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Fact-check fight: CBS News cuts candidates' mics after JD Vance objects to a moderator's correction
CBS News briefly muted the debate microphones of the two vice presidential candidates after Republican JD Vance objected to a fact-check made by Margaret Brennan, one of the network's moderators.
US 'Welcome Corps' helps resettle LGBTQ+ refugees fleeing crackdowns against gay people
A program that helps refugees resettle in the United States has expanded to include LGBTQ+ people who have been threatened and harassed in their home countries.
Some of the most notable quotes from the JD Vance-Tim Walz vice presidential debate
The debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz featured an often orderly, policy-focused and even civil dialogue between the two men seeking to serve as the next presidentโs second in command.
Vance and Walz keep it civil in a policy-heavy discussion: VP debate takeaways
Vice presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz have used their time on the debate stage to focus the bulk of their attacks not on one another, but on those at the top of their rival tickets.
Harris will tour Helene devastation in Georgia, North Carolina as storm scrambles campaign schedule
Vice President Kamala Harris will tour damage caused by Helene in Georgia and North Carolina, as the devastating and deadly storm has also roiled the political calendar just over a month from Election Day.
Trump rallies in Wisconsin's critical Democratic stronghold ahead of the vice presidential debate
Former President Donald Trump is spending the hours ahead of Tuesday nightโs vice presidential debate campaigning in Wisconsin.
Walz and Vance go in depth on policy while attacking each otherโs running mates in VP debate
In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each otherโs running mates and sought to shore up their campaigns' vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helene.
Vance criticized an infrastructure law as a candidate then embraced it as a senator
JD Vance once criticized a bipartisan 2021 law that invested billions in Americaโs crumbling infrastructure.
What to watch as JD Vance and Tim Walz meet for a vice presidential debate
The vice presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will bring together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the top of each ticket.
Why Tuesday's vice presidential debate could matter more than history suggests
In the matchup between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the coming debate between their running mates is the undercard.
Walz attends Michigan-Minnesota college football game before final prep for Tuesday's debate
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend a football game between the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota.
Walz has experience on a debate stage pinning down an abortion opponent's shifting positions
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz knows how to lean into abortion rights on the debate stage.
Vance exuded calm during a tense debate stage moment. Can he keep it up when he faces Walz?
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has a reputation for being informed, articulate and all but unflappable.
CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate
When JD Vance and Tim Walz take the stage for next week's vice presidential debate, CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderators, to fact-check each other.
Top Haitian official denounces false claim, repeated by Trump, that immigrants are eating pets
A strange moment in American politics surfaced at the U.N. General Assembly, brought up by a top Haitian official.
Harris makes Republican the star of her campaign to win North Carolina
Thereโs an unlikely star in Kamala Harrisโ fight to make history in North Carolina: Mark Robinson, the stateโs scandal-plagued candidate for governor.
Democrats try to censure Rep. Clay Higgins for slandering Haitians in social media post
A Republican congressman who slandered Haitian immigrants in a social media post is facing a censure push from Democrats.
What polls show about Tim Walz and JD Vance before Tuesday's VP debate
This yearโs vice presidential candidates both entered the spotlight this summer as relative political unknowns โ but as they prepare to address their biggest audience yet in next weekโs debate, Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance is less popular among voters than his Democratic rival, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Haitian group in Springfield, Ohio, files citizen criminal charges against Trump and Vance
The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community has invoked a private-citizen right to file charges against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance.
Election 2024 Latest: Trump makes first campaign stop in Georgia since feud with Kemp ended
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is making his first campaign visit to battleground Georgia since a feud between the former president and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp ended last month with Kemp endorsing Trump.
Euphoric two years ago, US anti-abortion movement is now divided and worried as election nears
Just two years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, thus ending the nationwide right to abortion.
The FBI says Iran tried to send hacked files to Democrats. It's another sign of foreign meddling
From Iranian hacking to Russian influence campaigns, the 2024 presidential campaign is encountering a spate of efforts by foreign adversaries to weaken faith in the outcome and potentially alter the results.
A news site that covers Haitian Americans is facing harassment over its post-debate coverage of Ohio
Journalists at a news site that covers issues facing the Haitian community in the United States say they've been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering the false story about immigrants eating the pets of people in Springfield, Ohio.
Residents of Springfield, Ohio, hunker down and pray for a political firestorm to blow over
In the quiet corners of Springfield, Ohio โ out of sight of the drumbeat of politicians, journalists, troopers and newly installed security cameras โ people are attempting to carry on.
What to know about the threats in Springfield, Ohio, after claims about Haitian immigrants
A small Ohio city has been inundated with hoax bomb threats since last weekโs presidential debate, when former President Donald Trump falsely accused members of Springfieldโs Haitian community of abducting and eating cats and dogs.
Vance touts deportation plan in Wisconsin city where tensions flared over refugee resettlement
Tensions flared last fall in western Wisconsinโs Chippewa Valley with news that several dozen refugees would be resettled in and around the city of Eau Claire, one of several midsize cities across the U.S. that has grappled with refugee resettlement.
Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lied about Haitians eating pets
Ohio officials have stationed state police at Springfield schools in response to bomb threats that officials say are mostly coming from overseas.
Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris resume campaigning after apparent assassination attempt
The presidential campaign is moving forward after a second apparent attempt on Donald Trumpโs life over the weekend.
Ohio state police to protect schools after furor over Haitian immigrants in Springfield
Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city that has endured dozens of violent threats in the wake of a national political furor over Haitian migrants.
Trump was on the links taking a breather from the campaign. Then the Secret Service saw a rifle
Sunday was to be a day of relative rest for Donald Trump, rare this deep into a presidential campaign.
Haitians in Ohio find solidarity at church after chaotic week of false pet-eating claims
For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray in their native Creole.
Vance doesn't back away from false claims about migrants in Ohio even amid threats to the community
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance isn't backing away from the false claims he and Donald Trump have been making that Haitians living in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets.
Trump and Vance are still stoking fears of Haitian migrants, as Ohio community faces bomb threats
Donald Trump and his running mate continue to disparage Haitian migrants in an Ohio community, further fueling false claims the Republicans have promoted even as the city has seen bomb threats and school evacuations and local officials called for a cooling of the anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Father of Ohio boy asks Trump not to invoke his son's death in immigration debate
The father of an Ohio boy killed last year when a Haitian immigrant driver hit a school bus is imploring Donald Trump and others to stop invoking his son's name in the debate about immigration.
Trump wouldn't say whether he'd veto a national ban even as abortion remains a top election issue
Former President Donald Trump says he would not sign a federal abortion ban, insisting that a ban would not pass Congress anyway.
The Latest: Harris and Trump attend 9/11 remembrance ceremonies as debate reaction rolls in
Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy.
Democrats go to new heights to spotlight Project 2025, flying banners over college football stadiums
Democrats have denounced the conservative Project 2025 blueprint in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversized book form as a convention prop and mentioned it frequently.
JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a 'fact of life' and calls for better security
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a โfact of life" and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.
That photo of people wearing 'Nebraska Walz's for Trump' shirts? They're distant cousins
A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesnโt recognize the people wearing โNebraska Walzโs for Trumpโ T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media.
Jimmy McCain, a son of the late Arizona senator, registers as a Democrat and backs Harris
One of John McCain's four children has registered as a Democrat and will vote for Kamala Harris for President.
Takeaways from AP's report on JD Vance and the Catholic postliberals in his circle of influence
Ohio Sen. JD Vanceโs 2019 conversion to Catholicism put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.
JD Vance's Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers
Ohio Sen. JD Vanceโs 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview.
This fall, Hollywood tries to balance box office with the ballot box
This fall, Hollywood will be trying โ with everything from swaggering historical epics like โGladiator IIโ to the high-seas adventure of โMoana 2โ โ to capture the nationโs attention at a time when much of it will be directed at the polls.
Is Usha Vance's Hindu identity an asset or a liability to the Trump-Vance campaign?
Usha Vance's presence in the Trump-Vance campaign has energized some Indian Americans, particularly Hindu American conservatives.
Trump has history sparking outrage for incidents around veterans even as military voters backed him
The reported altercation at Arlington National Cemetery involving former President Donald Trumpโs staff has come less than two weeks after Trump sparked outrage after he seemed to dismiss the Medal of Honor, the militaryโs highest decoration for service members.
The Latest: FBI says gunman in Trump assassination attempt saw โtarget of opportunityโ
A senior FBI official says the gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a โtarget of opportunity.โ.
More than 200 former Republican presidential staffers sign open letter endorsing Harris over Trump
More than 200 staffers for four previous Republican presidential nominees have endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris' White House bid.
Trump would veto legislation establishing a federal abortion ban, Vance says
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump wouldn't support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk.
Election Day in the US is approaching fast. Early voters have already started casting their ballots
It might feel like the presidential election is still a long way off, but itโs not.
Kamala Harris' racial and cultural firsts were onstage throughout the Democratic convention
On the night she became the first woman of Black and South Asian heritage to be a major partyโs nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris didnโt explicitly mention the racial and gender firsts she would set if elected to the White House.
Southern Arizona man arrested after alleged threats against Trump as candidate visited border
A southern Arizona man has been arrested for allegedly making death threats against Donald Trump on social media.
Trump speaks from behind bulletproof glass at first outdoor rally since his attempted assassination
Donald Trump spoke from behind bulletproof glass in North Carolina at his first outdoor rally since last month's attempted assassination.
Tim Walz is still introducing himself to voters. Here are things to know about Harris' VP pick
Kamala Harrisโ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will face a national audience when he headlines the third night of the Democratic National Convention.
