Over 160,000 attendees in a key demographic ‘answered the call’ on Thursday, with nearly $8.5m raised for Harris
Following the success of a virtual call to mobilize Black women voters for Kamala Harris , a similar event with more than 160,000 attendees was held on Thursday aimed at white women, and appeared to break records.
White women will be a key demographic for the Democrats to win over this election .
James Wilburn, father of Black woman shot dead by Illinois police, says vice-president ‘let us know she is with us 100%’
Vice-President Kamala Harris on Friday called the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in her Illinois home, according to Massey’s family members, who spoke to NBC News .
Massey was killed on 6 July after she called the Sangamon county sheriff’s office because she was afraid there might be a prowler outside, according to an attorney for her family and Illinois state police.
Nadia Comăneci keeps balance during choppy journeySporting greats were part of Paris Olympic ceremonyCarl Lewis, as a nine-time Olympic champion and the IOC’s sportsman of
Woman seeks $1m for defamation after she says LaToya Cantrell falsely accused her of following and harassing
A New Orleans woman once accused of stalking by the city’s mayor, LaToya Cantrell, turned the tables Friday with a $1 million-plus federal lawsuit accusing the elected official, her chief of staff and eight members of the city’s police department of civil rights violations and defamation.
Anne W Breaud’s lawsuit says Cantrell falsely accused Breaud of following and harassing her. It also claims Cantrell’s chief of staff and members of the police department improperly accessed state and federal information on Breaud.
The Park fire in the north of the state, only 3% contained, has burned more than 160,000 acres, including structures
A massive wildfire in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada has grown into the state’s largest this year, destroying buildings and forcing the evacuations of thousands of people in a region reeling from a spate of devastating wildfires in recent years.
The blaze started on Wednesday on the outskirts of Chico, a university town of 100,000 in the foothills. By Friday morning, the blaze, known as the Park fire, had burned more than 160,000 acres (64,700 hectares) across Butte and Tehama counties. Fueled by steady winds and hot weather, the flames have been particularly ferocious, licking above the tree line as the fire ballooned in size.
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Judith Monarrez says she never stopped looking for her chihuahua after he escaped from the backyard in 2015
Judith Monarrez crumpled onto her kitchen floor and wept when the news arrived in an email: Gizmo, her pet dog missing for nine years, had been found alive.
Monarrez was 28 and living with her parents in 2015 when Gizmo, then two years old, slipped past a faulty gate in the backyard of their home in Las Vegas.
Swimming is splashing into the confines of a rugby stadium with all eyes on whether world records will be smashed
Olympic swimming rarely disappoints, and it starts on Saturday with the women’s 100m butterfly heats. As excitement builds, many are wondering if the pool will produce record-breaking performances to light up the Games.
First things first; in Paris there is a separate venue for the swimmers in Nanterre while the divers and artistic swimmers get to star in the £151m purpose-built aquatics centre in Saint-Denis. So much for the hype around a flexible pool. Instead, the swimming events will be held in the Paris La Défense Arena where two 50m temporary pools have been built in what is normally a 30,000-seat rugby stadium.
Fate has swung wildly in her favour, with everything from the Democrat establishment to memes on her side. Will we finally see a Madam President?
A week has always been a long time in politics, but this might have been the longest week in Kamala Harris’s life. While Joe Biden is still technically the US president, he already feels irrelevant. All eyes are on Harris now. The speed with which she has gone from being one of the most unpopular vice-presidents in modern history to sitting at the top of the Democratic ticket, with an army of enthusiastic fans behind her, is astounding. Biden’s trajectory has been widely compared to a Shakespearean tragedy; Harris’s sudden reversal of fortune, meanwhile, is like something out of a fairytale.
A quick recap: Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris on Sunday. The Democratic establishment then threw its weight behind her on Monday. So did hundreds of thousands of donors; Harris’s campaign raked in a record-breaking $81m in just 24 hours. By Tuesday, she had earned enough support from delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president next month. On Wednesday, Democrats approved rules meaning that any Democrat who wants to compete against Harris for the nomination only has days to do so. Then, on Friday, Barack Obama endorsed the vice-president. Her coronation is almost complete.
Former president gives his backing in major boost for the likely Democrat contender as her Republican rival prepares to meet Israeli prime ministerThe meeting between