Month: July 2024

In her childhood in Berkeley, Calif., you can find the seeds of the political leader that Vice President Kamala Harris grew up to become.

Her childhood friend Carole Porter, who lived a few houses away, paints a picture of a working-class, multicultural neighborhood.

And she pointed to two women who had a huge effect on the vice president’s life.

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For a brief moment, people in the Venezuelan diaspora felt a surge of hope as reports indicated the opposition party was polling way ahead of Nicolas Maduro’s party. Then, Venezuela’s electoral authority declared Maduro the winner.

Members of the opposition have cried foul. And the US and other international observers have questioned the integrity of the election.

So where does Sunday’s election leave Venezuelans, who are living in the midst of a humanitarian emergency?

And where does it leave the nearly 8 million people who have left Venezuela during President Maduro’s time in office?

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Vice President Kamala Harris has a little over a week to pick a running mate to join her on the presidential ticket.

The list of possibilities is long, but many have a couple of things in common — the represent swing states and are white, straight men — qualities that might help make a winning ticket.

Who should the current Vice President pick to be her running mate, and what will make that a winning choice?

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Among the many Democratic Party insiders who publicly or privately urged President Joe Biden to reconsider running for reelection, one played an outsized role: Nancy Pelosi.

Pelosi is 84 years old — older than Biden — and no longer in House leadership.

But her part in the pressure campaign that led to a change in the Democratic ticket shows: she is still very much a leader, and her political pull remains strong.

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Clayton Young and Conner Mantz are longtime training partners and friends. They’re also the two fastest men’s marathoners representing the U.S. at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

The pair met on a run at Brigham Young University in 2017. They’ve been friends, training partners and competitors ever since.

With years of friendship and thousands of miles binding them together, can Young and Mantz break away from the pack and take home the gold at the Olympic games?

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Vice President Kamala Harris is barreling towards the Democratic nomination for president.

Her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has a record of personally attacking women of color who stand in his way.

Sexist and racist attacks on Harris have already started. How might they impact her bid for office?

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If Kamala Harris officially becomes the Democratic presidential nominee next month, she’ll be the first woman of color to lead a major party’s ticket.

Of course, that would not be her first, first.

Harris’s entire career is a list of jobs that nobody who looks quite like her had held before, including California’s attorney general, Senator, and Vice President of the United States.

Harris often stresses that while she may be a first, others paved the way.

Kamala Harris has had a career full of firsts – could she also be the first woman to become President of the United States?

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In just a matter of hours, a Kamala Harris for President campaign has gone from a far-flung possibility, to all but certain likelihood.

It puts the Vice President in a tricky spot. She’s got to run on President Biden’s achievements, while avoiding the more challenging aspects of his record.

Biden entrusted Harris with some of the most challenging parts of his portfolio, including voting rights, the rollback of reproductive rights and immigration.

Harris has struggled to find her footing on immigration. Early on, she faced criticism for having not visited the southern border.

As Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott started bussing migrants to northern cities, the Vice President’s mansion in Washington DC became a drop-off point.

Even though Kamala Harris isn’t yet the official nominee, both voters and the republican party will force her to answer for the Biden administration’s immigration policies in this year’s election.

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President Biden has made a historic decision to endorse his vice president, Kamala Harris, to take his spot at the top of the Democratic ticket.

The move comes after weeks of calls for Biden to step aside after concerns about his fitness for the job.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Senior White House Correspondent Tamara Keith and National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson about what this means for the Democratic Party in the months ahead to the election.

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A plucky meteorology heroine; a male rival with no shortage of hubris; and some very, very big storms: that’s the basic formula behind the new disaster action movie Twisters, which follows storm chasers around Oklahoma amid a tornado outbreak.

It’s a standalone sequel to the 1996 film Twister, a box-office hit in its day which also spurred a lot of real-life research into severe storms.

We’ve since learned a lot about how tornadoes behave, and the technology of storm chasing has improved dramatically.

But behind these summer blockbusters is a mystery that scientists are still trying to solve: why do tornadoes form at all?

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