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The energy emerging from the Democratic National Convention and Vice President Harris's hot streak is making Republicans increasingly nervous. Thursday marked the culmination of what was unthinkable just a month ago: A coronation for a new party leader who Democrats are ardently behind. |
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Vice President Harris wants to erase billions of dollars in medical debt, a longtime progressive goal that Democrats hope will be an electoral winner in the fall.
The economic plan Harris released last week called for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), to work with states to erase medical debt for millions of Americans "to help them avoid accumulating such debt in the future, because no one should go bankrupt just because they had the misfortune of becoming sick or hurt." |
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Democrats aimed to show this week that patriotism isn't just a Republican ideal or a MAGA tenet. "USA, USA, USA!" chants and camo and American flag hats filled the convention in Chicago, and when Vice President Harris wrapped up her speech, a balloon drop of red, white and blue was met with dozens of giant American flags. |
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Former President Trump on Friday welcomed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the fold, appearing alongside him at a campaign rally in Arizona hours after Kennedy ended his independent White House bid and backed the GOP nominee. "Tonight I'm very pleased to welcome a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share, and we've shared them for a long time," Trump said, introducing Kennedy in Glendale. |
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Members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s extended family called it a "betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear" on Friday after the independent presidential candidate announced that he was endorsing former President Trump. "We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future," Kerry Kennedy wrote in a statement alongside four of Kennedy's siblings. "We believe in Harris and Walz. Our brother Bobby's decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear." |
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Senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman said former President Trump is "clearly jarred" by the momentum from Vice President Harris's campaign following an energetic few weeks and the Democratic National Convention (DNC.) Haberman joined CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday to discuss Trump's call into Fox News and Newsmax immediately following Harris's Thursday evening speech where she officially accepted the Democratic Party's nomination. |
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Former President Trump on Friday complained that the Obamas were "nasty" in their Democratic convention speeches and ribbed his advisers for suggesting he stick to policy instead of personal attacks . "He was nasty to me. He was nasty. Michelle was nasty. They're all nasty," Trump said at a rally in Arizona, referencing speeches delivered earlier in the week by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention. |
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North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is trailing his Democratic challenger, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, by 14 points, but many voters are still undecided, according to a new survey. A High Point University/SurveyUSA poll, published Thursday, found Stein received 48 percent support among voters in the battleground state. Robinson received 34 percent and 18 percent of respondents said they were undecided. |
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Former Fox News and Newsmax host Eric Bolling is sounding the alarm to his fellow Republicans, saying former President Trump's team waited too long to "shake things up" after Vice President Harris entered the race. "Wake the F— up.. we are LOSING!" Bolling posted to his X account, along with a four-minute video. |
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OPINION | On Aug. 14, the Taliban marked the third anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan with a public holiday and a televised military parade at the former U.S.-run Bagram airbase. Dubbed "victory day," the celebrations occurred against the backdrop of global condemnation of the Taliban regime for creating what many call "the world's most serious women's rights crisis" and for making Afghanistan the only country where girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade. |
OPINION | Google, according to a recent federal court ruling, is a monopolist. The case, initiated in October 2020 by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and multiple state attorneys general, ended recently in a ruling that the firm "engaged in illegal practices to preserve its search-engine monopoly." It will be appealed, but for now, the landmark decision is on the books. |
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BY MICHAEL C. BENDER AND MICHAEL GOLD |
Donald Trump's political endurance this year has been attributed in part to voters' faded memories about why they denied him a second term four years ago. The former president is doing his best to remind them. Despite a carefully scripted week of campaign events aimed at counterprogramming the Democratic National Convention, Trump undercut much of his messaging with a series of off-the-cuff remarks, rants and blunders that threatened to stoke the kind of Republican anxiety he has spent much of the past month trying to tamp down. |
BY THOMAS GROVE AND ANN M. SIMMONS |
Earlier this month, the acting governor of the Kursk region tried to explain to Russian President Vladimir Putin how much territory Ukrainian troops had seized. A visibly irritated Putin cut him off. "Listen, Alexei Borisovich, the military will report to us on the specifics of the front-line width and depth," he said. "You tell us about the socio-economic situation and report on assistance provided to people." |
BY ERIC TUCKER AND DAVID KLEPPER |
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Young girls screamed and elbowed each other in a crush of bodies in southern Gaza, trying desperately to reach the front of the food line. Men doled out rice and chicken as fast as they could, platefuls of the nourishment falling to the ground in the tumult. Nearby, boys waited to fill plastic containers with water, standing for hours among tents packed so tightly they nearly touched. Hunger and desperation were palpable Friday in the tent camp along the Deir al-Balah beachfront, after a month of successive evacuation orders that have pressed thousands of Palestinians into the area that the Israeli military calls a "humanitarian zone." |
VALENTINE, Neb. — Beyond the Badlands, deep within the undulating landscape of the Sandhills, this speck of a city where Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) 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 as Walz entered his freshman year of high school, his life seemed storybook large. |
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