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Senator JD Vance defended former President Donald Trump’s recent comments about Vice President Kamala Harris’ race, referring to her as a “chameleon” who changes her identity based on her audience. Vance, who is the father of three biracial children, dismissed concerns raised by a CNN reporter during his visit to the US southern border.At a press conference in Cochise County, Arizona, where Vance criticized Harris’ record as the border czar, the reporter questioned whether Trump’s remarks gave him pause.Trump had implied that Harris only recently began identifying as Black after years of emphasizing her Indian heritage.Vance argued that Trump’s comments…

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and two independents blocked a bipartisan tax package Thursday that would have temporarily expanded the child tax credit and revived tax breaks for some business activities. The 48-44 procedural vote to advance the package was largely viewed as a messaging exercise by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ahead of the August recess and continued ramp up to the general election in November, when the presidency and control of Congress are on the line. The vote on the tax bill was the Senate’s last until it returns in September. The House left for August recess a full week ahead…

During the state’s primary elections, voters decide on who they want to see represent their party in the November general elections. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Voters are heading to the polls on Thursday to submit ballots for a long list of different races. Among them are the primary elections deciding who will represent their party during Tennessee’s November general elections for state Senate and House seats. Three major primary races caught the attention of voters in the Knoxville area ahead of the August election — one Democratic primary and two Republican primaries. Democratic Rep. Sam McKenzie is kept his party’s nomination…

White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby addressed criticism over the release of Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov for three Americans and other political dissidents held by Russia. Former Marine Paul Whelan, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva were released Thursday in a multi-nation prisoner swap in what’s being called the biggest prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia since the Cold War.PUTIN HIT MAN SEEN AS RUSSIA’S BIG PRIZE IN PRISON SWAP: ‘HIGH-VALUE ASSET’ Former prisoners of Russia Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Paul Whelan were the phone with President Joe Biden on…

Sen. JD Vance fired back at a CNN reporter who asked him whether former President Trump’s comments about Kamala Harris’ race were concerning to him as a “father of three biracial children.”Vance visited the U.S. southern border on Thursday where he attacked Harris’ record as the border czar during a press conference in Cochise County, Arizona. At one point on the trip, CNN correspondent Steve Contorno asked the vice presidential contender about Trump’s comment a day earlier, when he told a crowd at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention that Harris “became a Black person,” after years of…

Spoiler alert: he meant it. When Donald Trump claimed, on Wednesday afternoon, in a combative onstage interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, that Kamala Harris had adopted her identity as a Black woman in an effort to gain political advantage, he drew appalled gasps from the audience. “She was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person,” he said. This was an inaccurate slur as well as a bizarre one. Harris has always been proudly biracial: she is the daughter of an Indian…

Senate Republicans blocked a $79 billion bill to expand the child tax credit and restore some tax breaks for businesses on Thursday.The bill passed with overwhelming support in the House by a 357-70 vote in January. But on Thursday, most Republicans opposed the measure in a 48-44 procedural vote and the bill fell shy of the 60 votes needed for it to pass.This measure, however, was expected to fail in the Senate after GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber brought up concerns with the bill, and Republicans have accused Democrats of using the vote as a talking point on the…

The Christian right has a new charismatic leader: Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, who is running a bone-chilling campaign to become the state’s next governor. Most recently, he made news when he delivered a speech in a church saying some people who are “evil” or “wicked” might just “need killing.” North Carolina is among the southern states that should be regarded as canaries in the coal mine for “state capture”: the process by which the far right is wresting control of U.S. politics in spite of representing a minority of the population’s views. State capture is usually…

Since Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Donald Trump has been invoking her name a lot. Well, something close to her name. Harris pronounces it “KA-ma-la.” Trump, however, has often been pronouncing it “Ka-MA-la” or even “KUH-ma-la.” He did it again yesterday at the convention of the National Association of Black Journalists. He insists he doesn’t care one way or another (though after audience members voiced their disapproval, he shifted his emphasis to the first syllable). “Some people think I mispronounce it on purpose,” he has said, “but actually, I’ve heard it said about seven…

Yesterday, the National Association of Black Journalists launched its annual convention and career fair in Chicago, Illinois. The multi-day event – viewed by Black journalists as an invaluable safe space – brings together thousands of members from across the nation to train, network and socialize.The conference’s opening day, however, was overshadowed by an unexpected guest: Donald J Trump. The former president was invited by the NABJ board to participate in a panel interview and his attendance was announced just two days before the event. The interview was fraught, hostile and brief. And it confirmed many NABJ members’ fears that Trump’s…