Clinton Chooses Virginia Senator Kaine as Her Running Mate

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., participate in a rally at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia, July 14, 2016.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has named Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate.

Kaine is a veteran Democratic politician who describes himself as "boring." He also is a moderate who has the potential to attract voters repelled by Donald Trump and those who may have a hard time fully embracing Clinton.

"He's never lost an election. He was a world-class mayor, governor and senator and is one of the most highly respected senators I know," Clinton told CBS news.

Kaine wrote in a Twitter message that he was honored to have been chosen and that he "can't wait to hit the [campaign] trail" Saturday in Miami. He is expected to appear with Clinton at a University of Miami rally.

Kaine, 58, was born in Minnesota and is a Harvard-educated lawyer. Harvard is the same law school that turned out President Barack Obama.

But Kaine took a year off from Harvard to work as a Catholic missionary and teacher in Honduras.

According to his biography, Kaine observed poverty up close up in Central America and saw what it can do to the human spirit. His time there is said to have helped form his support for citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the United States — a stance likely to attract Latino voters.

Kaine began his political career as a city councilman in Richmond, Virginia, in 1994. He then was voted the city's mayor, was elected lieutenant governor for the state of Virginia in 2002, and assumed the governorship in 2006.

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Before his election to the U.S. Senate in 2012, Kaine was chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

He has strong foreign policy credentials, not only stemming from his time in Honduras but also from his membership on the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees.

Kaine is a Catholic and says he personally opposes abortion, but does support a woman's right to choose.

He backs the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which both liberals and conservatives have decried.

Kaine's vice presidential candidacy may disappoint some progressive Democrats. Some had hoped that after Bernie Sanders' pro-socialist policy speeches during the campaign attracted wide support, Clinton would choose a more liberal candidate.

Before her announcement of Kaine as her running mate, Clinton made a rousing campaign appearance in Tampa, Florida. She said Donald Trump offers fear, anger and resentment but no solutions to America's problems.

Clinton called the speeches at the Republican convention this week "scary," and in a preview of what could be her 2016 campaign slogan, Clinton told the crowd that "love trumps hate."

The Democrats hold their convention in Philadelphia starting Monda
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'Learn to Live With Terrorism' Strikes Some as Good Advice

People gather at a makeshift memorial to honor the victims of an attack, near the area where a truck mowed through revelers in Nice, France, July 15, 2016.

In the hours after the terror attack in Nice, France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls riled many critics when he said that “times have changed, and France should learn to live with terrorism.”

On Twitter, one person called the statement “crazy,” while another said it was “a sad indictment on our times.” Heat Street, a conservative news-and-commentary website, chided it for its “defeatist tone.”

The timing of Valls’ statement may have struck some as insensitive, but to others, there was a sense that it reflected reality.

“I agree with it,” said Colin Clarke, a political scientist at Rand Corporation, a global policy research group based in Santa Monica, California. “We all have to learn to live with terrorism. It’s a different paradigm in the [post-]9/11 world.”

Daniel Benjamin, a former coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department, called the statement wise.

“I think it’s good that leaders are working to cultivate resilience and not creating illusions that there are a series of buttons that can be pushed and terrorism will go away,” said Benjamin, who is now the director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. “Obviously, we have to take it seriously and not get complacent in the face of a threat, but I think it’s a wise message.”

French officials said Friday that 84 people were killed and 52 were critically wounded when a man drove a large truck through a Bastille Day celebration in Nice late Thursday. French police identified the attacker as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, a French-Tunisian who lived in Nice.

Similar sentiments in U.S.

President Barack Obama struck a corresponding note, saying Americans and allies could not give in to fear, turn on each other or sacrifice their way of life.

“We will not be deterred,” he said. “We will not relent. We are going to keep working together to prevent attacks and defend our homeland.”

Blaise Misztal, director of national security at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, noted that Obama’s and former President George W. Bush’s calls for resilience in the face of terrorism have not been all that different from the French prime minister’s.

