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In a sign of ongoing unrest within the Democratic Party on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, supporters of Bernie Sanders repeatedly interrupted speakers at a breakfast for California delegates on Monday, chanting the Vermont senator's name and booing mentions of Hillary Clinton. The protest served as a preview for a convention whose opening night theme is "unity."
Sen. Debbie Stabenow says she's certain Democrats will leave their convention in Philadelphia unified under the party's presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But Stabenow also says healing will be required after the resignation of Democratic National Committee chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Hillary Clinton has worked for decades to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, and she intends for it to follow a traditional path this week. That is to say, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was crafted to feature a far different look and feel than that of the carnival-like atmosphere of Donald Trump's Cleveland gathering.
Remember the lead-up top the Republican National Convention in Cleveland? For weeks before it opened, there was speculation about violent demonstrations and confrontations among competing protesters as well as between them and police. Well, the convention ended last week.
The chair of the Democratic National Committee "did the appropriate thing" by resigning, according to one of West Virginia's 18 pledged delegates for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders , a former Democratic presidential candidate, at this week's Democratic National Convention. Submitted in the wake of the release of hacked e-mails showing favoritism for presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton among DNC staffers during primary season, the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, also a Florida congresswoman, will take effect when the Convention closes later this week in Philadelphia, Pa.
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
Chaos erupted as Debbie Wasserman Schultz addressed Florida delegates on Monday, as protesters jeered the outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman as she delivered a speech. "So I can see that's little bit of interest in my being here and I appreciate that interest," Wasserman Schultz said amid the cacophony.
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
Media from across the globe received swag bags filled with water bottles, lapel pins and toys when they arrived in Philadelphia Sunday in preparation for the Democratic National Convention. The event begins Monday at the Wells Fargo Center and runs through Thursday, July 28. Sen. Bernie Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama are slated to speak to delegates tonight.
Democrats kick off their convention Monday under the cloud of party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's resignation and Donald Trump's 6 point bounce coming out of last week's GOP convention. The big question as the convention gavels in at 4 p.m. ET: Will Wasserman Schultz address her fellow Democrats? And if so, will she be booed, even if she's only present for a brief three minute speech? It will be an early bit of drama ahead of a convention lineup that's packed with star power -- with two presidents, a vice president and the first lady serving as warm-up acts for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.
For Trump, it was a plagiarism scandal that surfaced after wife Melania's speech on the first night of the convention. For Clinton, it was an uproar over the release of nearly 20,000 party emails by Wikileaks ahead of the convention's start, some of which showed Democratic staffers favoring Clinton over her primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is scheduled to speak to thousands of members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Charlotte Monday, as the Democratic National Convention begins in Philadelphia. Clinton will speak at the 117th VFW National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center in uptown, located at 501 S. College Street.
Your voter registration information might have been stolen when the online database of the State Board of Elections was hacked earlier this month, though it's expected to take more than a week for officials to get a handle on just who was affected. "I think everyone in our IT department spent the weekend mixing their Maalox with Jim Beam," the board's general counsel Ken Menzel cracked after I phoned him following a tip from the Kane County clerk's office.
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The Democratic National Convention gets underway today in Philadelphia, kicking off four days of politics and parties that will culminate Thursday in the nomination of Hillary Clinton as the party's nominee for president. Tonight starts out with Clinton's former rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and First Lady Michelle Obama delivering the keynote addresses, as the convention tries to rally around the theme "Unity together."
Tim Vandeveer, candidate for the State Party Chair, speaks to the members at the Democratic Party of Hawaii 2016 Convention at the Sheraton Waikiki, Sunday, May 29, 2016. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono is a lifelong Democrat who has achieved her share of political "firsts."
Democrats are opening their national convention in Philadelphia eager to show off a forward-looking party united behind Hillary Clinton, but they face lingering bitterness among supporters of defeated rival Bernie Sanders and a fresh political mess of the party's own making. The resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee made for a rocky start on Sunday, as the Florida congresswoman heeded Sanders' longstanding call to leave as party chief.
Protests on the streets and a shakeup inside the Democratic National Committee kicks off the party's nominating convention in Philadelphia Monday, signaling that matters are nowhere near settled as the second and last convention of the 2016 Presidential Convention gets underway. Amid the rancor, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and her selected vice presidential running mate Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, presented a more calm demeanor in an interview with Scott Pelly on 60 Minutes Sunday night.