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President Trump revokes Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection

President Donald Trump has revoked the Secret Service protection of former Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the 2024 presidential election. While former presidents receive Secret Service protection for life, former vice presidents receive that protection for up to six months after they leave office. However, before leaving office, former President Joe Biden signed an order that extended Harris’s Secret Service detail for an additional year, reports CNN. In a letter, the Trump administration authorized the Department of Homeland […]

todayAugust 30, 2025 3

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The power of the Black sororities is Kamala Harris’ secret weapon to winning the White House

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Much has been made about the role of Black women in the 2024 election, but this is not a new thing. In February 1913, before women’s right to vote was added to the U.S. Constitution, Nelly M. Quander, a Black woman, Howard University graduate, and then-president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., engaged pointedly with the women’s suffrage movement. […]

todayAugust 9, 2024 2

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Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally

WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that unleashed an outcry about how the agency failed in its core mission to protect current and former presidents. Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, faced growing calls to resign and several investigations into how a gunman was able to get so close to the Republican presidential nominee at an outdoor […]

todayJuly 25, 2024 1

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Concerns for Black communities mount amid secret recording of Supreme Court Justice Alito

A leaked audio recording of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife is sending shockwaves throughout the civil rights community and the halls of Congress, stoking fear that the court’s apparent political and ideological bias will bring more harm to Black and other marginalized communities.  “I’m concerned that a court that’s reactionary, which is what we now have, will impede the equality of Black and brown Americans,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who serves on the House Committee on […]

todayJune 14, 2024 1

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Obama could be Biden’s secret weapon with Black voters

As President Joe Biden navigates shaky terrain with Black voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election, he may have at least one secret weapon on the campaign trail: former President Barack Obama. “President Obama continues to be an asset for Democrats,” Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist, told theGrio. “Fundraising … [and] mobilizing Black voters is a place he can help.” “[Obama] was a key part of the closing crew in 2020 [and] … he was engaged in ’22 in some […]

todayApril 5, 2024 1

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‘Totally unacceptable’: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faces grilling in Congress about secret hospital stay

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire for his secret hospital stay last month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Thursday that the Defense Department has made changes to improve the notification process if he must transfer decision-making authorities due to illness or lack of communications. He said there were no gaps in control of the department or the nation’s security because “at all times, either I or the deputy secretary was in a position to conduct the duties of my office.” […]

todayFebruary 29, 2024 1