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News Articles: Kamala Harris

Harris takes the oath of office as San Francisco's district attorney on Jan. 8, 2004. Her mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, holds a copy of the Bill of Rights.

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  • Politics

The story behind the woman who inspired Harris to break barriers

Shyamala Gopalan figures large in Vice President Harris’ life story — and her motivation to break barriers in politics.

July 31, 2024
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Former President Donald Trump will address Black journalists at this year's NABJ convention in Chicago. Here, Trump is seen holding a press conference on May 31 following the verdict in his hush-money trial in New York City.

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  • National

Trump's planned address to Black journalists convention sparks backlash

Former President Donald Trump will address journalists at the NABJ convention in Chicago. Many, however, have questioned the decision to offer a platform to the Republican nominee.

July 31, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Vice President Harris waves during a packed campaign rally Tuesday in Atlanta.

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  • Elections

Here comes the Sun (Belt): With Harris running, the presidential map has shifted back

Now that Vice President Harris is the likely Democratic presidential nominee versus former President Donald Trump, the map of competitive states in the election is a repeat of the 2020 battlegrounds.

July 31, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Joan Browning and Charles Person chat at Emory University in Atlanta, Fridy, July 26, 2024. They were Freedom Riders. activists who rode buses into the Deep South in 1961, aiming to desegregate interstate transportation. Browning and Person are donating their archives to the university's Rose Library.

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  • News

Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders urge younger activists to get out the vote

During the Civil Rights Movement, young people put their bodies on the line as Freedom Riders, boarding buses to protest segregation. One of those riders spoke to young leaders in Atlanta as Democrats adjust to the entry of Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race.

July 31, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Vice President Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Atlanta on July 30, 2024.

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  • Politics

Harris tries to flip the script on Trump on the border during raucous Georgia speech

The issue of border security is one of Vice President Harris' biggest vulnerabilities in her campaign. On Tuesday, she tried to use his signature issue against former President Donald Trump.

July 30, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
Kamala Harris, then the San Francisco district attorney, poses for a portrait on June 18, 2004.

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  • Politics

Harris is leaning into her history as a prosecutor. It's not the first time

Five years ago, Harris also said she’d "prosecute the case" against Trump. This time around, it hits a bit differently.

July 30, 2024
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Indian-American Democrat Ashwin Ramaswami, who is currently running for a Georgia state Senate in District 48 against Republican incumbent Shawn Still, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Cumming, Ga.

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  • News

Kamala Harris energizes South Asian voters, a growing force in key swing states

A rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia will show how Asian American voters are pivotal there. In metropolitan Atlanta, Harris' Indian roots sparked kitchen-table conversations in many households. Advocates are energized. A drive out to Atlanta's sprawling suburbs shows why.

July 30, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Vice President Kamala Harris waves while boarding Air Force Two as she departs Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Westfield, Mass., Saturday, July 27, 2024.

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  • News

Democrats had feared Georgia was a lost cause with Biden running. Harris will campaign there Tuesday

Now that President Joe Biden has bowed out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris is the likely nominee, Democrats say they have new hope for Georgia. They're betting a fresh burst of energy and a surge in fundraising has helped make Georgia a toss-up again. Harris plans a show of political force Tuesday in Atlanta.

July 30, 2024
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  • Associated Press
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign fundraising event at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, Mass., on Saturday.

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  • National

Harris calls herself an underdog with momentum during a fundraiser speech

In her speech, Vice President Harris spoke boldly about the stakes of the presidential election, and brushed off Donald Trump's latest attacks against her.

July 27, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith and
  • Juliana Kim
Democrats cheer for Vice President Harris at a rally — the first of her campaign — in Milwaukee on July 23, 2024.

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  • Politics

From doom scrolling to hope scrolling: this week’s big Democratic vibe shift

Out: Tom Petty. In: Beyoncé. We look at what's behind the jarring vibe shift in the Democratic campaign this week.

July 27, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
Vice President Harris and former President Barack Obama attend a White House event marking the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act on April 5, 2022.

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  • Politics

The Obamas have endorsed Harris, capping a week where Democrats embraced her

The endorsements of former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama cap a week where the Democratic party, for the most part, lined up behind Vice President Harris to become their nominee.

July 26, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith

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  • Perspective

From Obama to Harris, a look at what's changed

As Kamala Harris nears the Democratic party’s nomination, the mood around her candidacy seems less breathless than in 2008. Code Switch digs into what a Black president would mean this time.

July 26, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
President Biden speaks during an address to the nation about his decision to not seek reelection in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday.

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  • Politics

4 takeaways from President Biden’s Oval Office address

In his first public remarks after exiting the race for president, Biden focused on his goals for his final months in office and painted a picture of the legacy he hopes to leave behind.

July 25, 2024
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1948 Altalena affair, at Nachalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv on June 18.

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  • Middle East

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu can expect a mixed reception as he addresses Congress

The Israeli leader speaks Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Republicans are strongly supportive of Israel, while Democrats are increasingly critical.

July 24, 2024
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  • Greg Myre and
  • Barbara Sprunt
Senator Kamala Harris speaks on stage.

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  • News

'Excited' and 'ready to go to work,' Georgia Democratic delegation unanimously backs Kamala Harris

Georgia delegates to the Democratic National Convention are unanimously backing Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's presidential nominee.

July 23, 2024
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