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President Biden is reportedly grumbling behind closed doors that Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t been mentioning him or “Bidenomics” enough in her recent campaign speeches. Biden, 81, has privately complained to allies that Harris and the Democratic Party appear to have “moved on from him” since his July exit from the 2024 race, and that his “accomplishments” are no longer being highlighted as Election Day nears, according to an NBC News report on Monday. The president was particularly upset at one instance in which the 59-year-old vice president did invoke his name — during her Sept. 10 debate against former...

WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano avoids mention of the terms "terrorism" or "Sept. 11" in remarks prepared for her first congressional testimony since taking office, signaling a sharp change in tone from her predecessors. Napolitano is the first homeland security secretary to drop the term "terror" and "vulnerability" from remarks prepared for delivery to the House Homeland Security Committee, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press. Tom Ridge, who headed the agency when it was launched in 2003, mentioned terrorism 11 times in his prepared statement at his debut before the oversight committee in 2003. And...