Harris Secures Enough Votes to Become Democratic Presidential Nominee, DNC Chair Says

The official delegate voting process will continue until Aug. 5, although Harris has met the threshold for nomination. Vice President Kamala Harris on Aug. 2 earned enough votes from Democratic delegates to secure the party’s nomination for president, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison said on Aug. 2. “I am so proud to confirm

Taliban Lawyer Tony West Has a New Client: His Sister-in-Law Kamala Harris

West said ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh was ‘not a terrorist’ Associate Attorney General Tony West speaks August 21, 2014 at the Justice Department (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Vice President Kamala Harris has a “powerful” new campaign adviser: her brother-in-law Tony West, the former Obama Justice Department attorney who defended a convicted terrorist sentenced to 20

Kamala Harris passes threshold needed to secure nomination in DNC vote

A majority of Democratic delegates has voted to select Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for president in a virtual roll call vote, her campaign and the Democratic Party said Friday, cementing her status at the top of the ticket heading into November. The Democratic National Committee began the formal process for selecting

House Oversight Committee investigating plea deal for 9/11 defendants

Washington — The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee is opening an investigation into whether the White House was involved in the plea deal that military prosecutors reached with the alleged architect of the 9/11 terror attacks and two other defendants. GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the Oversight panel, sent a letter