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Miami Heat | What to expect from the Miami Heat’s new arena tour

The team is offering tours of its home arena to fans this offseason. Tours run Wednesday through Saturday and cost $34.99 for adults and $24.99 for kids. The experience is available until Sept. 27.

Because the Heat’s training facilities are located within the Kaseya Center, the tour takes fans through both the player areas and sections of the arena itself. The tour gives fans access to player areas previously unavailable to the public, including the practice court, the home and visitor locker rooms, the player’s lounge, the weight room and the trainer’s room.

The tour begins in the family area, which serves as a lounge for families on game day, before heading to the practice court. The court, decorated with championship and retired number banners, doubles as the Heat’s war room for the NBA draft. Fans get the opportunity to shoot a free throw on one of the practice courts as they pass through.

The courts lead down to a hallway of player facilities. Fans can look into the kitchen and lounge area and the neighboring weight room, nicknamed “Zo’s Zone” after Heat Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourning. Fans are then led through the trainer’s room, where players receive medical treatment. The trainer’s room features training tables and equipment along with a swimming pool and hot and cold tubs.

Finishing off the player facilities portion of the tour is the home locker room. A video of Mourning explaining the locker room’s design is played at the front of the room. Fans are given the opportunity to sit in a vacant locker for photos.

Julian Sanchez leads a tour group through the hallways of areas only players can be, which is known by the red carpet throughout the space, in the Kaseya Center located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Attendees of the All Access Arena Tours take photos in the media room where news conferences takes place at in the Kaseya Center in Miami. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Julian Sanchez, leads a tour group and shows them the practice courts in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Julia Rose, team photographer takes a photo of tour attendees Ari and Murray Rollnick in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Julian Sanchez, leads a tour group and shows them the media room in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

The Miami Heat basketball team's locker room, which shows player's individual lockers in the Kaseya Center in Miami. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Julian Sanchez, leads a tour group and shows them the Miami Heat basketball team's locker room, which displays a screen they use to show videos and a board for game plays, in the Kaseya Center located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Julian Sanchez, leads a tour group and shows them the Amerant Lounge in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

A photo wall of Miami Heat basketball team players in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

The barber station in the Kaseya Center used by Miami Heat players located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel) (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

The Miami Heat basketball team's championship banners hang in the Kaseya Center located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Julian Sanchez, wraps up the tour at the food stalls in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

A photo wall in arena ally of musicians that have performed in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Julian Sanchez, leads a tour group and shows them the guest teams' locker room in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Attendees of the All Access Arena Tours walk through sections of the arena where photos and memorabilia are displayed in the Kaseya Center, located in Miami on Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Brielle Aguayo/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Photos and quotes from the team’s three NBA championships line walls of the team facilities as the tour moves onto the arena facilities. Fans walk through the arena tunnels, stopping to view the opponent’s locker room and the news conference area, where they can sit behind the microphone for photos.

The tour finishes with a look at the luxury suites area, as well as the Bacardi Ocho lounge. The lounge are serves as a bar and club atmosphere accessible on the suite level. The route ends at the team shop, where tour-goers are offered a 10% discount on an in-person purchase the day of the tour.

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MIAMI – Miami Heat fans are getting an unprecedented behind-the-scenes experience at Kaseya Center, with a new all-access tour that lets them step onto the practice court, explore VIP areas, and even snap photos in the players’ locker room.

The tour, which runs through September on select dates, allows fans to walk the same paths as their favorite players, from the practice court where champions are built to the luxurious arena suites and lounges that host VIP guests on game nights. But the experience doesn’t stop there.

Fans also get a chance to step inside the training facilities, including the cold and hot tubs, and even peek into the dressing rooms, where countless celebrities have prepped for their performances.

“We’re one of the only teams that have our own barbershop on site,” Julian Sanchez, manager of the Junior Heat Program told Local 10′s Alexis Frazier on Friday, explaining why Heat forward Jimmy Butler’s hair always looks game-ready.

One of the most anticipated stops on the tour was the players’ locker room, an area usually reserved for the team.

There, fans can sit where the players sit, hear stories of the locker room’s history, and even take a photo in one of the players’ spots — a moment that often becomes the highlight of the tour for many participants.

“The locker room is where Heat Culture thrives,” said Sanchez. “This is where it all starts.”

But the tour isn’t just about soaking in the atmosphere; it’s interactive.

Fans can take a shot on the practice court, with some joking that they might earn a ten-day contract if their performance impresses enough.

The fun continues with a stop in the media control room, where visitors can see where the team creates its viral moments, including the infamous Harlem Shake video that became a sensation with just one take.

As a bonus, all participants receive a 10% discount at the Heat Store during the tour, where they can pick up their favorite team gear. And toward the end of the experience, fans are invited to take a complimentary photo with the Heat’s three NBA championship trophies—a perfect memento from their day inside the home of the three-time NBA champions.

“It’s great! Tours are sold out—we’re seeing a lot of guests not only from Miami but internationally,” said Sanchez.

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Miami Heat Announce Preseason Schedule; Will Play Three Games At Kaseya Center

Scott salomon | aug 12, 2024.

The Miami Heat announced their preseason schedule on Monday afternoon.

The Heat will play five games, with three of them being at home.

These three home games are the first opportunity for Heat fans to see first-round draft selection Kel'el Ware in person. Ware played this summer in California and Las Vegas,

Ware, the 7-foot center out of Indiana has had a great summer. He helped lead the Heat to the summer league title. He has shown he's capable of sinking three-pointers, driving through the paint and also make shots in the post.

Miami opens against the Charlotte Hornets on Oct. 8. The Heat play their next three games at home before closing out the preseason in Memphis against the Grizzlies on Oct. 18.

The three games at home are highlighted by an Oct. 15 game with the San Antonio Spurs and reigning Rookie of the Year Victor Wembanyama. The Heat open the homestand against the Atlanta Hawks on Oct. 10. They also face the New Orleans Pelicans on Oct. 13. The game time for all three home games are 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the three home games are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased on HEAT.com or Ticketmaster,com. The game tickets are issued through a phone application, There are no paper tickets.

The Heat open training camp on Oct, 1. The team will return to Bahia Mar in the Bahamas for training camp as they have in year's past.

Broadcast information will be released later this fall.

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Scottie Scheffler's reaction to 112-degree FedEx St. Jude Championship heat

Even the scorching weather cannot stop Scottie Scheffler

Kendall Capps

Scottie Scheffler is once again reminding the golf world why he is the top-ranked player in the world. Scheffler moved up the leaderboard at the FedEx St. Jude Championship following a 5-under 65 Friday. He closed with three birdies in his last four holes to pull within two shots of the lead currently held by Hideki Matsuyama and Denny McCarthy.

It appears even sweltering heat cannot even slow down the Ridgewood, New Jersey native. TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, host of the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs , was scorching hot Friday. The temperature reaches as high as 97 degrees, but the heat index including humidity reached as high as 112 degrees.

Scheffler knew well enough to take shade when it presented itself. However, the same could not be said for his caddie, Ted Scott.

“Honestly, as he was running up to the 9th green, I was thinking to myself, why is he doing that. I'm in the rough; I'm just trying to make sure I get it up there on the green. He wanted to make sure the number was correct on the green,” Scheffler said following his round.

“He didn't trust the book, but by the time I thought about it, he was already up there on the green measuring the distance. He did that twice today; he did it on two and he did it on nine.”

That sure is dedication from Scott. But apparently he eventually came to his senses.

“I guess he got tired because he didn't do it the rest of the day,” said Scheffler.

Scottie Scheffler looking to close out historic PGA Tour season in style

Scheffler has run circles around his fellow PGA Tour competitors this year. Not only did Scheffler win his second Masters Tournament, he won five other times. That includes making history becoming the first player ever to win the Players Championship back-to-back years. He also captured The Memorial at Bay Hill, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, RBC Heritage and the Travelers Championship.

Oh, let's not forget Scheffler won gold at the Paris Olympics in unbelievable fashion two weeks ago.

The only way he can improve upon what has already been a historic season is if he caps it with a Tour Championship. But the format of the FedEx Cup Playoffs does not do him any favors. Despite lapping the field, Scheffler will hold just a couple shot advantage going into East Lake in two weeks.

Whether he wins this week at St. Jude or not, he is essentially locked into the number one spot. That is something Scheffler has openly called “silly” earlier in the week. Even Matsuyama all but called the format unfair to the world number one. But it is what it is.

Kendall Capps is a multi-media journalist and editor who is overly passionate about sports. He's a Senior Editor at ClutchPoints who previously managed SB Nation's golf vertical. He's also done work for FantasyPros and co-hosted the Lay The Points podcast.

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Why did a pga tour referee stop fedex st. jude championship winner hideki matsuyama about possible rules violation, share this article.

Did Hideki Matsuyama violate Rule 8-1 during the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday? The PGA Tour determined that a violation wasn’t committed by the eventual champion, but the moment is worth closer investigating.

On the 12 th hole, PGA Tour Chief Rules Referee Gary Young spoke to  Matsuyama.

Rule 8-1 from the Rules of Golf addresses ‘Players Actions That Improve Conditions Affecting the Stroke,’ and in this particular circumstance there was some concern whether Matsuyama had improved his line by tapping down his pitch mark after his second shot at the seventh hole at TPC Southwind had rolled back into a collection area. Matsuyama clearly walked up to the green and tapped down his pitch mark before playing his third shot on to the green.

“Rule 8-1 is very specific about what a player can do as it pertains to the line of play,” Young explained in a post-round interview with Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis. “It came to our attention that Hideki may have done something on his line of play.”

