Kamala Harris, hoping to build momentum, plans battleground state tour next week
CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for president is entering a new phase, shifting from a 33-day sprint to the convention to something more familiar: Preparing for a debate and pivoting to getting out the vote.
She survived the Maui wildfires. She couldn’t survive the year after.
LAHAINA — As a whirlwind of flames nearly encircled the Lahaina Gateway shopping center on Aug. 8, 2023, Edralina Diezon hid in a storage room, surrounded by mops, buckets and brooms. Terrified, Diezon, who worked 80 hours a week as a janitor, did not leave for two days and two nights. When she finally emerged, starving and disoriented, the neighborhood where she lived was gone.
Harris promises to chart ‘new way forward’ as she accepts nomination
Vice President Kamala Harris used her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday to present herself as a pragmatic leader who could unite all Americans behind a “new way forward,” painting her opponent, former President Donald Trump, as a dangerous and “unserious man” whose election would alter the foundation of American democracy.
Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani remade himself as a base stealer, and now 40-40 is a possibility
On a sleepy morning at the Oakland Coliseum in early August, MLB’s biggest marvel was in study hall. Shohei Ohtani was tucked into a corner of the visiting clubhouse, sitting alongside his interpreter, Will Ireton, and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ first-base coach, Clayton McCullough. Ohtani, the team’s two-way star, has swapped hitting and pitching for hitting and running this season as he recovers from Tommy John surgery, and he was coming off the first three-steal game of his career.
Ex-US airman charged with child pornography appears in Russian propaganda video
A former U.S. Air Force airman who absconded to Russia after being hit with child pornography charges appears to be featured in a Russian propaganda video in which he defends his decision to enlist in the military there.
Zelenskyy Says Push Into Russia Shows the West’s Red Lines Are ‘Naive’
KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine’s surprise offensive into western Russia, which entered its third week Tuesday, shows the West that its fears about the ramifications of attacks on Russian territory are unfounded and should be abandoned.
US Push for Gaza Cease-Fire Falls Short on Key Points, Officials Say
DOHA, Qatar — Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed on Tuesday for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, but officials familiar with the latest U.S.-backed proposal said it left major disagreements between Hamas and Israel unresolved.
Why the Pirates face an added temptation to shut down Paul Skenes
With their odds of making the MLB playoffs below 1%, the Pittsburgh Pirates could easily justify shutting down their electrifying ace, right-hander Paul Skenes.
Nation and world news — at a glance — August 21
Final report on Maine shootings criticizes gunman’s army supervisors
Greenpeace tries a novel tactic in lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline
Greenpeace recently unveiled a new strategy for fighting a costly lawsuit by an energy company that the group contends is designed to silence critics of the oil industry.
Outraged Over Gaza, Protesters Show Left-Wing Divisions as Convention Opens
CHICAGO — As Democrats gathered in Chicago on Monday, eager to project an image of a liberal movement fully united behind Vice President Kamala Harris, thousands of people marched a few blocks away, presenting a thorny counterpoint.
Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat
President Joe Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal.
Harris, needling Trump, holds a rally at his convention site
Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a rally in Milwaukee on Tuesday night at the same basketball arena where former President Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination just a month ago, at a time when his party believed he was coasting to victory against a hapless President Joe Biden.
Alaska Airlines’ acquisition of Hawaiian clears key antitrust review
Alaska Airlines’ acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines cleared a major hurdle Monday, after the airlines said the Justice Department ended a review of the merger without challenging it on antitrust grounds.
NASA scientists team with artists for sprawling ‘PST Art’ liftoff
PASADENA, Calif. — Surveying the convoluted amalgamation of equipment in his windowless lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory the other day, Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist and astrobiologist, said he sees “a massive experiment to simulate Jupiter’s moon Europa.” But visual artists looking at the same tangle, he noted, might “see this as some sort of bizarre sculpture.”
A family flees and a mother mourns after Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village
JIT, West Bank — They came into the village just past sundown, dozens of Israeli settlers wearing masks, dressed in dark clothes and armed with rocks, Kalashnikovs and M16s, witnesses said.
To undecided voters, Harris is famous, but unknown. They want to learn more
Teri York-Singleton is certain about one thing as she considers the November election: She will not vote for Donald Trump.
The misery of leading Columbia University
Minocuhe Shafik resigned Wednesday as president of Columbia University after little more than a year. Her resignation letter began by describing her “immense sadness” in stepping down, understandable given the prestige and opportunity of an Ivy League presidency, long considered a plum role in what Shafik described as a “life dedicated to public service.”
Vance defends unsubstantiated claims about immigration and crime
WASHINGTON — Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, on Friday defended his past unsubstantiated claims about immigration in which he suggested that early waves of Italian, Irish and German immigration led to higher crime and interethnic conflict, by citing the movie “Gangs of New York.”
AI is helping to launch new businesses (and not just AI businesses)
Sean Ammirati has been teaching a class on entrepreneurship for more than a decade.
