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Kamala Harris takes next step in return to political stage

Former Vice President Kamala Harris headlines a top-dollar Democratic National Committee fundraising dinner on Tuesday, marking the latest step back into the political spotlight by the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee.
The New York City gathering of top party officials, politicians and donors, where tickets range upwards of $25,000 per person, according to an invitation obtained by Fox News, comes as Harris is mulling her political future after last November’s election defeat at the hands of Republican President Donald Trump.
Among her campaign options that she’s weighing is a 2026 run for the open governor’s seat in her home state of California and another bid in 2028 for the White House.
The event also comes as the Democratic Party, facing historically low favorable ratings in national polling, aims to leave the political wilderness after the party lost control of the White House and the Senate and fell short in its bid to regain the House majority in the 2024 elections.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is headlining a major Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York City on Tuesday. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
And it is being held as an increasingly angry and energized base of Democrats is pushing for party leaders to take a stronger stand in pushing back against Trump’s sweeping and controversial agenda during the opening months of his second administration.
«Kamala Harris understands the fight that we are in,» DNC committee member and veteran Democratic strategist Maria Cardona told Fox News.
She added that «Kamala Harris is a beloved figure in the Democratic Party.»
«The DNC is using every tool in their toolbox to bring people together, to get people excited about the campaigns that are coming in the next two cycles,» said Cardona, a member of the DNC’s influential Rules and Bylaws committee. «I think it’s super smart for the DNC to use her, to use every other elected [official], to use governors, to use former administration officials. … I think this is just par for the course for what the DNC needs to do going forward.»
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The fundraiser is being held the day after the president helped haul in big bucks as he headlined a gathering of major donors at one of his golf courses in Virginia for MAGA Inc., which was the top Trump-aligned super PAC during the 2024 election cycle.
Harris proved her fundraising prowess last year, hauling in over $1 billion during her three-and-a-half-month White House campaign after replacing then-President Joe Biden atop the Democrats’ national ticket in late July, amid mounting questions over the then-81-year-old president’s physical and mental stamina.

Then-Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
«She raised an eye-popping record amount of money,» Cardona noted. «She is still a tremendous draw for the Democratic faithful and donors and that will continue to be the case going forward.»
The DNC is using much of the money brought in at its fundraisers to build its ground operations and messaging efforts ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
A top progressive leader agreed that using Harris to help fundraise for the DNC makes sense.
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But Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a major grassroots organization that promotes economic populism and democracy through electoral and issue advocacy efforts, pointed to Harris’ 2024 setback as well as her flameout in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary when asked about how the left would receive a potential 2028 White House bid by Harris.
«She had her chance. Sometimes you have to know when to step away,» Green told Fox News.
He argued that Harris felt more like a candidate from the party’s establishment than a shake-up of the system, populist, during her two presidential campaigns, and that the more voters got to know her, the less they supported her.
Harris’ appearance at Tuesday’s DNC fundraiser, where she’ll take part in a question-and-answer session with national party chair Ken Martin, comes a week after she made some of her first major public remarks since her 2024 defeat.
The former vice president at an event in San Francisco took aim at Trump’s economic agenda. She said the president’s controversial implementation of tariffs, which initially triggered a massive stock market selloff, «as I predicted, are clearly inviting a recession.»

Then-Vice President Kamala Harris (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The stepped-up appearances by Harris come as she continues to meet with advisors and friends as she considers her political future.
A source in the former vice president’s political orbit confirmed to Fox News Digital two months ago that Harris had told allies she would decide by the end of summer on whether to launch a 2026 gubernatorial campaign.
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Harris served as San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general and represented the Golden State in the U.S. Senate before joining Biden’s 2020 ticket and winning election as vice president.
And Harris would be considered the clear frontrunner for governor in heavily blue California in the race to succeed term-limited Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Leading Women Defined Summit, April 3, 2025, in Dana Point, Calif. (Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, extremely early polls in the next Democratic Party presidential nomination race, which are heavily reliant on name recognition at this point, indicate that the former vice president holds a significant lead over other potential White House contenders.
It is unlikely she could do both. Running and winning election in 2026 as governor of California, the nation’s most populous state and home to the world’s fifth-largest economy, would likely take a 2028 White House run off the table, allies and political analysts have indicated.
While no decisions have been made, the former vice president has vowed to remain politically involved.
Harris, in a video message to the Democratic National Committee as it huddled for its winter meeting in early February, pledged to be with the party «every step of the way.»
And in an early April speech in California, Harris reiterated that she’ll stay politically active, noting that «I’m not going anywhere.»
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But Harris is far from the only Democrat sparking 2028 speculation.
Among those making headlines in the extremely early moves for the next Democrat presidential nomination race is two-term Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, who took aim at Trump and his own party as he headlined a state Democratic Party fundraiser a week and a half ago in New Hampshire, which traditionally has held the first primary in the White House race.
Also grabbing plenty of 2028 buzz is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the four-term, outspoken progressive from New York City.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at a town hall gathering on May 2, 2025, in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
A viral video of her nationwide series of rallies with longtime liberal champion Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, drew large crowds and sparked more speculation that the lawmaker known as AOC might have presidential ambitions in 2028 or that she could potentially primary challenge longtime Democrat Senate Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York in three years.
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Green, in contrasting Harris and Ocasio-Cortez, said «this moment calls for authentic outsiders who want to shake up the broken political system and an economic status quo rigged for billionaires against working people. That’s why Kamala Harris lost, and it’s why a lot of people are looking at AOC.»
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La economía china pierde impulso: la actividad manufacturera cayó en septiembre y acumula seis meses de contracción

