A double dose of Obama firepower, a doting spouse and a dance party: Takeaways from Day 2 of the DNC
CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention’s second night served up a double dose of Obama firepower for Vice President Kamala Harris. And neither Barack nor Michelle Obama held back in lacing into Republican Donald Trump. In another notable address, second gentleman Doug Emhoff proved he wants America to love his wife as much as he does. Harris and running mate Tim Walz ducked out of Chicago for the night to hold a rally just up the interstate in Milwaukee. They’re wooing voters in swing state Wisconsin, a recognition that they expect this presidential election to be razor-close.
Tim Walz and Bill Clinton will speak at the Democratic National Convention’s third day
CHICAGO (AP) — Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton will headline the third day of the Democratic National Convention. Vice President Kamala Harris and the parade of Democrats speaking on her behalf all week are performing a delicate balancing act. They’re looking to harness the exuberance that has swept over their party since President Joe Biden stepped aside as the Democratic candidate while making clear to their supporters that the election will be a fierce fight. Convention organizers dubbed the theme for Wednesday “a fight for our freedoms.”
Bill Clinton’s post-presidential journey: a story told in convention speeches
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is preparing to deliver his 12th address to the Democratic National Convention. Clinton speaks Wednesday night, facing uncertainty about the impact he’ll have on a party that is trying to prevent Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Clinton’s political journey can be traced in part through his evolving role at Democratic conventions over the years. His appearances include a 1988 speech that went long and became the butt of jokes, and a 2012 speech aiding Barack Obama that earned Clinton the nickname the “secretary of explaining stuff.”
Moscow sees one of Ukraine’s largest drone attacks as fighting rages in Kursk and eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say Moscow has come under one of the largest attacks by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, and that it destroyed all of them. The Ministry of Defense says Wednesday that Russia downed 45 Ukrainian drones overnight. Russian social media channels shared videos of drones apparently being destroyed by air defense systems, which then set off car alarms. The attacks come as Ukrainian forces keep up a push into Russia’s western Kursk region. The incursion has boosted morale in Ukraine but also opened up another front in a fight where Ukrainian forces were already badly stretched.
Putin’s slow response to the Kursk attack could test the patience of some of his backers in Russia
Ukraine’s rapid military offensive into Russia’s Kursk region seems to have caught Moscow unprepared. Since Aug. 6, Kyiv’s forces have seized villages, taken hundreds of prisoners and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in what has become the largest attack on the country since World War II. President Vladimir Putin, who has a history of responding slowly to various crises in his tenure, has so far played down the attack. But 2 1/2 years after launching a war in Ukraine to remove what he called a threat to Russia, it is his own country that seems more turbulent. It is still unclear whether Ukraine’s attack in Kursk will damage him significantly.
Divers find 4 bodies during search of superyacht wreckage after it sank off Sicily, 2 more remain
PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily have found four bodies as the search for missing passengers persisted and questions intensified about why the sailboat sank so quickly. Divers and rescue crews unloaded two body bags Wednesday from rescue vessels that pulled into port at Porticello. Two other bodies were also found in the wreckage, the head of the Sicily civil protection agency said. The discovery indicated that the operation to search the wreckage on the seabed 50 meters underwater was a recovery one, not a rescue. The Bayesian, a 56-meter British-flagged yacht, went down in a storm early Monday as it was moored about a kilometer offshore.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Hezbollah fires more than 50 rockets, hitting Israeli-annexed Golan Heights
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has launched more than 50 rockets, hitting a number of private homes in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Wednesday’s attack came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar as he pressed ahead with the latest diplomatic mission to secure a cease-fire in the war in Gaza, even as Hamas and Israel signaled that challenges remain. Diplomatic efforts had redoubled as fears grow of a wider regional war after the recent targeted killings of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, both blamed on Israel. Hezbollah said Wednesday’s attack was in response to an Israeli strike deep into Lebanon on Tuesday night.
Trump campaigns to ‘make America safe again’ as Democratic convention zeroes in on his felony record
HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has pledged to “make America safe again ” while campaigning in Michigan as the Democrats who gathered in Chicago to nominate Kamala Harris branded him a career criminal. Trump campaigned Tuesday in Michigan as part of a battleground campaign swing designed to counter the Democratic National Convention. He stood alongside sheriff’s deputies in the city of Howell and labeled Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, as the “ringleader” of a “Marxist attack on law enforcement” across the country. The event was billed as another way for Trump to draw contrasts with Harris. But, as with earlier events on the economy and inflation, Trump devoted much of his attention to attacking the vice president.
It’s not just IUDs. Gynecologists and patients are focused on making procedures less painful
Federal officials affirmed this month that the pain people might feel when getting an IUD can be more than doctors’ promises of “just a pinch.” The local anesthetic lidocaine “might be useful for reducing patient pain” when inserting intrauterine devices. That’s according to new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which also encourages doctors to have a conversation with patients about pain management. Complaints of pain are not limited to the small, long-lasting birth control device. Gynecologists and patients say there need to be more conversations about options for local anesthetics — as well as other pain-relief options for relatively quick outpatient procedures.
Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her ‘Is this America?’ speech 60 years ago
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats’ presidential nomination Thursday exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a speech that still resonates in American politics. Fannie Lou Hamer was a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In 1964, the racially integrated group challenged the seating of an all-white Mississippi delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Hamer told the credentials committee about losing her home and being beaten because of civil rights activities. Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson says the lesson he learned from Hamer in the 1960s still applies: It’s important to ensure democracy is for everybody, not just the wealthy.
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