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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin- Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination for president, announced Monday afternoon that he has chosen Ohio U.S. Sen JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate.

Trump reportedly called Vance Monday morning to tell him the good news as the Republican Convention began Monday in  Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vance chosen for the prominent role to run with Trump over Sens. Marco Rubio and Tim Scott, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Bergum.

An author, venture capitalist and former marine whom Trump endorsed for senator before he won the seat over former congressman Tim Ryan in 2022, Vance, a Harvard graduate, is 39-years-old, nearly 40 years younger than the 78-year-old Trump.

Sources said that some Republicans wanted Vance in an effort  to counter Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in a potential run by Harris for president in 2028.

Trump and President Joe Biden are the respective presumptive nominees for the Republican and Democratic parties with the Nov 5 presidential election nearing.

The nation's first female and first Black vice president, Harris purportedly  told reporters Monday that she is more than ready to debate Vance before this year's presidential election. She wrote in a post on Facebook that "Vance supports a nationwide abortion ban and voted to block protections for IVF."

Articulate and clean cut, Vance is not well-known among traditional voters but is known in political circles. He rose to fame in 2016 with his memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," which documents his upbringing in Appalachia.

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher

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CLEVELAND, Ohio.- Former President Donald Trump (pictured), the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination for president, won a reprieve from prosecution on Monday when a federal judge in Florida dismissed his classified  documents case, a ruling that comes two days after he survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania and on the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It started Monday and Trump is expected to be nominated for president at the convention this week.

Defense counsel for Trump argued before the judge that the assignment of special prosecutor Jack Smith to the case was illegal and unconstitutional from the start, and thus required immediate dismissal of the case. Smith argued otherwise.

But Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, who presided over the case involving classified documents Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago Estate in Florida after he left office and was indicted and accused of theft and other crimes, agreed with defense attorneys in a 93-page dismissal order.

“The Framers gave Congress a pivotal role in the appointment of principal and inferior officers," Judge Cannon wrote in her lengthy order. "That role cannot be usurped by the Executive Branch or diffused elsewhere — whether in this case or in another case, whether in times of heightened national need or not.”

Trump is on a winning steak since he was found guilty earlier this year on all 34 counts in a hush money case that accused him of illegally paying Porn Star Stormy Daniels to be quiet about an alleged affair he denies.

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he is immune from prosecution for official acts taken as president, putting two other criminal cases in which he is a defendant at risk for possible dismissal. He will face incumbent President Joe Biden, the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, for the Nov 5 presidential election, a rematch of the 2020 election that he lost to Biden amid controversy over the election results.

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher

WESTERN, Pennsylvania.-The shooter who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Western Pennsylvania Saturday is dead after being shot in the head by law enforcement, all of it throwing this week's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and the November presidential election between Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden into chaos.

Thomas Matthews Crooks, 20 and of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was the shooter, authorities  also confirming that an unidentified rally goer was also shot and killed by the shooter and two others critically injured. Some rally participants started screaming after the shooting and a few others chanted "USA."

Trump, who was reportedly grazed on the right ear by the bullet but is fine and not seriously injured, according to a family statement,. can be seen and heard by video of the incident speaking at the rally followed by a gunshot, and then shots from law enforcement are fired that took down the shooter. Trump can be seen rushed off stage surrounded by his security staff with blood on his ear and face while he pumps his right hand at the crowd.

The shooter, stationed on top of a building some 500 ft away from Trump, got off several shots before authorities shot and killed him, raising questions about the level of security at the event.

President Biden made a statement after the assassination attempt, decrying the violence and supporting the investigation led by the FBI. Biden boarded Air Force One Saturday night, headed back to the White House from Delaware as pundits quickly branded the shooting of former President Trump an attempt on the life of a presidential nominee.

FBI officials said during a televised press conference after the shooting that the rally scene remains an active crime scene, and that the incident was, in fact, an assassination attempt.

Trump's campaign has said that he will attend the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday in Milwaukee.

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher-July 10, 2024

DETROIT, Michigan.-President Joe Biden told a jubilant crowd at a campaign rally Friday in Detroit, Michigan that "I am running and we are going to win," quashing speculation that he will quit the presidential race against Republican former President Donald Trump amid mounting pressure from some key Democrats regarding his age at 81, and his mental acuity, or what some naysayers say is the lack thereof.

Crowd members repeatedly yelled "we love you," "we got your back," and "four more years," as the president spoke at the rally podium, an indication that the race is heating up as the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election nears and Biden and Trump, the respective nominees for the Republican and Democratic parties, are neck and neck in several polls, Trump seeking a comeback win for his 2020 election loss to the incumbent president.

“I’m the nominee of this party because 14 million Democrats like you voted for me in the primaries,” Biden said. “You made me the nominee, no one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not donors, you the voters. You decided, no one else, and I’m not going anywhere.”

Biden preached on a similar list of things that Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned in her keynote speech at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc national conference in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday, including protecting education, social security, medicaid, medicare and the Affordable Care Act, lowering insulin and other drug prices, reducing inflation, and tackling street assault weapons and gun violence.

President Biden told the upbeat Detroit crowd that "Motown is Joe Town," and that "We are going to beat Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. Donald Trump is a loser."

Biden's campaign rally on Friday in the largely Black city of Detroit in the swing state of Michigan, a state he won over Trump in 2020, comes as both he and Trump are courting the Black vote leading up to the presidential election, both bragging during CNN's June 27 presidential debate about what they claim to have done to improve the lives of Black Americans.

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