Vance and Walz are still relatively unknown, but the governor is better liked, an AP-NORC poll finds
Tim Walz and JD Vance have vaulted themselves out of national obscurity as they hustle to introduce themselves to the country, but the senator from Ohio has had a rockier start than the Minnesota governor.
Tim Walz has described his family's IVF experience. But they used a different procedure
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president, is facing fresh scrutiny for how he's described his family's struggle with infertility.
The Latest: Trump promotes falsehoods while Harris is scrutinized for her shifting policy stances
The running mates of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are coming under greater scrutiny as the presidential election heats up.
VP nominee JD Vance to dissolve last vestige of mothballed charity, give its $11K to Appalachia
The Trump-Vance campaign says Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is preparing to dissolve whatโs left of the modest charitable effort he launched to help people in Appalachia after writing โHillbilly Elegy.โ.
Vance and Walz agree to a vice presidential debate on Oct. 1 hosted by CBS News
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance have agreed to debate each other on Oct. 1, setting up a matchup of potential vice presidents as early voting in some states gets underway for the general election.
News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print it
Three news outlets were recently leaked confidential material from inside the Trump campaign, but have chosen not to reveal any of the details about what they received.
Walz is making a 5-state dash for campaign cash, traveling solo for 1st time as Harris' running mate
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is holding his first solo events as Vice President Kamala Harrisโ running mate this week.
Democrats and Republicans descend on western Wisconsin with high stakes up and down the ballot
Vice President Kamala Harrisโ first campaign stop in Wisconsin with her new running mate this week put her in a critical part of a swing state.
Trump praised Minnesota Gov. Walz in 2020 for response to unrest over Floyd's murder, audio shows
Former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance have been hammering Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over his response to the violence that erupted in the aftermath of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
Vance and other Trump allies amplify a false claim about Harris' racial identity
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trumpโs running mate, is defending a false claim the former president made about Vice President Kamala Harrisโ racial identity.
Harris and Walz say they're 'joyful warriors,' narrowly avoid confrontation with Vance on tarmac
Vice President Kamala Harris has declared herself and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz โjoyful warriorsโ as they spent their first full day as running mates rallying Democrats across the Midwest.
Takeaways from a Harris-Walz ticket now that the stage is set for a reimagined presidential race
The stage is set for an election that was unimaginable mere weeks ago when President Joe Biden was atop the Democratic ticket.
Trump ramps up his defense of Vance after one of the rockiest VP rollouts in recent memory
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is in the rare position of having to defend someone elseโs controversial comments.
Vance praises a key leader behind Project 2025, a conservative effort Trump has disavowed
JD Vance, Donald Trumpโs running mate, has praised the vision of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts in the foreword of a forthcoming book.
Soda Pop Wars: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear apologizes for barb, but not to Sen. JD Vance
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has apologized for a comment about Ohio Sen. JD Vance earlier this week โ but not to Vance.
Clip resurfaces of Vance criticizing Harris for being 'childless,' testing Trump's new running mate
Comments Donald Trumpโs running mate JD Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Kamala Harrisโ leadership because she did not have biological children have resurfaced.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear endorses Harris amid speculation if he's in running to join the ticket
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris soon after she became the prohibitive favorite to lead the Democratic ticket.
JD Vance slams Kamala Harris during his solo campaign debut as the GOP vice presidential nominee
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has used his first solo campaign appearances to throw fresh barbs at Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump holds first rally after assassination attempt with his new running mate, Vance, by his side
Republican Donald Trump held 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.
2024 Election Latest: Trump accepts his GOP nomination on the convention's final night
Former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are expressing concerns about President Joe Biden's candidacy for the White House.
GOP vice presidential pick Vance revisits Appalachian roots as bitter divide over memoir lingers
Newly minted vice presidential nominee JD Vance built his speech to the Republican National Convention around his own Appalachian roots.
Photos: A visual look at the 2024 Republican National Convention
Thousands of Republican delegates have officially made Donald Trump their partyโs presidential nominee just days after he survived an assassination attempt.
Ukraine defense chief says his nation will find a way no matter who wins US election
Ukraine's defense minister said his country will find a way to withstand Russiaโs invading forces even if Donald Trump wins a second term, jeopardizings vital U.S. support for its defense.
What to watch as the Republican National Convention enters its third day in Milwaukee
As the third day of the Republican National Convention kicks off, Republicans are shifting the focus to national security and foreign policy in a bid to draw a stark contrast with Democratsโ handling of ongoing crises in Europe and the Middle East.
JD Vance charted a Trump-centric, populist path in Senate as he fought GOP establishment
Elevated into the national spotlight as former President Donald Trumpโs running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance has carved out a unique role in his short Senate career.
Kamala Harris and JD Vance have talked, but they're yet to agree on terms for a VP debate
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican JD Vance have had their first chat since the Ohio senator became the GOP vice presidential nominee.
2024 Election Latest: RNC enters second day with focus shifting to immigration
The Republican National Convention's second day is in full swing โ now with Donald Trump officially as its presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate.