New York: New York state lawyers urged an appeals court late Wednesday to uphold Donald Trump’s nearly USD 500 million civil fraud judgment, arguing there’s “overwhelming evidence” to support a judge’s finding that the former president lied for years about his wealth as he built his real estate empire. In paperwork filed ahead of oral … Read more
CHICAGO: Television legend Oprah Winfrey returned to prime time Wednesday in a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention, calling on Americans to choose “optimism over cynicism” and “inclusion over retribution” as she endorsed the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose life story Winfrey deemed “the best of America.” Winfrey, a billionaire media mogul … Read more
CHICAGO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ election effort has raised around $500 million since she became the Democratic presidential candidate, sources told Reuters, an unprecedented money haul that reflects donor enthusiasm going into the Nov. 5 election. Four sources familiar with the fundraising effort told Reuters that figure had been banked for Harris in the … Read more
In 2007, a young biracial senator from Illinois named Barack Obama was trying to convince Black voters that he was one of them. I traveled to South Carolina to see a set of speeches that would become an historical inflection point — Oprah and Michelle code-switching to tell the state’s Black Democrats that he was … Read more
Barack Obama was days shy of his 43rd birthday and months from being elected to the U.S. Senate when he stepped onto a Boston stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. A state lawmaker from Illinois, he had an unusual profile to be a headline speaker at a presidential convention. But the self-declared “skinny kid … Read more
The first thing to know about Kamala Harris’ campaign for California attorney general is that she was not necessarily favored to win. It was 2010 — the pinnacle of the Tea Party’s power — and Harris was running statewide for the first time and struggling to shed the same San Francisco liberal label that Donald … Read more
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will give the keynote address Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, making a symbolic handoff of his party to Vice President Kamala Harris and pressing the case for what he says is the threat to the country if Donald Trump returns to the White House. Four weeks ago, … Read more
WASHINGTON: From swing dancing to ice cream socials, Kamala Harris’ campaign will mark the 89th anniversary of Social Security this week with events aimed at older Americans who generally back Republicans. Events are planned in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and other key states, as well as a virtual celebration with performances by several artists … Read more
WASHINGTON: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver on Friday the first policy-centered speech in her new role as Democratic presidential candidate, tackling ways to lower costs, a concern that routinely tops voters’ lists. Harris will travel to Raleigh, in North Carolina, a state Democrats remain hopeful they can flip this election, to outline a … Read more
Washington, US President Joe Biden on Sunday said that he decided to withdraw from the presidential election because he did not want to create “a real distraction” for the Democrats and let them fully concentrate on preventing former president Donald Trump from regaining the White House. In his first interview since ending his re-election campaign … Read more
