[ad_1] Since her time as California attorney general, Vice President Kamala Harris has proven to be a tough-as-nails negotiator. Ad Policy Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters outside the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol on May 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C.(Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) Twelve years ago, as California struggled […]

[ad_1] Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dec. 7, 2023, in Washington. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption toggle caption Mariam Zuhaib/AP A New Jersey elementary school will change its name, losing the moniker of disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez after his conviction on bribery charges was confirmed by a Manhattan court earlier […]

[ad_1] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In a vast stretch of Central Washington’s high desert, the farms and small towns of Grant County sit on nothing short of a […]

[ad_1] Patriarchy, plutocracy, and ethnonationalism fuel the vice-presidential candidate’s bizarre slur. Ad Policy Who let the cats out? Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) Donald Trump hates dogs and J.D. Vance hates cats, so it is hardly surprising that the two men have teamed up for a perfectly balanced presidential ticket. The […]

[ad_1] The vice president’s ascension provides an opening for a new approach to the horror in Palestine. But it won’t happen without sustained political pressure. Ad Policy Benjamin Netanyahu and Kamala Harris shake hands during a meeting in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Kenny Holston / The […]

[ad_1] The nomination gives the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a second ballot line in New York and a big organizational boost from WFP and its allies. Ad Policy A supporter holds a sign as members of the San Francisco Democratic Party rally in support of Kamala Harris on July 22 at City Hall in San […]

[ad_1] U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign fundraising event at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, Mass., on Saturday. Stephanie Scarbrough/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephanie Scarbrough/Pool/AFP via Getty Images PITTSFIELD, Mass. — In her first fundraiser since becoming her party’s candidate for president, Vice President […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Soon after longtime New Orleans attorney Wendy Vitter became a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana, she heard a lawsuit against the local government in Plaquemines Parish, a peninsular province […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health — sometimes after manufacturers complained, a ProPublica […]

[ad_1] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Several months ago, in a lawsuit that was in its ninth year, a federal judge blasted the medical care at the Louisiana State Penitentiary […]