Young approached the Japanese star and addressed the situation with Matsuyama and his interpreter, Robert Turner. Matsuyama had just made a birdie to reach 19 under and owned a seemingly commanding five-stroke lead.

“The video showed that Hideki walked forward and stepped down with irregularity at a what turned out to be a pitch mark. At that point, it was a question of whether it was on his line of play. A couple of video angles showed that it was close, close enough to have to have that conversation with him and unfortunately we had to have that conversation mid-round with him, which is never comforting when you have to go out and talk with that player,” Young said. “But it could affect his strategy playing for the rest of the round if he is going to get a two-stroke penalty. So, I simply had to ask him the question, Hideki, on that hole, and he did recall the situation that he had walked forward. I asked him what exactly did he do and why did he do it, he just said it was something that he normally does when he has a pitch mark and he felt it was nowhere near his line of play and that was why he stepped it down.

“Following the conversation with him, I felt very comfortable that he felt it was well off his line of play and then we did get supporting video evidence from a different camera angle which clearly showed where he plays his shot and where the pitch mark was. It was a good 3 feet away. Now, some people may say, well, that’s pretty close. For that short of a shot and one of the best players in the world that is a pretty tight area you’re talking about, so, the committee felt very, very comfortable with the decision.”

Lewis pressed Young if there was any additional discussion thereafter whether a rules violation had occurred and Young answered, “In my mind, when we had that conversation, I felt a comfort level that he was well off his line of play.”

Lewis also asked why it took several holes for Matsuyama to be informed of the potential rules violation. “It took some time for the message to come to me that this potential violation had occurred. Then it took time to look for any video evidence. Next it was circulated to all of the members of the rules committee and Young also consulted with the USGA to make sure they had their support,” he said. “It felt really bad to possibly have affected him but that’s the rough part of our job.”

Matsuyama’s round went off the rails as he played Nos. 12-16 in 4 over and lost the lead temporarily to Viktor Hovland before righting the ship and making birdies on the final two holes to win by two strokes over Hovland and Xander Schauffele.

“It was really a non-issue,” Matsuyama said after the round. “They just wanted to check and make sure that the rules were kept, which they were. And it really did not affect me the rest of the day. If I was worried that I had done something wrong, that would have rattled me. But it was really a non-issue, so it was fine.”

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Trigger warning: discusses themes of domestic violence

Over the last few weeks, the film adaptation of Coleen Hoover's bestselling novel It Ends With Us has been getting a lot of heat on social media. The book - which was first published in 2016 but was catapulted back into book charts six years later after a popularity burst on TikTok - explores the impact of domestic violence and abusive relationships. However, the film caused controversy earlier this year when the movie stills were released, with some claiming the film was being marketed as a romantic comedy .

This month, the same criticism has been levelled at the film once again - and this time, Blake Lively has been accused of playing down the plot's central themes. The Gossip Girl star takes the lead role, playing protagonist Lily opposite Justin Baldoni, who plays her onscreen partner Ryle and also directs the movie. The pair have been at the centre of 'feud' rumours since the start of the press tour, with many noting that neither Blake nor Justin have taken interviews together and have remained extremely vague when answering questions about one another.

But netizens have taken issue with Blake during the publicity run, and a number of her interviews have been gaining traction on social media. During her press appearances, she has not explicitly discussed her character's experience of domestic abuse and has been accused of appearing 'tone deaf' for encouraging women to see the film with their 'girl friends and florals', and for promoting her own haircare and drinks brands.

In response to the growing backlash, Blake posted on her Instagram stories earlier this week sharing the following message, alongside a link to the National Domestic Violence Helpline: "One in 4 women aged 18 and older in the US alone have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Intimate partner violence affects all genders, including more than 12 million people every year in the United States. Everyone deserves relationships free from domestic violence."

Blake has not commented directly on the growing backlash, but ticket sales for the film have not been damped by the controversies - in fact, It Ends With Us has already grossed $115.5 million worldwide since its release last weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Bryce Harper is catching heat from the Philly media at the perfect time

By mark powell | 3:14 pm edt.

Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper hasn't been his usual self since returning from a hamstring injury. In his last 22 games since returning from that ailment, Harper has a .222 batting average and a .721 OPS.

Harper's OPS is still above league average, but it's a far cry from the .306 average and .981 OPS that at one time made him an NL MVP candidate. Injuries happen, though, and Harper has been afforded every opportunity to play his way out of a slump. Harper has earned the right to stay in the lineup, if only because of his pedigree. Nonetheless, some Philly media thinks time off could do the two-time MVP some good.

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Bryce Harper is catching heat from the Philly media

Over the weekend, both Harper and JT Realmuto were given a full day off, with manager Rob Thomson refusing to use the pair of stars as possible pinch-hitters in a loss to the Washington Nationals. Phillies fans were furious after the fact, but Thomson did not stutter when explaining his reasoning.

“That’s what I’m thinking about. This is going to be a tough stretch, no doubt, and we’ve got to be able to handle it,” Thomson said. “We want to get healthy bodies, and rested bodies, so we give ourselves every chance to play well.”

However, as the Philadelphia Inquirer's Marcus Hayes wrote, the Phillies must find a way to get Harper going, or they risk falling victim to a streaking opponent early in the postseason.

"(This upcoming stretch is) the toughest competition the Phillies will face the rest of the season. The best record in baseball, at the end of the season, would earn them a first-round bye and home-field advantage through the World Series. That won’t happen if The Showman doesn't start showing up," Hayes wrote.

Bryce Harper's past success against Braves should come in handy

The columnist went on to highlight how Harper doesn't have any hits in his last seven at-bats. Harper looks every bit of 31 years old, per Hayes, and is playing a new position. Perhaps he could use a rest. Hayes compared his situation to that of Trea Turner, who struggled upon his return from injury, and then caught fire after some much-needed rest. Perhaps Harper would benefit from the same approach.

The more likely scenario, of course, is that Thomson sticks with Harper because he is Bryce Freaking Harper. If there were any series that would benefit Bryce, it's this week's showcase against the Atlanta Braves. Harper has long dominated Atlanta even dating back to his days with the Nationals.

In his career against the Braves , Harper has 44 home runs and 106 RBIs in just over a full season's worth of games. That past success, plus Orlando Arcia's 'atta boy, Harper' comment from last postseason, ought to help this Phillies star play more like his usual self.

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HEAT NATIONALS: July 7-12, 2024 Orlando, FL - JW Marriott Bonnet Creek

Eternal flame.

Eternal Flame, HEAT’s title competition, is bringing something different to your average title competition. HEAT is moving forward with the times and will have only one winner in each age division, our best dancer, The Eternal Flame. Our Eternal Flame will be chosen to represent HEAT for the following season and contestants will be judged on their solo performance, interview & improv, classroom demeanor and overall presence throughout the weekend. 

All contestants will learn choreography, rehearse throughout the week, and perform at the Formal Closing Gala. Eternal Flame winners receive free attendance to every city the following year, The Official Eternal Flame Jacket, a customized trophy, sponsor gifts, a personal promotional video reel,  as well as the privilege of representing HEAT for an entire season.

Eternal Flame participants must pre-register before the Nationals event. The solo used for the Eternal Flame competition can only be used for the Eternal Flame battle. Contestants are eligible to enter another solo to compete for overalls in the Nationals Final Competition.

SCORING BREAKDOWN:

50% – Solo Score

20% – Workshop Performance

20% – Interview & Improv

10% – Overall Demeanor, Attitude & Presence

BATTLE OF THE BEST

Rising embers:  best duo/trio.

The top scoring duo/trio from every age category will compete at our Closing Gala on Thursday evening to earn the Best Duo/Trio award!

Super Nova:  Best Group Routine

The top scoring routine from every studio will recompete at our Closing Gala on Thursday evening to earn the Best Group award!

Inferno:  Studio of the Year

The Inferno winner is awarded to the studio who encompass everything HEAT stands for: heart, professionalism, creativity… a simply inspiring studio.

DANCE CHALLENGES

Choreography challenge.

HEAT’s Choreography Challenge combines dancers from different studios to work together and create a choreographic masterpiece! Immediately following the welcome party on Sunday evening dancers ages 10+ will choose their own groups, with a minimum of 6 dancers, and work together  for the remainder of Nationals week. Groups will choose from a pre-selected list of 12 songs to set their piece to. Dancers will have scheduled blocks of rehearsal, time where they will receive feedback from faculty. Cuts will be made throughout the week and the winners will perform at our closing Gala.

Runway Battle

Show off your best improv moves in your own design during our Annual Runway Ball! The theme for outfit design will be announced at the Welcome Party of the first day of Nationals and so dancers have to challenge themselves with what they brought to come up with the style that shows them off best! The Runway Battle will open our Runway Ball – Dancers Night Out & DJ. Divided into Mini, Junior, Teen and Senior divisions. Winners are chosen by our faculty, crowd appeal, and will receive a grab bag stuffed full of HEAT merch.

Heat Hip Hop Cypher

Taking its roots in the origins of Hip Hop, our Heat Cypher will be a hip hop dance off taking place during the Runway Ball.  Traditionally, a cypher is a freestyle dance jam where an open circle is created and people take turns dancing in the center. The cypher has deep, long-standing cultural roots in hip hop culture, African tradition and even religious beliefs.

The HEAT Force is our pre-professional dance company that has traveled with HEAT all season – culminating with our HEAT Nationals. Our Force dancers are an integral part of HEAT National Finals. HEAT Force dancers will perform an exciting new piece with one of our faculty. Dancers will have a week full of specialized classes and be ambassadors & leaders in all events throughout the weekend.

