![On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered her first public remarks since President Biden’s decision to step aside in the upcoming election. On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered her first public remarks since President Biden’s decision to step aside in the upcoming election.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24204816481563-1.jpg?w=132)
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![On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered her first public remarks since President Biden’s decision to step aside in the upcoming election. On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered her first public remarks since President Biden’s decision to step aside in the upcoming election.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24204816481563-1.jpg?w=132)
![Accountability is crucial to public service. Accountability is crucial to public service.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24204529808676-1.jpg?w=132)
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle right to resign
![“May you live in interesting times” is reputedly a Chinese curse — although one that most likely emanated from a British statesman. Nevertheless, it applies to the presidential race. “May you live in interesting times” is reputedly a Chinese curse — although one that most likely emanated from a British statesman. Nevertheless, it applies to the presidential race.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/LDN-L-BIDEN-0722-12.jpg?w=132)
Biden exit puts new twist on ancient curse
![Kamala Harris is a bad politician with bad ideas and a worse record. Kamala Harris is a bad politician with bad ideas and a worse record.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP19264671583475.jpg?w=132)
Southern California News Group commentaries on Kamala Harris’ unfortunate rise to power
![The summer is always a good time for a pause for students, teachers and administrators in California’s schools, from kindergarten through the higher education of the University of California and California State University systems. The summer is always a good time for a pause for students, teachers and administrators in California’s schools, from kindergarten through the higher education of the University of California and California State University systems.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/OCR-L-USCFOLO-0428-11.jpg?w=132)
Coming back from chaos at universities
![California’s prison population is going down, and that’s a good thing, right? California’s prison population is going down, and that’s a good thing, right?](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/OCR-L-PRISON-0718-04.jpg?w=117)
Waning power of state prison guards’ union
![Speaking at a news conference last week, Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, told reporters it was time to give more coverage to the links between former President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking at a news conference last week, Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, told reporters it was time to give more coverage to the links between former President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TDB-L-RB-MEORIAL-0528-18.jpg?w=132)
Ted Lieu’s shameful ‘Four Pinnochios”
![Until that changes, don’t expect rational budgets in California. Until that changes, don’t expect rational budgets in California.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24190819575193-1.jpg?w=132)
Newsom personifies California’s budget mess
![While much attention has shifted to processing the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the concerns most Americans have had about the fitness of President Joe Biden remain as relevant as ever. While much attention has shifted to processing the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the concerns most Americans have had about the fitness of President Joe Biden remain as relevant as ever.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24194016660597-1.jpg?w=132)
Biden is still a problem for Democrats
![It didn’t take long after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday before partisans and conspiratorialists postulated unfounded theories about the event. It didn’t take long after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday before partisans and conspiratorialists postulated unfounded theories about the event.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Sut-z-trump-convention-0716-09.jpg?w=132)