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Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot and killed a Milwaukee man on July 16, fueling anger from residents who questioned why out-of-state officers were in their neighborhood located about a mile from the convention site. The man was shot by five officers with the Columbus, Ohio, police department, according to a statement released by that city’s police division. Thousands of officers from multiple jurisdictions are in Milwaukee providing additional security for the convention that began July 15 and concludes on July 18. The Columbus Police Department, as well as the chief of staff for...

A city park designated for protesters at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was almost empty on the second day of the event, July 16. Police officers on bicycles and event staff in orange shirts were present at Zeidler Union Square, but no speakers had shown up by early afternoon. The park is less than a mile from where the convention is being held and one of two set aside for protesters by the city. The quiet scene came a day after the March on the RNC coalition of protesters marched through downtown streets advocating for reproductive rights, solidarity...

Cheering GOP delegates formally nominated Donald Trump for president, despite being a convicted felon, as the Republican National Convention kickoff on July 15, less than two days after his brush with gun violence at a political rally. Their vote made it official that Trump, who has long been the presumptive nominee, will lead the GOP in a third consecutive election. The winner in 2016, he lost to current President Joe Biden in 2020. In November, he will again face Biden. Hours after the vote, Trump chose Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, picking a onetime critic...

Donald Trump went into the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 15 with his usual false promises about fixing an already healthy U.S. economy, offering a sketchy plan and very few details about how it would actually work. Because the U.S. economy is a diverse and sprawling behemoth, it is possible to have a solid job market and problematically high inflation at the same time – especially after the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But nuance died a long time ago at political party conventions. That was why the convention speech...