Vice President Kamala Harris had a town hall in Pennsylvania Wednesday night, and former President Donald Trump gave a 90-minute speech in Michigan. Plus, actor Bethany Joy Lenz opens up about her life in a religious cult, and what a woman learned after her friends didn't show up for her when her daughter was undergoing treatment for cancer.
Kamala Harris referred to Donald Trump as a "fascist" for the first time in public at a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania on Wednesday night, a day after Trump's former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said the former president met "the general definition of a fascist." As Election Day approaches in less than two weeks, Harris said during the town hall that voters care about "not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist." She also called Kelly's comments a "911 call to the American people." Trump gave his own speech in Michigan Wednesday night, criticizing the city of Detroit, Harris, her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and more. Continue reading.
Actor Bethany Joy Lenz said that for more than 10 years she was in a religious cult based in the Pacific Northwest that she identified as the Big House Family. Lenz, 43, wrote in her new memoir that she married the son of the charismatic group leader, welcomed a daughter and had more than $2 million "siphoned" from her financial accounts. She told TODAY.com that acting on "One Tree Hill" helped save her during that time. "It really kept alive for me this sense of authenticity," she said. Continue reading.
Writer Elizabeth Austin shared in an essay for TODAY.com how her close friends started falling out of touch as time went on while Austin's daughter Carolyn, 8, was being treated for cancer. It culminated in an emotional moment of seeing the group gathered at a local bar without her. However, the difficult scene ultimately resulted in her coming to the realization that her friends were not "heartless or unfeeling" and that "relationships can survive even when they falter." Read the full essay.
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Kira Nixon was 4 years old in 1992 when she announced to her dad on camera that she was going to marry a boy named Timmy Nixon. In a video she shared on Instagram, that cute moment as a kid cuts to 22 years later and shows the prophecy coming true when Kira ties the knot with Timmy Nixon in 2014. The couple had reconnected in their Canadian hometown in their 20s after Kira's family moved away when she was in elementary school. "Wow this is beyond sweet. Something you'd only see in a movie," one commenter wrote. See the video.
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