South Carolina State

Las Vegas, NV

Joe Biden addressing the NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas Tuesday. (Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current) In President Joe Biden’s first campaign event since the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, he called for the deescalation of divisive political rhetoric while maintaining that a second Trump term would be a threat to democracy.

At Las Vegas NAACP event, Biden refuses to let up on Trump

Michigan State

Lansing, MI

Lansing Mayor Andy Schor speaks out against Project 2025 and the Trump-Vance campaign. | Kyle Davidson. As Republicans gather in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, Democrats across the nation are continuing to sound the alarm on Project 2025, a collection of far-right policy proposals pitched as a transition plan for a conservative presidential administration.

Michigan Dems warn about Project 2025 and reproductive health care in a 2nd Trump term

Iowa State

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird speaks on stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird told the crowd at the Republican National Convention Tuesday that electing former...

Iowa AG Brenna Bird tells RNC supporting Trump means supporting law enforcement

South Dakota State

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem used her Monday evening speech at the Republican National Convention to praise former President Donald Trump’s...

Trump ‘honored the Constitution,’ Noem says in convention speech

Utah State

Milwaukee, WI

The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kicks off on July 15, 2024. (Courtesy of Chayse Leavitt) Chayse Leavitt, 18, said he was watching former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler Pennsylvania live from his home in Smithfield on Saturday when he heard the gunfire. Leavitt — the youngest...

Utah RNC delegates: Trump assassination attempt has revved Republicans

Butler, PA

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is shown covered by U.S. Secret Service agents after an incident during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Thomas Matthew Crooks took his father’s AR-15, climbed a building near former President Donald Trump’s Saturday rally...

The amazing thing about the Trump shooting is that America was surprised at all

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Pennsylvania State

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Bucks County Beacon

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Coral Gables, FL

Edmond Thorne

Tragic End for South Florida Hispanic Building Tycoon Sergio Pino. Fort Lauderdale, FL - In a shocking turn of events, prominent South Florida homebuilder Sergio Pino was found dead in his Coral Gables home on Tuesday morning. The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that Pino died from an apparent suicide.

South Florida Tycoon Dead After FBI Raids on Homes and Office

Missouri State

Fulton, MO

CJ Coombs

Updated on July 17, 2024, concerning two of the missing children listed below. Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

Virginia State

In Virginia, Drinking in public or offering another person alcohol in a public space is prohibited. This is a class 4 Misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $250.00. Under a new law that goes into effect on July 1, this will change to a degree.WDBJ7 reports that the prohibition on drinking or offering an alcoholic beverage to someone else in public will no longer apply under the following conditions.

Drinking in public will no longer be prohibited on private Campgrounds in Virginia beginning July 1

Maine State

Governor Janet Mills swears in Dr. Alice Briones as Maine’s Chief Medical Examiner on July 16, 2024. (Official photo) Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Dr. Alice Briones was officially sworn-in as Maine’s new chief medical examiner on Monday. Briones, a Hampden native who graduated from the University of...

Gov. Mills signs in new chief medical examiner amid uptick in death investigations

Detroit, MI

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson attend the Detroit NAACP's annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Mich., on May 19, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance) On the same day the Republican National Convention kicked off in Milwaukee, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former...

RNC and Trump campaign sue Whitmer and Benson over voter registration efforts

Ohio State

Republican Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance. (Photo by Graham Stokes. Republish photo only with original story.) The Ohio State Highway Patrol is providing security for U.S. Senator and top vice president contender J.D. Vance after former President Donald Trump survived an apparent assassination attempt Saturday. Gov. Mike DeWine “approved” a...

Ohio State Highway Patrol providing extra security for JD Vance following shooting at Trump rally

Residents of a Milwaukee neighborhood about a mile from the Republican National Convention gather after a police shooting at King Park. Photo by Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner. Five Columbus, Ohio police officers shot and killed a homeless man close to Milwaukee’s King Park on Tuesday. The shooting took place...

Columbus, Ohio, police shoot homeless man in Milwaukee park a mile from RNC security perimeter

Savannah, GA

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Daily Coffee Press

Newly returned indictments in the Southern District of Georgia include felony charges for illegal firearms possession and drug distribution, while additional defendants have been sentenced to federal prison or await further proceedings after pleading guilty to federal gun charges.

Federal Charges in Southern GA: Indictments and Sentences for Firearms and Drug Offenses

Denver, CO

David Heitz

Two immigrants from south of the border told the City Council Monday they were harassed when using hotel vouchers for shelter in Denver. Speaking through an interpreter, Leivy Ortega and Henry Aguilar said they received vouchers for hotel stays from an unnamed non-profit. But they had problems using the vouchers, they said. Ortega said she came to Denver from Connecticut and lived in her car for 15 days. She received a three-day hotel voucher, she said, but hotel staff initially would not honor it. She did not name the hotel. She said staff finally looked at her paperwork and gave her a room, but they wanted to charge her. for it. She said they initially weren’t going to allow her to stay because she has a service animal.

Immigrants allege Denver hotel staff mistreated them

• “VCU poll shows Trump ahead in Virginia as support for Biden wanes.”—Washington Post. • “State board votes to raze 12-story portion of downtown’s Pocahontas Building for new courts complex.”—Richmond Biz Sense. • “Giant inflatable IUD goes up at Virginia Beach Oceanfront.”—WAVY...

Metro slows down as temps go up and more Virginia headlines

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Nurse practitioner backed by Gov. McMaster wins 3rd District GOP runoff

Sheri Biggs, left, and Mark Burns, right, faced off Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in the 3rd Congressional District GOP primary runoff. (Sheri Biggs campaign, File/Jeff J...

Nurse practitioner backed by Gov. McMaster wins 3rd District GOP runoff

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