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Tim Walz poorest of other V-P candidates with net worth of under $1 mn

Walz's most recent disclosure to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board listed no stocks, real estate or horse racing interests

Not confident about peaceful power transfer if Trump loses election: Biden

The interview was conducted in the White House and will be aired on August 11

Harris secures Democratic presidential nominee, to face off against Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants who rose through the California political and law enforcement ranks to become the first female vice president in US history, formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday becoming the first woman of colour to lead a major party ticket. More than four years after her first attempt at the presidency collapsed, Harris' coronation as her party's standard-bearer caps a tumultuous and frenetic period for Democrats prompted by President Joe Biden's disastrous June debate performance that shattered his own supporters' confidence in his reelection prospects and spurred extraordinary intraparty warfare about whether he should stay in the race. Just as soon as Biden abruptly ended his candidacy, Harris and her team worked rapidly to secure backing from the 1,976 party delegates needed to clinch the nomination in a formal roll call vote. She reached that marker at warp speed, with an Associated Press survey of delegates

Trump election subversion case: Judge rejects effort to dismiss indictment

The federal judge presiding over the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump has rejected a defence effort to dismiss the indictment on claims that he was prosecuted for vindictive and political purposes. The ruling from US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Saturday is the first substantive order since the case was returned to her Friday following a landmark Supreme Court opinion last month that conferred broad immunity for former presidents and narrowed special counsel Jack Smith's case against Trump. In their motion to dismiss the indictment, defence lawyers argued that Trump was mistreated because he was prosecuted even though others who have challenged election results have avoided criminal charges. Trump, the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential race, also suggested that President Joe Biden and the Justice Department launched a prosecution to prevent him from winning reelection. But Chutkan rejected both arguments, saying Trump was not charged simply

Trump to skip Sept ABC debate, wants face off with Harris on Fox News

Donald Trump says he is pulling out of a scheduled September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC and wants them to face off on Fox News, making it increasingly unlikely that the candidates will confront each other on stage before the November election. In a series of Truth Social posts late Friday, the Republican nominee and former president said his agreement to a Sept 10 debate on ABC has been terminated" because he will no longer face Democratic President Joe Biden, who ended his campaign last month after a disastrous performance in their first debate. Trump now says he will appear on Fox News on Sept 4 in Pennsylvania with rules that he called similar to his debate with Biden, but with a full audience instead of a mostly empty studio. Trump said that if Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, does not agree to the new network and date, he will do a major Town Hall with Fox News. Michael Tyler, a Harris spokesperson, said Trump is running scared and trying to back out

Few Americans trust Secret Service after gunman nearly killed Trump: Poll

Most Americans have doubts about the Secret Service's ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month's attempt on former President Donald Trump's life, a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. Only around 3 in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the Secret Service can keep the presidential candidates safe from violence before the election, according to the poll. The survey also found that about 7 in 10 Americans think the Secret Service bears at least a moderate amount of responsibility for the assassination attempt. The law enforcement agency tasked with protecting presidents for more than a century is under intense scrutiny after a gunman got within 150 yards of Trump and fired several bullets from an AR-style rifle. Trump was injured in one ear but was millimeters away from being killed. The poll was conducted after the resignation of director Kimberly Cheatle, who faced intense questioning at a congressional

Local South Asian American elected leaders endorse Harris for US president

More than 60 South Asian American state and local elected officials from across the US have endorsed Kamala Harris for the presidency, saying that as the daughter of an Indian immigrant mother, she will create a "fairer and more inclusive" immigration system. They also said that the US Vice President's victory in the November 5 presidential election would send a powerful signal to all Asian Americans, communities of colour, and women. The officials joined the Indian American Impact in endorsing Harris, who is the 2024 Democratic candidate for President of the United States. "As South Asian elected officials, we proudly support Kamala Harris in her historic bid to become the first South Asian American woman President of the United States, the officials said in a statement issued by The Indian American Impact Fund, which is dedicated to promoting and elevating voices of Indian and South Asian Americans in the political and civic life of the United States. "As the daughter of an India

Trump ramps up his defense of Vance after one of the rockiest VP rollouts

Donald Trump is used to defending himself. But this week, the Republican presidential nominee has been put in the rare position of having to defend someone else his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. When Vance was first introduced at the Republican National Convention last month, many GOP officials said they didn't know much about him. Since then, the void has been filled with multiple reports of controversial statements especially Vance's previous suggestion that Vice President Kamala Harris and other so-called childless cat ladies want to make the country miserable that have made his rollout among the most turbulent in recent history. I'm just speaking for myself. And I think I'm speaking for him, too, Trump said during a contentious interview Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago. My interpretation is he's strongly family-oriented. But that doesn't mean that if you don't have a family, there's something wrong with that. Conservative .

Harris calls Trump's false claims about race divisive, disrespectful

Vice President Kamala Harris said former President Donald Trump's false assertions about her race were the same old show" as she emphasised the need for Black women to organise for his defeat this November. Addressing the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. one of "Divine Nine" historically Black fraternities and sororities in Houston, Harris told the crowd, "When I look out at everyone here, I see family. She drew knowing chuckles from the audience as she mentioned Trump's comments earlier in the day at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists. Trump said Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president, had in the past promoted only her Indian heritage. 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? Trump said while addressing the NABJ in Chicago. Harris responded briefly during her address to the ...