The HEAT Crew is a Hip-Hop specific crew that also has traveled with HEAT throughout the season and studied under our hip hop faculty. Crew dancers will continue their journey and education at HEAT Nationals, learning more than just moves,  but also about the culture and history of Hip Hop. HEAT Crew dancers will perform a crowd raising new presentation at our Closing Gala, choreographed by our hip hop faculty.

INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES

Triple threat experience.

Our Triple Threat Experience is for dancers who want to push themselves beyond dancing. A profession in entertainment requires skills from a variety of the arts. Come learn and enhance these skill sets in the following genres:

    A La Cart Classes $45

    •Vocal Training ,  Dance for Camera,  Acting

Industry Night

Learn about the industry from people who are making it happen. Participate in a Q&A from the panel of our very own working faculty and get real inside tips from some of the top industry professionals behind the scenes. Watch the Eternal Flame finalists interview & improv and cheer on the top groups from the choreography challenge as they take the stage.

CLOSING GALA

Close out this incredible week by walking the red carpet, dining in formal attire, and experiencing an incredible night of performances while you cheer on the Battle of the Best!

Eternal Flame – Title Competition

Rising Embers – Best Duo/Trio

Super Nova – Best Group Routines

Inferno – Studio of the Year

PLUS…

Performances from your HEAT Faculty, HEAT Pros, Heat Force, and HEAT Crew!

Finalists of the Choreography Challenge battle to the top

Gala Pricing:

$175 – VIP Priority Seating, Dinner & Drink Coupon $125 – Gala & Dinner

$45 – General Admission

ADDITIONAL EVENTS

Welcome party.

Kickoff HEAT Nationals with our Welcome Party where you will meet and get to know  all of us behind HEAT as well as all the attendees throughout the week. Test your HEAT knowledge with trivia games and icebreakers to make lasting friendships and memories. Snacks and drinks will be provided and prepare to have a blast.  The Welcome Party will transition into our Choreography Challenge group selections and first rehearsal.

Runway Ball & Dancer Night Out

In the spirit and history of the New York City Ballroom Scene of the 80’s & 90’s, our Runway Ball gives our attendees a chance to find their inner diva and VOGUE!!  Everyone young and old will hit the runway during our 2nd annual Runway Challenge and compete for our Runway LEGEND.  After the Runway Challenge, you dance the night away to the grooves of our very own DJ as they play the hottest tracks for our dancers! This is an exclusive event for our dancers to mingle and shake off competition stress. Come dressed in your theme inspired outfit and get ready to dance the night away!

COMPETITION

Given our time restraints at regional events we often have to limit the amount of routines each studio can bring….. But not at Nationals. Studios can enter an unlimited number of routines to compete at our National Finals.

See our schedule for Competition times.

Dancers must check-in at least 20 minutes before their scheduled performance time backstage. Dressing rooms (girl, boy, & all gender) will be provided for costume changes. Please refer to the included competition schedule for your competition time.

HEAT is happy to offer an in-person audience, observer bands are not required. Live streaming will be provided during our competition.

All ages are as of January 1 of the current year.

MINI DIVISION: 5-8 years

JUNIOR DIVISION: 9-11 years

TEEN DIVISION: 12-14 years

SENIOR DIVISION: 15-18 years

AWARDS & SCORING

Competition awards & scoring.

Awards will be given according to category and age division. HEAT categories include: solo, duo/trio, small group, large group and Line/Production . Age divisions are as follows: Minis, Juniors, Teens, and Seniors. Dancers/Routines will be placed and given the following awards: Silver, Gold, Rose Gold, Platinum, and the Fire Award. Adjudication will be based on a scoring criteria from our three judges and are listed to the right. We will conclude competition with Adjudicated and Overall Awards Ceremonies. Competition will be live streamed for those who wish to view the competition and awards ceremonies.

ADDITIONAL AWARDS:

Passion Award Judges Choice Award

JUDGING CRITERIA:

Technique – 30%

Choreography – 20%

Artistry/Creativity – 15%

Difficulty – 15%

Performance – 20%

Fire – 295-300

Platinum – 285-294

Rose Gold – 270-284

Gold – 250-269

Silver – 230-249

CLASSES FOR YOU

Teacher Classes

Following HEAT’s motto to Hear, Educate, Advocate & Train we believe that the learning does not stop at our dancers. We strive to provide educational training for our teachers, directors and studio owners to help elevate their classes. Teacher classes will be taken to a whole new level throughout nationals with classes from music editing to dancer mental health. Professionals will be brought in to offer feedback and ideas on how to advance your studio.

Specialty Classes

HEAT will be bringing all the classes you know and love as well as some extra classes with a special twist with heels, ballroom and dance for camera!!!

Parent Classes

Stay in mentally and physically in shape all week long with our parent classes taught by our very own faculty. From yoga to kickboxing to mediation you will find yourself motivated to wake up and get moving daily!

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Competition Begins, Eternal Flame Rehearsal, HEAT Force Rehearsal, HEAT Crew Rehearsal, Bonus Classes, Registration Opens, Welcome Party, Director Happy Hour, Choreography Challenge

Eternal Flame Rehearsal, HEAT Force Rehearsal, Parent Class, Bonus Classes, Competition Continues, Eternal Flame Interviews, Choreography Challenge, Eternal Flame Competition

Opening Ceremony,  Workshop Classes,  Teacher/Parent Classes,  HEAT Crew Rehearsal,   Runway Ball, Dancer Night Out, Hip Hop Cypher.

Workshop Classes, Teacher/Parent Classes, HEAT Force Rehearsal, Choreography Challenge Finals, Industry Night.

Workshop Classes, Teacher/Parent Classes,  Studio Delegate Brunch,  HEAT Force Rehearsal, HEAT Crew Rehearsal,  Eternal Flame Rehearsal,  Lip Sync Battle, & Choreography Challenge. 

Closing Gala Brunch & Scholarship Ceremony.

NATIONAL PRICING

Level age             early bird         full price.

Mini 5-8                           $325                            $365

Junior 9-11                     $395                             $435

Teen 12-14                     $395                             $ 435

Senior 15-18                  $395                             $ 435

College 17-27                $325                             $365

Teacher 19+                   FREE                             FREE

Observer                         $75                               $85

*All ages are as of January 1 of the current year Ask us about our 2-day pricing

**HEAT encourages continued training and are proud to support college students with valid student ID. Dancers applying the college discount must be registered for the senior ballroom.

COMPETITION PRICING

Eternal Flame – $295: includes solo fee, choreography fee, improv, interview, and judges adjudication.

Eternal Flame winners receive free attendance to every city the following year, Eternal Flame Jacket, customized trophy, sponsor gifts as well as the privilege of representing HEAT for an entire season.

DIVISIONS            EARLY BIRD        FULL PRICE

Solo                                $170                           $195

Duo/Trio                        $85                              $95

Small Group (4-9)        $65                              $75

Large Group (10-17)    $65                             $75

Line (18-24 )                  $65                             $75

Production (25+)          $65                              $75

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Defeat the heat: Golfers can still find things to do in the dead of August

Okay, it’s hot. So hot that even the idea of playing golf is making you sweat. It is August in the Coachella Valley, after all.

August is about as dead a period for golf in the Coachella Valley as there is. Between golf courses being closed for capital improvements, the humidity that comes with monsoonal storms from the south and east and just the typical desert temperatures, it’s easy to abandon golf for the final few months of summer.

But even in the deadest of golf periods, golf in the desert continues in some way, shape or form. From hitting the golf ball to watching other people hit the ball, here are some options for a hot August day in the desert:

LPGA Tour qualifying

At least three golf courses in the desert will be packed with players this week as the 2024 LPGA Q-Series returns for its annual summer visit. What the LPGA calls pre-qualifying begins Thursday at both the Dinah Shore Tournament Course and Palmer Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells Country Club’s Classic Course. The field features 332 players to start, each golfer playing the three courses in the first three rounds before a cut to 125 players for Sunday’s final round at the Shore Course. In all, 95 golfers will advance to the next stage of qualifying in Florida in October as golfers vie for LPGA and Epson Tour exemptions for 2025. Unlike past years of this event, there are no golfers who played in this year’s Paris Olympics in the desert field. But there are representatives of 36 countries, with the largest foreign contingent coming from China with 22 players. You might want to watch for future LPGA players in the heat of the desert this week.

There is still golf to be played

Stan Messinger had just finished hitting balls at Desert Princess and was lamenting the heat. But he had advice for those scared away from the golf course by the hot, humid summer.

“Play nine,” he said.

Messinger, of Palm Springs, said he still plays some morning golf at Desert Princess with golfers who are older than his 75 years. Recently on a particularly hot and humid day, Messinger looked at one of his playing partner who is 80 and declared that they were only going to play 12 holes on this day, because his friend’s face was getting too red.

Perhaps 18 holes in the afternoon won’t work, but nine-hole rounds in the morning can work. Go past many desert daily-fee courses and you’ll see more than a dozen cars in the morning. The parking lots tend to be empty in the afternoon.

Prices are way down

Whether you play nine holes or 18 holes, one thing is certain: you will play a lot less for a round of golf now than in the winter or spring.

Many courses are advertising rates of at least 50 percent off from peak season. That still might be over $100 for a round, but it’s a round played in the morning and played quickly because there aren’t that many people on the golf course. With the right timing you’re off the course by 11 a.m. or so and back in the air condition of your house or car.

