Sen. Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party's vice-presidential nomination on Day Three of the virtual convention in a speech that paid tribute to trailblazing women before her, including her late mother, while pledging to tackle the "structural racism" that continues to hold other Americans back."That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations…
Democrats on Wednesday chose Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California to be the party’s 2020 vice presidential nominee, officially making Ms. Harris the first woman of color to be on a major-party presidential ticket. Ms. Harris, a 55-year-old former attorney general of California, was born in Oakland to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother.…
(CNN)Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance at the opening of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night to stoke excitement about the night's program and the historic moment when she wi…
Both the White House and the Trump campaign on Sunday said unequivocally that Sen. Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as vice president and blamed the media for fomenting unfounded questions about the issue. “Yeah,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This is not something that we’re…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…