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...

The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) on Monday adopted a rule that requires the number of ballots and voters be the same before the certification of election results. The rule ensures that counties comply with Georgia state code. It comes after Fulton County was found to have likely scanned thousands of ballots twice in a recount of the 2020 election. "The purpose of the rule is to ensure that county superintendents and boards of elections follow the required...

Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will speak at the Democratic National Convention this week, one of several Republican voices meant to highlight the “extremism” of Donald Trump. “I never thought I’d be speaking at a Democratic convention. But, after seeing firsthand who Donald Trump really is, and the threat he poses to our country, I feel very strongly about speaking out,” Grisham said in an exclusive statement to NBC News. Grisham was a press aide during Trump’s 2016...

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