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‘I knew who I could go to’: How Tim Walz gave his queer high school students a refuge

Before he was Kamala Harris’s running mate, the Minnesota governor was a geography teacher, coach and faculty adviser for a gay-straight alliance at Mankato West High School. His former students tell Alex Woodward about their unlikely ally, and why dozens are now campaigning for him

<p>Mankato West High School students Jacob Reitan and Amanda Hinkle. Reitan founded the school’s first ever gay-straight alliance in the late 1990s. Former students at the school spoke of how VP candidate Tim Walz was an unlikely LGBT+ ally when he was a teacher and coach at the school</p>

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<p>Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Chicago </p>
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Chicago ramps up security ahead of major pro-Palestinian march outside DNC

The first of many protests was expected on Monday, with ‘tens of thousands’ of people expected to gather near the United Center to demonstrate against the Biden-Harris administration’s stance on Israel

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Chrystul Kizer killed a man she says sexually abused her. Now she’s been sentenced to 11 years behind bars

Kizer was initially charged with first-degree intentional homicide, but later pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless homicide, which spared her a trial and possible life sentence

<p>Chrystul Kizer, pictured here in the Kenosha County Courthouse on February 6, 2020, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing her alleged abuser in 2018 </p>

Race for the White House

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Kamala Harris says her dad taught her to be fearless, but he’s been markedly absent from her public rise

Family is at the forefront of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, and she speaks frequently and fondly of her late mother’s influence – but rarely is there mention of her father. A “Marxist” economics professor who left Jamaica for UC Berkeley, Donald J Harris has said little about his daughter during her meteoric rise – other than to scold her, writes Sheila Flynn

<p>Donald Harris on his way to a doctorate in economics at Berkeley in April 1965 while holding Kamala</p>
<p>US vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has made a habit of mocking the former president Donald Trump </p>
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How Kamala Harris became Donald Trump’s supertroll and broke him

Since the vice president became the Democratic presidential candidate there has been a sharp change of tactic: turn Donald Trump and his team into a laughing stock. Alex Hannaford meets the woman who wrote the playbook that has blindsided the former president

<p>Donald Trump admires a box of Cheerios during a press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey</p>
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Bizarre moment Trump gets distracted by box of Cheerios during Bedminster press conference

‘I’m going to take some of them back to my cottage and have a lot of fun,’ the former president said while looking at the table of grocery goods

<p>From left: Ruben Gallego, Kamala Harris and Adrian Fontes </p>
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Dems have struggled with Latino men. Can these lawmakers fire them up?

Latino men have been moving to the right since Trump’s rise. But Latino elected officials might help Kamala Harris in Arizona, Eric Garcia reports

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