Author: Newyorki

Two weeks ahead of Election Day, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance rallied supporters in Arizona, a key battleground state, urging them to bring friends to the polls as the race remains highly competitive. “Let me give you a scenario, and I don’t want to scare you, but I will,” Vance told the crowd in Peoria. “Imagine waking up on November 6th to find Kamala Harris has narrowly won the presidency by just 700 votes here in Arizona. Think about that and ask yourself what you can do between now and then to prevent it.” Vance’s visit to Arizona on Tuesday…

Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, a long-standing opponent of abortion rights, criticized Republican-led abortion bans and called on conservatives to back Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Her remarks came during three events in swing states aimed at attracting suburban Republican voters away from Donald Trump. Cheney, a prominent conservative surrogate for Harris, is rumored to be considered for a position in a potential Harris administration. At the last event in Waukesha, Wisconsin, against a backdrop that read “country over party,” Cheney, 58, expressed concern over the restrictive abortion policies enacted since the 2022 Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs case,…

The FBI’s arrest of an Afghan man in Oklahoma planning a shooting on Election Day has thrust the Islamic State (IS) back into the spotlight ahead of the November vote. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, admitted he and a co-conspirator intended to die as martyrs during the attack, according to court documents. The incident comes amid rising warnings of IS-inspired plots targeting the West. US Attorney General Merrick Garland emphasized the ongoing threat posed by IS, while MI5’s chief Ken McCallum described his agency’s efforts to manage the resurgent terror group as “one hell of a job.” Despite official warnings, many…

The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer, Vikash Yadav, for allegedly orchestrating a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York City last year. The indictment, unsealed on Thursday, reveals that Yadav, who remains at large, was previously an officer in India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) intelligence service. The plot came to light last year when federal prosecutors charged Nikhil Gupta, a man recruited by an unnamed Indian government official, with planning the murder of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Sikh separatist leader and US citizen. FBI Director Christopher Wray stated, “The FBI will…

Record Early Voting Turnout in Georgia Signals Intense 2024 Election Battle The battleground state of Georgia kicked off early voting with record-breaking numbers, as 328,000 residents cast their ballots in person or by mail on the first day, more than doubling the previous record of 136,000 set in 2020. This surge in participation reflects heightened voter engagement in the state, which played a pivotal role in the last presidential election when Joe Biden narrowly won by less than 12,000 votes, marking the first Democratic victory in Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992. Securing Georgia’s 16 electoral votes is seen as…

Donald Trump, who has based his presidential campaign on the belief that immigrants are “destroying” the United States and has called for mass deportation, faced tough, direct questions from undecided Hispanic voters on Tuesday. During a town hall hosted by Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., several dozen Latino voters from around the country pressed the former president on topics such as immigration, the economy, abortion, and other key issues. The Republican candidate, who has been intensifying efforts to appeal to Latino voters, struggled to give specific answers on policy, while continuing to spread misinformation about immigration. Polls…

New York City police apprehended multiple pro-Gaza demonstrators outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday following a protest drawing attention to Israel’s ongoing military actions in Gaza and Lebanon. Protesters chanted slogans like “Let Gaza live!” and “Up up with liberation, down down with occupation!” and managed to breach a security fence in front of the exchange on Broad Street, downtown Manhattan. After entering the fenced area, they sat down, awaiting police intervention, according to the Associated Press. Jewish Voice for Peace, which organized the demonstration, stated: “200 Jews are risking arrest in the largest act of civil disobedience…

Authorities apprehended a man armed with firearms and carrying false press and VIP passes at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in California on Saturday. The suspect, identified as Vem Miller, was stopped by police at a checkpoint roughly half a mile from the rally’s entrance in Coachella Valley shortly before the event commenced, police reported on Sunday. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco stated, “We likely prevented another assassination attempt,” adding that Miller had plotted to kill Trump. According to authorities, Miller was in possession of a loaded shotgun, a handgun, and a high-capacity magazine, and is believed to be…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has strongly criticized Donald Trump after the former president demanded that CBS have its broadcasting license revoked for airing an edited segment from a primetime interview with Kamala Harris. Trump also accused the network of being a “threat to democracy” and suggested that other broadcasters should have their licenses taken away as well. In an intense attack that raised concerns about press freedom if he were to be re-elected, Trump labeled CBS as part of a “massive fake news scam” for airing a shorter, more direct version of Harris’s response regarding Israel on 60 Minutes,…

A still formidable but weakening Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm, leaving over 2 million homes without electricity and bringing “catastrophic” winds that are expected to cause widespread property damage. Earlier in the day, President Joe Biden described the cyclone as “the storm of the century.” Milton struck near Sarasota, Florida, just after 8:30 p.m. ET, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami. Deadly storm surges impacted much of Florida’s Gulf coast, including highly populated cities like Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, and Fort Myers. Although the storm had weakened…