La industria manufacturera de China se contrajo en septiembre por sexto mes consecutivo, confirmando la prolongada debilidad del sector clave para la segunda mayor economía del mundo.
Según la Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE), el Índice de Gerentes de Compras (PMI) se situó en 49,8 puntos, por debajo del umbral de 50 que separa la expansión de la contracción. Aunque la cifra mejoró en 0,4 unidades respecto a agosto y superó la previsión de 49,6, la actividad industrial sigue sin lograr un cambio de tendencia.
El resultado prolonga la serie de caídas iniciada en abril, en un contexto de consumo interno debilitado, tensiones comerciales con Estados Unidos y un entorno internacional cada vez más adverso.
“El impulso económico es débil en el tercer trimestre”, advirtió Zhiwei Zhang, presidente y economista jefe de Pinpoint Asset Management, en declaraciones recogidas por Bloomberg.
En paralelo, la consultora RatingDog, vinculada a S&P, publicó su propio PMI manufacturero en 51,2 puntos, lo que indica expansión y marca el nivel más alto desde marzo. El dato sorprendió a los analistas, que esperaban 50,3, y refleja un comportamiento dispar frente al índice oficial.

El fundador de la firma, Yao Yu, destacó que “los pedidos de exportación volvieron a crecer por primera vez desde marzo”, lo que interrumpe varios meses de caídas atribuidas a la guerra arancelaria con Estados Unidos.
La publicación de este índice coincidió con la del PMI oficial debido al festivo por el Día Nacional de China y el inicio de la “semana dorada”, período en el que la actividad económica suele disminuir.
El PMI oficial reveló que, de los cinco subíndices que lo componen, solo producción y plazos de entrega se ubicaron en la zona de expansión. En contraste, los nuevos pedidos, el empleo y los inventarios de materias primas permanecieron en contracción, lo que refleja la falta de dinamismo en la demanda y la reducción de la fuerza laboral en el sector industrial.
Esta divergencia entre indicadores genera dudas sobre la transparencia de las cifras oficiales de Beijing. Mientras la ONE insiste en un repunte gradual, las mediciones privadas muestran señales mixtas que ponen en evidencia la fragilidad estructural de la economía.
El PMI no manufacturero, que mide la evolución de sectores como servicios y construcción, cayó de 50,3 a 50 puntos en septiembre, el registro más bajo desde noviembre de 2022, cuando el país aún estaba bajo la política de “cero covid”. El sector de la construcción se mantuvo en terreno negativo con 49,3, mientras que los servicios apenas resistieron en 50,1, rozando la contracción.