Golf on television

No, I don’t mean the broadcasts of PGA Tour or LPGA events. Instead, there are other options for golf fans that can occupy a day. There is the second season of the “Full Swing” series on Netflix, which profiles players and life on the PGA Tour. The hot summer might be a chance to binge watch the first and the second season.

There is also the movie “The Long Game” about the 1957 Texas state high school boys' golf championship and the racism the team faced both within the game and outside the game in that era. One of the youths portrayed in the movie now is a retired Marine in Yucca Valley. The movie was in theaters this spring and now is on streaming services. It’s a good way to fill a hot afternoon when playing golf is impossible.

Playing with the pros

The Epson Tour Championship will be played in October at the Indian Wells Golf Resort, but the tour is already looking for amateurs to play in the pro-am for the event Oct. 2. Cost is $1,200 for an individual and $3,600 for a team of three players. Golfers receive the round of golf with the Epson Tour pro, a pro-am gift package, two hospitality tickets for the tournament Oct. 3-6, two invitations to the Meet the Pros party, food and beverage during the pro-am and recognition on a hole sign for a full-team registration. If you can’t play golf in the August heat, maybe October will suit you better.

Information on the pro-am is available at the city’s website or by emailing matthewclark@lpga,com.

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Chris Kirk’s thrilling hole-in-one gives him early FedEx St. Jude Championship lead

Chris Kirk made a remarkable ace, which vaulted him up to the top of the leaderboard on day one in Memphis.

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Chris Kirk had a solid round going on Thursday when he arrived at the par-3 14th, the most challenging hole on the course. He had carded five birdies already and sat at the top of the leaderboard early at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at 5-under-par.

But his round would quickly get better.

Kirk pulled out a 6-iron and knocked in his tee shot for an ace, the ninth hole-in-one he has ever had, so he says. It also marked his fourth career hole-in-one on the PGA Tour .

With the pin on the right side of the green, roughly six paces from the water, Kirk started his right-to-left ball flight over the penalty area on this tricky 205-yard par-3. His ball then drew back towards the flag, took a couple of bounces, and dropped into the bottom of the cup .

“An uncomfortable shot for a man who likes to work it from right to left.” *Proceeds to two hop it in for an ace.* Hell yeah, Chris Kirk. Love seeing him get off to a hot start in Memphis. pic.twitter.com/W8MB1EL82w — Jack Milko (@jack_milko) August 15, 2024

“The adjusted number, I think, was 200 or 201. We had it a little bit down the hill, just a breath of breeze off the right, and 6-iron for me, which was, in this heat, it’s a perfect number,” Kirk explained.

“I’m usually around 196 or 197 with a 6-iron. Everything is going a couple of yards further with the heat this week. Great number. I was looking a little further left than that with water on the right, but as soon as I hit it, I hit it just how I wanted to contact-wise, looked up, saw it started a touch right but was drawing right back to it. Yeah, nice bonus.”

He quickly leaped up to 7-under for the championship and held a sizeable lead over the final few holes. But he closed with a bogey on the par-4 18th after putting his drive into the fairway bunker, which led him to sign for a 6-under 64.

Kirk walked off the golf course with a one-shot advantage over playing partner Taylor Pendrith and Frenchman Matthieu Pavon .

“I did the best I could, and overall really solid day,” Kirk assessed.

Indeed, the 6-time PGA Tour winner turned in a solid performance in the Memphis heat, on a day when the real feel exceeded 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

“I’ve had a tendency to play well in really warm temperatures, too. Not exactly sure why that is,” Kirk said.

“Just being in the south, from Georgia, I’m just comfortable here, and a golf course that I really like.”

Time will tell if Kirk will have the lead at the end of the day, as half the field still has yet to complete their rounds as of this writing. But wherever he sits, Kirk has put himself in a terrific position to compete for another victory this weekend.

He will begin his second round at 12:40 p.m. ET on Friday.

Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be sure to check out @_PlayingThrough for more golf coverage. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_milko as well.

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Ice Spice Brings Pop Savvy to ‘Y2K! World Tour’ in Los Angeles, With Special Guests Gunna and Cash Cobain: Concert Review

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Ice Spice brought the Bronx to Los Angeles for her first headlining show at the Hollywood Palladium last night, running through the considerable spate of hits she’s amassed since she reached full viral throttle with her breakthrough hit “Munch (Feelin’ U)” in late 2022.

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Spice’s regression to the safest corners of drill music on her recently released debut album “Y2K!” felt like a defense mechanism to all the critiques. Since she started gaining traction on social media, she proved her propensity for adapting drill to shiny radio-ready singles with Taylor Swift and PinkPantheress. The promise of pop stardom hung in the balance of “Y2K!” Would she go pop, or not?

She altogether didn’t, but that didn’t matter during her Palladium set. “Rap bitch on a pop chart,” she sneered on “Phat Butt” near the beginning of her show. That was the motto for the evening, in which Spice was in full command of her craft and crowd, an aspiring pop star with the raw tools to achieve it. During the 50-minute performance, she exuded pop savvy, from the choreography of “Barbie World” to the freneticism of “Deli.” The banter was almost altogether kept to a minimum — a smile peeked out here and there — but the focus was on doing the most, and with intent.

But Spice held the spotlight, as those magnetic early viral moments promised. It’s difficult for an artist to define their identity in lockstep with their sudden rise to fame, but Spice seems to have handled it with a knowingness, as if it’s all part of a master plan. At the Palladium, Spice was a pop star in practice, able to meet the task at hand but with a clear ambition to supersize it.

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Biden-Harris Administration, NOAA issue National Heat Strategy, provide $200K for extreme heat preparedness

In an aerial view, a Caltrans changeable message sign on Highway 101 displays a warning about extreme heat on July 2, 2024 in Corte Madera, California. Much of California is experiencing an extended heat wave the will bring extreme temperatures to much of the state for the next week. (Image credit: Getty images)

Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced $200,000 in funding to support extreme heat preparedness and response planning as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act . This funding is supporting communities at a critical time — 2023 was the hottest year on record globally, and July 22, 2024, was Earth’s hottest day on record.

These funds will award prize money to up to 10 communities for developing manuals used to run simulated emergency drills called heat tabletop exercises . The situation manuals will outline plans to bring together community-based organizations, tribal, local, state governments and other collaborators to simulate and evaluate emergency heat response efforts with a goal of planning for long-term resilience.

“Since 2015, NOAA has provided helpful heat planning resources and worked with communities on local heat resilience efforts,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “This prize challenge is the next step in making our support more accessible to a greater number of communities.” 

The application window is now open and runs through November 15, 2024, for the following prize challenge: 

• Heat Tabletop Exercise Design Challenge : The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and NOAA’s Regional Collaboration Network (RCN) invite local governments, in close collaboration with community leaders and organizations, to develop heat tabletop exercise situation manuals describing realistic extreme heat scenarios they can use to test and evaluate their heat response plans. Up to 10 winning communities with the best situation manuals will receive prizes of at least $20,000. 

NIHHIS recently released two new free, online heat planning guides that can help communities applying for this prize challenge:

• The Introduction to Heat Tabletop Planning and Coordination guide describes the steps and timeline necessary for communities to develop and run a heat tabletop exercise. 
• The Maturity Model for Heat Governance guide is a framework that leaders and decision-makers can use to assess their capacity to successfully manage heat risk and track their progress toward building heat resilience. 

New National Heat Strategy to support proactive heat response planning

Today, the interagency NIHHIS also released a new National Heat Strategy for 2024-2030 , which will aid federal agencies in developing science-based solutions and improving resources, communications and decision-making related to hazardous heat. 

“Extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death in the United States,” said Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell. “This first-of-its-kind National Heat Strategy will ensure that the federal family is working in lockstep to help communities build a more heat-resilient nation.” 

The strategy facilitates proactive coordination around heat planning, response and resilience. The federal departments and agencies involved in developing this strategy recognize the impact of heat on the health and well-being of humans, animals and ecosystems, as well as the related economic and societal consequences. 

“The National Heat Strategy provides a blueprint for a robust and equitable approach to protecting everyone in the country from the growing threat of heat-related illness and death,” said U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine. “Grounded in principles of equity and environmental justice, the strategy recognizes the connections between health and well-being and the need to address the threat of heat not just to our health, but to the economic and social infrastructure our health depends on.” 

Federal agencies are already taking steps that advance the goals established in the strategy. This includes establishing two new Centers of Excellence to work with local communities on collaborative heat monitoring and decision-making, releasing the experimental HeatRisk tool and the Heat and Health Index , coordinating urban heat island campaigns , holding regional heat workshops and heat tabletop exercises , developing heat governance resources and conducting heat safety awareness social media campaigns. 

The strategy builds on ongoing efforts by the 29 NIHHIS federal departments and agencies, led by NOAA, FEMA, HHS and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Biden-Harris Administration. The goal is to tackle extreme heat and build climate resilience across the United States. Information about these activities and additional resources to help prepare for extreme heat can be found at heat.gov.

NIHHIS projects in the works

In 2023, NIHHIS and the NOAA Regional Collaboration Network supported heat tabletop exercises in Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Charleston, South Carolina, through NOAA’s Building Equitable Resilience to Extreme Heat pilot project . These communities have used the results of their tabletop exercises to identify assets and needs in their action plans so they can prioritize actionable steps to reduce heat risk. 

This year, NIHHIS will support additional tabletop exercises in Oklahoma City and Philadelphia. Awardees of the Heat Tabletop Exercise Design Challenge will join this growing group of communities in using tabletop exercises to better understand, prepare for and respond to extreme heat events in their communities. 

