What We Know—and Don’t Know—so Far About The Trump Rally Gunman

Barack Obama has often described the presidency as a relay race: “You take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else.” On Tuesday night, Obama stepped on stage in front of thousands of delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention to anoint a party leader he hopes will carry that baton next: Kamala Harris. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Returning to the city where he made his startling political ascent, Obama roused the Chicago crowd with the soaring rhetoric that catapulted him on the national stage 20 years ago.

Doug Emhoff has served as Second Gentleman for four years but as he addressed a packed United Center in Chicago Wednesday night, he spoke as if he was introducing himself to the room and the country for the first time. Emhoff told the story of how he fell in love with the Vice President, how she encouraged him to connect more deeply with his Jewish faith, and helped parent his two children, all with a sense of joy and a lot of laughter. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “You know that laugh.

When Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee for President in July after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, nearly the entire party quickly came together to endorse her campaign. But the Vermont independent senator who caucuses with the Democrats, Bernie Sanders, said at the time that he was not ready to do so. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Sanders told NBC last month that he wanted to hear more specific policies from her on how she planned to help the working class before he could offer his official endorsement.

Trump's former former Chief of Staff General John Kelly was offended by Trump moronic claims that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor. Kelly was interviewed by CNN and said, "Not even close. No equivalency of any kind.” "The Presidential Medal of Freedom is “given for some good works done or in fewer cases for other considerations, but they’re not even close.” Trump handed out medals to donors and right wing provocateurs like candy.

LOS ANGELES — After a relationship that spanned two decades, two engagements, two weddings and headlines too numerous to count, Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck. The filing Tuesday in Los Angeles brought to an apparent end a celebrity coupling—or at least the second installment of it—that dazzled from the very heights of the pop culture firmament and emblazoned countless tabloid covers.

HELENA, Mont. — Voters will get to decide in November whether they want to protect the right to an abortion in the constitution of Montana, which on Tuesday became the eighth state to put the issue before the electorate this fall. The Montana Secretary of State’s Office certified that the general election ballot will include the initiative on abortion rights.