En tanto, el PMI compuesto de la ONE, que combina la actividad manufacturera y no manufacturera, se situó en 50,6 puntos, apenas 0,1 más que en agosto.
RatingDog también informó que su PMI de servicios retrocedió levemente a 52,9, mientras que el compuesto avanzó a 52,5, lo que refuerza la percepción de que las mediciones privadas son más optimistas que las oficiales.
Las dificultades en la demanda doméstica se reflejan en los precios al consumidor, que en septiembre registraron su caída más rápida en seis meses. Esta tendencia muestra que los hogares chinos mantienen cautela en el gasto pese a las políticas de estímulo del gobierno.
A nivel externo, la industria enfrenta una creciente presión por la desaceleración global y la prolongada disputa comercial con Estados Unidos. Aunque las exportaciones han mostrado resiliencia en algunos segmentos, su aporte no compensa la debilidad del consumo interno. “Las actividades exportadoras han sido sorprendentemente resilientes en lo que va del año y han ayudado a compensar parcialmente la débil demanda interna”, explicó Zhang.
El contraste entre los datos oficiales y los privados refuerza la incertidumbre sobre el verdadero estado de la economía china. Mientras Beijing insiste en transmitir señales de estabilidad, los analistas internacionales destacan los riesgos de una recuperación incompleta y la falta de confianza de los consumidores.
El debilitamiento del empleo en la industria, la caída del consumo y la falta de dinamismo en los servicios muestran que la economía china enfrenta desafíos estructurales que no se resuelven con ajustes estadísticos.

Con seis meses consecutivos de contracción en la manufactura, el margen de maniobra del gobierno se reduce, y la presión internacional mantiene bajo tensión al principal motor productivo de Asia.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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La tragedia del vuelo de Air France Río-París vuelve al banquillo 16 años después

El 1 de junio de 2009, un Airbus de Air France que había partido de Rio de Janeiro hacia París (vuelo AF447) se estrelló en plena noche en el Atlántico, pocas horas después de su despegue, causando la muerte de sus 216 pasajeros y 12 miembros de la tripulación. A bordo del A330 había personas de 33 nacionalidades, entre ellas 72 franceses y 58 brasileños.
Dieciséis años, Air France y Airbus vuelven a ser juzgados en apelación desde este lunes para determinar si son responsables de homicidios involuntarios por la tragedia que dejó 228 muertos.
El juicio en el tribunal de apelación de París, que comenzó este lunes por la tarde, se espera que dure dos meses. La aerolínea y el fabricante habían resultado absueltos en primera instancia en 2023.
Las cajas negras confirmaron el origen del accidente: la congelación de las sondas de velocidad Pitot mientras el avión volaba a gran altura en una difícil zona meteorológica cerca del ecuador.
Por este accidente aéreo, ambas empresas serán juzgadas hasta el 27 de noviembre por el tribunal de apelación de París. Cada una de las empresas se expone a una multa de 225.000 euros (263.000 dólares).
«Air France mantendrá que no cometió ninguna falta penal en el origen de este accidente. Soy consciente de que esta declaración puede ser difícil de escuchar para los familiares de las víctimas, pero quiero subrayar que esto no subestima en absoluto nuestra compasión por lo que han vivido y continúan viviendo», declaró en el estrado la directora general de Air France, Anne Rigail.
El 17 de abril de 2023, tras dos meses de debates altamente técnicos que incluyeron audiencias emotivas con familiares de las víctimas, el tribunal correccional de París absolvió en el plano penal a Airbus y Air France, aunque reconoció su responsabilidad civil.
Consideró que si bien se cometieron «imprudencias» y «negligencias», «no se pudo demostrar (…) ningún vínculo causal seguro» con el accidente más mortal en la historia de las aerolíneas francesas.
Aunque el Ministerio Público había solicitado en la audiencia la absolución de ambas empresas, la Fiscalía General apeló la sentencia «con el propósito de dar pleno efecto a los recursos previstos por la ley y someter el caso a un segundo nivel de jurisdicción».
Alain Jakubowicz, abogado de numerosas partes civiles dijo a AFP que algunas personas «se cansaron y tiraron la toalla para intentar pasar página. Otras siguen luchando con uñas y dientes y quieren a toda costa que se haga justicia y que se diga claramente la verdad en un ámbito judicial».
De las 489 partes civiles constituidas durante el juicio de primera instancia, 281 se unieron a la apelación en este caso, que cuenta con 20.000 elementos procesales distribuidos en 105 tomos. Para los familiares este proceso representa «el último cartucho», según dijo Philippe Linguet, hermano de una de las víctimas del accidente.
«Queremos una justicia que sea combativa, que salga del marco para condenar a dos empresas europeas y multinacionales y decirles, con palabras simples: ‘Han cometido errores, deben reconocerlos’», declaró a la prensa antes del inicio del juicio el vicepresidente de la asociación Entraide et solidarité AF 447.
Air France está acusada de no haber impartido a los pilotos una formación adecuada sobre situaciones de congelación de las sondas Pitot, que miden la velocidad del avión en el exterior, y por no haber informado suficientemente a sus tripulaciones, algo que la aerolínea siempre negó.
Airbus enfrenta acusaciones de haber subestimado la gravedad de las fallas de las sondas anemométricas y no haber tomado todas las medidas necesarias para informar con urgencia a las compañías aéreas que las utilizaban, una versión que el fabricante aeronáutico europeo niega también.
«Airbus cooperará plenamente con el juicio de apelación que comenzará el 29 de septiembre con el fin de seguir esclareciendo las causas de este trágico accidente, en sintonía con el compromiso total de la empresa con la seguridad aérea», afirmó la empresa en un comunicado.
El calendario provisional del proceso establece que el primer mes del juicio se dedicará a las audiencias de testigos y peritos.
Se prevé que los representantes de Airbus y Air France sean interrogados a partir del 27 de octubre.
Alexandre Marchand y Benoît Ducrocq/ AFP
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Illegal alien who sent ‘vulgar, racist’ bomb threat to female member of Congress arrested by ICE

