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White House Responds to ‘Obscene’ Attack on Vice President Harris at University of South Carolina

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The White House on Wednesday avoided commenting on the recent outcry over Vice President Kamala Harris’ planned comedy “fondle” on the University of South Carolina campus.

The event has been fraught with controversy due to its vulgar promoting and the participation of far-right extremist figures, conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Proud Boys co-founder Gavin McInnes, designated white supremacist hate group.

Uncensored America, a nonprofit that bills itself as a free speech organization, is hosting the event. An ad for the campus event scheduled for Sept. 18 includes vulgar and sexual references to Harris, the nation’s first female vice chairman.

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IN letter In condemning the event, the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, said of the ad, “So that there is no doubt about the obscene nature of the image, instead of listing the Vice President’s name as Kamala, the ad changes the first three letters to a vulgar term for semen.”

NAACP President Derrick Johnson and South Carolina State Conference President Brenda Murphy called on USC President Michael Amiridis and the institution’s board of trustees to cancel the event.

“I cannot respond to every racist, misogynist and sexist comment that has been made,” a White House spokesman said.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks with reporters during her every day press briefing within the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 24, 2024 in Washington. Jean-Pierre answered questions on laws signed by President Joe Biden this morning for $80 billion in foreign aid, abortion arguments at the Supreme Court and other topics. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Jean-Pierre, who’s the primary Black and openly LGBTQ person to function White House press secretary, added: “I want to speak on behalf of my colleagues. I think we’re all very proud to have the vice president as our vice president and for the work we’ve seen him do with the president over the last three and a half years.”

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She added that President Biden can be “proud” of Harris and the intentionally diverse administration they’ve built and led together.

Critics of the event on the USC campus say it goes beyond free speech and exposes students, especially black students, to hate speech and a hostile environment.

Johnson and Murphy of the NAACP indicate of their letter that black female students who spoke out against the “fucking” on campus on social media were subjected to “racist, misogynistic, sexually explicit, and lewd verbal attacks” after Yiannopoulos shared their posts on his social media platform, which has a whole bunch of hundreds of followers.

South Carolina State Senator Tameika Isaac Devine also released letter calling on President Amiridis to cancel the on-campus event. Devine argued that not only did it violate the institution’s discrimination policy, but it surely also sent “the wrong message to students, faculty, alumni, and donors” and would “undermine the progress” the university has made toward reconciliation after previously confronting its “difficult history with race.”

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“I strongly oppose our state-funded institution providing a platform for individuals or groups that promote hatred, division and violence. I strongly urge the university to reconsider hosting such a harmful event,” Devine said.

The NAACP noted that inviting McInnes and Yiannopoulos, specifically, poses a big risk to students and staff on campus. Leaders of the organization identified that extremist leaders and the Proud Boys have a “history of violence,” including the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Right-wing provocateur and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes (center) pumps his fist during a rally at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on April 27, 2017 in Berkeley, California. Protesters gathered in Berkeley to protest the cancellation of a speech by American conservative political commentator Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

“As president, you have a responsibility to protect the students who choose to attend USC, your employees, and campus guests,” the letter said. “We urge you to make the right decision and cancel the proposed event.”

AND petition A student petition calling on the university to withdraw from organizing the coed picnic has collected almost 25,000 signatures. In the list As local TV station Wis10 reported, USC President Amiridis refused to cancel the event, which he said was organized by the coed chapter of Uncensored America and “is not endorsed by the university.”

“We remain steadfast in protecting the First Amendment rights of our students, even when their choices and statements may offend us,” he said.

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Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, has repeatedly been the goal of racist and sexist attacks from Republicans and conservatives. In a recent interview with CNN, Harris, who’s of Jamaican and Indian descent, took the high road when asked about her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, falsely claiming that she decided to “go black” for political reasons.

“Same old, boring instructions. Next question, please,” the vice chairman said.

“I think we’re seeing a fear that we have a very strong candidate and a very qualified candidate who is going to be able to go after Donald Trump and at the same time split the contrast between the two visions of this country,” said U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who’s running for Democratic U.S. Senate in Delaware. Blunt Rochester can be a national co-chair of the Harris-Walz campaign.

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Donald Trump under fire after he was caught on Hot Mic

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In some ways, the White House tried to manage the narrative on Wednesday.

