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The Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado, said former President Donald Trump’s rally in the city Friday presented an opportunity “to show him and the nation” that Aurora is “not a city overrun by Venezuelan gangs.” Mayor Mike Coffman made the statement Tuesday after weeks of misleading claims by the former president that the city was
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Washington — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign requested military assets to enhance his security in the final weeks of the campaign in the wake of threats to his life, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. In emails to the White House and the Secret Service late last week, the Trump campaign requested
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Washington — Federal authorities are urgently investigating a cyberattack linked to China-backed hackers that targeted major U.S. telecommunications companies and systems used for key government intelligence collection capabilities, a U.S. official familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News. The hacking group known as “Salt Typhoon” hit numerous companies including Verizon, AT&T and Lumen Technologies.
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Phoenix, Arizona — Aureliano Dominguez has run his hot dog stand along a busy Phoenix street for 33 years. A legal immigrant and U.S. citizen, Dominguez agrees the undocumented immigrants who commit crimes should be deported. “There’s bad apples anywhere in the world,” Dominguez told CBS News. “Get those bad apples out.” CBS News poll taken
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Trump campaign requests use of military aircraft – CBS News Watch CBS News After two assassination attempts, and amid heightened intelligence about potential Iranian plots threatening to kill former President Donald Trump, his campaign is asking that military aircraft be added to his security detail in the final weeks of the campaign. Nikole Killion has
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Biden criticizes Trump for false claims about hurricane response – CBS News Watch CBS News President Biden has again called out former President Donald Trump for spreading false information about response efforts to hurricanes Helene and Milton, while Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that some hurricane victims have heard false rumors that FEMA
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In a debate Thursday between the nominees in the U.S. Senate race in Maryland, Democrat Angela Alsobrooks pointed to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s actions in office as evidence he fell short on standing up for abortion rights as he now claims he would. Hogan said she was mischaracterizing his position. Alsobrooks, in the hourlong
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Washington — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday urged the federal district judge overseeing his prosecution related to the 2020 election to keep from public view evidence accompanying a key legal brief from special counsel Jack Smith that detailed his case against the former president. Trump’s lawyers argued in their two-page filing that
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Simon & Schuster We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. For his 23rd book, “War” (to be published Tuesday by Simon & Schuster), legendary Watergate journalist Bob Woodward delves into the inner circles of the Biden White House to examine American influence in the war between Russia and Ukraine,
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Washington — The Afghan national charged with planning an Election Day terror attack was previously employed in a security role in Afghanistan by the CIA, CBS News has confirmed. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, who was arrested Monday in Oklahoma City, is accused of planning the attack on behalf of ISIS. Tawhedi along with unnamed co-conspirators —
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