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'Mother Of Dragons' Nancy Pelosi Revives Biden Campaign Message: Save Democracy
"Onward to victory!" said the former House speaker, who played a key role in persuading Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid and endorse Kamala Harris.
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Watch the Obama joke everyone is talking about from the DNC
Obama slammed Donald Trump's "weird obsession with crowd sizes" during his DNC speech on Tuesday.
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Oprah endorses Harris at DNC: Freedom 'requires standing up to life's bullies'
Oprah Winfrey made a direct pitch that Vice President Kamala Harris would offer more “joy” compared to the darker warnings of former President Donald Trump.
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NY state urges appeals court to uphold Donald Trump’s nearly $500 million civil fraud judgment
New York state lawyers urged an appeals court late Wednesday to uphold Donald Trump’s nearly $500 million civil fraud judgment, arguing there's “overwhelming evidence” to support a judge's finding that the former president lied for years about his wealth as he built his real estate empire. In paperwork filed ahead of oral arguments next month, New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office said the current Republican nominee's appeal is awash in “meritless legal arguments” and ignores volumes
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Democratic Convention Denies Speaking Spot To Gaza War Critics
Arab Americans and other critics of Biden's near-total support for the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian region had sought to address convention delegates.
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Judge lays out schedule for Hunter Biden’s tax trial at tense hearing
The hearing included tense moments between the prosecution and defense over what evidence could be presented at trial pertaining to Biden’s addiction problems.
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Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. lobbied RFK Jr. to drop out and endorse Trump
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign pulled back from public view in recent months, a group close to former President Donald Trump was working behind the scenes to pull him into their corner.
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How Harris has supercharged Democratic fundraising: From the Politics Desk
The Democratic presidential ticket's online fundraising has skyrocketed since Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the party's nominee.
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Jamie Dimon's name keeps being floated for a spot in the White House — by both parties
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has been considered for the Treasury Secretary role by Donald Trump and Harris' circle, according to reports.
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With Harris on the march, Trump aims to shore up North Carolina
Kamala Harris’ ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket has forced Donald Trump to direct more resources to battleground North Carolina.
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Utah lawmakers want voters to give them the power to change ballot measures once they've passed
Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature will ask voters in November to relinquish some of their rights to lawmakers who want the ability to change state ballot measures after they’ve passed. Frustrated by a recent state Supreme Court ruling, lawmakers called a special session Wednesday in which both chambers swiftly approved an amendment to Utah’s constitution that would grant them greater power over citizen initiatives. The Legislature used its broadly worded emergency powers to hold the ses
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Matt Gaetz Celebrates Primary Win By Rubbing It In Ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Face
After eight House GOP members helped oust Kevin McCarthy last fall, he vowed revenge. It didn’t turn out the way he planned.
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Vance says Trump is 'working hard' for a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsement
JD Vance said in an interview Wednesday that Donald Trump is actively seeking independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement, but Vance emphasized that there is no deal in place offering a role in a future administration to secure his backing.
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Nancy Pelosi thanked Biden for his wins, as she said Harris will take US to new heights
Nancy Pelosi opened her convention speech with a sense of gratitude for President Joe Biden, even after her doubts about his campaign fed into the pressures that led him to end his reelection effort. “Thank you, Joe,” Pelosi said after going through Biden's legislative achievements. Then the former House speaker added, “I know that Vice President Harris is ready to take us to new heights.”
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Company that sent AI calls mimicking Joe Biden to New Hampshire voters agrees to pay $1 million fine
A company that sent deceptive calls to New Hampshire voters using artificial intelligence to mimic President Joe Biden’s voice agreed Wednesday to pay a $1 million fine, federal regulators said. Lingo Telecom, the voice service provider that transmitted the robocalls, agreed to the settlement to resolve enforcement action taken by the Federal Communications Commission, which had initially sought a $2 million fine. Meanwhile Steve Kramer, a political consultant who orchestrated the calls, still
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Bill Pascrell, longtime N.J. congressman and fierce Trump critic, dies at 87
WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell, whose career in rough-and-tumble New Jersey politics spanned four decades and who in his later years became known for his sharp barbs against Donald Trump, died Wednesday, his family said in a statement on his official X account.
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Hillary Clinton never campaigned in swing state Wisconsin in 2016. Kamala Harris isn't making that mistake.
Democrats are aiming to once again win Wisconsin, a foundational core of the party's "blue wall" that Donald Trump breached in 2016.
