Harris County Commissioners Court on Thursday gave final approval to its financial plan for the upcoming year, including an 8% increase in the county's property tax rate for the new fiscal year beginning on Oct.

Vice President Kamala Harris is looking for a boost with persuadable and less-motivated voters as she participates in a livestream Thursday evening with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

Kamala Harris is getting the star power behind her presidential campaign. Superstar Billie Eilish endorsed Harris days after Taylor Swift did. Donald Trump responded to the endorsement posting on social media “I hate Taylor Swift.

Kamala Harris’ campaign said it did not use materials that the FBI said Iranian hackers gathered from email accounts associated with Donald Trump’s campaign.

The Rev. Dwight McKissic, a Baptist pastor from Texas who spoke on the Evangelicals for Harris call, said he saw no “moral superiority of one party over the other,” citing the GOP’s decision to “abandon a commitment to ban abortion with a constitutional amendment” and to soften its stance against same-sex marriage in its party platform.

Donald Trump’s campaign declined to comment Thursday on whether North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whom the former president once described as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” should drop out of the battleground state’s race for governor.

Kamala Harris has received an outpouring of endorsements from Teamsters local unions and regional councils in key states, despite the national union’s decision to not endorse.

Ahead of the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel, former President Donald Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris to condemn Hamas, the group behind the violence. “I am calling on Kamala Harris to officially disavow the support of all Hamas sympathizers,

Trump has successfully persuaded many Americans that his campaign's collusion with Russia in 2016 was a “hoax.” It was not.

Oprah is campaigning for Kamala Harris in crucial swing states as the countdown to the Vice Presidential debate begins. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports. (Check out The Beat's playlist: Connect with Ari Me