Harris Accused of Plagiarizing Portions of 2009 Book

Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarizing sections of her first book, published in 2009, after a renowned "plagiarism hunter" found multiple passages that closely resembled or were taken word-for-word from other sources without attribution. Conservative activist Christopher Rufo independently verified and then published the purported lifted sections in Harris' book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," first surfaced by Austrian Stefan Weber. Harris co-authored the book with ghostwriter Joan O.C. Hamilton. Rufo said the violations "are comparable in severity to the...