Video

A pet-loving part-time musician is fast becoming a global star by gently poking fun at Donald Trump for suggesting that Haitian immigrants are making a meal of America's cats and dogs.

"Eating the cats", a parody song by The Kiffness which sets to music Trump's extraordinary claims during the US presidential debate that migrants in Ohio "are eating the dogs, eating the cats", has been viewed more than 8.7 million times on YouTube alone in 12 days.

With less than six weeks until Election Day and early voting already underway in four states, Donald Trump seems to have locked in on his closing message for what he acknowledges will be his final presidential campaign if he loses in November. It’s the same message that launched his political career nine years ago: attacking immigrants.

In a sign anti-immigrant sentiment is the highest it's been in over two decades, Gallup reports as of June, 55% of Americans want to see immigration decreased. In October of 2001, following the September 11 terror attacks, 58% wanted immigration decreased.

A heated discussion erupted Monday night on CNN over a racially charged attack on Haitian immigrants Wednesday by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA).

The Louisiana lawmaker quietly deleted a social media post dubbing Haitians pet-eating "thugs" after the House's Black Caucus chair told him to take it down.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday night he felt “shock and concern for our city” when he learned Wednesday that Mayor Eric Adams was indicted as part of a federal corruption probe, adding that he has “two different feelings at this moment.”

“And then another is a very strong reminder that innocent until proven guilty is the American way,” de Blasio told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview Wednesday evening on her show "The Source."

A racially charged attack on Haitian immigrants Wednesday by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) drew a strong rebuke from the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus hours later, who called on the "hateful rhetoric to stop.”

“It’s this type of racist intolerance, this divisive rhetoric that must stop,” Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) told Anderson Cooper in an interview Wednesday evening. “It’s time to turn the page, as Vice President Kamala Harris has said, against this divisiveness that pits one group of Americans against another.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson gave himself a pat on the back on Wednesday as he defended his tenure from critics including firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Johnson told reporters at an impromptu news conference that his speakership term was among the most difficult ever.

Vice President Kamala Harris jabbed former President Donald Trump on one of his signature campaign issues when she told an MSNBC host the former president is “just not very serious” about how he thinks about economic issues.

“Part of it is you don’t just throw around the idea of just tariffs across the board and that’s part of the problem with Donald Trump – frankly I’m going to, and I say this in all sincerity, he’s just not very serious about how he thinks about some of these issues and one must be serious and have a plan and a real plan that’s not just about some talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally,” she told interview Stephanie Ruhle, host of "The 11th Hour."

Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back at her MSNBC interviewer Wednesday evening over a controversial claim about former President Donald Trump.

"The 11th Hour host" Stephanie Ruhle grilled Harris about her new economic policy plan in an exclusive interview during which she tried to fact-check Harris — and found herself checked in return.

After Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a major economic speech Wednesday, billionaire entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" investor Mark Cuban called former President Donald Trump — whom he's known for decades — nothing more than a salesman, and said Harris is the one in charge.

Cuban was on hand at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace after Harris' speech. Cuban walked through his experience with the ex-president.

Former President Donald Trump faulted Vice President Kamala Harris by claiming she "talked about the birds and the bees" during a recent debate on ABC News.

While speaking to a group of supporters in North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump asserted that the debate was "three on one" because the moderators and Harris fact-checked him.

At a rally in Pennsylvania this week the Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump, extended his attacks on Haitian immigrants, claiming that they have "inundated" small towns in the Keystone State in what he called an "invasion."

The ex-president this time did not accuse the Haitian immigrants of "eating the cats" and "eating the dogs" of local residents, as he did, falsely, weeks ago when he and his running mate, JD Vance, targeted Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. But he did claim – falsely – that Haitian immigrants have "virtually bankrupt" the town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a manufacturing town of about 4000 with strong ties to the glassmaking industry, including Pyrex. The town is also known as the birthplace of actress and singer Shirley Jones.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee, vowed Wednesday to open an investigation into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent trip to Pennsylvania after he called Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance "radical."

On the same day Zelenskyy toured a weapons plant in Pennsylvania, the Ukrainian leader told The New Yorker that the war should not end at the expense of his country's territories. Zelenskyy lamented that Vance was "too radical" to be Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate.