The big picture: The "mobilization team," made up of the generation that encompasses 12-27 year olds, is leveraging talked about moments from the campaign trail and reacting with humor while capitalizing on viral TikTok trends to force a contrast between Harris and former President Trump.
Travis King, the U.S. Army soldier who crossed into North Korea from South Korea before being returned home, will plead guilty to desertion and four other charges, his lawyer said Monday.
The big picture: King "will take responsibility for his conduct and enter a guilty plea," per a statement posted to X by his attorney Franklin Rosenblatt.
Why it matters: The slimmed-down indictment comes after the conservative-majority Supreme Court largely sided with Trump when it ruled in July that presidents have immunity for "official acts."
Why it matters: Kennedy suspended his campaign to avoid taking votes from Trump, but now his name will appear on the ballot in the very states that could decide the election.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit for a joint interview with CNN on Thursday, the network announced Tuesday.
Why it matters: It's the first formal interview for Harris after more than five weeks of campaigning. That long delay means she'll be under additional scrutiny for her performance in the CNN interview.
The first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison.
The big picture: Michael Sparks, a Kentucky man who railed against the 2020 presidential election results and advocated for violence online months before the day of the attack, was sentenced to 53 months in federal prison.
What was oncea segregated school for Mexican American students in West Texas is now a national park.
Why it matters: The Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas,is only the second national park site in the country dedicated to modern Latino history and explores a chapter of our American story that many people do not know about, says Kyle Groetzinger of theNational Parks Conservation Association.
Why it matters: Gabbard and Kennedy, both onetime Democratic presidential candidates, will have an official role in helping prepare for a possible second Trump administration.
Why it matters: Kennedy said last week that he would withdraw his name from the ballot in the key swing states to avoid hurting former President Trump's chances in November.
More than 200 staffers who worked for George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid in a letter, arguing another Trump presidency would "irreparably damage our beloved democracy."
Why it matters: The open letter backing the Democratic ticket and lambasting former President Trump further highlights the ongoing fissures in the Republican party over the persistent influence of the MAGA movement.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that the Biden administration was "wrong" to pressure the company to censor certain inaccurate content during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A coalition of advocacy groups is warning Latinos about how they could be impacted by Project 2025, the right-wing policy map supported by many of Trump's top advisers.
Why it matters: Project 2025 aims to limit Medicaid, relax environmental protections, shrink the social safety net and shutter the U.S. Department of Education — key issues for Latino voters who will have a decisive role in the presidential elections.
With just under 70 daysuntil election day, voters nationwide will soon be making plans to vote — but some may face a routine barrier to casting a ballot: work.
Why it matters: No federal law mandates that employers give employees time off to vote, leaving the issue of paid — or any — voting leave up to states or individual companies.
When former President Trumpsuggested he might back out of the Sept. 10 debate, the Harris campaign posted sound effects of squawking, whining chickens, layered over video of Trump speaking.
Another tweet featured a flock of chicken emojis.
Why it matters: The same Democratic digital team in Wilmington, Delaware, has pivoted from the stuffier, decorous Biden for President campaign to a saucier, more ruthless Harris for President campaign.
If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called "un-American" during the Trump administration.
Why it matters: It's the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking — proposals that aides say she now is against.
Rural and suburban areas in the United States are seeing higher rates of police shootings than urban areas, according to a study reviewed by Axios.
Why it matters: The analysis by Vanderbilt University counters the widespread belief that killings by police are mainly an urban problem — and suggests that many police shootings in rural and suburban areas often go unreported and unnoticed.
A Colorado man has been arrested in connection with multiple online threats against election officials and others in Colorado and Arizona, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
The big picture: Teak Brockbank, 45, was arrested Friday in his home city of Cortez and he's accused of making "detailed death threats against election officials, judges, and law enforcement officers," per a statement from Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose DOJ Election Threats Task Force is overseeing the case.
A federal judge in Texas on Monday temporarily put on hold a Biden administration program aimed at helping undocumented immigrants with U.S. citizen spouses.
Why it matters: Roughly 500,000 people who are in the U.S. without legal status could have benefitted from the program, called "Keeping Families Together." The government began accepting applications last week.
House Republicans are furious about being forced into a last-minute Biden impeachment vote — which they say could hurt their campaigns, top GOP sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: Even leadership doesn't want it. But just one member can force a vote.
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