Members of both parties have noted that President Biden has asked Vice President Harris to take on often-thankless issues, including abortion and immigration. But her meetings with activists in these areas have helped her to build political connections.
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Green party candidate Annalena Baerbock, right, speaks during a campaign event in Potsdam on Thursday. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Now that Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down after 16 years in power, many Greens supporters fear that a rare opportunity for change is slipping away. Older voters appear to be sticking with Germany’s traditional parties or throwing support behind the far right in Sunday’s election.
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The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers. Some of those named in the data have already lost their jobs.
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The company beamed the software update to all its vehicles early Saturday, allowing owners to request a suite of advanced driver-assistance features — although they wouldn’t receive the capabilities right away. But as recently as July, CEO Elon Musk said the technology was a “debatable” proposition, and investigators now warn that the latest roll-out is a hasty approach to an issue that requires careful study and an emphasis on safety.
Authorities said four teenagers have been charged with a plot to attack a Pennsylvania high school in 2024 on the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School.
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The agency hopes that government workers — once the rail system’s backbone — will return en masse but admits that other options are needed if they don’t.
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Anne Colt Leitess, the Anne Arundel County state's attorney, discusses the Capital Gazette shooting trial at her office in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun)
For three years, prosecuting the shooter who killed five newspaper employees consumed Anne Colt Leitess’s life. Now the defendant is set to be sentenced.
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