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Trump campaigns for Darline Graham to win full Senate term
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- President Donald Trump sought Friday to boost Sen. Darline Graham's effort to win a full term, telling thousands of supporters that the first step toward keeping her as their senator involves helping the political newcomer triumph in a Republican runoff next week.
The Republican president also begged them to pretend that he's on the ballot Tuesday -- even though he is not -- if that will help get them out to vote.
Voters will decide Tuesday whether Graham or Rep. Ralph Norman will be the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate on the ballot in November.
Trump nodded to the reality that Republican base voters lose interest in elections when he is not a candidate for office, as is the case this year. Trump is serving his second and final term as president.
"So what I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I'm on the ballot. Just come and vote. It's so important," Trump said. "So just say that I'm on the ballot one more time. You got to say it, and you got to come out and vote."
Trump, who encouraged Darline Graham to run and has given her his "complete and total endorsement," called her to the stage as he neared the end of his remarks.
Trump announces plan to lower beef prices, some already balking
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has announced his administration will temporarily allow more beef imports into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs. He said Friday the imported beef will be sold at 25% below current market rates to help American consumers. However, conservative rural-state Republicans are already criticizing the plan, fearing it will harm American ranchers. Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Trump ally, warns it could make it harder for ranchers to rebuild herds. The plan allows up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to enter the U.S. over the next 90 days.
Russian drones kill 15 people at a shopping mall in a central Ukrainian city, officials say
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have hit a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more. The city in central Ukraine is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Regional military administration head Oleksandr Hanzha said 23 children were among the 130 injured in the Friday afternoon strike. Zelenskyy said it was a double-tap attack, with an initial wave of drones hitting the area followed by a second wave as rescue workers arrived. He said such attacks are "nothing less than terrorist acts." Authorities say the shopping mall strikes, plus two other separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, killed a total of 21 people across Ukraine on Friday.
Israel will investigate Hind Rajab's killing; her mother wants more
JERUSALEM -- The mother of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed after Israeli forces fired on her family's car wants an independent inquiry into her death. Wesam Hamada told The Associated Press in an interview on Friday that the Israeli military investigation announced this week into the killing of her daughter Hind Rajab was insufficient and wouldn't deliver justice for her family.
The circumstances of Rajab's death made her one of the Israel-Hamas war's most prominent casualties. Israel's military this week admitted to firing at the family's car as it fled an Israeli invasion and firing toward an ambulance dispatched to help them. All six people in the car and two paramedics were killed.
Court cuts $50M judgment against Infowars' Alex Jones over falsely labeling Newtown killings a hoax
AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas court has slashed a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to about $6 million over falsely calling the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings a hoax.
The ruling does not affect a $1.25 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut, but is a significant legal victory for him after being found liable for damages for claiming the mass shooting didn't happen.
Despite the multiple financial judgments against him in Connecticut and Texas, Jones has yet to make any payments to victims' families. He is fighting the judgments through lengthy appeals in both states.
Lindsay Clancy's defense rests at trial over whether postpartum psychosis drove her to kill her kids
BOSTON -- The defense has rested its case in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting more testimony about her mental state before she strangled her three young children in 2023. Prosecutors are calling rebuttal witnesses before attorneys make their closing arguments in the trial.
Clancy's defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, does not dispute that she killed the children. But he says the jury should not hold her criminally responsible because she had a rare mental illness called postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors argue that Clancy planned the killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house.
The Associated Press