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PHILADELPHIA， the United States， July 27 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senator Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine on Wednesday accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. vice presidency.


Kaine， born on Feb. 26， 1958， is a low-key， Spanish-fluency ally of his running mate Hillary Clinton from the pivotal battleground state of Virginia.


Before being elected to the Senate in 2012， Kaine served as governor of Virginia. He was previously vetted for the vice presidency by Barack Obama in his presidential campaign in 2008 and picked by Obama to lead the Democratic National Committee between January 2009 and April 2011.


Kaine， born in Saint Paul， Minnesota， is a welder's son and grew up in the Kansas City metro area where his father owned a small metalworking shop. He graduated from the University of Missouri before earning a law degree in Harvard.


He mastered Spanish when he took a year off from Harvard Law School to work as a Catholic missionary in Honduras. He later described that experience as cementing his commitment to serve others.


He then worked on fair housing and civil right issues as a lawyer and was elected to the city council in Richmond， Virginia， in 1994. He became the city's mayor in 1998， Virginia's lieutenant governor in 2002 and governor in 2006. He led the state through the shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 people in 2007.


As a senator， Kaine seeks to impose tougher background checks on gun ownership， supports Obama's proposal of "fast track" for free trade agreements， which Clinton's formal rival Bernie Sanders criticized to great effect during the Democratic primary race.


Kaine is married to Anne Holton and has three children. His father-in-law was the governor of Virginia from 1970 to 1974 and is said to be a political mentor to him. Enditem

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WASHINGTON, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Tens of thousands of scientists and their supporters took to the streets in Washington, D.C. and around the world on Saturday to protest against what organizers described as an ""alarming"" anti-science trend.


The main March for Science event was held in Washington, D.C., where thousands, mainly scientists Ken Crawley Saints Jersey , engineers, teachers, students, parents and children, defied pouring rain to gather at the National Mall to hear high-profile speakers who declared science under attack and asked politicians to respect facts.


""We are marching today to remind people everywhere our lawmakers especially of the significance of science for our health and prosperity,"" Bill Nye Ted Ginn Jr Saints Jersey , a popular U.S. science educator and CEO of the Planetary Society who served as honorary co-chair of the event, told the crowd at the rally that lasted about four hours followed by a march to the U.S. Capitol.


""Today, we have a great many lawmakers, not just here but around the world, deliberately ignoring and actively suppressing science,"" Nye asserted. ""Their inclination is misguided and in no one's best interest.""


Out in the crowd Alex Okafor Saints Jersey , worries were expressed straightforwardly in the signs and banners held by the participants that read: ""Science, not silence,"" ""Oceans are rising, and so are we,"" ""Fund Science = Fun Future,"" ""Policy without science is a Biohazard A.J. Klein Saints Jersey ,"" ""Science is not a partisan issue, it is the foundation of our society,"" ""Science is NOT an opinion.""


""I'm here because I want to make sure climate change is a major focus of policy in the near history of our government,"" Emily Wiggans, a middle-aged woman who came with her family, told Xinhua. ""I think we really need to focus on a present danger as a national security threat and do more with climate scientists and put more funding into climate scientists and science.""


Another woman Larry Warford Saints Jersey , Ray Whittle, was outraged about President Donald Trump's proposed budget, which would slash funding for the U.S. medical research funder, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a federal agency her son was working for