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After this week’s debates, Kamala Harris has re-established a decisive polling lead over Donald Trump, with a clear majority of voters believing she will win, according to a variety of surveys.The Guardian’s latest poll trend tracker shows that the vice president has regained a narrow lead over his Republican opponent since Tuesday’s showdown in Philadelphia, a change from a survey earlier this week which showed the two essentially tied.The move is backed up by independent polls, some of which show Ms Harris with a bigger lead than the 0.9 percentage point margin indicated by The Guardian’s tracker.The first Reuters/Ipsos poll…

This undated photo provided by the Iranian Space Agency shows the Chamran-1 satellite. Iran launched the satellite into space on Saturday on a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards, state media reported. Iranian Space Agency/AP Hide caption Toggle caption Iran Space Agency/AP TEHRAN, Iran — Iran launched a satellite into space on a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards on Saturday, state media reported, the latest in a series of plans that Western countries fear could help advance Iran’s ballistic missile program. Iran said the launch was a success, marking the second time the rocket has…

“Among the dead were UNRWA shelter managers and team members assisting displaced people,” the refugee relief agency said in a statement on social media. “No one is safe in Gaza. No one can escape.” The Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Tuesday that at least 19 people had been killed in a nighttime Israeli attack in a designated humanitarian area in southern Gaza. Mourners in Turkey on Saturday were preparing for the funeral of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old Turkish-American activist who the Israeli military said was likely shot and killed “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces in the West Bank…

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The woman whose hurtful and unfounded Facebook claims about Haitian immigrants eating local pets helped bring a small Ohio city to national attention says she had no firsthand knowledge of those incidents and is now filled with regret and fear in the aftermath.”All of a sudden, it’s something that should never have happened,” Springfield resident Erica Lee told NBC News on Friday.Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat going missing, adding that a neighbor told her they thought the cat was the victim of an attack by a Haitian neighbor.NewsGuard, a media watchdog that monitors…

Jamestown’s Tommy Pluton tackles St. Joe’s Giorgio Panepinto for a safety during Friday’s non-league football game at Strider Field. PJ photo by Jason Bauer.Nolan Klein was at the center of most of it. The senior quarterback threw touchdown passes of 12, 15, 46 and 57 yards, the last three coming in the decisive fourth quarter, to lead the Marauders to a 41-30 victory over Jamestown in a nonleague football game at Strider Field. The win improves St. Joe’s record to 1-1 and the Red & Green to 1-1. For Jamestown coach Tom Langworthy, this was exactly the type of matchup…

NEW BRITAIN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A 14,500-square-foot luxury pet hotel will celebrate its grand opening with an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 14, at 11oo Horizon Circle in Chalfont in New Britain Township.Located at the intersection of County Line Road and Upper State Road, near Ark Animal Hospital and Grand View Health Center, the newest five-star K9 resort is owned and operated by Chalfont locals Kunal Patel and Tarika Patel. Often referred to as the Ritz-Carlton of dog hotels, New Jersey-based K9 Resorts offers dog daycare and luxury boarding with five-star, state-of-the-art amenities, including…

circleWhile Donald Trump made unfounded and dangerous claims about immigrants in Ohio eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before tucking them in to bed.He got an email from a friend inviting him to watch the debate, and when he saw the headline about the former president, who was the Republican nominee in November’s election, he was totally shocked.”This is a false allegation. I cannot believe that such a senior official could make such a claim,” Salomon…

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has urged the Biden administration not to give Ukraine permission to use U.S.-supplied long-range weapons to attack targets deep inside Russian territory, although no decision has yet been made on their use.”Secretary Blinken, President Biden, STOP! Stop this reckless escalation. I say this not as a political partisan, but simply as a member of the world,” Kennedy posted on his X Channel next to a video of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Kennedy recently gave up an independent presidential bid to back Republican candidate Donald Trump, who wants to end continued U.S. military aid to Ukraine. This…

Jackson Detterlein was close on the goal line for Central on Friday night against Bellwood. John Hartsock From jhartsock@altoonamirror.com SPRING BURNING FORCE — The Central High School football program has won four straight District 6 Class 3A championships over the past four seasons, but first-year head coach Jerry Albright said they may have started to take some things for granted this year. The Dragons were caught off guard in the season opener, losing 18-7 to Bellefonte on their home turf, but Central took that as a wake-up call and has since rattled off three straight wins,…

Late on April 8, Carl DeMaio was leading a trio of negotiators at the San Diego County Republican Party headquarters. He had just failed to get his own state Assembly candidacy approved, even though the party’s central committee had already endorsed his opponent, a turn of events that had put his ally, then-party chair Paula Witzel, in danger of losing her job.One of his negotiators was Corey Gustafson. Mr. Gustafson is now the party chairman and is overseeing dramatic enforcement actions against Mr. DeMaio that could pit the party against him in ways that would have been shocking a few…