Former President Donald J. Trump is trying to persuade a potentially decisive group of Arab and Muslim voters to vote for him, even as he spent years insulting and demonizing them.
Around 1,000 soldiers from emergency response units have been deployed to the affected areas and the death toll is expected to rise after one of the worst natural disasters to hit the country in recent years.
Police said they found ricin and an Al Qaeda training manual at the suspect's home. The attack on little girls at a Taylor Swift-themed event has fueled anti-immigration sentiment.
The presidential candidate's mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer researcher whose egalitarian politics often clashed with the lab's patriarchal culture.