The chant began at Vice President Harris’s campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., on Monday as she prepared to kick off her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Washington
Who is Doug Emhoff? Harris’s husband could be the first first gentleman.
After almost four years of upending centuries-old gender stereotypes, Emhoff told the enthusiastic crowd he was ready for the next challenge: “Now I get to support my wife, Kamala Harris, running for president of the United States.”
Emhoff, who could become the first first gentleman of the United States, set aside his 30-year career as a high-profile Los Angeles entertainment lawyer when Harris assumed office. He has spoken candidly about the difficulties of leaving the work he loved to support Harris’s political aspirations — including at Monday’s event, where he paid credit to President Biden, who Emhoff said “had my back personally in some of my toughest moments as second gentleman.”
“It was always the president who came up to me and said: ‘Look, I know, kid, you’re a great lawyer. I know this must be tough, but what better way to leave that and to support your wife, who you love so much and your country that you love so much,’” an emotional Emhoff said, as Biden — who was unable to make the event as he recovers from covid-19 — listened in.
Emhoff, 59, was born in Brooklyn and raised in Matawan, N.J., before he moved with his parents and two siblings to the Los Angeles area in his teens. He attended college and law school in California and went on to build a successful entertainment litigation practice, which he folded into a large law firm, Venable.
A former colleague, Alex Weingarten, described Emhoff in 2021 as someone who specialized in building teams. On cases, the two partners would assume the roles of good cop and bad cop: Emhoff was always the good cop, Weingarten told The Washington Post.
Emhoff later became a partner at DLA Piper but left in 2020 to avoid potential conflicts of interest between that firm’s lobbying portfolio and Harris’s political career.
Harris and Emhoff’s story is one of later-in-life love — written, literally, in Hollywood. Harris’s close friend, Chrisette Hudlin, set the pair up in 2013 after she met Emhoff at a business meeting.
Emhoff made his introduction to Harris in part through a lengthy voicemail — which he worried was “disastrous,” the vice president wrote in her memoir. But Harris, then living in San Francisco and working as California’s attorney general, was charmed and flew to Los Angeles for their first date.
The morning after, Emhoff shared his availability for another date, writing in an email that he was “too old to play games or hide the ball. I really like you, and I want to see if we can make this work,” he said.
He told CBS in a recent interview: “It was love at first sight, and we’ve been together ever since.”
They married in 2014 at a small ceremony in Santa Barbara that involved smashing a glass in honor of Emhoff’s Jewish background and in which Emhoff wore a flower garland to celebrate Harris’s Indian heritage. Emhoff’s children from his first marriage, Cole and Ella, call the vice president “Momala” — and Harris has forged a friendship with Emhoff’s first wife, film producer Kerstin Emhoff, who is vocal online about her support for the vice president.
Emhoff and Harris’s relationship would ultimately lead him to the unprecedented role of the nation’s first second gentleman and the first Jewish vice-presidential spouse.
During the past three and a half years, Emhoff has carved out a multifaceted role for himself. He has visited coronavirus vaccine clinics, worked to expand access to legal aid services, advocated for gender equity and become a leading voice in the White House’s efforts to combat antisemitism, including by taking a trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2023 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. He has also embraced his Jewish heritage by celebrating Passover at the White House.
After the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, he told the Los Angeles Times that, despite feeling “sheer pain and shock … I’m still going to keep doing what I’m doing — focus on fighting against hate and antisemitism and Islamophobia.”
Emhoff also teaches at Georgetown Law School, which described him as “one of the nation’s leading intellectual property and business litigators.” He took up the role after stepping away from his position at DLA Piper.
And while he has discussed the attendant difficulties, he told Glamour in 2020 that “I’m humbled, I’m honored to have put it all on hold — my career, family life, everything” to help the Biden-Harris campaign.
In his White House biography, Emhoff is quoted as saying that he hopes to “inspire the next generation of supportive spouses.”
“I’m the first man to take this role,” he said, “but I definitely don’t want to be the last.”
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – A man is in custody, charged with Murder in the shooting death of a teenage girl.
Washington County Deputies responded to calls of a shooting at a home on Hagan Circle, Friday night just before 10 p.m.
Once there, deputies located 15-year-old LuVenya Knight lying unresponsive inside the home. Life-saving measures were attempted but unsuccessful. Knight was pronounced dead at the scene.
22-year-old Kermarion Markel Washington of Tennille has been arrested and charged in the case.
Washington is charged with Felony Murder, Malice Murder, Child Molestation, Statutory Rape, Aggravated Assault, and Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony.
Additional charges may be forthcoming.
Washington is currently being held at the Washington County Jail.
INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD has a new public safety camera downtown to help address crime or deter it altogether.
The technology is up and running at the intersection of W Washington Street and N Illinois Street. It’s the third camera to be installed along Washington Street in the last three months.
“We’ve had a lot of success with our cameras, using them with juvenile mitigation or violence crime reduction efforts to identify those people involved in crimes, and we’ve been able to make arrests because the cameras are there,” IMPD Downtown District Commander Shane Foley said. “If the cameras weren’t there, there’s certain situations we would not be able to make arrests.”
The other intersections that had cameras installed back in March previously had mobile surveillance units in place, but that wasn’t true for the Illinois Street location.
