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Outside a campaign fundraiser in Pittsfield, Mass., a supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris held up a simple white sign with crisp blue letters. It read: “Trump is Weird.” Inside the packed theater, Harris made clear she was embracing the adjective for her Republican opponents, as the attacks against her ramp up a week into her campaign for President.

They're sounding the alarm on Trump's threat to the rule of law and the future of democracy in America. For Justice Department employees who had spent weeks contemplating the possibility of two-time federal criminal defendant Donald Trump returning to the presidency, Joe Biden’s decision to drop out and endorse Kamala Harris offered a sense of relief. Former and current Justice Department employees believe that a future president Harris, a former prosecutor, unlike Trump, would respect the norms that have been in place to ensure DOJ independence in the half-century since Watergate. Those fears of another Trump term are central to a new letter endorsing Harris, signed by more than 40 former Justice Department officials who served under presidents of both parties.

Eric Hovde, the carpetbanker from California who wants to be a senator for Wisconsin, is still not able to make any traction. That's because he's too busy trying to defend his self-inflicted shots to the foot. Now he's taking another big wad of his personal wealth to run a commercial in which he blames Senator Tammy Baldwin for his many unforced errors: We've all seen these ads by Senator Baldwin attacking me.

Athletes from all over the world are competing in the Paris Summer Olympics in Paris, which officially kicked off with the opening ceremony on Friday. But while most athletes will compete under their country’s name, those from Russia and Belarus will compete a little differently—as individual neutral athletes, or “AINs”. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The change comes as the International Olympic Committee made the decision to ban both Russia and Belarus from the 2024 Games related to the war in Ukraine.

Vice President Kamala Harris—the current presumptive Democratic nominee for President after Joe Biden stepped down from the race—joined the app TikTok on July 25, and is already making an impression. Having uploaded four videos so far, Harris had racked up 7 million likes and 2.7 million followers at the time of publication.

Three members of the Nelons, a Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet and the chairman of the board overseeing the Georgia Department of Corrections, were among seven people killed in a plane crash in Wyoming, according to a statement by a group member who was not aboard the aircraft. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Nelons co-founder, Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason Clark, and their daughter, Amber Nelon Kistler died in the crash Friday afternoon, according to a statement from another daughter, Autumn Nelon Streetman.