The Trump campaign continued to push false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, even after a top city leader told a campaign staffer for its vice presidential nominee ahead of this month’s presidential debate the rumors were “baseless,

The Ohio Council of Churches expressed solidarity with Haitian migrants and condemned rumors about them eating people's pets.

Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance’s staff was told by Springfield officials that a racially charged rumor Vance had been amplifying was false, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Despite a wave of death and bomb threats directed at the community,