District Attorney Richard Goldinger of Butler County, Pa., the town where the Trump rally took place, said the Secret Service “was informed that the local police department did not have manpower to assist with securing that building.” The Post had Goldinger’s account confirmed by a Secret Service official familiar with the incident. The Secret Service official told the...

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