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Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for President as the presumptive Democratic candidate during an event at West Allis Central High School, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in West Allis, Wis.

Harris tells roaring Wisconsin crowd November election is ‘a choice between freedom and chaos’

July 23, 2024, 1:55pm Latest News

A roaring crowd of battleground state voters greeted Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday as she opened her Democratic political case against Republican former President Donald Trump. Read story

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle prepares to testify about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, at the Capitol, Monday, July 22, 2024 in Washington.

Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally

July 23, 2024, 1:44pm Latest News

The director of the Secret Service said Tuesday she is resigning following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump that unleashed intensifying outcry about how the agency tasked with protecting current and former presidents could fail in its core mission. Read story

FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate, Nov. 20, 2019, in Atlanta. Harris’ first presidential run showed potential on the debate stage. But it also involved a struggle to find a core message. Democrats say that was as much about the difficult scramble in a big primary field. In 2024, they argue, she would be able leverage the best of her 2020 effort in a matchup against one man: former President Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris is preparing to lead Democrats in 2024. There are lessons from her 2020 bid

July 23, 2024, 1:28pm Nation & World

Kamala Harris was greeted by a massive, cheering crowd during the first rally of her newly announced presidential campaign in 2019. Speaking on a January day outside city hall in her hometown of Oakland, California, she framed her bid as part of something bigger than winning an election. Read story

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., leaves federal court in New York, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Menendez has been convicted of all the charges he faced at his corruption trial, including accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government.

US Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is resigning from office following his corruption conviction

July 23, 2024, 12:00pm Nation & World

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is resigning from office Aug. 20 following his conviction for taking bribes for corrupt acts including acting as an agent of the Egyptian government, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Read story

FILE - Republican Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance speaks as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens at a campaign rally at Wright Bros. Aero Inc. at Dayton International Airport, Nov. 7, 2022, in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump says Vance will be his vice presidential pick for 2024. He says on his Truth Social Network that, “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D.

Clip resurfaces of Vance criticizing Harris for being ‘childless,’ testing Trump’s new running mate

July 23, 2024, 11:56am Nation & World

Comments Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ leadership because she did not have biological children have resurfaced, testing the young conservative senator in his early days campaigning as part of Republicans' presidential ticket. Read story

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. annual convention during the 71st biennial Boule at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. The #WinWithBlackWomen network says more than 40,000 Black women joined a Zoom call to support Harris on Sunday, July 21, hours after Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris, and that the meeting was streamed to another 50,000 via other platforms.

‘We were built for this moment’: Black women rally around Kamala Harris

July 23, 2024, 11:41am Nation & World

Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and allies logged on at the same time to support her brand-new presidential campaign. Read story

3 Army Reserve officers disciplined after reservist killed 18 people in Maine

July 23, 2024, 9:51am Nation & World

Three Army Reserve officers were disciplined for dereliction of duty in the aftermath of a rampage in which a reservist killed 18 people in Maine, according to an Army report that cited communication failures within the chain of command, and between military and civilian hospitals, among other shortcomings revealed during… Read story

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, look on during an event for Fatah and Hamas in signing the “Beijing declaration” at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

Rivals Hamas and Fatah sign a declaration to form a future government as war rages in Gaza