Harris campaign memoir ‘107 Days’ gets September release date

A memoir about former Vice President Kamala Harris‘ abbreviated and unsuccessful presidential bid called “107 Days” will hit bookstores Sept. 23.

Publishers Simon & Schuster announced the release of Harris’ 320-page tome Thursday morning. She’s scheduled to give her first interview since losing to President Donald Trump to CBS “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert Thursday night.

Her book title references the amount of time Harris had to put together a presidential run after incumbent president Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 race following an abysmal debate performances against Trump in June of 2024.

Trump defeated Harris by 1.5% of the popular vote. It’s not clear if Harris plans to run again in 2028. The 60-year-old Democrat announced Wednesday that she won’t be a candidate in California’s 2026 gubernatorial race.

—New York Daily News

2 Florida girls drowned after sailboat crash, medical examiner says

MIAMI — The two girls who died after a barge slammed into sailboat carrying five children and a camp counselor in Miami Beach accidentally drowned, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office said Thursday.

The medical examiner identified the girls as Mila Yankelevich, 7, and Erin Victoria Ko Han, 13.

The girls were on a 17-foot-Hobie Getaway as part of a sailing camp at the Miami Yacht Club on Watson Island. A 60-foot barge, being pushed by a tugboat and transporting a large crane, ran over the sailboat in Biscayne Bay between Hibiscus and Monument islands in Miami Beach. The accident happened around 11:10 a.m. Monday.

Five girls between the ages of 7 and 13 were on the sailboat along with a 19-year-old female camp counselor.

—Miami Herald

Trump plans glitzy new $200 million White House ballroom

President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled plans for a glitzy new White House ballroom with a hefty $200 million price tag even as Republicans implement draconian cuts to health and other social programs.

Construction is set to begin in September on the new 90,000-square-foot space that would seat up to 650 people adjacent to the White House’s East Wing.

The project is scheduled to be completed long before the end of Trump’s term in 2029, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.

The White House says Trump and other unnamed “patriot donors” will bankroll the project, although the Secret Service will spend an undisclosed amount on needed security upgrades.

The splashy project could raise eyebrows at a time when Trump and his Republican allies slashed hundreds of billions of dollars in spending on Medicaid for poor and disabled Americans, along with deep cuts in food assistance in his "Big Beautiful Bill," which also cuts taxes for the wealthy.

—New York Daily News

Boston Marathon bomber suffers setback in appeals court ruling

BOSTON — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has suffered a setback in his death penalty sentencing appeal.

Tsarnaev had been trying to toss the federal judge from the case, as the killer fights to dodge a death sentence. But a federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the judge — George A. O’Toole Jr. — will stay on for the case.

Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 of all 30 charges against him, and remains locked up for life in the Colorado supermax prison ADX Florence.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers have been trying to get the judge removed from the sentencing case, arguing that he’s biased. His lawyers were seeking a “writ of mandamus” to shelve O’Toole.

The twin bombing on Boylston Street that fateful April day killed Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23. More than 260 people were also injured and maimed. MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, 27, was shot execution-style days later by Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan, who was killed hours later in a firefight in Watertown.

—Boston Herald

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