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Antisemitism allegations affect Le Pen campaign

PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, her National Rally party and its allies closed ranks Tuesday behind her running mate in next year’s presidential election, Jordan Bardella, in the face of media accusations that he made antisemitic remarks as a young party member. The 31-year-old Bardella, who Le Pen says will be her prime minister if she wins the presidency in May, vigorously denied authorship of the comments about supposed Jewish banking monopolies and other antisemitic conspiracy theories that investigative website Mediapart attributed to him and published ...

Former counsel Smith appears in hearing

WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith forcefully defended his prosecutions of President Donald Trump and his investigative tactics, pushing back against repeated Republican criticism in a congressional hearing Tuesday that featured a senator’s bungled attempt to accuse him of ...

Supreme Court temporarily allows quick deportations

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump’s administration continue swiftly deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal. The apparent 6-3 order temporarily lifts lower court requirements for migrants to get a chance to object before being sent to countries to which they have no ties. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have kept the lower court order in place. The Trump administration said last ...

Juniata Elementary School students learn about fire safety

Juniata Elementary School students learned about fire safety awareness Tuesday as the Logan Township United and Altoona fire departments visit each of the Altoona Area School District’s eight elementary schools throughout October for fire prevention month. Students in kindergarten through ...

Harrisburg man won’t get new trial in Johnstown rape

A state appeals court last week refused to grant a new trial to a Harrisburg man who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for a rape committed in Johnstown a decade ago. The issue before the Pennsylvania Superior Court was that the prosecution withheld information that the victim in 2002, ...