Visit NOAA’s Inflation Reduction Act website to learn about current and future funding opportunities.

Climate, weather, and water affect all life on our ocean planet.  NOAA’s mission  is to understand and predict our changing environment, from the deep sea to outer space, and to manage and conserve America’s coastal and marine resources. 

Media contact

Theo Stein, theo.stein@noaa.gov , (303) 819-7409

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Election Updates: Harris and Walz Tour Pennsylvania Ahead of Convention

Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, embarked on a bus tour of the critical battleground state a day before Democrats open their national convention in Chicago.

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On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, rallied volunteers during a bus tour in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state that could decide November’s election. Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz, along with their spouses, greeted supporters in Pittsburgh before a stop in Rochester, where Ms. Harris thanked volunteers for their efforts.

Both campaigns are focusing intently on Pennsylvania. Former President Donald J. Trump — who won the state by a slim margin in 2016 but lost it to President Biden in 2020 — visited Wilkes-Barre on Saturday , attacking Democratic policies as “fascist” and calling illegal immigrants “savage monsters.” Mr. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, will also be in Pennsylvania on Monday, making separate campaign stops in York and Philadelphia.

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Democratic convention: Delegates and party leaders will begin to fete Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz as the Democratic Party’s nominees on Monday, when the convention’s first day will include a speech by Mr. Biden . The party on Sunday announced the themes for each of the convention’s four nights .

Republican messaging: Mr. Vance suggested in an interview on Fox News that he didn’t believe the recent polls showing Ms. Harris ahead or newly competitive in swing states, and said putting her in charge of inflation policy would be like “giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy.” Two prominent Republicans, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, expressed frustration with the campaign’s focus on personal attacks on Ms. Harris. “Every day we’re not talking about her policy choices as vice president and what she would do as president is a good day for her and a bad day for us,” Mr. Graham told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Walz goes home: Mr. Walz represented the Democratic ticket at a rally in his native Nebraska on Saturday, playing up his roots as the Harris campaign courts rural, working-class and moderate voters. Although solidly Republican, Nebraska is one of two states (along with Maine) that award an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. The state’s Second District, which encompasses Omaha and is known as Nebraska’s blue dot, is a swing region that voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and Mr. Biden in 2020.

More helicopter fallout: Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, threatened to sue Mr. Trump if the former president continued to say falsely that they once nearly died together in a helicopter ride. Mr. Trump has not spoken about the helicopter incident since Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles city councilman who, like Mr. Brown, is Black, said he took a rocky helicopter ride with Mr. Trump in 1990 and speculated that the former president might have confused the two men. Mr. Brown said he wanted to make sure that Mr. Trump stayed quiet.

Swing states back in play: Four diverse swing states that seemed to be drifting toward Mr. Trump when Mr. Biden was in the race are now in play for Democrats, according to polling from The New York Times and Siena College . In Arizona, Ms. Harris has established a four-percentage-point lead on Mr. Trump, the surveys found, while she leads by two points in North Carolina; Mr. Trump has a one-point lead in Nevada and a four-point lead in Georgia.

Nicholas Nehamas

Reporting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

Democrats unveil their convention platform, with familiar themes.

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Democrats released their party platform on Sunday, unveiling a document that offers plenty of political comfort food for a newly energized party ahead of its convention in Chicago.

As a sign of what Democrats believe will mobilize their forces — and the head-spinning transformation that has remade their presidential ticket — the document mentions former President Donald J. Trump’s name 150 times.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the new nominee who has brought her party back together after a bruising internal fight over President Biden’s candidacy, is mentioned by name just 32 times.

The platform seems intended to avoid stirring any controversy that could derail that fresh feeling of unity.

At the top of the list of issues that could threaten the party’s cohesiveness is the war in Gaza. Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters are descending on Chicago, and roughly 30 delegates representing the Democratic primary voters who opposed Mr. Biden, mostly in protest over Gaza, will attend the convention, which begins on Monday.

The platform repeats a traditional Democratic message supporting Israel, condemning the brutal Oct. 7 assault by Hamas and backing “an immediate and lasting cease-fire deal” that will return hostages still being held by the terrorist group and address “the displacement and death of so many innocent people in Gaza.”

Democrats will vote to approve the platform on Monday evening. It was passed by the party’s platform committee, a group of party insiders, with wider input from “community leaders from coalitions across the Democratic Party,” according to the Democratic National Committee.

On other issues, the platform represents a predictable collection of Democratic policy priorities, including calls to make investments in infrastructure and manufacturing; to cut taxes on working families while making big corporations and the wealthy “finally pay their fair share”; and to fight climate change.

Another section addresses efforts to lower costs on everyday items like food, housing and health care, in similar terms to the economic agenda that Ms. Harris rolled out last week . And there are also calls to protect abortion rights, restore democratic norms and combat gun violence.

On the other side, Mr. Trump took a direct hand this summer in reshaping — and shrinking the size — of the Republican platform, which focuses more on his own priorities than on a traditional laundry list of policies.

The Democratic platform says that Mr. Trump’s vision for the country is one of “revenge and retribution,” a reflection of the party’s attempt to make the 2024 election a referendum on the former president.

And demonstrating the dramatically changed circumstances of the race since Ms. Harris took over the ticket, the party’s former presumptive nominee, Mr. Biden, is mentioned by name 287 times.

The platform also contains 19 references to his “second term.”

Lisa Lerer , Reid J. Epstein , Shane Goldmacher and Chris Cameron contributed reporting.

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Harris and Walz venture into less-friendly terrain to court Pennsylvania voters.

Before their convention this week that will signal the final sprint to November, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, headed out on a brief bus tour on Sunday to fire up voters in perhaps the most crucial battleground state in the 2024 election.

As they toured western Pennsylvania, their play for support beyond the state’s more liberal cities was apparent at the team’s first stop, a field office in Rochester, Pa., in the largely conservative Beaver County: Ms. Harris picked up a volunteer’s cellphone to speak with a resident from Erie, a northwestern city in one of the state’s swingiest counties, which Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 but Joseph R. Biden Jr. won four years later.

“I love Erie,” Ms. Harris said. “At some point we’ll get to Erie.”

Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz were joined on the outing by their spouses, Doug Emhoff and Gwen Walz, traveling in two new campaign buses from the Pittsburgh airport, where they arrived on Air Force Two to greet a small group of supporters.

The Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas are the two main drivers of Democratic support in Pennsylvania, a state whose 19 electoral votes could decide the presidency. Recent polling shows a neck-and-neck race there between Ms. Harris and former President Donald J. Trump, with some surveys showing Ms. Harris gaining a narrow edge recently.

Mr. Trump is also increasing his presence in Pennsylvania: On Saturday he held a rally in Wilkes-Barre and another is set in York on Monday, while Senator JD Vance of Ohio, his running mate, campaigns in Philadelphia.

Both candidates have used their trips in the state to make attacks.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters outside the Rochester campaign office on Sunday, Ms. Harris appeared to suggest that Mr. Trump was a “coward” — just a day after he had called her a “radical” and a “lunatic” in Wilkes-Barre.

“Over the last several years there’s been this kind of perversion that has taken place, I think, which is to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down,” Ms. Harris said — though she did not name Mr. Trump. “Anybody who’s about beating down other people is a coward.”

President Biden often preferred to campaign in Philadelphia, by far the state’s largest metro area. The city is easily reached from Washington and close to his home state of Delaware, nestled in friendly territory surrounded by counties he carried in 2020 .

Outside Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh sits, western Pennsylvania is less hospitable to Democrats, and Ms. Harris’s visit there suggests she may branch out more than Mr. Biden did.

“God bless them, they need to,” Nancy Cannon, a retired teacher who showed up at the Pittsburgh airport, said of the campaign’s planned visits. She described a landscape of Trump supporters, where she knew of Democrats who were afraid to put out their own lawn signs. “Maybe they would feel more supported,” she said, if Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz showed up.

Ms. Cannon said Ms. Harris’s swift ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket had given a jolt of energy to her family and friends. “I love Joe. But I am happier to see a younger person. I feel like this is an Obama moment.”

The trip points to the Democratic hopes that Mr. Walz can help the party reach working-class voters outside the big cities. The suburbs and small towns surrounding Pittsburgh resemble areas in Minnesota where Mr. Walz has performed well in his previous races.

One campaign stop on Sunday was also a clear effort to tap into Mr. Walz’s personal history: a football practice at Aliquippa High School in a former steel town with many Black residents that has struggled economically for decades. Mr. Walz’s own experience as a high school football coach has been a touchstone of the campaign so far, with Ms. Harris occasionally referring to him as “Coach Walz.”

Mr. Walz told the team he “remembered every single call” from his team’s state football championship. He and Ms. Harris were joined at the event by Jerome Bettis, the Hall of Fame running back who won a Super Bowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mr. Bettis, nicknamed The Bus, was a surprise, if appropriately named, addition to the Harris-Walz motor coach tour, which also made short stops at a nearby firehouse, a Sheetz gas station and Primanti Bros., a beloved chain of sandwich shops founded in Pittsburgh.

“The way you win elections in Pennsylvania is literally going everywhere,” said Lt. Gov. Austin Davis of Pennsylvania, a Democrat who is from the Pittsburgh area. “Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, but all the small communities in between.”

Mr. Davis also said that Ms. Harris would find a welcome audience in the working-class region for the economic agenda she rolled out last week that focused on lowering the costs of everyday life and cutting taxes for working families.

Conor Lamb, a Democrat who once represented a congressional district outside Pittsburgh, said Mr. Biden had become well known to many Pennsylvania voters, thanks to his decades of service as a senator in neighboring Delaware, an advantage Ms. Harris does not possess.

