It’s not clear exactly how many immigrants are living in the United States without authorization, for a number of reasons. The most obvious is that some people cross the border from Mexico and evade capture. It is definitionally hard to know how many people do so, but the government has gotten better at estimating the […]

“And there’s very few states that benefit like you do from fracking. I mean, you have 500,000 jobs.” — Former president Donald Trump, remarks at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Sept. 29 “Kamala has said repeatedly, she wants to ban fracking, which would kill over 500,000 jobs in Pennsylvania alone.” This post appeared first on […]

DULUTH, Ga. — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Wednesday night with a dark metaphor, bashing Vice President Kamala Harris and declaring that “dad” was coming home to mete out discipline. “He’s pissed!” Carlson said to extended cheers. “Dad is pissed. … And when dad gets […]

Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night. The day before, a Republican operative in the battleground state falsely suggested to his nearly 58,000 followers on X that no one lived at the monastery and that mail ballots cast from […]

A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The […]

MADISON, Wis. — Early voting kicked off in this battleground state this week with computer delays and long lines. Voters waited as long as three hours Tuesday to cast ballots in West Bend, a city of about 32,000, city clerk Jilline Dobratz said. State computer issues reared up again Wednesday, and by midafternoon, voters had […]

In the final three weeks of the presidential race, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have attacked one particular foe more than three dozen times: a little-known Kamala Harris aide named Ian Sams. The feud with Sams, a bespectacled 35-year-old longtime foot soldier in Democratic politics, started when Sams did what few Democrats are […]