The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's recent four-day holiday in Colombia, which was billed as a royal tour, has raised concerns about its impact on UK foreign policy and national security, as it risked embarrassing the Royal Family and promoting the messaging of Harry and Meghan's for-profit brand.
Democrats’ opening night during an emotional nominating convention presented Vice President Harris as a leader with “heart” while speakers cast former President Trump as a convicted, self-involved “villain” trying to cling to his chaotic past. A battle cry to voters, repeated late Monday by President Biden during a 52-minute speech, was that democracy requires protectors....
Schools across the country are taking a variety of approaches on how to handle the teaching opportunity presented by the upcoming presidential election, but there is one thing they all seem to agree on: educator neutrality. Civics, government and history teachers must navigate a tumultuous, historic race as they guide classroom discussions around the showdown...
Technology CrowdStrike has hired DLA Piper to manage “policies and proposals related to congressional response to July 19, 2024 outage” that hit airlines and businesses around the world. Delta has threatened to sue CrowdStrike, saying the outage cost the airline $500 million, and the House Homeland Security Committee has requested CrowdStrike’s CEO testify before the...
Vice President Harris will rally supporters in Milwaukee on Tuesday night, holding a major campaign event concurrently with night two of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). The vice president and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), will hold an event about 90 miles up the road from the convention site in Chicago. Harris...
CHICAGO — President Biden gave a forceful call for Democrats to elect Vice President Kamala Harris to the White House during his Monday night address to the convention, an event that just weeks ago seemed sure to coronate him as his party's nominee. Biden spoke last on a night filled with several of the party's...
The Democratic National Convention began on Monday with a number of notable moments from key speakers, including a surprise appearance from Vice President Kamala Harris. Here are five memorable moments from the first night. Joe Biden becomes emotional after warm reception Biden was visibly moved as he took the stage for his convention remarks following...
Former President Trump said late Monday he would participate in a tele-town hall hosted by Fox News next month instead of a debate on the network after the Harris campaign made clear the vice president would not participate. "Rather than the debate on September 4th, I have agreed to do a Tele-Town Hall, anchored by...
CHICAGO — A Democratic National Convention like no other got underway here on Monday. President Biden, who two months ago expected this event to be his ceremonial coronation as his party’s nominee, is instead passing the torch to Vice President Harris. Democrats, who fell into a deep gloom after Biden’s disastrous June debate with former President...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) hit Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) over the topic of abortion — an issue key to his 2023 reelection and to Democrats' 2024 efforts — while speaking on Monday at the Democratic National Convention. “Folks, Donald Trump appointed the Supreme Court justices who got us into this...
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) said Monday that he's hoping Vice President Harris will call for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel before November's election. Bowman, an outspoken critic of Israel's conduct in the war with Hamas, noted that Harris has already taken a more aggressive position on the conflict than President Biden has — at...
First lady Jill Biden on Monday said that President Biden "dug deep into his soul" before he dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Vice President Harris. “Weeks ago...I saw him dig deep into his soul and decide to no longer seek reelection and endorsed Kamala Harris,” the first lady said in remarks during...
Rich Logis, a former voter of former President Trump's appeared in a video message broadcast to the Democratic National Convention Monday night to say that the COVID-19 pandemic showed him how Trump was “lying about pretty much everything.” “I believed Trump,” he said. “When the pandemic hit, we needed leadership, but we were given almost...
Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP, took an apparent jab at former President Trump’s “Black job” remarks in his opening statement at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. “I’m Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, and I’m here to do my Black job,” Johnson said in his opening remarks. Vice...
