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Month: July 2024

As dozens of Hill Democrats back Harris, here’s why key Democratic leaders haven’t yet weighed in

By Dana Bash, Clare Foran and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill is currently not weighing in on whether Vice President Kamala Harris should be the party’s presidential nominee to avoid the appearance that they are forcing her candidacy onto the voters too quickly, according to two sources familiar with their thinking.

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Homeland Security secretary names independent panel to review Trump assassination attempt

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a bipartisan, independent panel to review this month’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Officials said Sunday that the panel members will have extensive law enforcement and security experience to conduct a review of the planning for and actions taken by the Secret

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Bangladesh has erupted over jobs reserved for the children of ‘freedom fighters.’ Here’s what you need to know

By Samra Zulfaqar, Helen Regan and Andee Capellan, CNN (CNN) — Huge protests across Bangladesh escalated into deadly violence this week with clashes between students, pro-government supporters and armed police fueling widespread anger over civil service job quotas opponents say are discriminatory. Dozens of people have reportedly been killed and hundreds injured in the violence, which has seen riot

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Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox News over ‘mock trial’ miniseries

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden on Sunday abruptly dropped a lawsuit he filed last month against Fox News over the network’s fictionalized miniseries that he alleged included sexually explicit images of him without consent. Biden dropped the lawsuit just hours after his father, President Joe Biden, announced his decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, though it’s not clear if the timing is related. The

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Biden’s withdrawal injects uncertainty into wars, trade disputes and other foreign policy challenges

Associated Press Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia and the rise of the far right in Europe. During a five-decade career in politics, Biden developed extensive personal

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The delegates will decide the next Democratic nominee as a groundswell forms for Harris

By Gregory Krieg, Ethan Cohen, Aaron Pellish, Betsy Klein and Sydney Topf, CNN (CNN) — Democratic convention delegates are draining the political drama from Joe Biden’s decision to give up the presidential nomination by quickly coalescing around his chosen successor, Vice President Kamala Harris. The North Carolina and Tennessee delegations came out in unanimous support of Harris

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Mayorkas names bipartisan panel to lead independent review of Trump assassination attempt

By Priscilla Alvarez, Evan Perez and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, under pressure from the White House and Congress, unveiled Sunday the experts who will be conducting an independent review of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, tapping former senior Homeland Security officials who served under multiple administrations, as well

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Kamala Harris is now in a bright spotlight as she fights to secure the Democratic presidential nod

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is being thrust into the most scrutinizing of spotlights, suddenly the leading candidate to succeed President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and her party’s main hope of defeating Republican Donald Trump. She spoke multiple times with Biden on Sunday, according to people familiar

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