Tua Tagovailoa’s bad night took a turn for the worse as the Miami Dolphins quarterback exited his team’s 31-10 loss against the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night in the third quarter with a concussion. On a fourth-and-4 play from Buffalo’s 13-yard line, Tagovailoa scrambled up the middle as he attempted to get a first down. The Dolphins’ quarterback dove headfirst ahead of the first down marker but was hit by Bills safety Damar Hamlin. It appeared Tagovailoa hit his head on Hamlin’s body during the tackle. Tagovailoa stayed on the grass for a few moments. He was eventually helped off the field and escorted to the locker room…
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When Donald Trump brought up false claims about cat-eating migrants in this week’s presidential debate, Kamala Harris burst into laughter. It might have been an effective debate technique for the vice president as she challenged the former president’s political positions. But psychologists and extremism experts say everyday Americans are better off not meeting a loved one’s conspiracy theories with ridicule. “We don’t want to shame people for believing in a false narrative,” said Sara Aniano, a disinformation analyst with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. For one, belittling the believer isn’t generally an effective way to convince someone that a story isn’t true. Fact-based…
North Korea provided a rare glimpse Friday of a secretive uranium-enrichment facility where it produces material for its nuclear weapons program when it released several images of its leader Kim Jong Un touring the site. The photos, published by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, show Kim walking past rows of centrifuges and being briefed by military officials and scientists at the Nuclear Weapons Institute. Kim expressed “great satisfaction” and “felt strong” when he inspected the facility and its accelerating production of weapons-grade nuclear materials, according to an accompanying statement released by KCNA. North Korea’s leader also stressed the need for…
The claim: Kamala Harris bragged about destroying lives ‘with the swipe of my pen’ An Aug. 30 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows video of Vice President Kamala Harris giving a speech. “This video needs to be seen by everyone,” reads text alongside the video, which originally appeared in a post on X formerly Twitter. “Harris describes how she could WRECK YOUR LIFE ‘with the swipe of my pen.’ And she brags about it. And glorifies what she can do to you. She is a power hungry tyrant. This woman can not be allowed near power.” The post was liked…
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman and the city’s police have announced arrests and addressed Donald Trump’s claims that a Venezuelan gang is ‘taking over.’ Following former president Donald Trump’s comments during Tuesday’s debate regarding a Venezuelan gang invading a Colorado city, the mayor of Aurora and its local police leaders announced several arrests and addressed the Republican presidential nominee’s claims. Aurora police have arrested 10 alleged members of the Tren de Aragua, a large criminal organization from Venezuela, and charged them with various offenses — including first-degree assault, aggravated assault, shootings, a hit-and-run crash, a domestic dispute and other instances of assault, according to a Facebook…
Doug Emhoff’s potential ascent to the supporting role of first gentleman signals to men throughout the country that there’s more to their identity than their work. PITTSBURGH, Pa. ― Vice President Kamala Harris walked off Air Force 2 and into the wind. Her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, was right behind. She flashed a broad smile and waved at the crowd before grabbing onto the railing. Emhoff offered his arm. Harris was the most powerful woman in the country. She was also his wife. The couple descended, step by step, until they reached the bottom together. Emhoff had seen his spouse through…
More than 2,500 children and teens between the ages of one and 17 died by a firearm in 2022, according to a new report published on Thursday. Firearms were the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States for the third consecutive year, with homicides accounting for the majority of gun deaths among the age group, a new report found. The report — published Thursday by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions — analyzed the latest data on gun violence from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which revealed that more than 48,000 people across…
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to freeze a court ruling that allows his New York hush money criminal sentencing to go forward on Nov. 26. The ruling at issue came from federal trial Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who said he wouldn’t remove the case from the hands of New York trial Judge Juan Merchan and block Trump’s upcoming sentencing. In its short Thursday order, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit seconded Hellerstein’s ruling. It said it was denying Trump’s “emergency” request in light of the sentencing delay he has already gotten. Trump was initially scheduled to be…
TUCSON, Arizona — Donald Trump attacked Kamala Harris as a “communist,” promised to remove taxes from overtime pay and doubled down on unfounded, dramatic claims of migrant crime during lengthy remarks at an event in Tucson. The former Republican president held his first post-debate campaign event Thursday, where he recapped his recent debate against Harris and unveiled his latest proposal aimed at addressing voter frustrations with the economy. “It’s time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break and that’s what we’re doing,” Trump said. “If you’re an overtime worker, if you’re past 40 hours a week…
OMAHA – It’s challenging to drive through Nebraska’s biggest city without seeing white signs with a singular blue circle peppering many front lawns. Though they don’t have any words, names or messaging, these dots have become a symbol of Democratic support in a deep red state, beginning with Jason Brown’s inaugural sign on his front yard. With a nod to the Cornhusker State’s 2nd District’s electoral point, Democrats have coined the “blue dot,” which they hope to deliver to Vice President Kamala Harris. Since the first blue dot went up at the end of August, Brown and his wife, Ruth, have…
