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☆ Fact check: Trump’s lie that Harris ‘all of a sudden’ embraced a Black identity
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. Harris graduated in 1986 from Howard University, a historically Black institution where she was a member of a historically Black sorority. - Falsely claimed he was “protected” under the Presidential Records Act for taking official documents after his presidency. - Falsely claimed that “everybody,” including Democrats, wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and the issue of abortion policy returned to individual states. - Falsely claimed that Haris “didn’t pass” the bar exam.

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☆ Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Most people expected fireworks when it was announced that former President Donald Trump would appear at this year's National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago. And the conversation has heightened pressure on the NABJ from its members over the Trump visit. NABJ President Ken Lemon in a statement Tuesday said that the organization had been in talks with Harris' team for an in-person panel before she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But April Ryan, the White House correspondent for The Grio, reported that NABJ leadership informed Harris' team that it was preferable that she be in-person for her appearance. NABJ member Kathia Woods took to X to express her opposition to the organization's decision to invite Trump to speak in Chicago.

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☆ Donald Trump falsely suggests Kamala Harris ‘happened to turn Black’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Eric Bradner | Aaron Pellish | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that his 2024 Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, “happened to turn Black” a few years ago, saying that “all of a sudden, she made a turn” in her identity. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” the former president said. You have attacked Black journalists, calling them a ‘loser,’ saying the questions they ask are, quote, ‘stupid’ and ‘racist.’ You’ve had dinner with a White supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. You’re voting for the president,” Trump said.

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“We were never asked what we’d seen or where we were from Secret Service. “Before this incident, I would have thought Secret Service is, like bulletproof. The Beaver County officials were part of a multi-jurisdictional team assisting the Secret Service for Trump’s July 13 rally. The Secret Service has not responded to questions for comment from CNN. A federal law enforcement official familiar with the matter said the Secret Service was and has been in touch with the lead for the Butler Emergency Services Unit, which oversaw the Beaver County local law enforcement officers and others that day.

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☆ Why Silicon Valley Is Going to War Against the Media, Journalists
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Just 20 years ago journalists covered the tech industry "like it didn't matter, like it was this hobbyist, interesting, plucky thing." The pro-tech media gives tech's main characters the chance to write their way back to the original storyline. Trae Stephens, a partner at Founders Fund, described Pirate Wires as a kind of daily affirmation for Silicon Valley. Related storiesTrae Stephens, a partner at Founders Fund, described Pirate Wires as a kind of daily affirmation for Silicon Valley. Of the members of the news media I talked to about pro-tech media, some were backhandedly laudatory.

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☆ As litigation flares against Michael Shvo's property empire, his German backers feel the heat
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Advertisement"For no reason, I felt targeted in a very toxic and vulgar way," Goodman previously told Business Insider. In a previous response to Business Insider, Shvo said he had no recollection of that call. The Goodmans also named the Mandarin Oriental hotel brand as a defendant, stating that 685 Fifth Avenue's "service standards are severely lacking and in no way Mandarin Oriental caliber." A spokeswoman for Mandarin Oriental did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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☆ Trump and Harris enter final 100-day stretch of a rapidly evolving 2024 race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

Then, a week ago, Biden announced his exit from the race – and pointed to Harris, his vice president, as his successor. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event in West Allis, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2024. Will Lanzoni/CNNVeepstakes, convention questionsAmong the next orders of business for Harris’ campaign is to accomplish two tasks in a period of days or weeks that Trump’s campaign achieved over months. Many of those potential picks have been offering Harris’ campaign informal glimpses of how they’d perform as her running mate through appearances on cable news shows. Then, Harris’ campaign and its allies must rapidly revise plans for the Democratic National Convention, which is set to start on August 19 in Chicago.

