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Let them eat cookies. Users on Twitter roasted Vice President Harris for passing out cookies made in her likeness to reporters on a plane while traveling to meet with the president of Guatemala.... ...In the tail section of Air Force 2, though, Harris handed out cookies in her likeness, made in the style of her official White House portrait... ...GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel took a chop at Harris, saying the cookies were the "modern-day equivalent" of French Queen Marie Antoinette’s famous quote. "Handing out cookies with her face on them as the border crisis rages…," McDaniel wrote. "The modern-day equivalent...

The most potent moment of the Democratic convention last week was when Khizr Khan, father of an Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004, challenged Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. "You have sacrificed nothing and no one," Khan said to Trump, holding aloft a copy of the Constitution that he suggested Trump read. Trump's immediate response was to criticize Khan and his wife, earning a number of rebukes from veterans and members of his own party. "There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed," said a statement from...