Mr. Lamb said that the bus tour reflected the fact that Democrats had learned their lesson from Mrs. Clinton losing the state after focusing most of her campaign on the major cities.

“You can’t just do Philly and Pittsburgh and rely on social media,” Mr. Lamb said.

And he agreed that Ms. Harris’s economic plans would be popular in places like Rochester, a small town once known for its glassmaking factories that sits in his old district.

“Some of the things that she laid out in that speech — the child tax credit, extending health care subsidies — all that kind of stuff is just universal,” Mr. Lamb said. “That should do as well in Rochester as it does in the heart of the city of Pittsburgh. And I’ve felt in the past that Democrats were a little bit afraid to go on the offense in those areas.”

Vice President Kamala suggested that former President Donald J. Trump was a “coward” during a stop on her campaign bus tour through western Pennsylvania on Sunday. Without naming Trump, Harris said that some people believe “the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down,” a point of view she labeled a “perversion.” And she countered that “the real and true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up. Anybody who’s about beating down other people is a coward.”

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Social media influencers will have guest spots, and choice seats, at the Democrats’ convention.

A speaking slot at a national party’s nominating convention is among the most coveted prizes in American politics, offering veteran officeholders and up-and-comers alike the chance to speak to — and be seen by — an entire nation.

At the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago, five of those rare slots will go to a group that most likely would be unfamiliar to previous convention planners: social media influencers.

Convention officials said each night would include at least one influencer. The speakers are Deja Foxx, Nabela Noor, Carlos Eduardo Espina, Olivia Julianna and John Russell, a group of millennial and Gen Z influencers who, collectively, have well over 24 million social media followers.

They will speak on the same podium as President Biden; the Democratic nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota; and party luminaries, including two former presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, among others.

“This feels very affirming,” said Ms. Foxx, 24, a reproductive rights activist from Arizona who worked on Ms. Harris’s first presidential campaign. She’ll speak about abortion rights on Monday night in a program that will also feature Mr. Biden. “I don’t take it lightly that I’m speaking on the same night as the president of the United States,” she said.

These speakers represent a significant shift for the convention and underscore the Democratic Party’s efforts to speak to voters whose news diet exists outside traditional media. Last month, a conservative influencer, the actress and model Amber Rose, spoke on the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

The speaker roster at conventions tends to mix elected officials with entertainment figures and regular citizens who can speak to particular policy issues. The Republicans’ convention last month featured a number of people the party called “Everyday Americans,” who discussed topics including immigration, inflation and crime.

A study by the Pew Research Center last year found that almost half of Americans get some of their news from social media and that a third of adults under 30 get their news from TikTok.

To help chase those potential voters, the D.N.C. has, for the first time, granted credentials to more than 200 influencers, offering them the kind of wide-ranging access to events and people traditionally provided only to the press. It’s also giving them a special “creator platform” within the convention venue in Chicago, the United Center: a special V.I.P. box directly above the arena floor.

Providing influencers time onstage gives them the chance to repost clips of their speeches to their own social media accounts as well as the feeds of other influencers watching the show, all in pursuit of the modern media era’s most valuable prize of all: virality.

“ Content creators are a vehicle to reach new audiences, not just through their content, but through their unique ability to speak authentically to their own communities,” said Emily Soong, a spokeswoman for the convention.

Ms. Foxx said she was first approached by organizers a few weeks ago and has since worked with a campaign speechwriter to hone her presentation. “I was pretty nervous but now I’m feeling really ready,” she said. “I’ve been running through my speech every day.”

The lineup on Tuesday night will include Ms. Noor, a Muslim American known for her makeup tutorials, cooking videos and frank talk about her challenging journey to motherhood. With more than 11 million followers spread across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, she will speak on a night whose theme, “A Bold Vision for America’s Future,” is meant to draw contrasts between the Harris-Walz ticket and their Republican rivals, Donald J. Trump and Senator JD Vance of Ohio.

For Wednesday’s program, Mr. Espina, the son of Latin American immigrants who has amassed a huge following on TikTok with his videos about news, politics, food and soccer, will talk about immigration. Although he normally posts in Spanish, he is expected to deliver his remarks in English.

That night will also include Ms. Julianna, who has called herself “a plus-size queer Latina from rural Southeast Texas” and gained a following from her involvement in Gen-Z for Change , a youth-oriented political activism group. Her top issues include climate change and, like Ms. Foxx, abortion access.

“Peer to peer organizing is one of the most powerful tools we have in our democracy,” said Ms. Julianna, whose speech topic will be “freedom.” For years I’ve spoken directly to my fellow young Americans through my social media pages, knocking doors for Democratic candidates, and rallying for fundamental freedoms across the country.”

During the convention’s final night, which organizers are describing, thematically, as a narrative about how the 2024 election is a fight “for our future,” Mr. Russell, a self-described “dirtbag journalist” will have a chance to speak.

Based in West Virginia, he worked on rural policy and engagement for Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign in 2020, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, and has built a following on his progressive coverage of the industrial Midwest and his strong support of labor unions. In his social media bios, he describes himself as “biased for the working class.”

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Spotted on the streets of downtown Chicago as Democrats gather for their convention: huge circular decals on the sidewalk, of the sort that marked six-foot distances early in the pandemic, with a QR code and big lettering that reads “Are You a Disappointed Dem?” The fine print says they’re paid for by American Values 2024, a super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign.

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Jazmine Ulloa reported from Washington, and Chris Cameron reported from Milwaukee and Northern Kentucky.

Vance defends his unsubstantiated claims about immigration and crime.

Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, on Friday defended his past unsubstantiated claims about immigration in which he suggested that early waves of Italian, Irish and German immigration led to higher crime and interethnic conflict, by citing the movie “Gangs of New York.”

At a campaign event before the Milwaukee Police Association, Mr. Vance was asked about the comments — which have resurfaced in recent days — from a 2021 interview with the far-right podcaster Jack Murphy, and whether he would have prescribed the kind of mass deportations then that he and former President Donald J. Trump have made central to their platform now.

Mr. Vance mostly skirted the question on removals, but he stood by his comments on crime and ethnic and interethnic conflict, pointing to the Martin Scorsese film that depicts gang violence between Irish migrants and nativist Protestant Americans.

“Well, first of all, I also said there were a lot of benefits to that wave of immigration, but has anybody ever seen the movie ‘Gangs of New York’? That’s what I’m talking about,” he said. “We know that when you have these massive ethnic enclaves forming in our country, it can sometimes lead to higher crime rates.”

Later, he added: “What happens when you have massive amounts of illegal immigration? It actually starts to create ethnic conflict. It creates higher crime rates.”

Asked to provide evidence for the claims, a campaign spokeswoman pointed to a report from an anti-immigration think tank that argues crimes committed by immigrants are underestimated because many crimes go unreported, and to a rise in violence in Minnesota that the authorities have attributed to a rivalry between East African gangs in St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Since the nation’s founding, nativist politicians and anti-immigrant activists have sought to conflate immigration with crime. But historians and criminologists say there are no empirical studies to support claims like those made by Mr. Vance. The studies that do exist have repeatedly concluded that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the United States. A 2023 study by researchers at Stanford, Princeton and other major institutions found that, since 1880, immigrants have not been more likely to be imprisoned than people born in the United States. And as immigration into the United States has increased, crime has decreased in recent years.

Tyler Anbinder, a historian who wrote the book “City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York,” and served as a historical adviser for the movie “Gangs of New York,” said immigrants in New York during the film’s time period and since have not committed crime disproportionate to their population numbers and have almost always been arrested at lower rates than natives.

“Immigrants are so happy to be in America,” Mr. Anbinder said, adding that one of the main reasons immigrants commit less crimes than natives is “because they don’t want to be deported.”

Alex R. Piquero, a criminology professor at University of Miami and a former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, said Mr. Vance was also wrong to raise concerns about “ethnic enclaves.” Immigrants — regardless of the time period or ethnic background — tend to cluster in neighborhoods where they have relatives, know others who can speak their native language and can feel secure in their new environment.

“What’s very peculiar about these statements is that those ethnic enclaves do not breed crime,” he said of Mr. Vance’s stance, adding that “they actually serve as a protective buffer from crime.”

In his remarks, Mr. Vance also argued for a return to early 20th-century thinking when he said the United States was “welcoming country to immigrants” but Americans realized that the nation “could only take so many people,” arguing that deportations would benefit the country.

“I think that will promote assimilation and a common American culture that’s in the best interest of everybody,” he said.

But in arguing that more immigrants lead to higher crime and ethnic conflict, historians said, Mr. Vance was echoing arguments that American nativists have used since at least the 19th century to classify and marginalize some demographic groups as racially inferior, genetically predisposed to crime and unable to be assimilated.

Those negative stereotypes and misconceptions — once centered on certain Europeans but more recently focused on Mexicans and Latino migrants — have fueled prejudice and led to more extreme treatment of immigrants by government officials, police, the courts and the press.

In “Gangs of New York,” the most ruthless killer is the nativist who disdains immigrants, Mr. Anbinder said. But Mr. Vance appears to associate the Irish immigrants in the movie with the violence, he added.

“Throughout American history, those who fear or hate immigrants have always wanted to speak of them and scapegoat them as bringing crime to America,” Mr. Anbinder said. “What Vance is doing is not much different now.”

