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Biden withdrawal doesn’t mean Harris automatically succeeds

What is amusing and simultaneously contributes to the cynicism some feel about politics is how many Democrats claimed until recently that President Joe Biden was a different man in private than the mumbling, stumbling man everyone could hear and see in public. These include Vice President ...

Secret Service director resigns, but departure is unlikely to end scrutiny

WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that unleashed an outcry about how the agency failed in its core mission to protect current and former presidents. Kimberly Cheatle, who had ...

European agency cites Earth’s hottest day

WASHINGTON (AP) — On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday. Copernicus' preliminary data shows that the global average temperature ...

Harris claims most of the delegates needed for presidential nomination

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris was closing in Monday on securing the Democratic delegates she needs to become her party's nominee and set a new fundraising record in her first 24 hours as a presidential candidate, as top Democrats rallied to her in their bid to defeat ...

‘We failed,’ Secret Service director tells lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday that her agency failed in its mission to protect former President Donald Trump, as lawmakers of both major political parties demanded during a highly contentious congressional hearing that she resign over security failures ...

Taking rights seriously

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, Mankind would be no more justified In silencing that one person, Than he, if he had the power, Would be justified in silencing mankind.” — John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world ...