Washington state man charged with helping Canadian mass shooter plan for attack

A key Republican Super PAC is putting $5 million to support Sen. Darline Graham in the South Carolina Senate race, sources familiar with the investment confirmed on Tuesday, as President Trump is escalating his attacks against her opponent, Democrat Annie Andrews.

It was designed to be a striking display of support for Israel during a week of remembrance of the deadly Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. But the symbolic gesture outside a church in McKinney, Texas, has instead made it a target of threats and vandalism. Len McLaughlin, senior pastor of Heritage Church, had 1,200 small Israeli flags placed around the property in memory of the approximately 1,200 victims of the deadly attack on Israel by the militant group Hamas that took place three years ago Wednesday.

Republican Zach Lahn and Democrat Rob Sand repeatedly returned to one topic in their first debate Tuesday night in the race to be Iowa’s next governor: questions about Lahn’s residency history in the state. Sand, the state auditor, and Lahn, a businessman, met in Davenport as they run to succeed retiring Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in an unusually competitive race for a state that has trended to the right in recent years.

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson clashed Tuesday night during their only scheduled debate of this fall’s race for governor in Georgia.