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☆ Justin Timberlake’s DUI hearing held
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Brynn Gingras | Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A hearing in the case of Justin Timberlake being accused of driving while intoxicated was held Friday, where an attorney for the singer disputed his arrest in June. We are confident that this charge will be dismissed.”The singer was arrested in Sag Harbor, New York in June. He is currently on tour for his most recent album, “Everything I Thought It Was” and was not present at the hearing. After an officer initiated a traffic stop, Timberlake told police he “had one martini and I followed my friends home,” according to court records. Justin Timberlake was arrested in Sag Harbor, NY in June after allegedly being observed "operating his vehicle in an intoxicated condition," according to Sag Harbor Police Department.

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☆ Kamala Harris: How her warp-speed campaign launch has changed the 2024 race
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —The five days since Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launched at warp speed have remade the 2024 race – and given Democrats new hope of preventing a second Donald Trump presidency. Fundraising exploded, with Harris’ campaign saying she raised $126 million between Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening. And Democrats were more eager to devote their own time to working to elect Harris: More than 100,000 people signed up to volunteer for her bid, and more than 2,000 applied for campaign jobs, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a Wednesday memo. The strength of Harris’ launch has at times surprised even the former Biden campaign staffers who on Sunday suddenly found themselves working for what was converted into the Harris campaign. Biden’s campaign believed his path to 270 Electoral College votes ran through the “blue wall” states – Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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☆ Park Fire in California burns nearly 125,000 acres as Oregon firefighters battle nation’s largest active fire
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The largest active wildfire in the US has scorched more than 280,000 acres in eastern Oregon and another blaze has exploded to nearly 125,000 acres in California. • Park Fire explodes in size: By Thursday morning, the wildfire had burned an average of nearly 50 football fields per minute since starting Wednesday afternoon. • Firefighters battle massive Oregon fire: The Durkee Fire, which has burned an area larger than the city of Indianapolis, started on July 17 near the Oregon-Idaho state line. • Oregon wildfire destroys buildings: Three people were injured and two homes and 12 other structures were destroyed as the fire spread, according to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. In this image provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation, shows an area burned by the Durkee fire near Interstate 84 close to Huntington, Oregon, on July 23, 2024.

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☆ NY fights to save Trump hush-money sentencing, saying it's a harmless error if evidence he's immune from entered the case
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewManhattan prosecutors are fighting to keep Donald Trump's September 18 hush-money sentencing on track, saying in a new filing Thursday that it was "harmless error" if evidence he's now immune from entered the case. But Trump would have been indicted and convicted even if evidence the defense calls "official" were removed, the filing adds. AdvertisementThe filing argues that Trump is wrong in now stamping much of the prosecutor's case "official act evidence." But these tweets describe unofficial acts unrelated to Trump's official duties, and for which he has no immunity, the prosecution filing now argues. Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the prosecution filing.

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☆ New York prosecutors say evidence in Trump trial was ‘overwhelming’ and conviction should stand
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Kara Scannell | Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Manhattan prosecutors said there is no basis to overturn Donald Trump’s conviction in the hush money case after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. Any error, they argued in a filing Thursday, is “harmless” when viewed against “overwhelming evidence” of the former president’s guilt. Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office said the conviction should stand. They also noted that Trump’s attorneys didn’t raise objections during the trial to most of the evidence they now question, arguing they can’t now challenge it after the trial. According to Hicks, Trump said it would have been bad for Stormy Daniels’ allegations to have come out before the election.

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☆ Harvey Weinstein in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 and contracting double pneumonia
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Disgraced and imprisoned movie mogul Harvey Weinstein “tested positive for COVID and contracted double pneumonia in his lungs,” Juda Engelmayer, Weinstein’s spokesman, said in a statement Thursday. In addition, Mr. Weinstein tested positive for COVID and contracted double pneumonia in his lungs,” the statement said. Engelmayer also confirmed to CNN that Weinstein was transferred to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward late on Wednesday night. The New York Court of Appeals overturned a sex crimes conviction against Weinstein in April, but he has remained in custody in New York. In that case, Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

