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Americans in Puerto Rico can’t vote for US president. Their anger at Trump is shaping the race
A comic calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest humiliation for an island territory that has long suffered from mistreatment, residents said Monday in expressions of fury that could affect the presidential election.
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Chip Henderson will run for reelection to Chattanooga council
Chattanooga City Council Chair Chip Henderson, of Lookout Valley, announced Monday that he plans to run for reelection in March to his seat representing the city's district 1.
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Chattanooga mayor blasts Tennessee American Water’s ‘outrageous’ plans for rate hike
Tennessee American Water, a utility company serving approximately 67,000 area customers, intends to raise water rates for Chattanogans while lowering costs for its newest customers in remote areas, according to remarks Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly gave to state regulators Monday.
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Walker County school board candidates talk literacy rates, property taxes
Property tax and literacy rates are among top issues for the four candidates running in the special election for the Post 3 Walker County school board seat.
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Homeless people already struggle to vote. This law could make it harder.
Critics worry new Georgia rules affecting voters without fixed addresses could be copied elsewhere.
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Allies hope a Trump win changes the system for mortgages. Some warn it will make them pricier
If Donald Trump wins the presidential election, Republicans hope he will fulfill a longstanding GOP goal of privatizing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have been under government control since the Great Recession.
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Trump says China’s leader will bully Harris ‘like a baby’ as his allies try to infantilize her
Donald Trump said Thursday that China's leader would handle Vice President Kamala Harris "like a baby" if she's elected to the White House, as the former president and his top allies increasingly have moved to infantilize the Democratic nominee.
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Obama, Springsteen boost Harris as she warns of ‘brutally serious’ consequences if Trump wins
Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama lent their star power to Kamala Harris' quest for the presidency on Thursday, as the vice president implored Georgia voters to consider the "brutally serious" consequences if Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House.
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Trump flirts with the ultimate tax cut: No taxes at all
Former President Donald Trump has spent much of the presidential campaign brainstorming new, and sometimes untested, ways to cut taxes. In the election’s final stretch, he raised the possibility of going even further: eliminating income taxes entirely.
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Abortion bans are top of mind for young women in North Carolina as they consider Harris or Trump
The TikTok videos haunt 26-year-old Christy Kishbaugh.