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US bank regulator taps ex-prosecutor to oversee 'cultural transformation'
The appointment of Carrie Cohen, currently of the corporate law firm Morrison Foerster, is the FDIC's latest step in addressing a sexual harassment scandal that forced the resignation of its chair, Martin Gruenberg, earlier this year. The U.S. Senate has yet to vote on President Joe Biden's nominee to succeed Gruenberg, Christy Goldsmith Romero, who now serves on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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RFK Jr. in talks about a possible endorsement of Trump
Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. have been facilitating conversations for months.
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The Obamas, Clinton and DNC go hard, not high, targeting Trump
At the Democratic National Convention, the joke's on Donald Trump.
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Ohio identifies 597 noncitizens who voted or registered in recent elections
Ohio’s elections chief on Wednesday referred for possible prosecution 597 apparent noncitizens who either registered to vote or cast a ballot in a recent election — a higher number than he normally finds but still a tiny fraction of the state’s electorate. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said that of those cases, 138 were found to have cast ballots and 459 registered but did not vote. Earlier this year, LaRose launched an audit of the state's voter registration database that resulte
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Democrats get a third-party hopeful knocked off Pennsylvania ballot, as Cornel West tries to get on
Pennsylvania Democrats have won legal challenges keeping the left-wing Party for Socialism and Liberation off the battleground state's presidential ballot, at least for now, while a lawyer with deep Republican Party ties is working to help independent candidate Cornel West get on it. The court cases are among a raft of partisan legal maneuvering around third-party candidates seeking to get on Pennsylvania’s ballot, including a pending challenge by Democrats to the filing in Pennsylvania by inde
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Democrats push tensions below the surface as the party sprints to beat Trump
Despite the celebratory feel of the Democratic convention, the tensions coursing through the party ever since President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid are bursting into public view.
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Telecom company agrees to $1M fine over Biden deepfake
A telecom company has agreed to pay a $1 million fine for its role in the deepfake robocall that impersonated Joe Biden’s voice ahead of this year's New Hampshire Democratic primary.
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How School Lunch Became A Symbol Of Tim Walz's Appeal To Voters
Making school lunch free for all students was a popular change Walz enacted as governor of Minnesota — but a national program would face long odds in Congress.
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Trump slams Harris' call for a price-gouging ban, but 37 states already have their own
Harris' plan wouldn’t amount to price controls but would police “excessive” hikes on essentials — a goal Trump and GOP states have pursued in different forms.
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How Trump’s Behavior Keeps Undermining His Most Effective Message
The Republican wants voters to focus on public safety, but his behavior doesn’t make anyone feel safe.
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Biden's immigration plan for undocumented spouses could transform lives — and the election
Some 60,000 immigrants married to U.S. citizens and eligible for Biden's "parole in place" program live in swing states.
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Former US president Carter, nearing 100, excited to vote for Harris, grandson says
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 99, is eagerly awaiting his chance to cast a ballot for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris this fall even as he approaches his 100th birthday, his grandson said on Wednesday. Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from between 1977 and early 1981, has been in hospice care for about 18 months and suffered the loss of his wife Rosalynn last year. "He's super aware," Jason Carter said.
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Democrats use AI in effort to stay ahead with Latino and Black voters
Party tries experimental tech to persuade voters of color to choose Kamala Harris over Donald Trump
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Obama says Harris would make the economy fairer as president — while Trump would help his rich friends
Barack Obama said Kamala Harris would widen access to good jobs, schools, and housing, while Donald Trump would cut taxes to enrich his backers.
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Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat
President Joe Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal. The shift comes as the Pentagon believes China’s stockpiles will rival the size and diversity of the United States’ and Russia’s over the next decade. The White House never announced that Biden had approved the revised strategy, called the “Nuclear Employment Guidance,” w
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Schools stare down fiscal cliff as federal pandemic aid runs out
Congress allocated roughly $190 billion to address problems like learning loss and chronic absenteeism, but that money disappears at the end of September.
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Michelle Obama: The office Trump seeks 'might just be one of those Black jobs'
Eight years ago, then-First Lady Michelle Obama implored fellow Democrats to take an urbane approach to battling Donald Trump. This year, she pivoted to more direct confrontation.
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In A Boisterous Second Convention Night, Democrats Turned Republican Attacks On Their Head
Democrats held up an unflattering mirror to the GOP's weaknesses, bringing out crowds, repentant former Trump supporters and the nominee's spouse.
