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11-27-2024 2:55 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Kamala Harris is seeking to energize voters in Philadelphia, a crucial Democratic stronghold. She needs strong turnout in the city to overcome Republican Donald Trump's strength in Pennsylvania's rural areas. During a rally at the end of the day, Harris said “no one can sit on the sidelines” in the election.
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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Many people went from proclaiming “Black Lives Matter” to running for positions at statehouses, prosecutorial offices, city halls and the halls of Congress, and often winning. But a list of deeper changes to federal law remains undone.
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Experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.
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Foreign threats to the upcoming U.S. election are on the rise as Nov. 5 approaches. Russia, Iran and China have all launched campaigns designed to support or oppose certain candidates, while also stoking division and distrust in elections. U.S. officials are moving more aggressively to call them out after lessons learned from past election cycles. They are adopting a more aggressive stance, moving to quickly call out election disinformation and cyberespionage while also assuring voters that they will be able to trust the results when all the ballots are counted.
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The Oak Alley Plantation, in Vacherie, La. The grand homes in this area were built by immensely wealthy sugar planters prior to the Civil War. Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images
New study demonstrates the enduring legacy of slavery
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The trial began this week and is expected to last six weeks, with the defense and prosecution planning to rely heavily on the four-minute video to make their case.
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(AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Stereotypes have long hindered female candidates, casting them as emotional, weak and sensitive. But now our political science research shows that voters in the U.S. increasingly see women leaders as synonymous with political leadership – and as more effective than men politicians.
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Edward Anthony speaks of his time at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia and the tests in which he participated while incarcerated there, Oct. 24, 2007. (Michael Bryant/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)
Philadelphia prison officials had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black, for decades.
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It’s a wonder of Montgomery Country because they wonder how we’re still here! It’s an oasis where people will be able to see a symbol of freedom…even though water tried to wipe it away, God is lifting it up higher and higher.”
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(Library of Congress via AP)
Smalls escaped from slavery in May 1862 by wearing Confederate clothes and mimicking the hand signals and whistles to sail the rebel ship past guards and to the U.S. Navy. He also served in the U.S. House after the Civil War and wrote a constitution that allowed Blacks to vote before racists took back over.
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