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Some have drawn comparisons between Harris’ campaign and Clinton’s 2016 run. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton electrified the crowd on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention as she portrayed Vice President Kamala Harris as someone who could break barriers and reach a pinnacle that eluded her throughout her own political career. “Together, Continue reading

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics and potentially shape the outcome of the election. The assessment from the FBI Continue reading

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A second Alabama jailer has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges for her “minimal role” in the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a concrete cell. According to the plea agreement, Kelly was concerned cell conditions posed a serious threat to the Continue reading

Simeon Burke was supported in court by his parents, Martina and Sean, and siblings, Ammi and Isaac, pictured at an earlier hearing at Cloverhill Court. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin A judge has told remand prisoner Simeon Burke that he is in custody voluntarily but could be released with “one flick of a pen” and Continue reading

More than 200 digital content creators will attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week with dedicated “creator credentials” that will grant these influencers special access to the party’s convention. “Bringing creators to our convention will multiply our reach and ensure that everyone can witness democracy in action,” Cayana Mackey-Nance, director of digital strategy Continue reading

Anti-Israel agitators are expected to descend upon the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago, where authorities anticipate potentially hundreds of arrests, putting the state’s no-cash-bail law to the ultimate test. Last year, Illinois enacted its Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA), eliminating cash bail, which critics say is discriminatory toward low-income offenders because it is more Continue reading

“This is definitely a homicide,” sheriff’s detective said. A fire that ripped through a home on Sunday in suburban Houston is being investigated as a triple homicide after investigators found evidence that three people discovered dead inside the residence were killed before the blaze started, authorities said. The fire at the two-story brick home in Continue reading

POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases fled Monday from Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army was bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Around 53,000 people still live in Pokrovsk, officials said, and some of them decided to Continue reading

A mother and daughter have been fatally shot and another man injured near a Kentucky courthouse 2 dead, 1 injured in a shooting near Kentucky courthouse, suspect shoots self after police standoff ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — A gunman who fatally shot a mother and daughter and injured another man outside a Kentucky courthouse led police on Continue reading

CHICAGO — When Hillary Clinton became the first woman to clinch a major party’s presidential nomination eight years ago, Democratic convention showrunners made sure there was no subtlety in marking the significance of the history-making moment. “We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet,” she told attendees at a convention awash in Continue reading