Melissa Goldin

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  • FILE – Shoppers walk from the Walmart store, Aug. 14, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)Retail

    Trump keeps touting a Thanksgiving meal basket from Walmart that’s 25% cheaper. But it has half as many items as last year

    By Melissa Goldin and The Associated Press
  • A volunteer sets up an art installation displaying names and faces of people who have been detained, deported, or sent to offshore camps during ICE raids in Southern California, at Olvera Street Plaza in Los Angeles, on Thursday, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Politics

    Trump says he wants to deport ‘the worst of the worst,’ but ICE data shows 72% of people detained have no criminal convictions

    By Melissa Goldin and The Associated Press
  • mail-in ballotPolitics

    Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

    By Melissa Goldin, Mike Catalini, and others
  • Travis Kelce, Taylor SwiftPolitics

    Conspiracy theories that Taylor Swift is a secret Democratic Party mole infiltrating the Super Bowl infiltrate right-wing social media

    By Melissa Goldin and The Associated Press