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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 22, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Harris kicks off campaign by focusing on future, highlighting plans to help families

by Isabel Soisson

| July 23, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | STATE | Texas Lead Story
During her first speech as the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Kamala Harris said she’d fight to make child care more affordable, pass paid family leave, and restore reproductive freedom.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Planned Parenthood, Thursday, March. 14, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Adam Bettcher)

Kamala Harris has spent years fighting for reproductive freedom. Here’s what to know.

by Isabel Soisson

| July 22, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | ABORTION | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | STATE
Harris has a longstanding history of advocating for reproductive rights, something she’s sure to highlight on the campaign trail as she seeks to paint a stark contrast between herself and former president Donald Trump.
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Several Texas delegates coalesce behind Kamala Harris after Joe Biden abandons reelection

by The Texas Tribune

| July 22, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | national politics | STATE
After President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race Sunday, several of Texas’ Democratic delegates rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back row L-R) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pose for their official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court has begun a new term after Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially added to the bench in September. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

7 major rulings from the US Supreme Court’s 2023-2024 term, explained

by Sam Cohen

| July 19, 2024

DFW | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has, shall we say, made news this year. Here’s an approachable explainer to some of their top rulings of the term, and how they impact clean air, workplace safety, health insurance, and the general quality of life for all Americans. 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, former first lady Melania Trump, Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and his wife Usha Vance together on stage at the end of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Big tech billionaires line up behind Donald Trump and JD Vance

by Isabel Soisson

| July 19, 2024

2024 ELECTIONS | DFW | EXTREMISM | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | TECHNOLOGY
Silicon Valley billionaires such as Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and Chamath Palihapitiya have thrown their support behind a Trump-Vance ticket, and some even urged the former president to pick Vance as his running mate.