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Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party's presidential nomination Tuesday, coming back from a stinging 2008 defeat in her first White House run and surviving a bitter primary fight to become the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in U.S. history. In a symbolic show of party unity, Clinton's former rival, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, told the chairwoman from the convention floor that Clinton should be selected as the party's nominee at the dramatic climax of a state-by-state roll call at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
Speaking to thousands of veterans, Donald Trump railed at Hillary Clinton on Tuesday as incompetent and dangerous for the military and the nation's security. "The other candidate in this race, you know her name - crooked Hillary Clinton," Trump said as the crowd at the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars convention roared with approval.
The Democratic Party nominated Hillary Clinton as its candidate for president Tuesday, a historic event that set the stage for a brutal three-month race for the White House against populist billionaire Republican Donald Trump. Clinton, when she formally accepts on Thursday, will become the first woman to claim the presidential nomination of a major political party.
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Monday, July 25, 2016. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., pumps her fist in the air after her speech during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Monday, July 25, 2016.
After a long first night on the Democratic National Convention floor, delegates from Kansas received a boost of energy Tuesday morning, July 26, 2016, when Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped by for a visit. While backing different candidates at the caucus, the gathering of Kansas Democrats at Coleman Middle School was more like a large family picnic.
A glass ceiling is shattering at the Democratic National Convention as Hillary Clinton ascends to the presidential nomination with Tuesday's roll call of the states, making her the first woman to lead a major party into a White House race. Clinton's campaign hoped to use the achievement to bolster the candidate's popularity - mindful that while many voters are happy to be nominating a woman, they're not wild about this particular woman candidate.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, cheers while talking about sports over breakfast with friends at City Diner in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, July 26, 2016. . Actress Susan Sarandon takes picture on the convention floor during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Monday, July 25, 2016.
GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump unveiled his 10-point veterans reform plan at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, which includes "a private White House hotline" answered by a real person 24 hours a day to field complaints about the Veterans Administration to make sure no complaint "falls through the cracks." "I will create a private White House hotline that is answered by a real person 24 hours a day to make sure that no valid complaint about the VA ever falls through the cracks," Trump said, adding that if a "valid complaint is not acted upon," he will "pick up the phone personally" and get it taken care of.
A glass ceiling is shattering at the Democratic National Convention as Hillary Clinton ascends to the presidential nomination with Tuesday's roll call of the states, making her the first woman to lead a major party into a White House race. But as history is being made, hostility is being heard, too.
There was one thing Corey Booker wasn't lacking as he took the stage of the Democratic National Convention - energy. The former Newark mayor and Democratic senator from New Jersey - considered by many observers a contender for Hillary Clinton's vice presidential nominee before her selection of Tim Kaine- had in 2012 delivered a full-throated defense of President Barack Obama's first term that was widely praised for rallying that year's convention crowd.
PHILADELPHIA: Democrats divided over the future of their party agreed on at least one thing at their national convention in Philadelphia on Monday night: Michelle Obama was a star. The first lady gave a speech in support of a former first lady, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, and described America as "the greatest country on earth", clashing with Republican Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan and bringing an arena crowd riven by a fierce fight for the nomination to its feet.
Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if elected U.S. president he would weigh an alliance with Russia against Islamic State militants but rejected any suggestion Russian President Vladimir Putin might be trying to help him win. Speaking at a rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Trump dismissed any suggestion that Putin's intelligence services might have had a hand in hacking the Democratic National Committee's email system.
On Monday night, Bernie Sanders finally did what all runners-up for a presidential nomination are tasked with doing. It is not easy and it certainly is humbling .
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Michelle Obama's message was at once conciliatory, raw and personal - and earned by far the most positive response of the night Democratic power players Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders offered contrasting heartfelt and hard-headed endorsements of Hillary Clinton Monday, imploring a riven and feisty party convention to unite against Donald Trump. As polls showed Trump ahead of Clinton in the race to the White House, the first lady wowed the Philadelphia crowd as she impeached Trump's character and hailed the inspirational power of putting a female US president in the White House for the first time.
A local politician is representing about 10,000 Oregonians in Philadelphia this week. Medford City Councilor Kevin Stine is attending this week's Democratic National Convention as a delegate for Bernie Sanders.
But it seems Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault is finally ready to move on after it emerged she is now engaged to a Florida preacher. The 42-year-old reality television villain, who is now working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, grinned with glee as she showed off her massive sparkler.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday without its outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, following a chaotic scene at a morning meeting where she was loudly jeered by Bernie Sanders supporters. "I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention," Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinel newspaper in an interview.