Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host), page 3

Meta bans RT, which had 7.2 million followers on Facebook and 1 million followers on Instagram. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/meta-bans-rt-days-after-us-accuses-russian-outlet-of-disinformation.html

NY Post - Sean “Diddy” Combs arrested in NYC amid a federal investigation in sex trafficking allegations. https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-arrested-in-nyc-amid-sex-trafficking-investigation/

The Trump assassination attempt suspect "did not fire or get off any shots at our agent," the acting director of the US Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, tells reporters, adding that the gunman never had the former president in line of sight.

From the White House: “The President and Vice President have been briefed about the security incident at the Trump International Golf Course, where former President Trump was golfing. They are relieved to know that he is safe. They will be kept regularly updated by their team.”

Trump campaign says the former president is safe following gunshots nearby.

CBS News - A male with a high-powered rifle was seen near the golf course in Florida, around 2 p.m. The man was pointing the rifle at the golf course where the former president was located at the time, and U.S. Secret Service agents engaged the suspect, firing multiple shots. The suspect attempted to flee. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-gunshots-safe-florida/

"I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America." - VP Kamala Harris

CBS News - Seventeen former staff members of the late Republican President Ronald Reagan are endorsing the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-reagan-former-staff-back-harris-walz-ticket/

Donald Trump this morning posts on his social media platform “it is not possible” for the US Postal Service “to run the 2024 Presidential Election.”

Over one quarter of younger Black men support Republican candidate Donald Trump in this year's presidential election, according to an NAACP poll. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-four-us-black-men-under-50-support-trump-president-naacp-poll-finds-2024-09-13/

Harris campaign spokesman James Singer calls Trump’s California news conference at his golf course today “bizarre” and that the Republican nominee said “‘nothing was done wrong’ in Charlottesville when neo-Nazis marched there, defended hanging out with a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and doubled down on the conspiracy theories ripping an Ohio community apart.”

The Haitian community in the US "is under attack right now," says President Biden. "This has to stop!"

Germany sends its first navy warship through the Taiwan Strait in 22 years. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/taiwanstrasse-bundeswehr-marine-durchfahrt-china-protest-100.html

“I’m not sure I’m the most credible source because I don’t actually know the person who lost the cat,” Kimberly Newton told NewsGuard. She is the Springfield, Ohio, resident whose story started it all. https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-haitians-eating-pets-claim

NPR - Twice this past summer, Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster has featured speeches from a rioter convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, who has a well-documented history of extreme antisemitic and racist rants. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5107435/trump-capitol-riot-antisemitic-bedminster

(Reuters) - A Georgia judge has dismissed two criminal counts in the state's 2020 election interference case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and one other count against allies of the former president.

Trump says he won’t debate Harris again.

UNRWA says six of its Gaza staff members were killed today when two airstrikes hit a school and its surroundings in Nuseirat. “This is the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident.”

Here's what former President Trump has posted on his social media platform less than four hours before he faces off with VP Harris here in Philadelphia.

(Reuters) - DirecTV has rejected the Walt Disney Co. offer to restore the ABC network to subscribers to watch tonight's US presidential debate, which ABC News is hosting. A spokesman for DirecTV told Reuters restoring the ABC network for three hours would be confusing to subscribers, who are able to watch the debate via other networks.