3 takeaways from Kamala Harris’s speech and the DNC on Day 4
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Regime-dominated Venezuelan Supreme Court rules Maduro election winner despite allegations of fraud
In an unsurprising ruling, the regime-dominated Venezuelan Supreme Court has sided with President Nicolás Maduro’s claims he won last month’s election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were fake. In a courtroom packed with Maduro
Exonerated members of Central Park Five warn about Trump at Democratic convention
CHICAGO — Four of the exonerated members of the so-called Central Park Five — a group of five teenagers wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a jogger — appeared Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, warning of what
Vivek Ramaswamy sounds off on potential RFK Jr. role in a Trump administration
Vivek Ramaswamy is responding to former President Trump’s comments that he would consider Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for an administration role if the third-party 2024 candidate were to drop out and endorse him for re-election. Ramaswamy declined to go into specifics
Amid DNC protests, Jewish Democrats seek to claim political home on the left
Candy Glazer, a Massachusetts delegate to this week’s Democratic National Convention, has been a member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the nation’s most powerful pro-Israel lobby, for three decades. Like some other Jewish voters and delegates in Chicago
Flashback: Oprah Winfrey once called Trump a ‘folk hero,’ a contrast to comments made during the DNC
In a 1988 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the celebrity talk show host appeared to be amazed at Americans’ ‘fascination’ with Donald Trump and even described him as a ‘folk hero’ for being so popular. ‘Various celebrities in New York, because it
RFK Jr’s running mate says Democrats are ‘terrified’ their campaign may join forces with Trump
RFK Jr’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, shared a post to X claiming that Democrats are ‘terrified’ their campaign may endorse Donald Trump. In a post on X on Thursday, the independent VP pick said ‘My old Dem buddies have been flooding
‘Tampon Tim’ is looking more like Teflon Tim
CHICAGO — More than a few moderate Donald Trump critics were puzzled and concerned by Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate. And Walz’s liberal-leaning record as governor — at least compared
The story behind Kamala Harris’s ‘When we fight, we win’ slogan
CHICAGO — Kamala Harris concluded her first speech of the Democratic National Convention on Monday with what has become a familiar mantra: “When we fight,” she said, “we win!” As Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison spoke that same day, he
Why this former Republican presidential candidate is at the Democrats’ 2024 convention
CHICAGO – It’s a sight you wouldn’t expect to see. A longtime Republican who ran for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination making the rounds at the Democratic National Convention. But that’s the case for former two-term Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. ‘I’m doing media.