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Harris hits 'freedom' theme in rally at the site of Trump's convention
Harris celebrated the ongoing Democratic convention in Chicago with a night away, with swing-state voters in the Milwaukee arena where the GOP gathered in July
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What to watch on the Democratic National Convention's third day in Chicago
The former school teacher and football coach is expected to accept the Democratic nomination as the party makes the case that Americans' fundamental freedoms are at risk if Donald Trump returns to the White House. Former President Bill Clinton, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are also expected to address the convention.
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Obama botched the first handoff. Now, he's hoping Harris can avoid Hillary Clinton's fate against Trump.
Barack Obama briefly praised Joe Biden, but he spent most of his DNC speech talking up Kamala Harris.
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Michelle Obama Asks Who’s Gonna Tell Trump He Might Be Seeking ‘One Of Those Black Jobs’
The former first lady shaded Donald Trump's racist remarks about "Black jobs."
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Chuck Todd: The Democratic Party flexes its institutional strength
Since the onset of the Donald Trump era, the GOP has been in a constant state of disarray, while he has made the Democrats more pragmatic and publicly unified.
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Why protesters outside the DNC have far outnumbered those at the Republicans’ convention
CHICAGO — The protests outside the Democratic National Convention, entering its second day, have already far outnumbered the demonstrations in Milwaukee a month ago, when former President Donald Trump accepted his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention.
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Photos: A visual look at the 2024 Democratic National Convention
Thousands of Democratic delegates officially made Vice President Kamala Harris their nominee earlier this month, and now have reiterated their choice in a celebratory roll call of states. It's one of a number of unprecedented moments to come as part of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Democrats solidified their nomination of the party's first Black woman atop its ticket, as well as the first nominee of South Asian descent. Delegates descended on Chicago after a topsy-t
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Kamala Harris allies say plan to ban ‘price gouging’ has been misconstrued
Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposal last week to ban price gouging in certain sectors has spurred backlash from some Democratic economists, provoked consternation among business groups and emerged quickly as a focus of Donald Trump’s on the campaign trail. Harris’s allies, however, are arguing both publicly and privately that her plans have been taken out of context, and that the idea is a targeted expansion of existing state powers rather than new government “price controls” that would tran
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Incumbents beat DeSantis-backed candidates in Florida school board races
School board candidates in Florida backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis were defeated Tuesday in several counties, results that opponents of the Republican say are a rebuke to his conservative education agenda. Incumbent school board members in one of Florida's largest swing counties appear to have held off a challenge from candidates backed by DeSantis, according to preliminary results.
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RFK Jr.'s running mate outlines 'two options': Drop out and back Trump or 'risk' Harris win
Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, said the campaign faces a choice between either staying in the presidential race — which would "risk" helping Kamala Harris — or dropping out to "join forces" with Donald Trump.
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Georgia lawmaker urges panel to consider better firearms safety rules to deter child gun deaths
A Georgia state senator is trying to change the terms of an entrenched partisan debate, saying he's not interested in restricting gun ownership but in preventing the fatal shooting of children. The statement Tuesday by Decatur Democrat Emanuel Jones reflects the strategies of those who are trying to reduce gun violence in Republican-led states where legislative majorities are locked in behind permissive gun laws. Jones told the first meeting of the Senate Safe Firearm Storage Study Committee t
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett humanizes Harris — and introduces herself to the nation
Shortly after she arrived in Congress from Texas last year, freshman Rep.
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JD Vance Twists Gov. Andy Beshear's Abortion Remarks Into Sick Accusation
Trump's running mate claimed the Kentucky Democrat was "wishing" harm on Vance's family with his comments about pregnancies caused by sexual assault.
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RFK Jr considers dropping out to help Trump, running mate says
Nicole Shanahan says she and independent 2024 candidate could ‘walk away and join forces with Donald Trump’
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Gov. Jim Justice tries to halt foreclosure of his West Virginia hotel as he runs for US Senate
Gov. Jim Justice is in a mad-dash legal fight as he runs for U.S. Senate to keep a historic West Virginia hotel at his luxury resort before it's auctioned off next week due to unpaid debts. Around 400 employees at The Greenbrier hotel received a letter Monday from an attorney representing health care provider Amalgamated National Health Fund saying they will lose coverage Aug. 27 unless the Republican's family pays $2.4 million in missing contributions, Peter Bostic of the Workers United Mid-At
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