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During an appearance last week at the Economic Club of Chicago, Donald Trump refused to say whether he had talked with Russian leader Vladimir Putin since his presidency ended almost four years ago. The issue arose because in his new book, journalist Bob Woodward, citing a single source, reported that Trump had chatted with Putin up to seven times following his departure from the White House.

Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N. C.)—the author of the state’s infamous bathroom bill, a fan of calling abortions “infanticide,” and the man who recently said “lawfare” against former President Donald Trump is “as bad as it was [for Black people] in Alabama in 1950”—faces the camera, warning of wokeness. “If you don’t feel safe, there’s a reason,” Bishop says.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2022, fish farms produced an unprecedented 131 million tons of seafood, officially surpassing the global wild-caught fishing industry for the first time, according to a report released in July. Also known as aquaculture, the fish farming sector is often touted as a sustainable way to rapidly scale up the production of crucial fish protein sources without pulling them directly from wild habitats.  But there’s a catch—literally.

With less than two weeks remaining until Election Day, the U. S. presidential candidates are making their final charge to win voters, and one demographic has emerged as a key target: Latinos. Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris made her pitch in a pre-taped interview with Telemundo that aired on Wednesday, while her Republican rival former President Donald Trump gathered Latino business leaders for a roundtable in Florida on Tuesday.

After Republican-led states put in place abortion bans and restrictions following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, infant death has significantly increased, a new study published Monday shows. The report was published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics by researchers at the Ohio State University College of Public Health. The study compared infant mortality before the 2022 Dobbs v.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a rare public speech in front of her official residence in Washington on Wednesday to raise the alarm about Donald Trump’s stated desire to use the presidency to punish his political rivals and deploy the military “as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Harris accused Trump of wanting “unchecked power,” citing recently published interviews with John Kelly, a retired four-star general who served as Trump’s White House chief of staff and Homeland Security Secretary.