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Harris, Walz and their spouses gave brief remarks to campaign workers and joined phone banking efforts during a stop in Rochester, in Beaver County, on their way through western Pennsylvania. “Hopefully I’ll see you in Erie at some point,” Harris told one person on the phone. Gwen Walz told volunteers that she loved the state — “I think I might want to spend a lot of time here,” she quipped.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota walked a line of supporters for several minutes here in Pittsburgh, shaking hands and taking selfies, then boarded one of the new campaign buses waiting for them without making remarks. This will be quite an unmistakable caravan through western Pennsylvania.

Air Force Two has pulled up to the hangar here in Pittsburgh, emerging from the low fog and the pouring rain that set in moments after the plane landed. The rain was brief, however, and the sun has returned.

A small crowd of supporters has gathered here at the Pittsburgh airport, where Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz will land, speak, and set off in two new campaign buses for an afternoon of small campaign stops around western Pennsylvania. Outside Pittsburgh and the rest of Allegheny County, this is Republican territory. But the trip suggests that Democrats feel they can pick up support here, particularly with Walz on the ticket.

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A campaign adviser for Cornel West, the long-shot independent presidential candidate, said that West’s team would be going to court to fight his disqualification from the ballot in Michigan, where state election officials said his nominating paperwork had several omissions. The adviser, Edwin DeJesus, said the oversights, flagged by a former Michigan Democratic Party chairman, were “trivial technicalities” raised in “a desperate move by the D.N.C. and their affiliates.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago told ABC News that city officials were ready for the convention and that he expected pro-Palestinian protests to remain peaceful. “This is a party that can handle protest and protecting the First Amendment right, which is fundamental to our democracy, while also strengthening our democracy and speaking to the future of our country,” he said.

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Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Donald Trump’s campaign should focus far more on Kamala Harris’s policy choices — like backtracking on her opposition to fracking — rather than personal attacks about her race, gender and intelligence.

“I don’t look at Vice President Harris as a lunatic,” Graham said. “A nightmare for Harris is to defend her policy choices. Every day we’re not talking about her policy choices as vice president and what she would do as president is a good day for her and a bad day for us.”

Graham also walked back a previous criticism of the G.O.P. policy platform, which excluded a national abortion ban for the first time in 40 years. Instead of standing behind his assertion that Republicans would be “net losers” if they weakened their support for such a ban, Graham tried to downplay the role that abortion and reproductive rights — widely seen as winning issues for Democrats — would play in the election.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a Democrat, said on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that she thought people were “reading too much into” Kamala Harris’s proposal to ban price gouging . “I think it speaks to Kamala Harris’s values, that she wants consumers to keep more money in their pockets,” she said, adding: “We know we have to have business growth in this country, small-business growth, big-business growth, for good-paying jobs. But we also know that you can’t gouge and hurt the American consumer just to pad your bottom line, and I think there’s a balance there.”

Whitmer said she would not “second-guess” Kamala Harris’s curt response to pro-Palestinian protesters at a recent rally in Detroit. Harris told the demonstrators: “If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.” Convention organizers are preparing for mass demonstrations this week in Chicago.

“I can tell you this: Kamala Harris cares about every person,” Whitmer said. “You can both want peace in the region and a cessation of violence, and the return of hostages. We are a country that continually falls into these false choices. You can do both, and I think that’s why we need a leader like her.”

JD Vance, who has been leaning into the claim that Harris has controlled the Biden administration from the start, told Shannon Bream on Fox News: “The most absurd thing that Kamala says at her rallies is, ‘On Day 1, I’m going to tackle the food and housing affordability crisis in this country.’ Shannon, Day 1 for Kamala Harris was three and a half years ago.”

Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, said on ABC’s “This Week” that she was “comfortable” with adding $1.7 trillion to the federal deficit through Vice President Harris’s new economic proposal, because Congress could close the budget gap by letting Donald Trump’s 2017 tax breaks expire. “What we need to do is get rid of Trump tax cuts for the wealthy,” Duckworth said. “We need to go after the wealthiest of Americans who don’t pay their fair share.” Harris has promised to provide up to $25,000 for first-time home buyers, cancel student debt, extend the child tax credit and cut taxes on service workers’ tips.

Michelle Obama, the former first lady, will deliver a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, according to a statement from its organizers. The statement did not specify on what night she would speak. Former President Barack Obama is also expected to give remarks.

Fox News asked Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, a co-chair of the Harris campaign, whether Kamala Harris’s proposal to ban price gouging was “communist in nature.” He responded: “Presidents of both parties have tried to use the power of the F.T.C. to rein in high prices at the pump, high prices at grocery stores. I think picking this one proposal of the many she’s put out misses the broader point, which is that Vice President Harris is continuing the work of President Biden in reducing costs faced by working Americans.”

Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, suggested on Fox News that he didn’t believe the recent polls showing Kamala Harris ahead or newly competitive in swing states because polls overestimated support for Democrats in 2016 and 2020. (He didn’t mention the 2022 midterms, when the opposite was true .)

Vance said on Fox News: “Giving Kamala Harris control over inflation policy, it’s like giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy. The American people are much smarter than that. They don’t buy the idea that Kamala Harris represents a fresh start. She is more of the same.”

Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, a Republican who has criticized Trump but is now supporting him , expressed frustration that Trump was attacking Harris’s intelligence instead of her economic proposals. “Almost any other Republican candidate would be winning this race by 10 points,” he said on CNN. “If you stick to the issues, if you stick to what matters, this should be an easy race for Donald Trump. It really should.”

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said on CNN's “State of the Union” that he believed Vice President Kamala Harris had “energized the party in a way that I haven’t seen certainly since ’08.” He added: “I’ve been to every convention since I was able to vote, and I can say I’ve not felt this kind of energy and electricity at any convention other than the one for Barack Obama.”

Pritzker said he wasn’t worried about a repeat of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, where ideological divisions split the party and the police attacked protesters. He said the party had “coalesced” around its candidate in a way it hadn’t in 1968, and he said of pro-Palestinian protesters: “If there are troublemakers, they’re going to get arrested and they’re going to get convicted. But the fact is that the vast majority of people who are protesting, and we’ve seen this before, are peaceful protesters. They want to have their voices heard. They’re going to be heard, no doubt about it, and we’re going to protect them.”

Here are the themes for the Democratic convention.

Democrats will raise the curtain on their national convention on Monday in Chicago, punctuating weeks of extraordinary volatility in the presidential race that included a reset at the top of the party’s ticket.

Vice President Kamala Harris clinched the party’s nomination this month in a virtual roll call held after President Biden had withdrawn from the race. She then selected Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate.

On Sunday, the party revealed the themes for each of the four nights of the convention:

Monday : “For the People” — President Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, are scheduled to speak on the opening night of the convention, one that party officials said would focus on the record of the Biden-Harris administration and the president’s decades of public service. Organizers said the program would lean into a narrative that Mr. Biden has put the American people’s interest ahead of his own. On July 21, he became the first sitting president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 not to seek a second term.

Tuesday: “A Bold Vision for America’s Future” — Democrats will seek to draw a contrast between what they said was the party’s optimism and the drumbeat from Republicans who say that the country’s best days are behind it. They will also try to make former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, take ownership of Project 2025, a right-wing playbook for reshaping the federal government that the Republican ticket has sought to distance itself from.

Wednesday: “A Fight for Our Freedoms” — Mr. Walz will formally accept the Democratic nomination for vice president on the penultimate night of the convention, when the party will argue that Mr. Trump, if elected, would continue to strip away fundamental rights.

Thursday : “For Our Future” — Ms. Harris will accept the party’s nomination, becoming the second woman, and the first woman of color, to lead the Democratic ticket, and Democrats will seek to cast Mr. Trump as a danger to the nation whose second term would be even more extreme than his first.

An earlier version of this article misstated the day that President Biden dropped out of the race. It was July 21, not July 23.

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Urged to focus on the economy, Trump leans into attacks on Harris.

Former President Donald J. Trump in a campaign speech on Saturday bounced among complaints about the economy and immigration, wide-ranging digressions and a number of personal attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, including jabs at her appearance and her laugh.

At a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mr. Trump swung from talking points on inflation and criticisms of Democratic policy as “fascist” and “Marxist” to calling illegal immigrants “savage monsters” and saying that rising sea levels would create more beachfront property.

Mr. Trump blamed Ms. Harris for high prices, in what was effectively an inversion of her remarks at her rally in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday, where she said Mr. Trump’s proposed import tariffs would amount to a “Trump tax” on groceries. The former president argued that she had placed a “Kamala Harris inflation tax” on average Americans over the course of her term as vice president and that, if elected, he would lower prices on consumer goods, just as she has said she would do.

“Yesterday, she got up, she started ranting and raving,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Harris’s explanation of her economic agenda in North Carolina. He mocked her remarks that, he said, suggested he would tax “every single thing that was ever invented.”

Mr. Trump’s advisers have urged him to emphasize his economic policy plans, which, according to polling, many voters trust more than Ms. Harris’s , and some Republicans have hoped he would leave behind his characteristic personal attacks, including his frequent insults of Ms. Harris’s intelligence and appearance.

But at two events earlier this week — a speech in Asheville, N.C., and a news conference in Bedminster, N.J. — both billed as opportunities to discuss the economy, Mr. Trump veered into personal attacks against Ms. Harris, which he said he was “entitled” to do .

Mr. Trump opened his rally in Pennsylvania, his final one before the Democratic National Convention begins in Chicago on Monday, by addressing inflation and the economy. But he quickly said, “You don’t mind if I go off teleprompter for a second, do you?” adding of Ms. Harris, “Joe Biden hates her.”

