Alan Kessler, a Philadelphia lawyer and longtime Democratic fundraiser, said the texts and emails began soon after news broke Sunday that President Joe Biden had withdrawn from the 2024 race and called for Vice President Kamala Harris to become his successor. One, in particular, summed up the mood among Biden’s donors, he said. “This is transformative,” the text from a major contributor read. After weeks of turmoil over the future of the Democratic ticket...

Azerbaijan is proposing to sign a document with Armenia on the basic principles of a future peace treaty as an interim measure as they wrangle over a broader deal, a senior Azerbaijani official said on Sunday. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have repeatedly said they want to sign a peace treaty to end the conflict over the former breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Saturday a text of a treaty was 80%-90% ready but repeated it was...

According to the old cliché, opposites attract. And there may be no greater example of  this than the odd, interesting, and for the country beneficial relationship between Larry Fink and Donald Trump. Yes, you read that right. Fink and Trump. A match made in heaven? No, to be more precise, made on Wall Street, with the uber-globalist BlackRock chief of ESG fame once serving as Trump’s money manager, and the GOP populist former president (and according to polling, likely future...

President Biden hesitated to drop his re-election campaign in part because he and his senior advisers worried that Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't up to taking on Donald Trump, according to three Biden aides familiar with recent talks about his plans. Why it matters: Biden, 81, ultimately decided to withdraw under pressure from the party and endorsed Harris, but his private anxieties reflect broader questions among some Democratic leaders...

Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) on Monday said he would not consider serving as Vice President Harris’s running mate, arguing it is time for a “new generation” following President Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race. When asked on “CNN This Morning” if he would consider running as VP with Harris — who was endorsed by Biden to replace him on the ticket — Manchin said, “No, I’m not.” “It’s a new generation, you don’t want a 76-year-old vice...

The man who shot at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13 was never a member of a local high school’s rifle team and wasn’t bullied, despite previous reports, according to the Bethel Park School District. In an updated statement published on its website on July 20, the school district issued a comment titled “correcting the record,” which disputed several claims about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman identified by the FBI, in news reports over the past week....

Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed liberal positions on climate and energy before joining the Democratic ticket with President Joe Biden in 2020, stances that will now receive much greater scrutiny as she pursues the presidency with Biden’s endorsement. While her stances on energy have closely aligned with Biden during their first term, her past record on fossil fuels and climate is to the left of Biden’s positioning and could serve as a hurdle to wooing fossil fuel-...

President Joe Biden’s decision to abandon his reelection bid and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris means that Harris could soon become the standard-bearer for the Democratic Party’s biggest priorities — including abortion rights, climate change and student debt relief. Her track record as a California attorney general, a U.S. senator and Biden’s No. 2 provides only so many clues about how she might lead. The former prosecutor often struggled to carve out a niche between...

Ahead of a lunch meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in March, JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon didn’t know what to expect. Dimon wasn’t sure of her political agenda when it came to the economy and business. His previous interactions with Harris had been limited, though the pair had a testy back-and-forth nearly a decade earlier while she was California attorney general during the mortgage foreclosure crisis. He...