August 25, 2024, 6:00am Northwest
Delegates at the Democratic National Convention were fired up on Wednesday as Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the party’s vice presidential nominee, took the stage to rally the party faithful and make a pitch to the voters who will decide the election. Read story
August 25, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World
Like a lot of people, Ellen Lo Hoffman was shocked and disturbed by the shooting death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager, at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer a decade ago this month. Read story
August 25, 2024, 6:00am Latest News
The last time Chicago hosted the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden was a U.S. senator who gave a nine-minute speech praising President Bill Clinton’s leadership in securing a tough new anti-crime law. Read story
August 25, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World
Each year on her birthday in mid-July, Jennifer Cummings goes to her old voicemails and listens to her father’s achingly familiar voice sending his love on a birthday long since passed. Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:05am Nation & World
After World War II, Black people in Houston found the rare chance to buy a nice home in the new community of Pleasantville, Texas. But in the years that followed, officials routed the Interstate 610 loop with its tailpipe exhaust along one side of Pleasantville and cement plants and other… Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:00am Politics
When Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris picked her running mate earlier this month, she chose a politician many undecided voters are used to seeing: a white-haired, Midwestern man with typical American values. Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:52am Politics
Vice President Kamala Harris will make history Thursday night as the first woman of color to accept a major party presidential nomination. But did you know she worked at McDonald’s in college and confronted a bully when she was 4? Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:36am Nation & World
A bipartisan group of senators is demanding immediate action from USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack after several tribal nations reported that a federal food distribution program they rely on has not fulfilled orders for months, and in some cases has delivered expired food. Read story
