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Kamala Harris’ physician reports the vice president is in ‘excellent health’ and fit to serve as president

Vice President Kamala Harris is in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president, her doctor said in a letter released Saturday that summarizes her medical history and status. Dr. Joshua Simmons, a U.S. Army colonel and physician to the vice president, wrote that Harris, 59, maintains a healthy, active lifestyle and that her most recent physical last April was “unremarkable.”

Trump to Brand Deportation Push ‘Operation Aurora’

Former President Trump visited a Colorado city Friday that he has decried as a “war zone” to depict migrants coming into the country as a grave threat to American communities, seeking to elevate immigration as a key election issue against Vice President Harris.

US Justice Dept sues Virginia for violating federal election law

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a lawsuit against the state of Virginia for purging voter rolls on Friday. The department claims state officials violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by challenging voters’ eligibility too close to the November election.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there could support it. Another mission would be needed to flush out any microorganisms lurking there.

Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak

A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to a Border Patrol agent’s affidavit filed in federal court.