After taking on the rotation of reporters allocated to cover the day by day schedule of the president – work previously carried out by Association of White House Corresponders -President Donald Trump went a step further, asking one in every of the reporters of the brand new within the press pool, together “Fox and Friends” by Lawrence Jones to say to the viewers: “We did a great job, please. Ok? “

“Say it was unbelievable,” said the president after casting the primary meeting of the office of the second term on February 26. The White House was already cut off, however the Audio Associated Press channel remained and captured the moment of a hot microphone.

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US President Donald Trump, to whom the Golf legend of Tiger Woods joined, speaks through the party of the Foreign Black History within the Eastern White House on February 20, 2025 in Washington. (Photo of Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Jones, who has already lobbyed a number of inquiries to Softball for the president (including “Who is your favorite member of the office?”) I didn’t disappoint.

“The president chose members of the office who can really present their ideas and their ideas. He does not have to worry that they will leave and blow up everything-they are on the same side, “said the co-host Steve Doocy.

“I also think it’s great,” Jones replied. “They are guys who normally – and girls – are used to communicate their ideas. They divide the president’s vision and communicate it in such a concise way. I don’t think we’ve ever seen it in administration. “

“It is people who show how uncertain this president is,” said one in every of the critics who responded to a viral report on the moment of Caugh-on-Camera. “He knows that most of them we watched, right?” Someone said.

In fact, the meeting was dominated by Elon Muskwho opened with a weak joke, saying: “Well, I should simply call myself modest technical support,” and from there he initiated. Photos showed that the president was napping through the presentation of Musk.

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Referring to his work as “necessary”, Musk presented one other federal agency within the Doge chopping block. “We spend lots within the defense department, but we spend that over a trillion dollars for interest. If this happens, the country goes, it is going to turn into de facto bankrupt – he said.

Jones was not the one Trump friendly correspondent who joined the press pool on Thursday.

The correspondent of Brian Glenn’s chief house from Real America, perhaps essentially the most absorbing the Networks Pro-Trump network, and the correspondent of the White House Newsmax, James Rosen, were a part of Gaggle, replacing older media, including the Associated Press, which was blocked within the events of the White House for refusing to call the Mexican bay with Mexico with Mexico with Mexico with Mexico with Mexican America after the president announced a change performed by the manager.

Meanwhile, the Association of White House correspondents announced that it might now not coordinate the common range of the White House until the dispute over unlimited access to the media is sustained. Also on Wednesday, the president announced He will sue reporters who use the common practice of anonymous quotes in unfavorable stories or books about it. Such quotes are sometimes used to cause greater honesty from the source, which otherwise might be afraid to talk.

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What does all this mean for residents? Less difficult questions and a more favorable relationship for the president, whose crossing of the management has now not checked by Congress.

This explains why this clip He was on the web on Thursday with “The Simpsons”. When the owner of the nuclear plant, Montgomery Burns, decides to use for the governor, his campaign suggests dinner with the Simpsons family to assist the energy director involved with voters from the working class. Lisa Simpson is forced to ask This is an issue From a guest dinner of a guest:

“Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have a fugitive momentum. Why are you so popular?”

Get used to it.

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USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have been closed

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Countries around the world already feel the influence of Trump’s administration decision to eliminate over 90% of foreign assistance contracts and reduce the financing of around $ 60 billion. A number of hours after the announcement at the starting of this week, The programs have been closed, Leaving tens of millions of individuals without access to life -saving care.

About 10,000 contracts with the American International Development Agency were accomplished on Wednesday, in letters sent to non -governmental organizations around the world.

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Letters said that the programs were rejected “for the convenience and interests of the US government”, based on an individual with knowledge of the content that they spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk publicly on this subject.

Many programs are present in the fragile countries that are highly depending on American help with a purpose to support healthcare systems, nutrition programs and stop hunger.

Here, several key projects around the world, which AP confirmed, have been closed:

1: In Congo, the motion of a bunch of help against hunger will stop to treat tens of hundreds of malnourished children from May, which, based on a charity, will make children put children in “deadly danger”.

2: According to the Committee on Cadastral Risk Management in Ethiopia in Ethiopia, help stopped for over 1 million people. The Ministry of Health was also forced to terminate the contract of 5,000 employees throughout the country, focused on stopping HIV and malaria, vaccination and assist in a difficult situation in coping with the trauma of war.

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3: In Senegal, the largest malaria project was closed. According to a USAID worker, who was not authorized to talk over with the media. Mother and youngsters’s health and nutrition services were also closed. They provided look after tens of hundreds of pregnant women and treatment that would prevent acute malnutrition.

4: In South Sudan, the International Emergency Committee closed a project that provides access to prime quality health and nutrition services over 115,000 people.

