She has been tasked with addressing the root causes of the spike in migration.
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Harris’ historic election as vice president celebrated in cracked glass portrait
Vice President Kamala Harris’ barrier-breaking career has been memorialized in a portrait that depicts her face emerging from the cracks in a massive sheet of glass.
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Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow climate change as he signs series of executive orders
President Biden will rejoin the world climate accord and start undoing his predecessor’s rollbacks of climate-related regulations.
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California governor picks election chief Padilla to fill Kamala Harris’ Senate seat
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will be the state’s first Latino senator, giving a new level of representation to the demographic group that makes up nearly 40% of the state’s population.
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Debate takeaways: Pandemic looms over a more civil fight
The dynamics of Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate represented a rare 2020 return to some semblance of normal presidential politics.
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Pence and Harris spar over pandemic in vice presidential debate
Both candidates sidestep some difficult questions, in a debate far more respectful than the opening presidential debate eight days earlier.
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Biden makes impassioned plea for Democratic, national unity in convention finale
The former vice president accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, vowing to take on national crises and declaring that ‘we will overcome this season of darkness.’
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Kamala Harris accepts Democratic nomination for vice president
The first Black woman on a major party ticket issues an urgent plea for Americans of all colors to rally behind Joe Biden and find a way to vote despite concerns about the pandemic and postal slowdowns.
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Kamala Harris brings prosecutor’s legacy to Biden ticket, for better or worse
She has gone from being California’s ‘top cop’ to leading congressional efforts to revamp the criminal justice system, and has been especially outspoken since George Floyd died in May while in police custody.