Hillary Clinton has spoken at the Democratic National Convention of her hope that Kamala Harris can finally break the “highest, hardest glass ceiling” in America by becoming the first female president. Ms Clinton said she had broken a glass ceiling of her own by becoming the first woman to win a major party nomination for president. “When a barrier falls for one of us, it clears the way for all of us,” she said, echoing her convention speech from eight years before. But while her bid...

On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, party members gathered to reflect on the theme “for the people” as President Joe Biden gave a semi-swan song paving the way for a party made in the reflection of Vice President Kamala Harris.  Several labor leaders addressed the convention in the lead-up to Biden’s speech, including Elizabeth H. Shuler, president of the influential American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and...

The Republican Party wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on a nauseatingly complicated voting rights case, which could potentially disenfranchise thousands of presidential voters in the swing state of Arizona. The case is known as Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota. The case involves an astoundingly convoluted system Arizona uses to register certain voters — one that emerged from 20 years of conflicting state and federal laws, plus seemingly endless litigation over...

A Democratic National Convention like no other got underway here on Monday. President Biden, who two months ago expected this event to be his ceremonial coronation as his party’s nominee, is instead passing the torch to Vice President Harris. Democrats, who fell into a deep gloom after Biden’s disastrous June debate with former President Trump, are energized by the Harris candidacy. The vice president has edged ahead of Trump in most national surveys, leading the polling average...

Democrats opened their convention in Chicago on Monday by sending off Joe Biden. And then the president closed the night – which ran significantly behind schedule – with a hand-off to Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden said choosing Harris as his running mate in 2020 was “the best decision I made my whole career.” “She’ll be a president our children can look up to. She’d be a president respected by world leaders, because she already is. She’d be a president we can all be proud...

The House is not planning to take up Senate-passed legislation to protect children from potentially harmful online content without addressing Republican concerns that the bill could lead to censorship or other unintended consequences. Changes won’t come easily. House aides and outside stakeholders told The Washington Times that it’s unclear whether lawmakers can negotiate a compromise on an issue they largely agree is important but tricky to legislate. “There’s support across the...

Former President Donald Trump bashed Vice President Kamala Harris Monday night for reportedly refusing to participate in the September 4 debate hosted by Fox News. "Comrade Kamala Harris has just informed us that she will NOT do the FoxNews Debate on September 4th," Trump wrote to Truth Social while the first night of the Democratic National Convention kicked off in Chicago. "I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very...

Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages from southern Gaza in an overnight operation, the Israeli military said on Tuesday, highlighting the plight of the scores of captives remaining in the Palestinian enclave. The military named the hostages whose bodies were returned to Israel as Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Haim Peri. All but Mr. Munder were already known to have lost their lives in captivity. They were...

With crime in Washington, D.C., persisting at elevated post-pandemic levels, a new report argues that Congress needs to spend millions of dollars to hire more police officers, empower a prosecutor who will enforce the rule of law, and accelerate the approval of judges to clear the growing backlog of criminal cases. Charles Fain Lehman, a criminal-justice policy researcher with the Manhattan Institute, argues in a new report that leaders in the nation’s capital need to increase...

Russians have been left baffled after President Vladimir Putin deployed his so-called "space troops" to defend the Kursk region due to a manpower shortage amid a Ukrainian incursion. The deployment of temporary motorized rifle of Russia's Aerospace Forces to the Kursk region was first reported by independent investigative Russian outlet Important Stories. The unit, created between May and June, consists of personnel from security and logistics companies, engineers, mechanics, some officers, and...