5: The program closed by the Norwegian refugee council in Colombia left 50,000 people without saving their lives, including in the northeast, where the growing violence caused a humanitarian crisis once a generation. This included food, shelter, clean water and other basic items for people displaced in the region.

6: According to the International Rescue Committee, 90 community cuisines closed in the capital in the torn war of Sudan, leaving greater than half 1,000,000 people without consistent access to food.

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7: According to Bangladesh, 600,000 women and youngsters will lose access to mother’s critical health care, protection against violence, reproductive health services and other life -saving care, in accordance with the United Nations Fund.

8. In small critical assistance, equivalent to access to water, food and health services for over 270,000 people, based on a help group, which didn’t wish to be listed for fear of repression.

9. Over 400,000 people in North Burkina Faso lost access to services equivalent to water. According to the help group, which didn’t want to get replaced for fear of a repressiveist.

File-Somalians who escaped from the affected areas are sitting in a makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital of Mogadishu, Somalia on February 4, 2022 (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Abdi Warsameh, File)

10. In Somalia, 50 health centers serving over 19,000 people were closed per thirty days because health care employees are not paid, based on the American help group.

11. In Ukraine, based on money, humanitarian programs, which last yr reached 1 million people, were suspended, based on the spokesman for the Secretary General of the UN.

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12. Hundreds of mobile health teams and other services were suspended in Afghanistan, they concerned 9 million people, based on the UN spokesperson.

13. According to the UN Secretary General in Syria in Syria, for about 2.5 million people in the northeast of the country ceased to supply services. Also in the north, a dozen or so health clinics, including the primary hospital recommending this area, closed, said doctors without borderlines.

14. In Kenya, over 600,000 people living in drought -harassed areas and chronic sharp malnutrition will lose their access to the rescue lifetime of food and nutrition, based on Mercy Corps.

Officials say that Trump's administration plans to lower the entire part of the USAID work

15. At Haiti, 13,000 people lost access to dietary support, in accordance with actions against hunger.

16. In Thailand, hospitals help around 100,000 Refugees from Myanmar According to the Border Consortium of the Help Group, closed.

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17. According to the International Emergency Committee in Nigeria, 25,000 extremely malnourished children will stop to receive food assistance until April.

18. A program to enhance access to warning systems for disabled people for disabled people was detained in the Philippines.

19. In Vietnam, a program helping disabled people through training carers and providing medical care at home stopped, in accordance with humanity and integration.

20. In Yemen, 220,000 resettled people will lose access to mother’s critical health care, protection against violence, treatment of rape and other life -saving care, in accordance with the United Nations Fund.

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The Associated Press Writers Sylvie Corbet got here in Paris, France, Robert Badendieck in Istanbul, Turkey, Evelyn Musambi in Nairobi, Kenya, Thalia Beata in New York and Edith Lederer in the United births contributed to this report.

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Speaker of the New York Council Adrienne Adams is considering Burmoral Run

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NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams ‘Seriously Considering’ Mayoral Run


The speaker of the City Council in New York Adrienne Adams submitted documents to the financial council of the New York campaign to be able to create a campaign committee in the upcoming mayor’s race.

“We currently have chaos and we have reduced confidence in the other side of the town hall,” Adams said in an interview with Gothamist. “That is why I am seriously considering the campaign to become the first woman of the mayor of New York.”

In addition to becoming the first woman chosen as the mayor, Adams could be the first black woman and the first speaker of the city council who took the highest elected place in New York.

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confirmed that Adams would do it Wait until the next week to make the final decision to launch. It is expected to offer the address of the “city state” on March 4.

“I wasn’t looking for it; It was not in my plans – she said, adding, “I believe someone have to be the soul of the city.”

A possible Adams offer for the mayor comes amongst the precipitation with the current mayor, Eric Adams. Adams, who is not related to the mayor, recently joined other city leaders, asking him to subside because of the corruption scandal.

If he joins the race, Adams will join the crowded, qualified field. Comptroller City Brad Lander and his predecessor Scott Stringer, Queens Assemblymber Zohran Mamdani, senator of the state Queens Jessica Ramos and senator of State Brooklyn Zellor Myrie.

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There were also rumors that the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was considering returning to politics and applying for the mayor.

A recent survey with the Honan Strategy Group showed that Cuomo has a most important role in a democratic basic race of 38%. Mamdani is second at 12%, and the mayor of Adams is in third place with 10%. The Adams speaker received only 2% support from survey respondents.

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