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(CHICAGO) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will take the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday to formally accept the vice presidential nomination and deliver a keynote speech. Vice President Kamala Harris tapped Walz to be her running mate earlier this month, just a couple weeks after she became the presumptive Democratic nominee following […]
(NEW YORK) — As schools and libraries across the country face record-breaking attempts to remove books from shelves, most Americans are opposed to book restrictions in public schools, according to a new survey. In 2023, the American Library Association (ALA) documented 4,240 unique book titles targeted for censorship, as well as 1,247 demands to censor […]
ABC/MICHAEL LE BRECHT Night two of the Democratic National Convention took place Tuesday at Chicago’s United Center, and Lil Jon and Common took the stage to perform in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Lil Jon surprised the crowd, popping out when Georgia was asked to cast its vote. He appeared alongside the […]
(CHICAGO) — Democrats have made conservatives’ controversial Project 2025 and its education agenda a weapon in their attacks against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention. Dismantling the Department of Education is a key issue for conservatives this election season and is mentioned in the 922-page playbook for the next conservative president. […]
(NEW YORK) — After nearly two and a half months of searching, law enforcement officials have arrested fugitive Joshua Zimmerman, who had been on the run since escaping from the DeSoto County Circuit Court Building in Mississippi on June 14. The United States Marshals Service said Zimmerman was detained on Wednesday morning after an overnight […]
David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Travis Kelce‘s Hollywood career is taking off, with possibly two new roles, including one the Happy Gilmore superfan made no bones about begging to get. The host of the forthcoming Prime Video game show Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? came up when Adam Sandler appeared Tuesday evening on The […]
(WASHINGTON) — The Harris-Walz campaign effort to calcify the renewed enthusiasm from their party at the top of the ticket is seeing their biggest week of mobilization of the entire election cycle as the party’s national convention charges on in Chicago. Ahead of the convention, the campaign launched what they characterize as a “weekend of […]
Julianne Moore stars in the teaser trailer for The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar‘s first-ever English language film. Tilda Swinton costars in the Sony Pictures Classics film that will make its debut at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2 and open in theaters on Dec. 20. The story follows Moore’s Ingrid and Swinton’s Martha, […]
(CHICAGO) — Barack and Michelle Obama used their star power to lift up Vice President Kamala Harris — and eviscerate her opponent. Representing Democrats’ modern version of political royalty, the former president and former first lady brought a raucous Chicago crowd to its feet with their distinctively soaring rhetoric. But compared to past speeches, these […]
(NEW YORK) — A former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd was released from prison Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to ABC News. Thomas Lane, 41, pleaded guilty in May 2022 to state charges of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. As part of the plea deal, […]
