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Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff arrives at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago.

Doug Emhoff says he’s ‘gutted’ after the hostage killings in Gaza

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff arrives at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago.

September 4, 2024, 9:10am Politics

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris — and the first Jewish person married to a nationally elected U.S. leader — said he is “gutted” after the killing of American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. Read story

FILE - Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a campaign rally, Aug. 17, 2024, at The Astro in La Vista, Neb.

Walz unharmed after some of the vehicles near the back of his motorcade crash in Milwaukee

FILE - Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a campaign rally, Aug. 17, 2024, at The Astro in La Vista, Neb.

September 2, 2024, 1:32pm Nation & World

Several cars at the back of a motorcade carrying Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz crashed while heading from the airport to a campaign stop in Milwaukee on Monday, but Walz was unhurt. Read story

FILE - Venezuela&#039;s President Nicolas Maduro, left, and first lady Cilia Flores arrive at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Sept. 1, 2015.

U.S. government seizes plane used by Venezuelan president, citing sanctions violations

FILE - Venezuela&#039;s President Nicolas Maduro, left, and first lady Cilia Flores arrive at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Sept. 1, 2015.

September 2, 2024, 12:27pm Nation & World

The U.S. government has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that officials say was illegally purchased through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States, citing violations of sanctions and export control laws. Read story

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she boards Air Force Two to travel to Detroit and Pittsburgh for campaign events, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday Sept. 2, 2024.

Harris set to oppose sale of U.S. Steel to a Japanese firm during joint Pennsylvania event with Biden

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she boards Air Force Two to travel to Detroit and Pittsburgh for campaign events, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday Sept. 2, 2024.

September 2, 2024, 9:33am Latest News

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to use Monday's joint campaign appearance in the industrial city of Pittsburgh with President Joe Biden to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — coinciding with the White House's earlier opposition to the company's planned sale to Nippon Steel of Japan. Read story

FILE - U.S. Army soldiers stand next to trucks arriving loaded with humanitarian aid at the U.S.-built floating pier Trident before reaching the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25, 2024.

Challenges of the Gaza humanitarian aid pier offer lessons for the US Army

FILE - U.S. Army soldiers stand next to trucks arriving loaded with humanitarian aid at the U.S.-built floating pier Trident before reaching the beach on the coast of the Gaza Strip, June 25, 2024.

August 30, 2024, 5:16pm Latest News

It was their most challenging mission. Read story

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump greets supporters at a town hall with former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in La Crosse, Wis.

Trump seeks to activate his base at Moms for Liberty gathering but risks alienating moderate voters

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump greets supporters at a town hall with former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in La Crosse, Wis.

August 30, 2024, 8:25am Politics

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to appear Friday at the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit that has spearheaded efforts to get mentions of LGBTQ+ identity and structural racism out of K-12 classrooms. Read story

FILE - Freshman midshipmen, known as plebes, climb ropes on an obstacle course during Sea Trials, a day of physical and mental challenges that caps off the freshman year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., May 13, 2014.

Navy recruiting rebounds, but it will miss its target to get sailors through boot camp

FILE - Freshman midshipmen, known as plebes, climb ropes on an obstacle course during Sea Trials, a day of physical and mental challenges that caps off the freshman year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., May 13, 2014.

August 28, 2024, 5:05pm Politics

The Navy will meet its goal to sign up 40,600 recruits by the end of September thanks to several new recruiting programs, but the crush of last-minute enlistments means it won’t be able to get them all through boot camp by next month. Read story

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. Few Americans have high confidence in the Secret Service&rsquo;s ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month&rsquo;s attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life. That is according to a new poll conducted July 25-29, 2024, from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only around three in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the Secret Service can keep the presidential candidates safe from violence before the election. (AP Photo/Gene J.

Gunman in Trump assassination attempt saw rally as ‘target of opportunity,’ FBI official says

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. Few Americans have high confidence in the Secret Service&rsquo;s ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month&rsquo;s attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life. That is according to a new poll conducted July 25-29, 2024, from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only around three in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the Secret Service can keep the presidential candidates safe from violence before the election. (AP Photo/Gene J.

August 28, 2024, 12:31pm Latest News

The gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden and saw the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity,” a senior FBI official said Wednesday. Read story

Militia group member sentenced to 5 years in prison for Capitol riot plot

August 28, 2024, 12:30pm Politics

A militia group member who communicated with other far-right extremists while they stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison. Read story

FILE - Surgeons work on a kidney during a transplant surgical procedure in Washington on June 28, 2016.

Donating a kidney is even safer now than long thought, US study shows

FILE - Surgeons work on a kidney during a transplant surgical procedure in Washington on June 28, 2016.

August 28, 2024, 12:30pm Health

People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. Read story