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Former First Lady Michelle Obama stepped back into the political spotlight on Tuesday night, returning to her hometown of Chicago to rally support for Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention. She was greeted by a raucous applause from the convention crowd, reminding Americans why she remains one of the party’s most influential voices—even from the sidelines.

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.

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.