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☆ Prosecutors Say Immunity Ruling Has No Bearing on Trump’s Conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Ben Protess | Jesse Mckinley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Manhattan prosecutors are urging the judge who oversaw Donald J. Trump’s criminal hush-money trial to uphold his conviction, seeking to cast doubt on the former president’s long-shot bid to overturn the case because of a recent Supreme Court ruling. Instead, the Manhattan prosecutors noted, he was convicted in May of covering up a sex scandal that had threatened to derail his 2016 campaign, a personal and political crisis that did not involve his conduct as president. Mr. Trump’s lawyers, seeking to link the two cases, have mounted a novel argument. In a recent filing to the judge who presided over the Manhattan trial, Juan M. Merchan, they contended that the Supreme Court’s decision had invalidated at least some of the evidence presented in Manhattan, including the testimony of former White House employees and tweets that Mr. Trump sent as president. The Supreme Court, they noted, had held that official acts could be inadmissible as evidence — even if a case concerned private misconduct.

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☆ Trump reemerges in Charlotte to a new opponent and a political landscape reshaped once again by the extraordinary
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Steve Contorno | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Charlotte, North Carolina CNN —Donald Trump will step out onto the campaign trail Wednesday to an entirely new race and a political landscape once again irrevocably altered by an unprecedented election year. Meanwhile, Trump and his campaign are working to reimagine a playbook and operation launched to take on an unpopular 81-year-old incumbent. He predicted that Harris would start “gaining on or even leading President Trump” in the polls, though he also insisted that the “honeymoon” period would end. Trump’s appearance in Charlotte will provide his first opportunity to contrast himself with Harris before voters in a battleground state. But it was left off the list of states that the Biden campaign viewed as most winnable in a sobering post-debate assessment of the race.

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☆ Kamala Harris' ascent puts California back in the driver's seat of national politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Biden won California by 29 points in 2020, and Harris will surely win the deep blue state in her own right. Along the way, Harris' political trajectory opened up doors to places that other candidates eyeing the White House have to fly across the country to reach. AdvertisementAs a presidential candidate, Harris won't be a stranger to the tech giants that fueled so much growth in her state. And should Harris win the White House, there'd be a familiar face influencing policy and legislation on relevant tech issues for the foreseeable future, which is something that doesn't come along everyday. Harris hasn't secured the Democratic nomination yet, but if she does, California could be in for some of its sunniest days yet.

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☆ A GOP congressman called Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire.’ Some caution it’s a sign of what’s to come
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —In the first full day of her presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris swiftly earned enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination and raised a historic $81 million. Before becoming the vice president, Harris had a decades-long career as a prosecutor and was elected to be San Francisco’s district attorney and later California’s attorney general. “Kamala Harris, who was a former district attorney, former attorney general, former United States senator and current vice president is a ‘DEI hire’ in their minds, just because she’s a Black woman,” he said. Burchett’s remarks are “energizing the very voters that Vice President Kamala Harris needs to win,” Carr said. “How does attacking Kamala Harris as a ‘DEI hire’ help to create a single job?

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☆ Live Election Updates: Harris Hits Trail With Delegates, Cash and Energy at Her Back
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

The prosecutor-versus-felon approach may appeal to undecided voters who had been sour on both Mr. Trump and President Biden. Mr. Trump, for his part, has been trying to soften some of his harshest rhetoric about seeking vengeance on his rivals ahead of the general election. In the case of Ms. Harris, the contempt is displayed both in public and private. Since then, Mr. Trump has attacked her savagely, particularly when she became Mr. Biden’s running mate in 2020. On Sunday, Mr. Trump, who has insisted he would debate Mr. Biden anytime and anywhere, appeared to try to change the terms of the second debate.