Trump questions Kamala Harris' embrace of black identity at NABJ event

Trump responded to a question about GOP attacks casting Harris as a DEI hire, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion

US elections: Harris calibrates her policy pitch for battle against Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing the delicate task of calibrating her policy pitch to American voters, a standard task for any White House hopeful but one that comes with additional challenges this year. First, Harris is running for president while serving under President Joe Biden, meaning she's linked to anything that happened or will happen on his watch. She inherits accomplishments like limiting the cost of insulin but also the administration's struggle to prevent illegal border crossings. Second, Harris has baggage from her own failed campaign for president before she became Biden's running mate four years ago. During that Democratic primary, she backed an array of progressive proposals that Republicans have highlighted to paint her as dangerously liberal. Harris has already disavowed some of her earlier positions, such as a ban on fracking and support for single-payer healthcare. And she's pledging to keep some of Biden's promises, including no tax increases on anyone

About 8 in 10 Democrats satisfied with Harris after Biden's exit: Poll

Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have energized Democrats in the early days of her candidacy, with the surge in warm feelings extending across multiple groups, including some key Democratic constituencies that had been especially tepid about President Joe Biden, a new poll shows. About 8 in 10 Democrats say they would be somewhat or very satisfied if Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which was conducted after Biden withdrew from the race. In a separate AP-NORC poll, taken before Biden dropped out but after his debate against former President Donald Trump, only about 4 in 10 Democrats said they were somewhat or very satisfied that he was the Democratic Party's likely nominee for president. The rapidly changing views among Democrats in such a short time span underscore how swiftly the party from rank-and-file voters to elected officials has coalesced behind Harris as i

US election: Kamala Harris holds onto 1 point lead over Trump, shows poll

Harris consolidated her position as the Democratic candidate over the last 10 days, after Biden, 81, bowed to growing pressure within his party and dropped out of the race

Trump effect in clean tech sector keeps renewable energy investors in dark

The law passed in 2022 has acted as a powerful incentive for European companies from the sector to expand or establish their U.S. presence

Ex-US VP Al Gore endorses Harris as Democrats' presidential candidate

Former US Vice President Al Gore has endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate for the high-stake election in November, citing her long record of standing up against oil and gas executives in support of the middle-class and the climate. Vice President Harris, 59, launched her presidential campaign hours after incumbent President Joe Biden withdrew from the race for a second term on July 20. She is, however, yet to be officially declared as the presidential candidate by the Democrats. She will be up against former president Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presidential candidate for the November 5 general elections. With so much at stake in this year's election from strengthening democracy in the US and abroad, to expanding opportunity for the American people, to accelerating climate action I'm proud to endorse Kamala Harris for President, Al Gore said in a statement on Sunday. As a prosecutor, Kamala Harris took on Big Oil companies and won. As

Trump calls for US to become crypto capital at Nashville bitcoin conference

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday laid out his plans to wholeheartedly embrace cryptocurrency if elected for a second term, telling hundreds of cheering supporters of the digital tokens that he wants the US to be a bitcoin superpower under his leadership. In his keynote address at a bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, the Republican presidential nominee promised to make the United States the crypto capital of the planet and create a bitcoin strategic reserve using the currency that the government currently holds. He also promised to remove Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler if elected and implement a crypto advisory council, teasing the crowd by asking attendees if anyone wanted to join. We will have regulations, but from now on the rules will be written by people who love your industry, not hate your industry, he said. Trump's keynote address at the Bitcoin 2024 conference showed how radically his position on cryptocurrency has changed over time.

Ultra-liberal Harris will deliver crime, chaos, and death to US: Trump

Kamala Harris will deliver crime, chaos, mayhem, and death to the US, Donald Trump has said, intensifying his attacks on his Democratic rival as the 2024 presidential election campaign entered a critical final 100 day stretch. Vice President Harris, 59, is the new presidential candidate of the Democratic party after incumbent President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the race. Trump, a former US president and the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, painted his new chief rival, Harris, as worse than President Biden at a rally in Minnesota on Saturday along with his running mate Senator J D Vance. "Ultra-liberal Kamala Harris will deliver crime, chaos, mayhem, and death to our country. I will restore law and order, justice in America," Trump, 78, said. Trump said on his very first day back in the White House, that he would terminate every single open border policy of the Biden-Harris Administration. And we will seal the border and we will stop the horrible invasion into our ...

Trump pledges to fire SEC Chair Gensler, hire people who 'love' crypto

He also pledged to form a crypto industry presidential advisory council, create a stablecoin framework, and called for a scale-back in enforcement

Trump to campaign in Minnesota, a state that hasn't backed GOP in 5 decades

As the presidential campaign enters a critical final 100 day stretch, Republican nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, rallied supporters on Saturday in a state that hasn't backed a GOP candidate for the White House since 1972. The rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, was designed as a sign of the campaign's bullishness about its prospects across the Midwest, particularly when President Joe Biden was showing signs of weakness ahead of his decision to exit the campaign. Trump, who won Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016 only to lose them four years later, has increasingly focused on Minnesota as a state where he'd like to put Democrats on defense. Trump attacked the likely Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris as a crazy liberal and a radical left lunatic, accusing her of wanting to defund the police. The former Republican president said, by contrast, he wants to overfund the police. Trump also knocked Harris as an absolute radical on abortion, seemingly sensing an .

Harris holds 1st fundraiser as Democratic nominee, attracts donors' support

Vice President Kamala Harris used her first fundraiser since becoming the Democrats' likely White House nominee to excoriate the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as determined to roll back Americans' freedoms. Harris travelled to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday where she was expected to raise more than USD 1.4 million, her campaign announced, from an expected audience of about 800 people at the Colonial Theatre. That would be USD 1 million-plus more than the original goal set for the event before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. She told an excited group of supporters that she entered the race as an underdog, while expressing confidence that her surging campaign could defeat Trump. I will fight to move our nation forward, Harris said. Donald Trump intends to take our country backwards. Harris also poked at Trump, and his running mate Sen. JD Vance, for lobbing peculiar attacks at her and other Democrats. The vice president appeared to be alluding to a