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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. There’s no point denying it: Vice President Kamala Harris’ rollout has been nothing short of a storybook introduction. A clean exit from President Joe Biden? Check. Delegates and donors falling in line?…

It didn’t take long for climate groups, often stringent in their policy demands, to get behind Vice President Kamala Harris’s bid to succeed her boss as president. In the days after President Biden’s announcement that he was dropping out of the presidential race, climate advocates offered praise for Harris that some had offered to Biden…

WASHINGTON — A key question is looming for Vice President Kamala Harris as she edges closer to gaining the Democratic presidential nomination: Can she turn the Biden-Harris economic record into a political advantage in a way that President Joe Biden failed to do? In some ways, her task would seem straightforward: The administration oversaw a…

You’re weird. No, you’re weird. It sounds like teasing on an elementary-school playground, but it’s emerged as the choice weapon in the war of words for the presidency of the United States. “Weird” has become an official line of attack between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris and their campaigns’ respective supporters.…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When it comes to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s name, it’s complicated. The Senator from Ohio introduced himself to the world in 2016 when he published his bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, under the name J.D. Vance—“like jay-dot-dee-dot,” he wrote, short for James David. In the book, he explained that this was…

“Well I’ve heard that recently, I’ve been on the For You page, so I thought I’d get on here myself,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in her new personal account’s first post on TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-form video platform on which she’s become a seemingly overnight sensation since launching her campaign for President earlier this…

NORWICH, Conn. — Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died Thursday. He was 73. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] His wife, Gahl Hodges Burt, confirmed in a phone call that he died from complications of esophageal cancer…

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday to direct state agencies on how to remove homeless encampments, a month after a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Newsom’s order is aimed at the thousands of tents and makeshift shelters across…

Trump’s ear wound from an assassination attempt at a rally on July 13 quickly became a symbol of solidarity for many of his supporters, and a grim reminder of political violence in the U.S. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But new comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday indicated there’s much the American public still does not…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Before Joe Biden abandoned his bid for a second term, his shrinking corps of loyalists were quietly making the case that he was in a stronger position to win than Kamala Harris.…