How busing, school desegregation shaped Kamala Harris’s views of race
Early one morning in September 1970, 5-year-old Kamala Harris walked to the corner of her street to wait for a school bus that would take her up the hills and…
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Harris’s campaign has raised $540 million since launch, Democrats say
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has raised $540 million since it launched last month, including a surge bolstered by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and a total that amounts…
Trump allies try to energize him as he struggles to adapt to Harris
Republican nominee Donald Trump looked cheerful playing golf at his New Jersey club one day earlier this month, then appeared bored in an afternoon news conference and dour during a…
Here’s what some swing-state voters say about the Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention in Chicago drew generally positive impressions from a key swath of voters in battleground states surveyed by The Washington Post. Optimism, energy and support for Democratic…
Bill Pascrell and elder statesmen leave House in hands of a new generation of Democrats
After a long day of campaigning ahead of a tough primary in 2012, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) brought his two closest friends in Congress to an Italian restaurant in…
RFK Jr., environmental warrior, backs the ‘drill, baby, drill’ ticket
As he suspended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked at length about the “many key issues” on which he claims that…
Fauci hospitalized with West Nile virus, now recovering at home
Anthony S. Fauci was hospitalized with West Nile virus this month, according to a spokesperson for the nation’s former top infectious-disease official. Fauci, 83, ran the National Institute of Allergy…
Tim Walz’s upbringing in rural Nebraska seemed idyllic. Then came tragedy.
VALENTINE, Neb. — Beyond the Badlands, deep within the undulating landscape of the Sandhills, this speck of a city where Tim Walz spent a decade of his childhood rises abruptly…
Jesse Jackson, slowed at 82, is still showing up and keeping hope alive
CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson sat in a wheelchair near the back wall of a darkened restaurant at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was late Thursday morning, the final day…
RFK Jr. suspends his campaign — with an appropriately bizarre theory
The promise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent 2024 campaign was always something of a mirage. His famous last name combined with the unpopularity of President Joe Biden and former…