“Washington and Illinois is one of the most travelled parts of downtown and it’s important to have this tool to monitor activity,” Foley said. “We didn’t have a camera at this location at all, so that really emphasizes the importance of this location being added.”
The streams from the cameras are monitored by IMPD’s real-time crime center, but also by officers on the streets. The video can alert officers to incidents before 911 is even called.
“We have five different camera angles, and as you can see here, this can be used for traffic investigations,” Foley said while showing the stream from inside of his car. “If there was a crash or a pedestrian struck, this might help identify a vehicle involved in that incident.”
The Conrad Hotel on the corner paid to put the camera in place, an investment General Manager Ryan Fitzgerald hopes helps officers better secure the area.
”All the men and women that are down here making the city safe, it’s really important to us and we just wanted an opportunity to support that,” Fitzgerald said. “They do all the hard work, so anything we can do to support that effort is in the interest of all of our residents, our team members and our guests.”
Video from the cameras that don’t show criminal activity is thrown out after 30 days. IMPD is hopeful to further secure community partnerships to fund more cameras in the future.
“Ultimately, the goal of these cameras is to make downtown a safer place for people to work, live and visit,” Foley said.
Keagan Smith gives you a preview, prediction and pick for today’s game between the Washington Nationals and Tampa Bay Rays on Friday’s MLB slate.
Did anyone have the Tampa Bay Rays and Washington Nationals competing for the MLB Postseason on their bingo cards? It’s June 19 and both these teams have winning records, but the ways they’ve gotten there are completely different. On Friday evening, this pitching-reliant Rays group squares off against the Nats’ formidable offense, setting up a fun battle at the Trop.
As the new series begins tonight at 7:40 p.m. ET, here’s a betting prediction and pick for this Nationals vs. Rays matchup courtesy of MLB odds and lines on DraftKings Sportsbook.
Nationals vs. Rays prediction, preview
Washington Nationals
The Nats are perhaps the most fun team in the entire MLB this season. With a group of talented young bats, they’ve cruised to a 39-36 record on the campaign with a +15 run differential, also going 6-4 over their last 10 games. The upside of this offense is immense, and if they can get the pitching figured out, we could be looking at a future power in the NL. Washington produces an MLB-best 5.43 runs per game with a .744 OPS that ranks fifth overall. The full slash line reads .247/.323/.421 with a .287 BABIP; tonight, the group faces a RHP with a split of .238/.311/.414 for a .725 OPS against similar handedness. It may be the lower of their splits, but the Nationals do have 73 of their 96 homers against righties. The club’s .174 ISO comes in at fourth in the sport, but a composite speed score of 6.0 also leads all other teams, too. Plus, a 21.0% K% and 8.9% BB% are solid-enough marks.
RHP Cade Cavalli was scheduled to start for the Nats today but has now been scratched due to illness. A new starter is currently TBD, but this section will be updated when the announcement is made. The bullpen’s numbers aren’t great though, sitting 24th in ERA at 4.71 with a 1.42 WHIP and 7.5% K-BB%.
Tampa Bay Rays
The Rays have dropped from the top spot in the AL East after a few rough weeks in June, now sitting 41-30 with a +5 run differential. However, momentum is not on their side after going 4-6 over their last 10 and dropping both of their last two series — one to the Angels and the other to the Dodgers. Their offense is good with 4.44 runs per game, but doesn’t quite have the elite upside of today’s opponent. Tampa Bay has a .713 OPS and a slash line of .255/.333/.379, and the club gets the better of its lefty/righty splits today at .259/.339/.393 for a .732 cumulative mark against right-handed pitching. That’s a positive, as is a BB/K ratio of 0.50 fueled by an MLB-best 19.1% K% and a 9.6% BB%. A .301 BABIP is nice to see, but a .124 ISO and 58 home runs this year leave much to be desired in terms of power. That’s the biggest weakness of this team by far, but they have hit 45 of those off a RHP.
RHP Griffin Jax gets the starting nod for Tampa Bay today. He’s 1-5 across 20 games and nine starts. His numbers include a 3.68 ERA, a 1.36 WHIP and 41 SO in 44.0 IP. He’s forced ground balls at an above-average rate and has seen positive results in terms of chase and whiff rate as well. The Rays’ bullpen has a 4.67 ERA that ranks 22nd with a 1.37 WHIP and 10.9% K-BB%.
Nationals vs. Rays pick, best bet
DraftKings Sportsbook lists the Rays as -126 Moneyline favorites at home today. The Rays are underdogs at +104 odds to win outright with the run total set at eight.
Best Bet: WAS Nationals ML (+104)
A straight-up pick is the move tonight as we target the Nats for an outright win on the road. Here’s the logic. I like the Washington offense far more than Tampa Bay’s, especially as of late. The Nationals have an .840 OPS in the last two weeks with a .221 ISO, though that drops a smidge to .772 and .185 over the last seven days in particular. They’re just as productive as usual though, if not more so. On the opposite side, the Rays are dead last over the last week at a .609 OPS and an .088 ISO, and while their strikeout rate has remained the same as on the full year, the OBP has dropped and they’re hitting a paltry .216. Looking at the last two weeks, they’re still 25th in the league with a .676 OPS as well and below .100 in ISO once again at .097. Jax has been solid as per usual, but it hasn’t translated to wins yet this year and likely won’t against such a high-powered lineup.
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