Aoc’s Dnc Speech Highlights Her Evolution From Democratic Outsider To Face Of Its Future

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The Denver Asylum Seeker Program — designed to house, feed and provide job training to mainly Venezuelan migrants while they file federal asylum applications and await authorization to legally work in the U. S. — will not continue in its current form in 2025, city officials say. Future iterations of the program with potentially different levels of services and support based on migrants’ needs are being considered, according to Jon Ewing, a spokesman for Denver Human Services. “We will still be offering services, we will still be offering support.

The Denver Fur Ban is a succinct title for a ballot measure. But opponents of the November initiative say its effects will be anything but simple, and they prefer to wrangle with specifics when they make their points. Initiated Ordinance 308 — which seeks to prohibit the manufacturing, sale, trade and display of select fur products — would have a raft of consequences that go beyond prohibiting retailers in the Mile High City from selling fox and raccoon fur coats, those opponents say. It also could cut into the inventory at fly-fishing shops, people in the angling business say.

Almost like he planned it, Donald Trump tried to blame his second assassination attempt on Democrats. Meidas News reported Trump called "Fox and Friends" on September 16 to lash out at Harris and Walz. But NY Magazine noted that calling out Trump's threat to democracy isn't inciting violence. "Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Former President Donald Trump has now survived at least two credible assassination attempts this election year. The latest, on Sunday at one of his golf clubs in Florida, was not as close as the one that bloodied him at a Butler, Penn., campaign rally on July 13.

A controversial social media post by the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire (LPNH) has attracted the attention of state and federal law enforcement agencies, local media have reported, as the political group that has previously developed a reputation for riling Democrats, Republicans, and even other libertarians has dug in and embraced the attention it’s receiving. LPNH posted on X on Sunday: “Anyone who murders Kamala Harris would be an American hero.” Amid backlash, the account deleted the post, citing the social media platform’s terms of service but asserting: “It’s a shame that even on a ‘free speech’ website that libertarians cannot speak freely” and “Libertarians are truly the most oppressed minority.” (X’s rules prohibit content “explicitly threatening, inciting, glorifying, or expressing desire for violence.”) [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “The point of the second amendment is to shoot and kill tyrannous politicians,” reads another post from Sunday that is still up on the LPNH account. The post about Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Harris, which was deleted hours before former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump was the subject of a second apparent assassination attempt, drew criticism from politicians and commentators across the spectrum.