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Hillary Clinton is set to officially become the Democratic presidential nominee this week as the party's selection convention gets underway in Philadelphia later. The convention has already been overshadowed by the resignation of the party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz over Wikileaks revelations that some in the party's leadership favoured Ms Clinton over her rival Bernie Sanders.
One week after Republicans sounded the gavel opening their gathering of party faithful, Democrats will do the same - even as they acknowledge familiar concerns regarding security, safety and a heightened state of tensions around the country. As much as the traditions of these political conventions are similar, we expect Democrats, at least publicly, to represent a more united front than Republicans did in Cleveland.
Philadelphia: It might have sounded barmy, but extraordinary allegations by the Democratic Party that Moscow is behind a massive leak of internal party emails as a Russian strategy to improve the electoral prospects of the GOP's Donald Trump are being taken seriously. The chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigns amid a furor over leaked emails that appear to show the DNC chair playing favorites in the heated primary race.
More than 1,000 people joined Hollywood stars including Shailene Woodley, Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover in Philadelphia last night on the eve of the Democratic National Convention and vowed to keep fighting for climate and environmental justice issues, even though their preferred presidential candidate would not be driving the party's agenda. Sarandon, who like the other stars in attendance campaigned on behalf of Sen. Bernie Sanders, said the rally's turnout was proof that theirs was a movement and not a cult of personality as some critics alleged.
The Democratic Party's top official resigned Sunday amid e-mail revelations that national committee staffers had tried to undermine Bernie Sanders, Hillary's Clinton's spirited rival, during the primary election season. The departure of Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has weathered a long list of controversies during her more than five year tenure leading the Democratic National Committee, marked a chaotic start to a convention week intended to display unity for Clinton's White House bid.
A wildfire burns in the East Walker Ranch open space on Placerita Caynon Road in Santa Clarita, Calif., Sunday, July 24, 2016. Flames raced down a steep hillside "like a freight train," leaving smoldering remains of homes and warnings that more communities should be ready to flee the wildfire churning through tinder-dry canyons in Southern California, authorities said Sunday.
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has agreed to resign as party chair following the release of Democratic National Committee emails from Wikileaks that suggest the DNC was not impartial during the primary. Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla, is shown here in this March 2016 photo.
In the wake of this week's embarrassing email dump, Debbie Wasserman Schultz said today that she will step down as chairman of the Democratic National Committee after the party's convention this week. "My first priority has always been serving the people of the 23rd district of Florida," Schultz said in a statement, "and I look forward to continuing to do that as their member of Congress for years to come."
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says Debbie Wasserman Schultz made the right decision for the Democratic Party's future by resigning as part chair. Sanders says Democrats need new leadership "that will open the doors of the party and welcome in working people and young people."
It has been an open secret for some time that one of the weakest elements of the extended Democratic Party family under US President Barack Obama has been the Democratic National Committee. It has been a neglected institution that has become a public embarrassment on the eve of a national convention designed to highlight party unity.
Alex Schaefer, a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders, puts on a Bernie costume for a demonstration at Dillworth Park in Philadelphia. Photo / AP Thousands of demonstrators are taking to Philadelphia's sweltering streets, cheering, chanting and beating drums in the first major protests ahead of the Democratic National Convention, as the city wilts during a heatwave.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not be speaking or presiding at this week's Democratic National Convention - a huge blow caused by the leak of internal DNC emails that suggested favoritism toward Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders during the primary. Instead, Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio will chair the convention, gaveling in and out each day's proceedings, CNN reported Sunday.
His wife spoke briefly at the end of the service, telling parishioners how important they've been in their lives. Kaine told reporters outside the church: "We needed some prayers today and we got some prayers and it really feels good."
This Sunday, the Democratic National Convention gets underway here in Philadelphia, after a raucous and unpredictable Republican convention. That ended with the nomination of Donald Trump.
Sen. Bernie Sanders called the leak of Democratic National Committee emails suggesting a bias against his presidential campaign "outrageous" and reiterated his call for DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign. "It is not a great shock to me," Sanders said during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday morning.
Sen. Bernie Sanders offered his support for the choice of Sen. Tim Kaine as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, though he did so by calling it a vast improvement over the Republican alternative more than offering a testament to Kaine's liberal bona fides. Speaking to CNN's "State of the Union," Sanders acknowledged that he and Kaine were not always ideologically in symmetry.
If there were over 19,000 leaked emails from the RNC, including questionable interactions with the press, possible collusion, cover-ups, fake protesters, fake craigslist ads, temper tantrums from top officials, and a literal attempt to undermine a primary candidate over and over in favor of the chosen one, the coverage on the cable news networks would be wall to wall. I wouldn't even be surprised if the news came by way of breaking into prime time on a broadcast network.
Two massive wildfires in tinder-dry California hills and canyons have forced thousands of people from their homes and may have killed at least one person.
An effort to fully eliminate superdelegates in future elections failed at a meeting of the Democratic National Convention rules committee Saturday. At the gathering in a Philadelphia conference room, a delegate for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders offered an amendment to get rid of superdelegates - party insiders who can vote for the candidate of their choice at the convention.
A cache of more than 19,000 emails from Democratic party officials, leaked in advance of Hillary Clinton's nomination at the party's convention next week in Philadelphia, details the acrimonious split between the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's former rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders. Several emails posted by Wikileaks on its document disclosure website show DNC officials scoffing at Sanders and his supporters and in one instance, questioning his commitment to his Jewish religion.