CHICAGO — In his history as a candidate for president, Donald Trump has never experienced anything like the past month. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Black and Indian American woman, has pushed the White alpha male to the sidelines of the national conversation, denying him the spotlight he craves and constantly demands. Democrats concluded their electrifying national convention here on ...
CHICAGO — As invigorated Democrats celebrated Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination this week, some of them were doing so with a wary eye on new developments in what they fear could be efforts by former president Donald Trump’s allies to create doubt about the election and muddy the result should it not go his way. Nearly 700 miles to the ...
Under an image of the Statue of Liberty, set against a waving American flag, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website describes the agency’s commitment to “nondiscrimination in the workforce.” CBP’s self-praise includes its dedication “to preserving individual liberty, fairness and equality under the law.” But those notions of nondiscrimination and fairness took a big hit last week with a ...
Evelyn Lees was hiking across the mountains of northern New Jersey on Monday afternoon when her cellphone screen lit up with a notification that made the Puerto Rican middle school science teacher leap with joy: the Harris-Walz campaign had launched a bilingual WhatsApp channel for Latino voters. Lees, 53, said she ran to her car and immediately joined “Latinos con ...
CHICAGO — Democrats worried that protesters might derail their shining moment this week, pushing the spotlight from Vice President Kamala Harris to the devastation in the Gaza Strip. Republicans claimed that the Democratic National Convention was spiraling into chaos, disparaging this host city as a “Third World country.” But as the party wrapped up its four-day gathering Thursday night, the ...
President Biden wants to establish an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices, but the lame-duck president has been criticized over his own apparent conflicts of interest, including his relationship with friend and billionaire donor Joe Kiani. Following his address at the Democratic National Convention Monday, Biden and his family flew to Santa Ynez, California, to vacation at Kiani’s ranch-style ...
President Biden wants to establish an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices, but the lame-duck president has been criticized over his own apparent conflicts of interest, including his relationship with friend and billionaire donor Joe Kiani. Following his address at the Democratic National Convention Monday, Biden and his family flew to Santa Ynez, California, to vacation at Kiani’s ranch-style ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoricbut not many facts easily checked. Here are five claims made by Harris that caught our attention, in the order in which they were made. As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios for a roundup of statements made ...
CHICAGO – One month after replacing President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination as she delivered the most important speech of her political career. In a roughly 40 minute speech that was the crowning and concluding moment of the four-day Democratic National Convention in Chicago’s United Center, the vice president promised ...
CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, using the most consequential speech of her political career to cast herself as an avatar of America’s middle class and an avenue to usher the country away from the abrasive style of politics embraced by Republican nominee Donald Trump. “Our nation with this election has a precious, fleeting ...