FILE - U.S. President George W. Bush speaks about his administration's war on terror while at Tippecanoe High School in Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007.

“President Bush advocated just such an approach of continuing to go about our daily lives after 9/11,” Misztal said via email. “President Obama has tried to make a similar point in saying that more people die from bathtub accidents than terrorism, and Israel has long ago come to terms with the fact of terrorism.”

'Inured to the horror'?

In a blog post about the attack, Danielle Pletka, a terrorism expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative public policy research group in Washington, wrote that “we’re not shocked” by terrorist attacks anymore. That’s because “as terrorism becomes a regular feature of our lives, we’ve become inured to the horror and indifferent about the solution.”

Misztal disagreed.

“The images from Orlando, Istanbul, Dhaka and now Nice elicit universal horror and condemnation, as they should,” he said via email. “It is that moral outrage that drives our determination that ISIS and its ideological brethren must be defeated.”

He added that the “normalization of terror attacks” should be part of any counterterrorism strategy.

“Groups like ISIS are trying to inspire fear in our societies and undermine the openness and freedom they despise in democratic societies,” he said. “Learning to live normally among the potential for terrorism is the best way to deprive it of its power.”

A New York Police Department officer stands guard in Grand Central Station following the Nice terror attack, in New York City, July 15, 2016.

'Off-the-charts' concern

But after the December attack in San Bernardino, California, U.S. public concern about terrorism shot up to levels not seen since 9/11. A March 2016 Gallup poll showed that 48 percent of Americans worried a “great deal” about possible terrorist attacks in the U.S., a level higher than the 2004-2015 period.

A June 2016 NBC/Survey Monkey poll taken after the Orlando, Florida, shooting — the worst mass shooting in U.S. history — showed that the share of Americans who viewed terrorism as the most important issue to them doubled to 24 percent from 12 percent prior to the attack. The poll also showed that 51 percent of Americans worried that they or someone in their family might become a victim of terrorism, while 48 percent said they were not worried.

“These numbers are off the charts,” Benjamin said.

Following the attack in Nice, American anxiety over terrorism is likely to edge higher, but the U.S. remains less vulnerable to the type of complex, large-scale terror attacks that have struck Europe over the past two years.

The U.S. is geographically isolated from the Middle East, has better law enforcement and domestic intelligence, and has lower levels of radicalization among an immigrant population that is much better integrated into society than is the case in Europe, Benjamin said.

“These can’t be reasons to be complacent, but the threat here is lower than it is in Europe,” he said

Prospect of Drug-resistant Malaria Stirs Concern in AfricaProspect of Drug-resistant Malaria Stirs Concern in Africa

FILE - Women hold mosquito nets after receiving them at a distribution point in Sesheke, Zambia, Sept. 30, 2010.

DAKAR, SENEGAL — 

The number of new malaria cases in Africa fell 42 percent from 2000 to 2015, according to the World Health Organization. The drop was due in large part to insecticide-treated mosquito nets, indoor spraying and better access to effective treatments. But this progress could be derailed by a new wave of drug-resistant malaria that's currently affecting Asia.

Abdoulaye Djimde, head of the molecular epidemiology and drug resistance unit at the Malaria Research and Training Center in Bamako, Mali, said that "we should be concerned. ... Given the frequent interconnection between Asia and Africa — you have direct flights from almost everywhere to several parts of Africa — there is the risk for importing these resistant parasites. [It] is higher today.”

In the 1970s, millions of Africans contracted malaria resistant to the front-line drug at the time, chloroquine. The results were catastrophic.

As of last year, five countries in Southeast Asia had reported cases of malaria resistant to the latest treatment, Artemisinin-based combination therapies, or ACT.

“We need to be alert so that what happened with chloroquine resistance does not catch up with us," said Eunice Misiani of South Africa's National Malaria Control Program. "We have to make sure we conduct the efficacy testing standards on a regular basis — every two to three years.”

