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Those ‘childless’ women JD Vance speaks of? There’s 46 million of them.

In 2023, an estimated 38 percent of American adults did not have biological children, or roughly 101 million people nationwide, according to a Globe analysis. About 46 million of them are women.

Bernie Sanders: Kamala Harris will struggle to win unless she speaks to the ‘long-neglected working class’
The independent senator from Vermont, who won New Hampshire’s 2016 Democratic presidential primary, said economic inequality is the top concern facing the country — and the new presumptive Democratic nominee needs to address it.

‘Running as a woman of color and you’re a first is enormously challenging’: In R.I., Ocasio-Cortez backs Harris, cites climate
The New York congresswoman, along with other Congressional Democrats, was in Rhode Island Friday to talk about wind energy.

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Bernie Sanders: Kamala Harris will struggle to win unless she speaks to the ‘long-neglected working class’

Two polls of N.H. voters show Harris with 6-point lead over Trump

Four policy questions Harris must answer ASAP to avoid being defined by Trump

Jennifer Aniston condemns JD Vance for his ‘childless cat ladies’ comments

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Trump returns to Minnesota with Vance to try to swing Democrat-leaning state

On Friday, The FBI said Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet as it moved to clarify what happened after nearly two weeks of confusion and conflicting accounts.

Trump botches Kamala Harris’s first name, again and again and again

Former president Donald Trump continues to rally supporters while mispronouncing the first name of Vice President Kamala Harris, now his likely Democratic opponent for the White House this fall.

Silent no more, Harris seeks her own voice without breaking with Biden

Every statement Harris makes, every sentence she utters, will be scrutinized to determine whether it is consistent with the president she serves. Yet even as she wants to demonstrate loyalty to Biden, she also hopes to show the public who she is.

Netanyahu meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, offering measured optimism on a Gaza cease-fire

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked to mend ties with Republican presidential candidate Trump on Friday and offered measured optimism about progress toward a cease-fire deal for Gaza, nearing the end of a contentious US visit that put on display the growing American divisions over support for the Israeli-Hamas war.

Trump returns to Minnesota with Midwesterner Vance to try to swing Democrat-leaning state

Donald Trump is taking his campaign back to Minnesota, a state that has favored Democrats but that the former president thinks could be in his reach this year.

‘Gen Z feels the Kamalove’: Youth-led progressive groups hope Harris will energize young voters

Youth-led progressive organizations have warned for months that Biden had a problem with young voters, pleading with the president to work more closely with them to refocus on the issues most important to younger generations or risk losing their votes.

Justice Dept. claims TikTok collected US user views on issues like abortion and gun control

TikTok employees used Lark to send sensitive data about US users, information that has wound up being stored on Chinese servers and accessible to ByteDance employees in China, federal officials said.

Mexican kingpin’s arrest likely to set off violent jockeying for power

A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by US authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers.

With trials pushed back, Trump sees first big dip in legal bills

As former president Donald Trump faces a supercharged Democratic fundraising effort, a persistent drag on his campaign’s coffers may be easing: legal expenses.

Trump, honing attacks on Harris, casts her as a far-left threat

Making his second campaign speech since Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee this week, Trump’s barbs seemed more focused than earlier in the week, when he unleashed a flurry of wide-ranging attacks.

Trump says he’s ‘recovered well’ from shooting, bandage is gone

Donald Trump said he’s rebounded from an assassination attempt on July 13 and appeared on Friday night without a bandage on his right ear.

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Bernie Sanders: Kamala Harris will struggle to win unless she speaks to the ‘long-neglected working class’

The independent senator from Vermont, who won New Hampshire’s 2016 Democratic presidential primary, said economic inequality is the top concern facing the country — and the new presumptive Democratic nominee needs to address it.

Powerful cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ Zambada was lured onto airplane before arrest in US

Zambada appeared in federal court in El Paso Friday morning and has entered a plea of not guilty to slew of drug trafficking charges, court records show.

A beaming Trump welcomes Netanyahu to Mar-a-Lago, mending a yearslong rift with a key political ally

Netanyahu’s Florida trip follows a fiery address to Congress and separate talks with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, newly Trump’s Democratic rival for the presidency.

Volunteers and donations surge into Democratic campaigns with Harris atop the ticket

The congressional campaign committees for the House and Senate Democrats reported record-setting $1 million days for online donations, among the highest in history.

Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support

The endorsement gave the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats.

Harris will carry Biden’s economic record into the election. She hopes to turn it into an asset.

Consumer sentiment plunged in late 2021 and has barely recovered even as inflation has plummeted from 9.1 percent in 2022 to 3 percent.

NH POLITICS

Two polls of N.H. voters show Harris with 6-point lead over Trump

Separate surveys by UNH and Saint Anselm College show marked improvement for the presumptive Democratic nominee in the wake of the change at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion

A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.

FBI reportedly examining bullet fragments found at Trump rally site

The bureau is assessing what caused the former president’s wound during an assassination attempt, the New York Times reported. The question has turned political.