On Wednesday, after a morning of memorials in commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Joe Biden briefly put on a red Trump hat at an event in Pennsylvania. The now-viral moment shows Biden jokingly putting on the hat during a visit with firefighters in Shanksville, Pennsylvania near where one of the four hijacked planes crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Later on Wednesday, Trump also made an appearance in Shanksville. Following the viralization of the footage across the internet, the White House said Biden wore the cap as a sign of unity. Video from the event shows Biden exchanging…
WASHINGTON − Former President Donald Trump’s history of amplifying conspiracy theories is in the spotlight again thanks to dogs, cats and Laura Loomer. Loomer is a far-right media figure whose theories range from the false claim that 9/11 was an “inside job” to the unsubstantiated reports that Haitian migrants in Ohio are eating dogs and cats. Trump repeated the latter falsity in Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, prompting swift backlash and jokes online. A part of Trump’s entourage at the debate, Loomer also accompanied Trump to a 9/11 memorial event at Ground Zero in New York, even as she has incorrectly alleged U.S. involvement in the…
Myrlie Evers isn’t sure how she would have reacted back in the 1960s if someone had predicted she would live to see a Black woman seriously vying for the White House. But the civil rights leader, who faced death threats when she and her husband tried to register Black voters in Mississippi back then, knows how she’ll react if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency in November. I would say ‘Hip! Hip! Hooray!'” she told USA TODAY. “‘It’s about time.'” And if Harris loses to former president Donald Trump? “It would be a sad day for me,” she said after pausing for…
A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California early Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The strong quake was recorded about 4.35 miles north of Malibu and about 8 miles from the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, according to the USGS. The notable temblor took place just before 7:30 a.m. local time. Not long after the initial shake, a 2.8 magnitude aftershock was recorded not far from the the initial quake’s center, USGS reported. As of late morning, no injuries had been confirmed. The National Weather Service in Los Angeles said a tsunami warning was not in effect. Los Angeles…
The claim: Tim Walz misrepresented military record in remarks about Afghanistan A Sept. 2 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivering a speech about troops serving overseas. The caption reads, “‘When I was in Afghanistan,’ says the man who was never in Afghanistan. It is impossible to ‘misspeak’ about this. Nor is it a question of ‘incorrect grammar.’ This is a stolen valor involving a habitual liar.” The post was liked more than 60,000 times in nine days. Our rating: False Walz did not embellish his military record in the speech. The post…
Bettors have swung back toward Vice President Kamala Harris as she retook the lead at the betting window from former President Donald Trump as the dust settled from Tuesday’s debate. Harris is even money or better at the U.K. and offshore betting houses USA TODAY has regularly surveyed, having started the week behind Trump. The equivalent of over $1.1 million was wagered during the debate at U.K. bookmaker Betfair Exchange, where Harris took the lead from Trump about halfway into the 90-minute debate. This is the second time in the campaign where the action, that U.S. betting houses cannot legally take part in, has snapped in Harris’ favor. The…
Former President Donald Trump’s consistent threats to prosecute his perceived enemies – most recently this past weekend – are concerning to many legal and democracy experts, who say Trump’s own history shows he could make good on those promises in a second presidential term. On Saturday, the Republican presidential nominee alleged on Truth Social that there was “rampant Cheating and Skullduggery” in the 2020 presidential election, despite numerous recounts and audits disproving his claims that he only appeared to have lost because of voter fraud. Trump then brought those baseless fraud claims to bear on the 2024 election, saying various groups – including lawyers and…
So who, exactly, is Vladimir Putin going to eat for lunch? At the US presidential debate, one of the foreign policy topics the candidates hit on was a perennial topic for presidential debates in recent times: who really is going to be Vladimir Putin’s ”puppet?” Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? Putin, Harris told Trump in heated exchange, was a “dictator who would eat you for lunch.” Russia’s leader, she said, “would be sitting in Kyiv right now with his eyes on the rest of Europe” if Trump was president. Trump, for his part, groused that Putin actually loves Harris: “Putin endorsed her last week. Said…
The former chief of staff for a California state senator sued the senate and his former boss Thursday, alleging quid-pro-quo sexual harassment. Chad Condit filed the lawsuit in the Sacramento Superior Court against State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, who was elected in 2022 as a Democrat for the 4th district covering areas along the Nevada border between Reno and Las Vegas. In August, she changed her party affiliation to Republican, according to CalMatters. The lawsuit alleges Alvarado-Gil groomed Condit by sharing intimate details about her own life, asking him for personal favors, and conditioning him into an “unequal and subservient position” when he worked…
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes brushed off former President Donald Trump’s political comments about his wife, Brittany, on Fox News. While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the Chiefs’ star quarterback said he isn’t fazed by Trump calling Brittany a supporter of his. “No, I mean I think at the end of the day, it’s about me and my family and how we treat other people. And I think you see is that Brittany does a lot in the community,” Mahomes said. “I do a lot in the community to help bring people up and give people other opportunities to use their voice. And so it’s…