Fake drugs persist

Counterfeit drugs continue to be a big problem in Africa. The fake drugs, while cheaper, often have lower levels of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and using them can lead to drug resistance over time.

Getting people to complete the treatment regime is also difficult. Many stop taking the pills after a day or two, once they start to feel better.

Hans Rietveld, market access director at Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis' Malaria Initiative, said doctors in Africa often over-prescribe anti-malarial drugs.

“First of all, ensure that there is adequate diagnosis before initiating treatment," he said. "And that is an issue in many countries where the practice ... of diagnosing prior to treatment isn’t yet embedded in normal medical practice.”

Some studies show that an estimated 40 percent to 60 percent of cases treated as malaria in Africa aren’t actually malaria.

Rietveld said expanding the use of rapid diagnostic tests in Africa could prevent overtreatment. The at-home tests can diagnose malaria with a finger prick.

Novartis said there are now two new potential drugs in the works. Both treat malaria differently than ACTs. But getting these new drugs onto the market will take at least a few more years

July 14, 2016

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FILE - Women hold mosquito nets after receiving them at a distribution point in Sesheke, Zambia, Sept. 30, 2010.

DAKAR, SENEGAL — 

The number of new malaria cases in Africa fell 42 percent from 2000 to 2015, according to the World Health Organization. The drop was due in large part to insecticide-treated mosquito nets, indoor spraying and better access to effective treatments. But this progress could be derailed by a new wave of drug-resistant malaria that's currently affecting Asia.

Abdoulaye Djimde, head of the molecular epidemiology and drug resistance unit at the Malaria Research and Training Center in Bamako, Mali, said that "we should be concerned. ... Given the frequent interconnection between Asia and Africa — you have direct flights from almost everywhere to several parts of Africa — there is the risk for importing these resistant parasites. [It] is higher today.”

In the 1970s, millions of Africans contracted malaria resistant to the front-line drug at the time, chloroquine. The results were catastrophic.

As of last year, five countries in Southeast Asia had reported cases of malaria resistant to the latest treatment, Artemisinin-based combination therapies, or ACT.

“We need to be alert so that what happened with chloroquine resistance does not catch up with us," said Eunice Misiani of South Africa's National Malaria Control Program. "We have to make sure we conduct the efficacy testing standards on a regular basis — every two to three years.”

Fake drugs persist

Counterfeit drugs continue to be a big problem in Africa. The fake drugs, while cheaper, often have lower levels of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and using them can lead to drug resistance over time.

Getting people to complete the treatment regime is also difficult. Many stop taking the pills after a day or two, once they start to feel better.

Hans Rietveld, market access director at Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis' Malaria Initiative, said doctors in Africa often over-prescribe anti-malarial drugs.

“First of all, ensure that there is adequate diagnosis before initiating treatment," he said. "And that is an issue in many countries where the practice ... of diagnosing prior to treatment isn’t yet embedded in normal medical practice.”

Some studies show that an estimated 40 percent to 60 percent of cases treated as malaria in Africa aren’t actually malaria.

Rietveld said expanding the use of rapid diagnostic tests in Africa could prevent overtreatment. The at-home tests can diagnose malaria with a finger prick.

Novartis said there are now two new potential drugs in the works. Both treat malaria differently than ACTs. But getting these new drugs onto the market will take at least a few more years

Attack In Nice: 84 Dead As Truck Hits Crowd

everal children are among the dead after a lorry mowed down hundreds of revellers at a Bastille Day fireworks display.

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At least 84 people have been killed and dozens injured after a truck careered along Nice's packed waterfront, ploughing into hundreds of people.

French President Francois Hollande has said several children are among the dead after what he described as a monstrous "terrorist" act.

Video footage shows police trying to stop the lorry before it picks up speed, slamming into revellers gathered along the city's famous waterside Promenade des Anglais for a Bastille Day fireworks display.

Video: 80 Dead As Truck Hits Crowd In Nice

The driver zig-zagged along the promenade for some two kilometres (1.3 miles), mowing people down along the way, according to Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre.

