CHICAGO — The marchers had moved on, the chants had faded away, and the protest had ended. But Julie Wroblewski’s job is just beginning. She walked carefully through a public park in this Midwest metropolis, combing over the flotsam left behind by the thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had crowded in hours earlier to denounce the nearby Democratic National Convention. ...
The promise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent 2024 campaign was always something of a mirage. His famous last name combined with the unpopularity of President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump allowed Kennedy, for a time, to poll better than any third-party candidate had since Ross Perot in the 1990s — near 20 percent. But his steady decline ...
CHICAGO — Only hours before Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the United Center in Chicago, six of the seven Black female chairs of their state Democratic parties — the highest-ever number of Black women state party chairs — gathered exactly a mile east of the convention hall at the interactive WNDR Museum. But ...
VALENTINE, Neb. — Beyond the Badlands, deep within the undulating landscape of the Sandhills, this speck of a city where Tim Walz spent a decade of his childhood rises abruptly out of the vastness. It is as remote as anywhere in the Midwest, an island of civilization in a Rhode-Island-size county with just 6,000 people and 184,000 beef cows. But ...
CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson sat in a wheelchair near the back wall of a darkened restaurant at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was late Thursday morning, the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Slowed by Parkinson’s disease at age 82, the reverend was eating, or trying to eat, a breakfast of strawberries, grapes and cantaloupe. With determined effort, ...
Closed sales of previously owned homes rose 1.3% in July compared with June to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 3.95 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors. That was the first gain in five months. Sales were 2.5% lower compared with the same time last year. Sales saw the biggest gains in the Northeast and were flat in ...
Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker on Thursday provided a strong endorsement to an interest rate cut on the way September. Speaking to CNBC from the Fed’s annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Harker gave the most direct statement yet from a central bank official that monetary policy easing is almost a certainty when officials meeting again in less than ...
Peloton on Thursday said it will start charging new subscribers a one-time $95 activation fee if they bought their hardware on the secondary market as more consumers snag lightly used equipment for a fraction of the typical retail price. The used equipment activation fee for subscribers in the U.S. and Canada comes as Peloton starts to see a meaningful increase in new members ...
The future of Paramount Global is still uncertain. Paramount’s special committee on Wednesday said it would extend by 15 days an agreed-upon “go shop” period of its merger agreement with Skydance as it reviews a competing offer from Edgar Bronfman Jr. Bronfman initially offered $4.3 billion late Monday for Shari Redstone’s National Amusements, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, according to a person familiar with ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. In his speech, Walz credited a particular source of support for helping to get his family to where they are today — Social Security survivor benefits. His father died of lung cancer when Walz was 19, leaving a “mountain of medical debt,” Walz said. Social ...