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Shortly after Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was tapped by Vice President Kamala Harris to be her running mate, a photo of Mr. Walz at the Minnesota State Fair in 2019 went viral.

He wore a gold University of Minnesota T-shirt, a maroon University of Minnesota hat emblazoned with the Gophers mascot and a smile that his face could barely contain. In his arms was a small, sleeping piglet.

It was peak Midwestern dad energy — one of the regular-guy reasons that Ms. Harris chose him to join the Democratic ticket despite his limited national profile. Over...

The helicopter was carrying 22 people, most of them tourists, when it disappeared from radar on Saturday.

Russia is poised to assault Pokrovsk, a crucial supply and reinforcement hub for Ukraine's frontline troops.

Washington — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she does not "have any problem" with an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court, as the nation's highest court continues to face questions over its ethics practices amid calls from Democrats for stricter rules.

In an interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell for "CBS Sunday Morning," Jackson suggested she is open to a means of enforcing the code of conduct issued by the Supreme Court in November 2023.

"I am considering supporting it as a general matter," she...

NFL player Ricky Pearsall has been shot in the chest during an attempted robbery in San Francisco.

The invasive blackchin tilapia has spread to 17 provinces, threatening agriculture.

The origins of Labor Day date back to the late 19th century, when activists first sought to establish a day that would pay tribute to workers

Days before the debate that ended up cutting off President Biden’s path to a second term, his campaign chief, Jen O’Malley Dillon, defiantly set expectations: “We are going to win,” she said in an interview with the news site Puck.

Fast-forward 10 weeks. Democrats have a more popular nominee in Vice President Kamala Harris, torrents of grass-roots campaign cash that Mr. Biden could have only dreamed of, a well-received convention and a running mate who has energized the party’s liberal base.

Ms. O’Malley Dillon somehow seems less optimistic.

“Make...

The aim is to vaccinate 640,000 children, weeks after the first polio case was detected in Gaza in 25 years.

The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remains close, with no overall bounce in support for Harris out of the DNC, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows.

The Russian Ministry of Defense says air defenses intercepted and destroyed 158 drones overnight into Sunday, including two over the city of Moscow and nine over the surrounding Moscow region

In November 1999, Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican and former prisoner of war in Vietnam who was widely considered a military hero, said that his newly launched presidential campaign had made “a very bad mistake.”

Mr. McCain, who at the time was trailing far behind George W. Bush in the race for their party’s nomination, had produced a campaign ad highlighting his career as a Navy pilot and his reverence for his fellow service members. At one moment, the ad showed Mr. McCain walking solemnly through Arlington National Cemetery.

The Army...

Joe Kent, a far-right Republican and former Army Special Forces officer, ran for Congress two years ago as a partisan warrior. He denied that President Biden had won the 2020 election, supported rioters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress and favored banning abortions nationwide.

He lost.

Now Mr. Kent is approaching a rematch against the Democrat who vanquished him in a competitive district in southern Washington, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, with a starkly different tone, emphasizing local issues and his personal story.

“My...

One person was killed and another hospitalized in a shooting at the Michigan State Fair on Saturday, police said.

California lawmakers have approved a host of proposals on artificial intelligence