:: Crowds Run From Scene Of Attack In Nice: Video

Several officials say he then emerged from the vehicle and started shooting, sending hundreds of panic-stricken men, women and children running in terror.

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"We almost died. It was like hallucinating... (the lorry) zig-zagged," an eyewitness told i-Tele.

"You had no idea where it was going. My wife... a metre away ... she was dead.

"The lorry ripped through everything. Poles, trees, we have never seen anything like it in our lives. Some people were hanging on the door trying to stop it."

:: LIVE: Witnesses Heard Children Screaming

Nice-Matin journalist Damien Allemand, who was at the waterside, said the fireworks display had finished and the crowd had got up to leave when they heard a noise and cries.

Video: Moments Before Truck Hits Crowd

"A fraction of a second later, an enormous white truck came along at a crazy speed, turning the wheel to mow down the maximum number of people," he said.

"I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its route. Heard noises, cries that I will never forget."

:: A Timeline Of The Deadly Truck Attack In Nice

Graphic footage from the scene shows an endless succession of bodies left strewn along the city's landmark promenade in the lorry's wake.

Video: 'People Were Screaming On Streets'

Screams and cries can be heard as dazed witnesses lean over the bodies, looking for survivors. 

Items of clothing and shoes are scattered across the blood-stained pavement.

French officials say the driver was shot dead by police at the scene, with images showing the windscreen of the 25-tonne lorry riddled with bullet holes.

Several weapons, guns and grenades were found inside the vehicle, Christian Estrosi, president of the region, has confirmed.

Video: 'I Will Forever Be Haunted By This'

There has been no claim of responsibility, however, a police source has identified the attacker as a 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian born in Tunisia. 

Though unconfirmed, this tallies with the profile of a man whose identity papers were reportedly discovered inside the vehicle. A police source quoted by news agency AFP said the papers belonged to a resident of Nice.

:: Attack In Nice: 'ID Of French-Tunisian In Truck' 

In a live TV address, the French president said there is "no denying the terrorist nature of this attack".

"I express in the name of the nation, our tears, solidarity, with the victims and the families," Mr Hollande said.

Video: Hollande On 'Horror' Of Attack

He pledged to strengthen France's role in Syria and Iraq and extended the nation's state of emergency - imposed after November's attacks in Paris - for a further three months.

At least 18 people remain in a critical condition, with hospitals in the area appealing for blood.

Laurence Marie, who works at Lenval paediatric hospital, has said "many" children are undergoing serious operations there.

Nice's famous luxury Negresco hotel, meanwhile, has been turned into a makeshift ward, with dozens of frightened and injured victims gathered in the marble lobby.

The Hotel Negresco has been turned into a makeshift hospital Pic: @AlbanMikoczy

The hashtag #RecherchesNice has been started for people still looking for loved ones.

:: Witness: Driver Zig-Zagged Through Crowd

"This is the worst disaster in the history of Nice as more than 70 people have already lost their lives, killed by the driver as he fired at the crowds ahead of him," Mr Estrosi said in a statement.

"We are terrified and we want to express our sincere condolences to the families involved.

"Today, we must act. We are currently in touch with the State authorities who are dealing with this crisis."

Video: Attacks In Nice: How Events Unfolded

The Paris prosecutor's has office opened an investigation for "murder, attempted murder in an organised group linked to a terrorist enterprise". The probe is being handled by France's intelligence agency and judicial police.

Authorities in Nice told local residents to stay in their homes as they conducted further operations, though there has been no sign of any other threats.

The Foreign Office says it is in touch with local authorities in Nice and has advised anyone in the area to follow the instructions of French authorities.

:: History Of Deadly Attacks In France

The attack comes days after France breathed a sigh of relief after hosting the Euros 2016 without incident.

The tournament took place under heavy security following the Paris attack that left 130 dead.

An emergency contact number has been set up for anyone who may have loved ones caught up in the attack in Nice: 0033493722222.