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While visiting the key battleground state of Ohio, CNN’s Manu Raju speaks to Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, whose seat is up for reelection, to hear his reaction to Kamala Harris’ presidency bid and question why Brown is distancing himself from the Harris campaign.

Why this Democratic senator is distancing himself from Harris’ campaign

The Hill

Journalist Steve Krauker joins Rising for an in-depth conversation on the state of the presidential race and the media's coverage.

Kamala Harris might be installed in Biden's stead as president before election: Steve Krakauer

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’ name during a panel discussion about her policies.

GOP lawmaker doubles down mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ name during CNN panel

TheDailyBeast

Kamala Harris’ one-time boyfriend and political mentor Willie Brown claims he has a photo of her aboard Donald Trump’s airplane.The 90-year-old former San Francisco mayor claims to have first introduced Harris to Trump in the 1990s, according to Politico. Brown says he still has a picture of them together on board her future presidential election rival’s jet.At the time the picture was taken, Brown and “a few other associates” had been in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Brown was speaking at Harvard University, according to Politico. Trump sent his plane to take the group to Teterboro, New Jersey because he reportedly wanted...

Kamala Harris’ Ex: I’ve Got a Secret Photo of Her on Trump Force One

The Independent

  On the heels of a summer wave of COVID-19 cases, Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September.U.S. households will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests when the federal program reopens, according to the website, COVIDtests.gov. The U.S. Health and Human Services agency that oversees the testing has not announced an exact date for ordering to begin. The tests will detect current virus strains and can be ordered ahead of the holiday season when family and friends gather for celebrations, an HHS spokesperson...

Government announces more COVID-19 tests can be ordered through mail for no cost

In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, former President Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III says he will not be voting for his uncle in the 2024 election. 

Trump’s nephew on why he’s voting for Kamala Harris

The New Republic

“In the modern imagination,” Professor Lewis Gordon wrote in 2023, paraphrasing philosopher Frantz Fanon, “reason takes flight whenever the Black enters the scene.” Indeed, from the moment the Democratic Party coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris as its nominee, ushering in the prospect of America’s first Black Madam President, reason has taken flight.“Apparently, they feel, or a lot of Democrats feel, they have to stick with her because of her ethnic background,” Republican Representative Glenn Grothman said on the day President Biden ended his reelection campaign. Two of his House GOP colleagues, Tim Burchett and Harriett Hageman, both denigrated Harris...

Trump Is Trying to Rob Kamala Harris of Her Blackness

 Donald Trump has repeatedly, and deliberately, mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name.Now, Harris’s own grandnieces have proven that it’s so easy to say, even small children can get it right.In a touching moment at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, eight-year-old Amara Ajagu and her sister six-year-old Leela joined actor Kerry Washington on stage in Chicago to coach the crowd to correctly pronounce the name Kamala.“It’s come to my attention that there are some folks who struggle — or pretend to struggle — with the proper pronunciation of our future president’s name,” Washington said, before introducing the “very special...

Trump keeps deliberately pronouncing Kamala wrong. Her grandnieces proved it’s so easy children can do it

The NPR Network will be reporting live from Chicago throughout the week bringing you the latest on the Democratic National Convention. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris often speaks of her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, as someone who encouraged her and helped inspire her trajectory. Harris' younger sister, Maya Harris, one of...

Who is Maya Harris, Kamala Harris' sister? Plus, highlights from her DNC speech

Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign further ramped up Friday as she earned the delegates’ votes to officially lock down the Democratic Party’s nomination—and brought on President Obama’s 2008 campaign manager in a key role. Harris needed to lock down 2,350 votes to secure the nomination during a virtual roll call that began Thursday. The votes needed to cross that threshold came in just after 1 p.m. on Friday.“I’m so proud to confirm that Vice President Harris has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the...

Kamala Harris Makes Nomination Official and Hires Obama’s Guru David Plouffe

The Week

A shake-up at the top of the Democratic ticket has pushed a once static-seeming race into largely uncharted political waters

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?

 Dr Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was hospitalized after testing positive for West Nile virus.Fauci, a longtime public health official who became a household name as part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, has now been discharged and is expected to recover fully, a spokesperson said.“Tony Fauci has been hospitalized with a case of West Nile virus. He is now home and is recovering. A full recovery is expected,” the spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Washington Post. The outlet reported that Fauci had spent six days in...