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☆ Election Live Updates: Democratic Support for Harris Snowballs as She Starts Her Bid for President
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

The tight timeline will magnify any missteps Ms. Harris might make but also minimize the chances for a stumble. And in a race that Mr. Trump had been on a trajectory to win, Ms. Harris immediately becomes the ultimate X-factor. She was making the argument for herself but the logic applies to Ms. Harris, too. Her day job is not nearly as demanding as Mr. Biden’s, and she can barnstorm the country at a pace far faster than Mr. Trump has undertaken. And while Ms. Harris did not carve out a reputation in California as an outspoken progressive — her tagline as D.A.

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☆ How Harris is preparing to contrast her record as a prosecutor with Trump’s as a felon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —Kamala Harris has spent much more of her life as a prosecutor than as a senator or vice president – and that is exactly how she is now going to run against Donald Trump. The vice president had expected that to be part of her role making the case for Biden. “As a former prosecutor, Vice President Harris has a lot of experience holding convicted felons accountable,” said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former primary opponent in the 2020 Democratic race who quickly endorsed Harris after the news of Biden’s decision broke. “The prosecutor approach is really about just deconstructing an issue,” Harris told CNN in an exclusive interview after a campaign stop in Las Vegas in April. He was a for-profit college – literally,” a narrator says, as footage of first Harris and then Trump goes by.

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☆ What to know about Kamala Harris, from prosecutor to politician
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection bid and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him in the campaign has upended the presidential race and shined a renewed spotlight on Harris. Harris is the first woman to become vice president, as well as the first Black or Asian American person to hold the office. One-year-old Kamala Harris, right, with her mother Shymala Gopalan Harris. Archivio GBB/contrasto/ReduxIn 1982, Harris enrolled at Howard University, a historically Black university in the heart of Washington, DC. The couple met on a blind date and Harris later joked in her memoir that her staffers referred “to that era as A.D. – ‘After Doug.’”Emhoff is the nation’s first second gentleman.

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Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at a campaign rally on July 20, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vance defended his loyalty to the US, after Vice President Kamala Harris said he “will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.”“There’s some bad news actually, Vice President Kamala Harris, she doesn’t like me,” Vance said in remarks about two hours before Trump took the stage. “Kamala Harris said something to the effect that … I have no loyalty to this country,” he continued. “Well, I don’t know, Kamala, I did serve in the United States Marine Corps and build a business. The only unity we saw today was between Donald Trump, JD Vance, and their Project 2025 agenda,” Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

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☆ With Biden's backing, Kamala Harris leads the pack in bid to replace him on the ticket
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Dareh Gregorian | Yamiche Alcindor | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Vice President Kamala Harris received President Joe Biden's backing to take his place as the Democratic presidential nominee Sunday, an endorsement he made after announcing he is abandoning his re-election bid. Biden's decision to bow out breaks open the nominating process — meaning Harris or any other Democrat could seek the party's nomination. The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to begin August 19 in Chicago and with Biden's backing, Harris became the instant favorite. Harris, the first female vice president, would become the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to become a major party nominee. "We are ready to lock in and support Vice President Harris in her new role," Gavito said.

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☆ Where Kamala Harris Stands on the Issues: Abortion, Immigration and More
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With Vice President Kamala Harris being eyed as a potential replacement for President Biden on the Democratic ticket, her stances on key issues will be scrutinized by both parties and the nation’s voters. She has a long record in politics: as district attorney of San Francisco, as attorney general of California, as a senator, as a presidential candidate and as vice president. Here is an overview of where she stands. AbortionMs. Harris supports legislation that would protect the right to abortion nationally, as Roe v. Wade did before it was overturned in 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In March, she made what was believed to be the first official visit to an abortion clinic by a president or vice president.

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In 2011, Harris became the attorney general of California. Gary Reyes/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty ImagesHarris served as the attorney general of California for six years. The Washington Post's Matt Viser reported that President Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump donated to two of Harris' bids for attorney general. In her first year as attorney general, Harris supported a law signed by Republican Gov. Jerry Brown as lawmakers who didn't allow "newly available DNA testing," and said new DNA evidence might vindicate Cooper.

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