He went on to attack Ms. Harris for having a “crazy” laugh and said that he was “much better looking than her,” a line that drew cheers from the thousands of rallygoers gathered in the Mohegan Sun Arena.

In a statement, a Harris campaign spokesman, Joseph Costello, said that Mr. Trump was trying to distract from his “dangerous” agenda by resorting “to lies, name-calling and confused rants.”

Mr. Trump also said that Democrats would be hosting a “rigged convention” next week because of Ms. Harris’s entry into the race after a primary season in which millions of voters cast their votes for President Biden. Mr. Biden dropped out of the race in July and endorsed the vice president, who moved quickly to unite delegates behind her.

Mr. Trump repeated his campaign promise to increase oil and gas production, and then attacked Ms. Harris for calling for a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, during her 2020 presidential campaign.

Ms. Harris’s campaign has said that she no longer supports such a ban. Pennsylvania, a large producer of natural gas, could see an economic benefit from increased fracking even as the process risks air and water pollution. And Mr. Trump’s calls to “drill, baby, drill” were particularly salient in Wilkes-Barre, in a region of northeast Pennsylvania that was historically defined by anthracite coal mining.

Mr. Trump also continued his effort to try to peel off American Jews, a substantial majority of whom are liberal, from the Democratic Party. He claimed that Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, was not chosen as Ms. Harris’s running mate because of his religion.

“They turned him down because he’s Jewish,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “I don’t think he’s a good person.”

As Ms. Harris was choosing her running mate, Mr. Shapiro faced a pressure campaign from activists who considered him too sympathetic to Israel. Mr. Shapiro has rejected the idea that his religious identity played into Ms. Harris’s decision.

Still, Mr. Trump, who during his presidency was accused of emboldening white supremacists, invoked the Holocaust as he warned of broad antisemitism in America and insisted, as he has before, that Jews who vote for Democrats “should have their head examined.”

Both Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris are particularly focused on Pennsylvania, a swing state with the potential to decide the election. Mr. Trump won the state by a slim margin in 2016, but he lost it to Mr. Biden in 2020.

Both campaigns are holding events in the state in the coming days. On Sunday, Ms. Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, will embark on a bus tour of western Pennsylvania. On Monday, Mr. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, will make separate campaign stops in York, Pa., and Philadelphia.

Heather Knight and Shawn Hubler

Reporting from San Francisco and Sacramento

Willie Brown to Donald Trump: Mention my name again and get sued.

Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, had a message for former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday afternoon: Keep my name out of your mouth or get sued.

He stood with his longtime lawyer, Joe Cotchett, on a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco, outside John’s Grill, the Saturday spot on Mr. Brown’s lunchtime rotation, and told reporters that he would sue Mr. Trump for slander and defamation if he repeated his concocted helicopter story one more time.

“He’s never brought a lawsuit in his life,” Mr. Cotchett said of Mr. Brown. “But you know who’s pushing him to it? A guy by the name of Trump.”

Mr. Trump and Mr. Brown have been verbally sparring since Mr. Trump falsely claimed at a news conference on Aug. 8 at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida that he had once nearly died in a helicopter ride with Mr. Brown .

Mr. Trump also said that Mr. Brown, who dated Vice President Kamala Harris in 1994 and 1995, said “terrible things” about Ms. Harris just before they almost plummeted to their deaths.

“He was not a fan of hers very much, at that point,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Brown promptly called the tale a lie — saying he had never ridden in a helicopter with Mr. Trump and had never told him disparaging things about Ms. Harris. In fact, he repeatedly told reporters that he respected her and desperately hoped that she would beat the man with whom he had never ridden in a helicopter.

Mr. Trump repeated his claims on his social media site, Truth Social, and threatened to sue The New York Times for reporting that the helicopter story was made up. “Now Willie Brown doesn’t remember?” Trump wrote.

That’s when Nate Holden, a former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, said he had taken a rocky helicopter ride with Mr. Trump in 1990 and speculated that the former president might have confused him with Mr. Brown. Both California politicians are Black.

Mr. Trump has not spoken about the helicopter incident since Mr. Holden came forward. But Mr. Brown and Mr. Cotchett said they wanted to make sure that he stayed quiet.

Asked whether he wanted an apology from Mr. Trump, Mr. Brown said he would rather not hear from him at all.

“No, I don’t want his apology,” Mr. Brown said. “I don’t want him to mention my name.”

When asked to comment, a spokesman for Mr. Trump pointed to the former president’s threat to sue The Times but did not address what Mr. Brown said.

Mr. Holden on Saturday applauded Mr. Brown’s legal threat.

“If he’s propagating a lie, he should be held accountable,” Mr. Holden said of Mr. Trump in a telephone interview on Saturday from his home in Los Angeles. “I’m 95 years old, and Willie is 90, and he made the assumption we wouldn’t be here anymore, and nobody would challenge it. Well, we’re alive and well.”

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

Jazmine Ulloa

Reporting from La Vista, Neb.

Tim Walz plays up his Nebraska roots at a rally near Omaha.

Cinnamon rolls and chili. The Yale of the Midwest. A runza.

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, back home in Nebraska on Saturday, delivered his usual appeals to joy and freedom, along with some jabs at former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio. But this time, he added a flex of his Nebraska roots and his knowledge of the state’s culture.

Mr. Walz spoke of growing up in the tiny village of Butte, graduating from Chadron State College — “the Yale of the Midwest,” he said to laughs — and serving in the state’s Army National Guard, in which he enlisted at 17. He was introduced by one of his former high school students in the state and had former Butte classmates in the audience.

“We have a slogan here — Nebraska, it is not for everyone,” he told a boisterous audience at a theater in La Vista, Neb., a suburb of Omaha. “Well, it certainly ain’t for Donald Trump, I’ll tell you that much.”

The stop in his home state offered Mr. Walz another chance to reach rural, working-class and moderate voters, as he and Vice President Kamala Harris cast themselves as fighters for the middle class.

Nebraska is one of two states (along with Maine) that award an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. A presidential candidate can lose the state and still earn electoral votes there.

Nebraska is solidly Republican, but its Second District, which encompasses Omaha and is known as Nebraska’s blue dot, is a swing region that voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020. Mr. Biden won it with 56.4 percent of the vote .

In the spring, Nebraska Republicans, under pressure from Mr. Trump; the state’s governor, Jim Pillen; and conservative activists, renewed an effort to move to a “winner-take-all” system in presidential elections. State legislators overwhelmingly voted against the proposal.

“It is not just symbolic,” Pete Festersen, the president of the Omaha City Council, said of Mr. Walz’s stop in the state. “It shows they can compete through the Midwest and certainly for our electoral vote and that can make a difference this election.”

Mr. Vance is expected at a fund-raiser in Omaha this month.

In a statement, Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, criticized Mr. Walz’s platform and record, saying that Mr. Walz and Ms. Harris had “nothing to offer the American people other than their radical, Communist ideas.”

Mr. Walz was born in West Point , a rural town of roughly 3,500 people northwest of Omaha, and spent much of his younger days in Butte and Valentine, Neb. His mother was a community activist and his father a public school administrator, and he became a high school teacher and coach in Nebraska after a year of teaching in China. He met his wife, Gwen, also a teacher, at the Nebraska school, and the two moved to her native Minnesota in 1996.

Onstage, Mr. Walz joked that Mr. Vance would probably call a runza — a bread pocket filled with beef, cabbage or sauerkraut, and a regional specialty — “a Hot Pocket.” He said his parents and the communities he grew up in taught him to “show generosity towards your neighbor,” to “work for the common good” and that chili and cinnamon rolls — a sweet and spicy favorite in Nebraska — is a good combination.

He pledged that a Harris administration would cut taxes — and “not for the billionaires” — lower the cost for rent and prescription drugs and work to give families relief from medical debt. He argued that it was the Harris-Walz campaign that embodied small-town values.

“As we are running on these values, let’s take them to the White House,” he said.

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Taylor Swift meets with girls injured in Southport stabbing attack

LONDON -- Taylor Swift took time at a recent Eras Tour show at Wembley Stadium in London to greet two girls who were injured in a stabbing spree last month at a Swift-themed event for children in the United Kingdom.

One of the girls' moms shared a video on TikTok Monday showing the girls posing with Swift as well as her mom, Andrea, backstage.

In the photos, the girls are wearing t-shirts inspired by Swift's "We Are Never Getting Back Together" music video.

"You drew stars around my scars .... The biggest thankyou to @Taylor Swift and her mum for making the most magical night possible for us all thankyou for bringing Hope & Autumn pure happiness last night & always ," the mom, Sami Foster, captioned the photos.

Swift previously said she was "completely in shock" following the stabbings, which took place on July 29 at a Taylor Swift-themed event at a dance school in Southport, a seaside town about 20 miles north of Liverpool, according to Merseyside police. A flyer for the two-hour event called it a "Taylor Swift Yoga and Dance Workshop."

The event was for children between 6 and 11 years old, according to a post on the organizer's Instagram.

Three young girls died in the stabbing spree and nine people were injured, according to police.

"The loss of life and innocence, and the horrendous trauma inflicted on everyone who was there, the families and first responders," Swift wrote in an Instagram Story following the attacks. "These were just little kids at a dance class. I am at a complete loss for how to even convey my sympathies to these families."

A 17-year-old boy from Banks , a coastal village in Lancashire, just outside Southport, was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder for the attacks, police said. The suspect, whose name was not released, was born in Cardiff, Wales, police said.

The "full circumstances" were still being investigated, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said on July 30, adding that the attack wasn't being investigated as a terrorism-related. Police were not searching for additional suspects, Kennedy said.

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