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FIRST ON FOX: An illegal alien who left an obscenity-laden bomb threat to a member of Congress was arrested by ICE over the weekend, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, the DHS said that Rigoberto Albizar-Martinez, a 58-year-old Cuban illegal living in Tampa, was arrested by ICE over the weekend as part of its efforts to crack down on the «worst of the worst» criminal illegal aliens.
DHS said that Albizar-Martinez threatened to bomb the office of Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla.
He was sentenced to a year in prison in May after being found guilty in December of leaving a «vulgar, racist, obscenity-laden voicemail» in which he threatened to plant a bomb in the congresswoman’s Tampa office, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
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Rigoberto Albizar-Martinez, a 58-year-old Cuban illegal living in Tampa, was arrested by ICE over the weekend as part of its efforts to crack down on the «worst of the worst» criminal illegal aliens. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images and DHS)
Local outlet WFLA reported that in his message, Albizar-Martinez said in Spanish, «I’m going to plant a bomb in your office. It’s a threat,» and «It’s a threat, so take it however you want you son of a f****** b****.»
The outlet also reported that in the same message, Albizar-Martinez also attacked Democrats, black people and pro-Palestinian people.
Commenting on his arrest by ICE, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to Fox News Digital that «there is no place for political violence in America.»
«Rigoberto Albizar-Martinez threatened to bomb a Congresswoman’s office,» said McLaughlin. «Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE, this illegal alien and national security threat will be out of our country.
«Nothing will deter us to remove the worst of the worst from America communities,» she added.
Castor did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Left: Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Right: ICE agents (DHS; ICE )
This comes as many Democrats have criticized ICE agents for carrying out immigration enforcement operations, accusing them of racially profiling people, using «Gestapo tactics» and terrorizing communities.
DHS said that over the weekend, it also arrested several other criminal illegal aliens, including child rapists, gang members and a human smuggler.
Among those arrested was Jorge German Aglony, a Chilean illegal in California, who was convicted of inflicting pain and suffering on a dependent adult or elder, as well as receipt and possession of child pornography.
Another illegal arrested, Leonardo Velazquez-Marin, from Mexico, was also convicted of possession of child pornography in Dallas County, Texas. Also in Texas, ICE arrested Jose Elias Mejia-Orellana, a Honduran national who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 in Collin County.
In Maryland, ICE arrested another child predator, Melvin Guiakora, from Central African Republic, who was convicted for sexual solicitation of a minor in Washington County.
ICE also arrested a member of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Mexican national Adan Mares-Martinez, who was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury in Norwalk, California.
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Recent illegal aliens apprehended by ICE. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images and DHS)
Another illegal, Elvin Humberto Madrigal-Calero, from Nicaragua, was arrested following a conviction of involuntary manslaughter in Pulaski County, Virginia.
In El Centro, California, Mexican national Oscar Morales-Valencia, was arrested by ICE following a conviction of bringing in and harboring aliens.
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This comes shortly after DHS announced that two million illegal immigrants «have been removed or have self-deported» from the U.S. since Jan. 20, putting the Trump administration on pace to break records.
In less than 250 days, an estimated 1.6 million illegal immigrants have voluntarily self-deported, while 400,000 were removed by federal law enforcement, the DHS said last week, describing the situation as a «new milestone.»
«Ramped-up immigration enforcement targeting the worst of the worst is removing more and more criminal illegal aliens off our streets every day and is sending a clear message to anyone else in this country illegally: Self-deport or we will arrest and deport you,» said McLaughlin.
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