Politics

Vice President Kamala Harris looked for a boost with persuadable and less-motivated voters as she participated in a livestream Thursday evening with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey to focus on her plans to cut costs for the middle class, restore a national right to abortion and address gun violence.

As Republicans in Nebraska consider changing state law to give Donald Trump an extra Electoral College vote this fall, their Democratic counterparts in Maine have little recourse to even the score.  

The dozens of bomb threats and the onslaught of public attention that has befallen a small Ohio city since President Donald Trump and others pushed the false claim that Haitian migrants were stealing and eating pets has children living in fear, worried parents said Thursday.

Robinson denied the CNN report, which stated that he referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and expressed support for bringing back slavery.

Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin De Leon is requesting that the city attorney’s office report back with potential legal remedies against Union Pacific.

Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian will hand over the position Friday to Council President Pro Tem Marqueece Harris-Dawson in a leadership shakeup for the 15-member panel.

Grassroots groups like Evangelicals for Harris are running ads and targeting voters in swing states while offering an alternate vision of their faith.

Tens of thousands of voters were disenfranchised by slow mail in 2020. NBC found some of the country’s slowest mail is in presidential swing states with strict mail ballot delivery deadlines.

Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people connected to the Democratic president in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.

The decision comes just two days after the union’s leaders met with Vice President Kamala Harris and months after they met with former President Donald Trump.

A woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new Kamala Harris campaign ad.

The House on Wednesday rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposal.

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr recalls his nerve-wracking experience speaking at the Democratic National Convention last month.