As a Black woman, Kamala Harris had to work twice as hard and overcome many racist and sexual attacks on her qualifications to become America's vice president. Jonathan Capehart spotlights Harris' time in public service and reflects on how she paved the way for so many Americans like her.
Some years back, I was talking with my dinner companion when a young woman of color interrupted with an excited query. “Are you Senator Kamala Harris?” she asked in that slightly unbelieving tone one uses when meeting a hero in person. With a big smile, Harris said yes. The young woman gushed her admiration and they took a picture.
The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a practice that Vice President Kamala Harris will resume on Jan. 20 after an eight-year hiatus.
At last month’s Kennedy Center Honors, the Bidens neither greeted nor acknowledged Harris as they took their seats to a standing ovation. Jill Biden, Doug Emhoff and Kamala Harris held hands at ...
Vice President Harris will mark the final days of the Biden administration by signing her desk drawer in the ceremonial White House office Thursday afternoon, carrying on a tradition that began
WASHINGTON — With Donald Trump’s return to the White House only days away, Kamala Harris' staff packed into her ceremonial office to watch her sign the desk, a tradition performed by her ...
Once a supporter of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, Joe Gebbia insists he’s now all in on MAGA and RFK, Jr.
Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned several people he said could be unfairly prosecuted during the Trump administration.
Nixon would have to wait eight years to be sworn in as president, while his losing Democratic opponent — outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey — looked on. He was inaugurated a second time after winning reelection in 1972, only to resign after the Watergate scandal.
President Trump took the oath of office for the second time and was sworn in as the 47th president. He laid out a sweeping agenda and declared that the country’s golden age “begins now.”
Trump, who returns to the White House on Monday, promised on the campaign trail to release classified intelligence and law enforcement files on the 1963 assassination of JFK, as America’s 35th president is widely known.