CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the “heroes among us” as she visited North Carolina on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, her second trip in four days to the disaster zone. The vice president was in Charlotte one day after a visit to the state by Republican
‘End settler colonialism as it exists today, and heal the planet,’ Samuel Mena Jr. writes in letter Samuel Mena Jr. sets himself on fire outside of the White House. (AFP via Getty Images) A CBS-affiliated journalist based in Arizona set himself on fire at an anti-Israel protest held in front of the White House on
Vice President Kamala Harris declined to say whether she considers Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu an ally, ducking a basic foreign policy question as she seeks to shore up votes among the Democratic Party’s anti-Israel wing. Harris, in an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes set to air in full on Monday, was asked whether
The number of deaths from Hurricane Helene stood at 227 on Saturday and is still climbing, officials say. The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Sunday dismissed claims about her agency’s funding in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in North Carolina. “It’s really a shame that we’re putting politics ahead of
Saturday Night Live skewered Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for lying about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. The skit re-creates a question posed to Walz on the lie during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate. Walz, played by comedian Jim Gaffigan, blames the fib on a drunken trip to EPCOT. [embedded
Since ending his independent presidential bid and backing Trump, Kennedy has focused on his vow to curb America’s chronic disease problem. As the dust settles on his White House bid, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is focusing on his initiative, Make America Healthy Again, with the goal to turn around what he calls a chronic disease
At least 1,200 of those incidents occurred on college campuses, a 500 percent increase from the year prior (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) More than 10,000 anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded in the United States in the year following Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, marking the highest yearly total recorded, according to Anti-Defamation League data