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Don't sleep on Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders rising, and more takeaways from the Iowa campaign trail
MANCHESTER, Iowa -- As dark as American politics have turned, talking to regular, everyday voters is almost always reassuring.
On a recent four-day swing through Iowa, away from the paid political gladiators and social media zealots, almost all of the three-dozen voters I spoke with about the Democratic presidential race had thoughtful, ...Read more
Klobuchar tells union workers in Miami she might skip next debate in LA. Here's why
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is the latest of seven Democratic presidential candidates to announce they will skip the next Democratic debate if it means crossing a picket line to get there.
"I don't believe we should cross that picket line," she said at a Miami campaign event centered on labor rights and union protections.
The other six ...Read more
All the 2020 Democrats are threatening to skip the next debate in LA. Here's why
WASHINGTON -- All the 2020 candidates who qualified for the next Democratic presidential debate have vowed to bow out of the event because they don't want to cross a picket line to get there.
Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer announced on Friday that they would pull out of the...Read more
Bernie Sanders retracts endorsement of Californian who defends crude sex ratings of women
LOS ANGELES -- Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of California congressional candidate Cenk Uygur on Friday after reports about the online talk show host making crude and degrading comments about women and provocative statements about Jews, Muslims and other groups.
The Democratic presidential candidate had said Thursday that Uygur, ...Read more
Supreme Court to decide whether Trump's tax returns must be released to House
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump's appeal and decide whether the Constitution shields his tax returns and business records from being released to House Democrats and New York prosecutors.
The court's action sets the stage for a politically charged decision next year, just as Trump campaigns for ...Read more
Candidates threaten to boycott debate over labor dispute at Loyola Marymount
WASHINGTON -- At least three of the seven Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for next week's scheduled debate in Los Angeles threatened Friday to skip the event to express support for union workers in a contract dispute at Loyola Marymount University.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was the first to jump into the fray, declaring in a ...Read more
Warren's once high-flying campaign has lost altitude. She has a plan for rising again
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Last winter, Sen. Elizabeth Warren wowed Tom Courtney by cold-calling the former Iowa state senator and talking for a half-hour. After a campaign event in his hometown of Burlington, she sweet-talked his 8-year-old great-granddaughter. Warren impressed him as she built an imposing political organization across Iowa.
Now he's...Read more
Trump appears to back short Senate impeachment trial
WASHINGTON -- On the day the House Judiciary Committee approved impeachment articles against him, President Donald Trump claimed it is strengthening him politically. And with those articles headed to the House floor next week, he appears to be warming to a quick election-year Senate trial.
In brief but animated remarks, the president defiantly ...Read more
Speedy Brexit is on the agenda after big election win by Boris Johnson's Conservatives
LONDON -- Exulting in his party's sweeping election victory, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Friday to swiftly steer the country out of the European Union -- a move his vanquished foes acknowledge is now inevitable.
With the vote-counting virtually complete, Johnson's Conservative Party secured its biggest parliamentary majority in ...Read more
Where the real battle for votes lies
WASHINGTON -- Call it President Donald Trump's Guadalcanal: Like the tiny island U.S. Marines invaded in World War II to break Japan's Asia-Pacific chokehold, little Juneau County, Wis., is where Trump needs to halt the Democrats' advance.
The struggle for 2020 hearts and minds is more than a referendum on the tweeter-in-chief's behavior -- it'...Read more
A Pennsylvania election fiasco with new voting machines happened because they were set up incorrectly
PHILADELPHIA -- When votes were tallied last month using new voting machines in Northampton County, it was quickly obvious that something had gone wrong.
The numbers were so clearly inaccurate that a judge ordered the machines impounded, scanners were brought in to help count ballots, and voters questioned the integrity of the machines and the ...Read more
For Armenian Americans, Congress' recognition of their genocide is just part of the battle
LOS ANGELES -- For three generations, Sophia Armen's family has fought for recognition of the massacre that drove their ancestors to the United States.
A community organizer, Armen grew up attending rallies that advocated for U.S. acknowledgment of the 1915-1923 Armenian genocide carried out by Turkey's Ottoman Empire -- the violence that her ...Read more
Appropriators reach spending agreement, fend off possibility of government shutdown
WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats reached agreement "in principle" Thursday on $1.37 trillion in government funding, staving off the possibility of another shutdown just a week before spending is set to run out, according to Appropriations Committee leaders.
The deal -- reached just hours after a meeting between Speaker Nancy Pelosi of ...Read more
Trump doesn't think emoluments clause is phony, US tells court
WASHINGTON -- Though President Donald Trump called the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clauses "phony" in October, a Justice Department lawyer tried to reassure a federal appeals court that the president doesn't really believe that.
"No one is denying the clauses exist or that they're important," department lawyer Hashim Mooppan said Thursday at...Read more
Congress recognizes Armenian genocide amid tensions with Turkey
WASHINGTON -- The Senate adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, following House approval of a similar measure, despite opposition from President Donald Trump's State Department on concerns that it would further complicate ties with Turkey.
The Republican-led chamber cleared the measure Thursday without objection -- the fourth ...Read more
Trump blocked by second judge on military funds for border wall
SAN FRANCISCO -- A second federal judge barred President Donald Trump from using military construction funds for his Mexico border wall, with a U.S. court ruling Wednesday in Oakland, Calif., echoing one Tuesday in El Paso, Texas.
The Trump administration and Congress remain at odds over how much taxpayer money to spend on border security as a ...Read more
Rep. Ted Lieu undergoes heart procedure to place stent
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., underwent surgery in Washington on Tuesday to have a stent placed after having chest pains.
The Capitol's attending physician recommended Lieu go to the hospital Monday night and he was admitted to George Washington University Hospital for chest pain, according to Lieu's chief of staff, Marc Cevasco.
An ...Read more
House urges Supreme Court to enforce subpoenas for Trump's financial records
WASHINGTON -- The House cited 2020 election security concerns Wednesday when it urged the Supreme Court not to delay the enforcement of congressional subpoenas for financial records of President Donald Trump and his business from Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corporation.
Any harm to Trump for allowing the enforcement of the House ...Read more
Ivanka Trump hopes next step in paid family leave will be a policy for all workers
WASHINGTON -- Ivanka Trump says legislation guaranteeing paid parental leave for federal workers, expected to pass Congress, is a "monumental step" that she hopes will lead to the creation of a paid leave program for all Americans.
The senior White House adviser and daughter of President Donald Trump said the provision attached to a defense ...Read more
Overlooked plans to add Medicare benefits get more attention
WASHINGTON -- A long-shot bid to expand health care benefits for seniors is beginning to gain attention as part of Democrats' signature health care bill, which the House is expected to vote on Thursday.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and committee leaders are aiming to use savings from the drug bill to add dental, hearing and vision benefits to Medicare....Read more
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- Trump appears to back short Senate impeachment trial
- Speedy Brexit is on the agenda after big election win by Boris Johnson's Conservatives
- Supreme Court to decide whether Trump's tax returns must be released to House
- Candidates threaten to boycott debate over labor dispute at Loyola Marymount
- Bernie Sanders retracts endorsement of Californian who defends crude sex ratings of women
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