On the final Friday of her vice-presidency, Kamala Harris partook in one last ritual. She looked disbelievingly as she walked into her ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, across the street from the White House,

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After President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, former Vice President Kamala Harris traveled back to California on a flight operated by an all-female U.S. Air Force crew.

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White House photographer Lawrence Jackson has been covering Kamala Harris for the past four years. His images have helped shape how the world sees her.

When the sun falls from the darkening Washington, DC, sky, the electric crowd at Howard University appears certain it will rise brighter.

Harris, born in Oakland, California, in 1964, is a natural-born U.S. citizen under the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.

After the inauguration of Donald Trump, his 2024 Democratic opponent and the first woman VP headed back to California on a Boeing C-32 flown by an all-female crew—marking a military first.

Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan at the Republican's inauguration. Richard Nixon clasped John F.

“ That Trump used his speech to once again express his own personal grievances in a dark and underhanded way. That he never once mentioned trying to ‘heal the divide’ in this country. That he’s only concerned for himself and his own wealth and self-preservation. ”

At 60 years old, Harris is still young in a political world where the last two presidents have set records as the oldest ever elected.

The former vice president’s first acts as a nonelected official for the first time in decades could be a sign of what comes next.