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Vice President Kamala Harrisused Monday’s joint campaign appearance with President Biden in the industrial city of Pittsburgh to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — coinciding with the White House’s earlier opposition to the company’s planned sale to Nippon Steel of Japan. Harris said U.S. Steel “should remain American-owned and American-operated,” calling it “an historic American company” that …

Nine days before Vice President Kamala Harris selected him to be her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz received a text message from a fellow Minnesota Democrat. “I’ve never lost with you on top of the ballot,” Rep. Angie Craig wrote. In describing the text to CBS News, she added “LOL,” saying she’d teased him at the time about his …

Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said Sunday he hasn’t endorsed in the 2024 presidential race yet because he hasn’t yet met with Vice President Kamala Harris, and “you don’t hire someone unless you give them an interview.” The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is one of the 10 largest unions in the United States with 1.3 million …

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. —Gov. Tim Walz made a short stop at the Minnesota State Fair on Sunday, his first as the Democratic nominee for vice president. The visit stands in stark contrast to what he’s used to at the “Great Minnesota Get Together” — available to move more freely and make multiple trips over the course of the 12-day event. …

Chester, Pennsylvania —At a recent Harris-Walz campaign rally in Chester, environmental advocate Zulene Mayfield called for action from the crowd of a few hundred residents. “We are the masters of our fate,” she said, urging them “to mobilize this community in a way that has never happened.” Chester is what climate activists call an “environmental justice community,” a place where …

Paid advertisements for major organizations affiliated with both the Republican and Democratic parties and some of their biggest names have appeared under pro-Nazi and racist posts shared on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, a CBS News investigation has found. Advertisements for the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, theConservative Political Action Conference(CPAC) and the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank …