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A newspaper in Arizona has reportedly received death threats for its first-time endorsement of a Democratic candidate in more than a century. The threats to the Arizona Republic editorial board included: “You’re dead. Watch your back”, and “You should be put in front of a firing squad as a traitor”. In an op-ed, Mi-Ai Parrish, president the newspaper and Republic Media, …

What is the correct response to these threats? Today, I offer you a few. As someone who has spent a career in the business of words, it’s unusual to find myself speechless. Yet, there I was, a little more than two weeks ago. What is the correct response, really, to this? YOU’RE DEAD. WATCH YOUR BACK. WE WILL BURN YOU …

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: When The Arizona Republic endorsed a Democrat for president for the first time in its more than 125-year history, the newspaper didn’t just get angry responses. They got death threats. So the paper’s publisher, Mi-Ai Parrish, responded in an essay that has now gone viral. In it, she spoke directly to people who made the threats and …

Taking to Twitter Sunday afternoon, Trump alleged that “animals” representing Clinton and Democrats in North Carolina had helped destroy the Republican Party’s offices in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Trump didn’t provide any evidence for the claim that people representing Clinton were behind what Republican officials in North Carolina are calling “an act of political terrorism.” (Trump did say the attack occurred …

But they agree on one thing – the tone of this presidential campaign is not one to be proud of. “I don’t think morality is relative,” said Ribble, a Republican retiring from Congress who announced over a year ago that he would not support Trump, in a separate interview. “It’s absolutely static. There’s a right and a wrong to things. …

The 15-year-old daughter of U.S. Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot in Kentucky on Sunday. A bullet struck her in the neck during an exchange of fire between two vehicles in a restaurant parking lot. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke joined the FOX Business Network’s Varney & Co. to discuss the incident and inner city crime. “My first question …

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a vocal backer of Donald Trump, is urging Americans to take up pitchforks and torches, as the GOP nominee claims that the presidential election is rigged against him. Clarke, who has called the Occupy and Black Lives Matter protests“anarchy,” made the call to arms on Twitter Saturday. He also complained about branches of government and media of being corrupt. …

Responding to the bombing of the Republican Party’s offices in Hillsborough, North Carolina, Donald Trump, with what is becoming all-too-familiar intemperateness, chose to use the incident to tie the attack to Hillary Clinton while claiming it was triggered by Trump leading in the polls of the state. A couple of key points here: Authorities have not given any indication Clinton or …

A firebomb tore through the Republican Party headquarters in North Carolina’s Orange County on Saturday night, and graffiti warning its members to flee town was painted on the walls of a neighboring building, the party and police officials said on Sunday. The party posted images on Twitter of the damaged building in Hillsborough, N.C., on Sunday afternoon that showed blackened …

Gov. Pat McCrory Sunday called the weekend firebombing of a North Carolina Republican headquarters “an attack on our democracy,” while one GOP official called it an act of “political terrorism.” In a tweet, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump blamed “Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina.” Hillsborough police said somebody threw a bottle of flammable liquid through the …