Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz continued their blitz through the country’s battleground states Wednesday, rallying supporters in the Midwest and seeking to sustain their momentum as Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance followed closely behind and escalated his attacks on the Democratic ticket. Harris’s and Vance’s planes landed within minutes of each other Wednesday in Eau Claire, ...
The world geography project felt like just another assignment to the high school sophomores despite its ambitious scope. Their teacher, Tim Walz, had asked his 1993 Nebraska class to predict where the next genocide would occur in the world. The roughly 20 students read history books, scholarly reports and encyclopedias to make their prediction: Rwanda. The division between the Hutu ...
Rallying supporters at her first event with her new running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris said she has taken on “perpetrators of all kinds” as a prosecutor, “So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.” The attack line, a signature of her nascent presidential campaign, immediately garnered chants of “Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is joyous about the joy. “All the things that make me mad about those other guys and all the things they do wrong, the one thing I will not forgive them for is they tried to steal the joy from this country. They try and steal the joy,” Walz, the Democrats’ new vice-presidential candidate, said at ...
Voters in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District will head to the polls Tuesday as Rep. Cori Bush fights to hold on to her seat in the Democratic primary against St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, who is backed by a powerful pro-Israel lobbying group. The race between two liberal Black candidates in this district gets to the heart of a fissure ...
A month ago, the 2024 presidential election was slated to feature the two oldest candidates in American history. President Biden, 81, was seeking to defend his position in the face of a challenge from former president Donald Trump, 78. Despite the relatively narrow difference in their ages, polling showed that the issue posed more of a challenge for the incumbent ...
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A Virginia man was arrested Monday and charged with making threats against Vice President Harris, the Justice Department announced in a news release. Frank Carillo, 66, of Winchester, Va., wrote thousands of posts and replies over the past year on the conservative social media platform Gettr, targeting several public officials such as Harris, President Biden and FBI Director Christopher A. ...
Vice President Harris on Sunday took the final step of her running-mate selection process, interviewing the three men who had survived her team’s vetting process — Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona. But by then, the selection was in fact largely down to two. Walz and Shapiro had risen to ...
Milwaukee County prosecutors charged four people with murder Tuesday after they beat and restrained a man outside a hotel in June. D’Vontaye Mitchell, 43, died June 30 after four Hyatt Regency Milwaukee employees dragged him from the hotel and pinned him face down to the concrete. His family members have said they believe he was having a mental health episode. ...