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At a campaign stop last week in New Hampshire, Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc told supporters a right-wing urban legend meant to suggest that the world has gone crazy when it comes to gender and recognizing a person's identity.
In audio obtained by CNN, Bolduc, a retired Army general who is in a tight contest against Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan, claimed that schools across the state were providing students litter boxes because so many of them were identifying as cats.
"I wish I was making it up," Bolduc said.
While he didn't invent the tale — it's shown up in other Republican campaigns too — one of the schools he identified as catering to kids who think they're cats said Monday that it is completely bogus.
"We want to assure our community that Mr. Bolduc's statements are entirely untrue," Pinkerton Academy, a high school with...
A federal jury has convicted a San Francisco man of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with a scheme involving fraudulent insurance claims on already-wrecked vehicles, pros...