– Cat ladies unite. Many women were already mobilized to support Kamala Harris; now J.D. Vance has spurred even more of them into action. Donald Trump’s VP pick, in a resurfaced 2021 Fox News appearance, said that “childless cat ladies,” including Harris, were running the Democratic Party—to the detriment of the country.

Here’s his full quote, via the Guardian:

In a 2021 interview with Fox News, JD Vance lamented that the United States was being run by “childless cat ladies” like Vice President Kamala Harris, women who he claimed had no “direct stake” in the country’s future.

This week, Ms. Harris received a powerful gesture of support from one of her biggest advocates: the mother of her stepchildren.

Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, has come to the defense of the former president's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, following backlash over comments he made about childless Democrats, The Hill reported Thursday.

In 2021, Vance questioned Vice President Kamala Harris' fitness for office as someone who doesn't have biological children.

In a post Thursday on X, Leavitt wrote that Vance's comments are "being taken out of context and unfairly attacked."

Sen. JD Vance, now in the spotlight as Donald Trump’s running mate, is being widely criticized for his past comments about “childless” Democrats, which have come under renewed scrutiny.

“You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he told Tucker Carlson on Fox News during his run for the Senate in 2021. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”

July 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday it is opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines (DAL.N), opens new tab after the carrier canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles to recover from a global cyber outage, opens new tab that snarled airlines worldwide.

While other carriers have been able to resume normal operations, Delta has continued to cancel hundreds of flights daily of a crew scheduling system.

The race to be Kamala Harris’ running mate has already started.

Moments after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential contest and endorsed his vice president on Sunday, speculation began swirling over who would be Kamala Harris’ running mate. Some Democrats started floating their preferred picks. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, for instance, “would be an excellent choice” to share the ticket, said Philadelphia Democratic Party chair and former Rep. Bob Brady.

Vice President Kamala Harris is now the most likely replacement for President Joe Biden after he dropped out of the 2024 race Sunday and endorsed her as the Democratic nominee—triggering a rushed competition among the Democratic Party’s rising stars to become her running mate.

Names commonly floated as replacements for Biden at the top of the ticket, mostly governors who served as surrogates for the Biden-Harris campaign and who have high approval ratings in their home states, would appear most likely to be top contenders for her running mate.

After President Joe Biden announced that he would suspend his reelection campaign, his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him has propelled her to being the most likely Democratic nominee. Now, the question is who her running mate will be.

U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process.

The U.S. Transportation Department said Monday it will vigorously defend the rule against what it called “hidden junk fees.”

Major U.S. airlines are suing the U.S. Transportation Department over a new rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees, the latest clash between air carriers and the Biden administration.

Lobbying group Airlines for America, along with American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Hawaiian Airlines, and Alaska Airlines filed suit against the department (USDOT) in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana late on Friday, according to a copy of the suit seen by Reuters.