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Former President Bill Clinton, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are also expected to address the convention.

Several protesters who had managed to get through the fence were detained and handcuffed by the police.

Their issues cover climate change, abortion rights and racial equality, to name a few, but many activists agree an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war is the overarching message of the demonstrations.

Biden is expected to use his keynote address as a symbolic handoff of his party to Harris, capping five decades in Democratic politics and pressing the case for what he says is the threat to the country if Trump returns to the White House.

Presidential candidates have been made official in Chicago more than two dozen times since Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Construction crews scrambled to finish work this month on the Damen green line L stop before delegates arrived.

Her deadline for picking a running mate is effectively Tuesday.

Former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham is also endorsing Harris.

The former president appeared before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago Wednesday in an interview that quickly turned hostile.

The legislation encourages better training for police officers and mandates the use of independent investigations and prosecutions to avoid conflicts of interest.