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 Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesArizona Senator Mark Kelly is ratcheting up his bid to be wing man to newly crowned Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
And the former astronaut and Navy veteran's military and scientific bonafides just landed him a shiny new endorsement from the 314 Action Fund, a grassroots organization that elects STEM professionals who want to tackle climate change and health care.
"He uses facts, science, and data to make informed public policy decisions," Shaughnessy Naughton, the president of 314 Action Fund, said. "He can simultaneously energize the base, win swing voters, and profoundly impact this race and we are proud to stand with him."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Former President Donald J. Trump also attacked Vice President Kamala Harris as insufficiently supportive of Israel after his meeting with the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Calling to offer their endorsement, the former president and first lady sounded like parents in a Lifetime movie talking to their child at summer camp.
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 Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBarack and Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris for president, saying in a spot released by her campaign early Friday that they "couldn't be prouder" to help propel her to victory.
But the former president issued a stark warning that Democrats are "underdogs," reflecting polling which shows Harris still behind Donald Trump despite President Joe Biden dropping out of the race. His wife also promised to work to elect "my girl Kamala," suggesting the former first couple will be a major presence on the campaign trail, a potentially huge boost to the Democrats.
The 55-second ad sees Harris taking a call from the Obamas while seemingly walking backstage at a campaign event. Obama's distinctive voice breaks in over the phone immediately: "Kamala!"
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The former president, who had held back in the days immediately after President Biden left the race, joined the wave of support from Democratic leaders.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to defend the ongoing war on Gaza as thousands of people outside protested his appearance. The speech came two months after Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced he was seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for committing war crimes in Gaza. Over 100 Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, skipped the speech, but those in attendance gave Netanyahu numerous standing ovations as he painted a distorted picture of what's happening in Gaza, making no mention of efforts to reach a ceasefire or the more than 16,000 Palestinian children killed in Israel's assault. Foreign policy analyst Phyllis Bennis says the speech was "horrifying," but says it showed that "support for Israel has become a thoroughly partisan issue." Bennis adds that peace activists in the U.S. have built a broad consensus against the war on Gaza and military support for Israel, and says Vice President Kamala Harris has an opportunity to chart a new path on Middle East policy as she runs for president.
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JD Vance's 2021 insult of "childless cat ladies" has sparked bipartisan outrage at a moment when women's choices are seen as a galvanizing political force.
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The death toll in Bangladesh from a crackdown on massive student protests has risen to at least 174, with more than 2,500 people arrested, after police and soldiers were granted "shoot-on-sight" orders amid the unrest. The protests were in response to a highly contested quota system for civil service jobs, with 30% of government positions reserved for relatives of veterans who fought in the country's independence war against Pakistan in 1971. The country's high court rolled that back Sunday to only 5%, but students are still demanding that a curfew be fully lifted, schools reopened, and detained students and protest leaders released. "The collective anger that you're seeing is over inequality, lack of opportunity, and a perception that those who are close to the ruling class and ruling elite are getting all the benefits," says journalist Salil Tripathi, author of a book on the Bangladeshi war of independence.
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