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A hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park damaged a boardwalk and sent debris several stories into the air Tuesday morning in the Biscuit Basin area northwest of Old Faithful, according to the scientist-in-charge at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

The ascension of Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in November has led to a windfall for Democrats in red states who have been flooded with donations.

“I’m completely stunned.”

That’s the reaction of Charles Gaba, a Michigan health care analyst and Democrat who helps fundraise for other Democrats across the country through his website blue24.org.

Charles Gaba

Gaba said that in the less than 48 hours since President Joe Biden announced on Sunday he would not seek reelection and then quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, there has been a flurry of donations through his site to Harris’ campaign, raising... Читать дальше...

Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly narrowed down her choice for presidential running mate to a small number of choices, and Arizona Republic columnist Phil Boas believes that his state's United States senator would be the perfect fit.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a Tuesday call with reporters committed to a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic presidential candidate.

Vice President Kamala Harris' energetic speech in Milwaukee on Tuesday signaled a sea change in how the 2020 presidential campaign will be run, argues Salon's Amanda Marcotte.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat brought up as a potential running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris, will be speaking Saturday at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty and Justice Celebration.

Donald Trump on Wednesday was accused of violating the law after posting a letter he received from a foreign leader.

Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her case for the presidency to an energetic crowd in the gym of West Allis Central High School in Milwaukee on Tuesday — two days after President Joe Biden decided to step out of the 2024 presidential race.

New voter registration spiked to record levels in the first 48 hours after president Joe Biden ended his presidential campaign.

As a tenth generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” as a “really one-sided and simple view of the region.”

A panel of female Donald Trump voters assembled by MSNBC to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris' new entry as the presumptive Democratic candidate in the November election expressed an array of emotions about her entry ranging from dismay to thinly veiled racism and contempt for her.

In the clip, shared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," political analyst Elise Jordan asked the women from Wisconsin, all Trump fans and all admitting they also voted against Hillary Clinton in 2016, "Do you think... Читать дальше...

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat who has won two consecutive elections in once solidly red Arizona, is among the five contenders being seriously considered as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate.

A group connected to The Heritage Foundation — which is behind the 900-page Project 2025 blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration — claims that it "used mobile ad location data to map the movements of Thomas Matthew Crooks" ahead of his failed assassination attempt of Donald Trump, 404's Joseph Cox reports.

This article first appeared on Houston Landing and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

Originally published by The 19th

Sonya Massey should be alive today. That is the message ricocheting across the internet as the killing of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman and mother, by a White sheriff’s deputy in Illinois gains national attention from President Joe Biden, advocates and celebrities following the release of police body camera footage on Monday.

Massey was shot on July 6 while handling a pot of hot water in her kitchen by a sheriff’s deputy standing several feet away from her in the living room. Читать дальше...

A Republican operative barely attempted to defend J.D. Vance's remarks about "childless cat ladies" during an appearance on CNN.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, NBC's Ali Vitali told co-host Mika Brzezinski that Donald Trump is facing a completely different landscape than when he battled Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election now that it appears he will face Vice President Kamala Harris.

With Harris now likely to be the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden discontinued his campaign, Vitali suggested the VP has in hand a set of "unique weapons" she can bring to bear that Clinton did not have at her disposal. Читать дальше...

Deportation flights from Panama for undocumented US-bound migrants who have crossed the lawless Darien jungle from South America are expected to start imminently, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

A conservative legal group has filed a brief on behalf of a former Kentucky county clerk that it says could lead to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Three neo-Nazis alleged to have planned an attack on the energy grid as part of a plot to launch a race war are set to go before a federal judge on Thursday for sentencing.

Donald Trump has said he could shoot a person in the middle of the street and not lose voters, but he lost at least some after a recent statement that appears to be an attempt to woo disaffected swing-state Muslims.

One of the top Democratic megadonors who called on President Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign has just handed a pro-Harris super PAC $7 million. The large donation comes amid record-breaking donations to Harris' new presidential campaign as well as massive donations to Democratic groups.

New polling out on Tuesday suggests that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140 of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it.

A group of former Nikki Haley voters defied the failed Republican candidate's cease-and-desist order and vowed to continue their work supporting Kamala Harris.