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This image provided by the Justice Department, contained in the complaint supporting the arrest warrant, shows Asif Merchant. The Pakistani man alleged to have ties to Iran has been charged in a plot to carry out political assassinations on U.S. soil, the Justice Department said Aug. 6, 2024. AP/Justice Department hide caption toggle caption AP/Justice Department A man was arrested last month for allegedly planning murders-for-hire against U.S. politicians or officials, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Asif Merchant, also known as Asif Raza Merchant, is accused of getting in touch with someone to facilitate a murder plot after coming to…
Hollywood figures, including Julianne Moore and Rob Reiner, have shared their support for Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick, Tim Walz.The 60-year-old Minnesota governor was announced as the running mate of Harris, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, on Tuesday after weeks of speculation.The decision was praised on social media by stars such as Cynthia Nixon, best known for her role in Sex and the City and her unsuccessful campaign to be governor of New York. “I’m Walzing on air,” she wrote while thanking Harris.Film-maker and Democratic fundraiser Rob Reiner, who had called on Joe Biden to step down in early July,…
Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is launching its first attack in Michigan’s Senate race, targeting Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin on pandemic relief spending, according to an ad shared first with NBC News.Slotkin easily won her party’s primary Tuesday, setting up a race against GOP former Rep. Mike Rogers in November. And Republicans are wasting no time attacking Slotkin, who is in her third term, in a race that will be key to Senate control. The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s independent expenditure ad, its first of the election cycle, kicks off a $10 million buy in the Michigan race. The NRSC’s ad, which will…
Philadelphia CNN — Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to make America joyful again. The vice president’s rocking rollout of her running mate on Tuesday sent jolts of energy through a huge crowd, as the pair personified the extraordinary transformation of the 2024 election campaign. Such a scene would have been unthinkable even three weeks ago — in a Democratic Party that believed it was doomed to a disastrous defeat as an aged president resentfully faced a revolt that ultimately ended his reelection bid. Yet inside Temple University’s packed basketball arena in Philadelphia, activists and Harris supporters beamed smiles of…
State Sen. Denny Hoskins emerged from an eight-way primary Tuesday to capture the Republican nomination for Missouri Secretary of State. He was declared the winner by the Associated Press at 10:15 p.m., holding 24% of the vote. Hoskins served in the Army National Guard before becoming a certified public accountant. He has represented Warrensburg in the state House and Senate, leaving the legislature after this year because of term limits. His statehouse career is defined in recent years by his membership in the Senate Freedom Caucus, where Hoskins and his cohorts clashed with the chamber’s GOP leadership — creating years…
A Pakistani man who investigators say has ties to Iran is facing criminal charges for an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting Donald Trump and other U.S. officials. Asif Merchant was arrested in July in New York after a months-long investigation into his alleged plan to hire hit men to kill American politicians. Sources have confirmed to ABC News that the former president and current Republican nominee was one of Merchant’s alleged targets. According to court documents, Merchant arrived in the U.S. in early April. Just days later, he traveled from Texas to New York to meet with a person he thought…
Fox News host Sean Hannity responds to Vice President Kamala Harris selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate and examines his “radical record.”Well, tonight, full confirmation that, yes, the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, is the single most radical, extreme and downright dangerous far-left politician ever coronated by the Democratic Party. Now she just tapped Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the single most radical far-left governor in the United States, to be her running mate. Make no mistake, Harris and Walz, they’re political soulmates. Walz is the Bernie Sanders of Democratic governors. He has extreme positions on everything. He…
LAWRENCE — Kansas voters on Tuesday ousted an incumbent Senate Republican and House Democrat who were seen as traitors by their parties, expanding an expected shakeup of the Legislature and setting the stage for a high-stakes general election. In the 40-member Senate, there will be at least 12 newcomers by January. In the 125-member House, there will be at least 21 newcomers. Those numbers could increase, depending on November results, when Democrats hope to break GOP supermajorities in both chambers. Democratic voters in Kansas City favored educator Wanda Brownlee Paige over incumbent Rep. Marvin Robinson, who voted almost exclusively with…
PHILADELPHIA — Democrat Gov. Tim Walz is not a household name outside his home state of Minnesota.So, in the hours after Vice President Harris named the former longtime congressman and two-term governor as her running mate on the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket, the Harris campaign instantly began working to showcase Walz.His biography was blasted out on social media platforms, including Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter, and the Harris campaign spotlighted the governor in a new video.And the vice president and Walz on Tuesday evening, in Pennsylvania’s largest city, will kick off a jam-packed campaign swing through the key…
ST. LOUIS — Voters were choosing their party’s candidates for Missouri secretary of state from a crowded field of hopefuls. Eight Republicans and three Democrats appeared on the primary ballots. John R. “Jay” Ashcroft was elected to the post in 2016 but is pursuing a nomination for Missouri governor. The secretary of state oversees elections in Missouri, manages business filings and keeps records in the state. We listed the candidates in the Republican primary on The Record: The results will be streamed live on 5+, KSDK.com, and KSDK’s YouTube channel beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday. 5+ is an app for…