On April 24, 2007, Kamala Harris testified before Congress in support of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007. The bill, which was introduced that year but never passed the upper chamber, would have created a student loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors, and Harris, then the district attorney
Alsobrooks’s daughter attended elite D.C. private school as public schools in her jurisdiction woefully underperformed standards Angela Alsobrooks (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Prince George’s County executive Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland’s open Senate seat, says public education “is personal” to her. But as public schools in Alsobrooks’s jurisdiction woefully underperformed state standards, Alsobrooks chose
‘I didn’t explain myself clearly,’ Harris campaign adviser says (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Camila Thorndike, a top Harris-Walz campaign climate adviser, abruptly walked back her recent comments stating that Vice President Kamala Harris would be hostile to future oil and gas drilling as president—effectively reversing her reversal of the candidate’s position. In a statement Monday, Thorndike
Pennsylvania’s Senate race has shifted from “lean Democrat” to a “toss up” as incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D.) loses ground to his Republican challenger Dave McCormick just two weeks before Election Day, according to the Cook Political Report. Cook stated that the race is now competitive enough to be considered a “toss up,” adding that
The Harris-Walz campaign’s climate engagement director has a long history of demonizing fossil fuels, going as far as to accuse oil and gas workers of committing “ecoterrorism” and advancing “individualism, white supremacy + toxic patriarchy,” a Washington Free Beacon review found. During an August 2022 podcast interview, Camila Thorndike—who worked at green energy advocacy firm Rewiring America before she joined Vice President
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) slammed Obama-appointed attorney general Loretta Lynch for “selling out” to the Chinese Communist Party by representing a U.S.-designated Chinese military firm in its lawsuit against the Pentagon. Shenzhen DJI Technology Company (DJI), a Chinese drone manufacturer, is suing the Pentagon over its 2022 decision to add DJI to its blacklist
A House task force report released Monday criticized the Secret Service for “a lack of planning and coordination” with local officials during the “tragic” and “preventable” July 13 assassination attempt on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “The information obtained during the first phase of the Task Force’s investigation clearly shows a lack of planning and