Congressional Hispanic caucus joins Harris, Biden and others in condemning rhetoric at rally where one speaker called Puerto Rico an ‘island of garbage’

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Here’s our story of the resignation of Washington Post columnist Michele Norris, the latest high profile writer to leave the newspaper in protest at its decision not to endorse a candidate in next week’s presidential election.

Norris says the Post’s non-call was a “terrible mistake & an insult to the paper’s own longstanding standard of regularly endorsing candidates since 1976”.