Anthony Fauci hospitalized after testing positive for West Nile Virus

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Roxboro, NC

Town Talks

According to Travel alot, Roxboro, North Carolina, holds the unfortunate title of the most miserable city in the state. Several factors contribute to this designation, including high poverty rates, low median household income, and high crime rates.

North Carolina City Named The 'Most Miserable' In The State

Business Times

Former President Donald Trump suggests President Joe Biden might attempt to reclaim the Democratic nomination from Kamala Harris at the upcoming DNC.

'Crooked' Joe Biden May Attempt 'Taking Back Nomination' From Kamala Harris At DNC, Donald Trump Claims

 Donald Trump’s campaign has quietly deleted a video of the former president using Kamala Harris’s campaign anthem Freedom after Beyoncé sent a cease-and-desist letter.Trump’s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung posted a video on X on Tuesday of the Republican nominee stepping off the plane in Michigan with Beyoncé’s hit song playing in the background.Now, the post has been removed.The Independent has contacted the Trump campaign and Beyoncé’s representative for comment.A source close to Beyoncé told Rolling Stone the former president did not receive permission to use the track from her hit album Lemonade.Freedom had been adopted as the Harris campaign’s...

Trump campaign deletes video using Harris’s campaign anthem Freedom after Beyoncé sent cease-and-desist letter

WashingtonExaminer

Vice President Kamala Harris has a daunting challenge ahead with former President Donald Trump facing her in this year’s election. In the past, she has had the support of many Democratic power brokers and figures in her forays into electoral politics. She has hand-picked every person in her inner circle she will find useful for […]

The seven people who make up Harris’s inner circle

 An American singer has won a £20,000 payout after a Bristol-based independent music company failed to pay his wages and left him pleading for dinner money.Musician Troi Irons was flown over from his native Los Angeles to the UK in 2023 and was told to “work with a handshake instead of a contract”, an employment tribunal was told.The singer-songwriter said Dean Roberts, chief executive of 3Tone Music, had agreed to pay him £30,000 a year to work as an artist and musical engineer, according to a written tribunal decision.The musician, who had not been paid his wages, sent Mr...

Singer wins payout after music company left him pleading for dinner money

Mediaite

David Plouffe, the political operative who helped guide Barack Obama's successful campaign for the presidency in 2008, is joining Kamala Harris's team.
The post JUST IN: Ex-Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe Officially Joins Harris Campaign first appeared on Mediaite.

JUST IN: Ex-Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe Officially Joins Harris Campaign

New York City, NY

Nassau County, NY

 A New York drug smuggler and loan shark who Donald Trump gave clemency was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly punching his 75-year-old father-in-law in the head during a domestic dispute – adding to the list of his violent history.Jonathan Braun, 41, was allegedly chasing his wife around their Long Island home during an argument when his father-in-law stepped in to protect his daughter. Braun then punched his father-in-law in the head twice, resulting in injury, court documents seen by The New York Times said.When Nassau County Police arrived, Braun’s wife told them this was the third time her husband...

Trump gave this New York drug dealer clemency. Now he’s accused of attacking his wife and her family

Utica, NY

Rome, NY

 A man who was allegedly spotted running around naked in a New York town has been arrested for the suspected murder of his girlfriend after she was found strangled to death in her home.Jeremy J. Kirch, 45, was apprehended by Rome police and taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. He was later charged with second-degree murder in the death of 50-year-old Elizabeth A. Gerling.Gerling was found dead in her bed on Tuesday morning at her home on Birch Circle in Rome, New York, deputies said. The elementary school principal is the daughter of a retired US...

Boyfriend arrested after elementary school principal found strangled to death in bed

NewsBreak

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has suspended his campaign, with remarks from Arizona slamming the Democratic Party and baselessly alleging a vast media conspiracy to elect Kamala Harris.He is withdrawin...

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has suspended his campaign, with remarks from Arizona slamming the Democratic Party and baselessly alleging a vast media conspiracy to elect Kamala Harris.He is withdrawin... - NewsBreak

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has suspended his campaign, with remarks from Arizona slamming the Democratic Party and baselessly alleging a vast media conspiracy to elect Kamala Harris.He is withdrawin...

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