JERUSALEM (AP) – When Israel locked up Ahed Tamimi for slapping a soldier last year, it hoped to finally silence the teenage Palestinian activist. Instead, it created an international celebrity.
Less than three months after walking out of prison, Tamimi is on a victory tour, crisscrossing Europe and the Middle …
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Like generations of immigrants before them, a minority community of Bhutan has found a new home in the United States. One decade after arriving in the Twin Cities, more than 2,000 Lhotshampa are thriving.
“We find it stable and pleasant here,” said Puspa Bhandari.
Most …
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) – Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, about 2,000 Central American migrants swam or rafted across a river separating that country from Guatemala, re-formed their mass caravan in Mexico and vowed to resume their journey toward the United States.
The migrants, who said …
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Candidates in Washington’s U.S. senate race clashed Saturday over policies on the environment, trade and tariffs, immigration and health care.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, and Republican challenger Susan Hutchison held their second debate in Spokane and touched on many of the themes they struck in …
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (AP) – Vice President Mike Pence has made his second stop in West Virginia in the past three months to campaign for Republican U.S. Senate nominee Patrick Morrisey. This time, he also urged residents to vote in the upcoming election.
Pence and Morrisey attended Saturday night’s rally in …
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Vice President Mike Pence has stumped in Virginia with three Republican congressional candidates ahead of midterm elections 2½ weeks away
He traveled to Richmond to rally Republican voters with Rep. Dave Brat, Ryan McAdams and Denver Riggleman. The candidates met Pence at Richmond’s international airport.
Pence …
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, was accosted while dining at a restaurant Friday evening in Louisville with his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao.
At least two people heckled Mr. McConnell after spotting him at the restaurant, Havana Rumba, including an unidentified man who was filmed loudly taunting …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The Latest on early voting in Tennessee’s midterm election (all times local):
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Tennesseans are voting in record numbers with close to 350,000 ballots cast in the first three days of early voting.
According to vote totals on the Secretary of State’s website 346,130 early …
President Trump said Saturday that he had a plan to fix the immigration and humanitarian crisis on display in the migrant caravan headed for the U.S., but said he’s keeping it under wraps until after the election.
Mr. Trump pointed to the thousands of Central American migrants in the caravan …
Gavin McInnes, the founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys, said he was arranging the surrender of multiple members wanted by law enforcement in connection with a violent brawl that erupted following his appearance at a Republican club in Manhattan last weekend, The New York Times reported Friday.
Mr. …