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U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan returned to the United States on Thursday, hours after being freed from Russian detention in the biggest prisoner exchange between the two countries since the Cold War.Kamala Harris is preparing for the fight of her life, if her inner circle is anything to go by.
The vice president has surrounded herself with a group of tested operators, many of them Black women who have been involved in Democratic politics for decades, as she gears up for a brutal three months of campaigning before the Nov. 5 election.
U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler of California, for one, struck a bullish tone this week when asked on MSNBC about the prospect of Harris facing a barrage of sexist and racist attacks.U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris plans to meet in person this weekend with the top contenders vying to become her presidential running mate for November's election as she nears a final decision on her pick, according to two sources familiar with the process.
On Friday the Democratic candidate met one-on-one with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, one of the leading contenders, and the meeting lasted roughly 90 minutes, according to two other sources familiar with the meeting.
Harris is expected to make her choice by Monday ahead of her first public appearance with the new vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Philadelphia. The Harris campaign is also planning a social media announcement featuring the duo, officials familiar with the planning told Reuters.
Other contenders include Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, the sources said.The Democratic National Committee's newest advertising campaign, launched on Friday, taunt Republican rival Donald Trump for not committing to a debate with Kamala Harris and is set to follow him on the campaign trail.
The DNC has purchased large ads that dominate the digital homepages of major local newspapers in states where Trump plans to campaign in the coming weeks. The ads say "the convicted felon is afraid to debate" and question whether that is due to his stance on abortion.
The first ads are running on the Atlanta Journal Constitution's homepage ahead of Trump's visit to the Georgia capital on Saturday and the ad campaign will follow him through local news outlets at each rally stop, the DNC said.
Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Trump welcomes an opportunity to compare records, but stopped short of saying the former president will debate Harris.
"President Trump has long been consistent in supporting the rights of states to make decisions on abortion. Kamala Harris and the Democrats are radically out of touch with the majority of Americans in their support for abortion up until birth and even after birth," Leavitt said.The U.S. Secret Service's acting director said on Friday that local police in Pennsylvania warned that there was a man with a gun on a roof before the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump, but the message did not reach its agents on time.
Local authorities and Secret Service agents were using different communications channels, which prevented the warning from getting through before a 20-year-old assailant opened fire on the Republican presidential candidate, Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe told reporters.
"In the final 30 seconds - which has been the focus of what happened before the assailant opened fire - there (were) clearly radio transmissions that may have happened on that local radio net that we did not have," Rowe said.
Rowe said the FBI, the agency leading a criminal investigation into the shooting, is working to determine exactly what was communicated. But Rowe said investigators believe "there was somebody who did in fact radio out that they had seen the individual with a weapon."
The U.S. criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat resumed after a nearly eight-month pause on Friday, with the judge left to decide how to proceed after the Supreme Court's immunity ruling.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington is expected to decide in the coming weeks which aspects of the indictment obtained by Special Counsel Jack Smith must be tossed out after the Supreme Court ruled that former presidents are entitled to broad immunity for official actions taken as president.
The high court's decision to take up the case, which it heard on its last day of arguments in April and ruled on July 1, made it all but impossible for the case to go to trial before Republican presidential candidate Trump faces Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election.
The Supreme Court, whose 6-3 conservative majority includes three Trump appointees, formally returned the case to Chutkan’s courtroom, allowing prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers to begin the next legal battle over how to apply the court’s ruling.The United States broke their own world record in the 4x400 mixed relay in the opening heats at the Olympics on Friday, crossing the line in three minutes 7.41 seconds amid a party atmosphere at the purple Paris track.
They set the previous mark of 3:08.80 at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.
The U.S. led midway through the second lap in a text book performance, overcoming a fast field in the opening heat in which four national records were broken as well as the world mark.
"I always knew we were going to run fast, and we talked about how it was going to take a record to win a medal," said American Shamier Little. "It took a record to win our prelim."
The French team were willed across the finish by a partisan home crowd, as they held off Belgium (3:10.74) and Jamaica (3:11.06) to finish second in 3:10.60 in the rarely contested event.
The crowd had to be shushed as they chanted for the French team on the first day of the athletics programme at the Stade de France and they broke into a loud roar as France took a slender lead.China's state media, athletes and netizens rallied to support Olympic swimming champion Pan Zhanle after critics including an Australian swim commentator said his world record swim in the 100 metres freestyle was not "humanly possible".
Pan smashed his own 100 metres freestyle world record, shaving 0.40 seconds off the previous mark he set at the World Championships in Doha in February, to humble rivals including Australia's Kyle Chalmers and Romania's David Popovici.
The 19-year old Pan finished in 46.40 seconds to take China's first swimming gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games. His win came after he "completed rigorous doping test programs prior to and during the games with zero positive results," the China Daily said on Friday.
Pan said he took 21 doping tests from May to July prior to the games. "I cooperated with all the testing procedures and stayed confident that I am competing fair and clean," he told the newspaper.Frenchman Teddy Riner claimed a record fourth Olympic judo gold medal, sending the partisan crowd into near madness when he left it late to beat world number one Kim Minjong of South Korea and claim the title in the +100kg category on Friday.
The 35-year-old, judo's most decorated athlete at the Olympics with six medals, now shares the French Summer Olympics record of four titles after claiming individual golds at the London and Rio Games and a team title in Tokyo.
Later on Friday, French swimming poster boy Leon Marchand, who had already won three titles in Paris, added another to match Riner's record when he won the 200-metre medley final.
Fans were jumping on their seats, making the Champs de Mars Arena's stands shake, when Riner, who lit the Paris 2024 cauldron with three-time Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perec, inflicted the winning ippon on the world champion with a Harai-gochi with only 16 seconds left in the four-minute bout.Wall Street's most watched gauge of investor anxiety jumped to a more than three-month high on Thursday as U.S. stocks fell sharply after a round of data on Thursday spurred concerns the economy may be slowing faster than anticipated.
The Cboe Volatility Index (.VIX), opens new tab hit 19.48, its highest since April 19, before paring gains to finish at 18.59. The jump came as the S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab fell nearly 1.4%. A 2.3% drop in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC), opens new tab, meanwhile, brought it within two percentage points of a 10% decline from a record high reached last month.