Bernie Sanders’ path to the nomination was blazed by Trump 4 years ago
It might sound strange, but Bernie Sanders right now has a lot in common with Donald Trump from 2016. Like Trump, after coming in a close second in…
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Trump’s revenge vs. Trump’s rewards
Maybe the most insidious effect of Donald Trump’s presidency has been his increasingly overt influence on American justice. The US system was…
Continue Reading Schiff says Trump is making a ‘direct attack’ on rule of law: ‘It’s all out in the open’
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff offered a forceful rebuke of President Donald Trump’s praise for the Justice Department’s…
Continue Reading Controversial Federal Reserve pick Judy Shelton faces uphill confirmation battle
Another one of President Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve nominees — gold standard enthusiast Judy Shelton — may be facing an uphill…
Continue Reading Fresh tariff hikes hang over European wines and cheeses
President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on French wine, Italian cheese, and single malt Irish whiskey last year — and could escalate them by the…
Continue Reading Elizabeth Warren faces a harsh reality after disappointing finishes
The walls are closing in on Elizabeth Warren. After a devastating fourth place finish in New Hampshire Tuesday night, the Massachusetts…
Continue Reading How Joe Biden lost his front-runner status
Joe Biden’s scramble to regain his footing in New Hampshire after a poor showing in Iowa ended in a half-filled Radisson Hotel ballroom. Biden…
Continue Reading Buttigieg ramps up Super Tuesday organization as campaign faces critical next step
Pete Buttigieg is ramping up his Super Tuesday operation, aides tell CNN, committing to add more than five dozen staffers to the delegate-rich states…
Continue Reading Trump’s impeachment lesson: Democrats are ‘crooked’
If some Republican senators emerged from President Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal optimistic he’d learned important lessons of…
Continue Reading Fact-checking the false claims Trump made in defending Roger Stone
President Donald Trump made a series of false and misleading claims in tweets and public remarks Tuesday and Wednesday related to the…
Continue Reading Bloomberg says 2015 stop and frisk comments were ‘five years ago’ and are ‘not the way that I think’
Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday said his 2015 comments about the controversial stop and frisk policing policy do not reflect the way he thinks or the…
Continue Reading Democratic senator says Trump has ‘get out of jail free card’ from Senate Republicans
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has a “get out of jail free card” from Senate…
Continue Reading Democrats say Barr to testify before Congress in March
Attorney General William Barr has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month, the panel’s chairman Jerry Nadler said…
Continue Reading Yovanovitch swipes at Trump administration as she’s honored for her diplomatic work
Retired Ambassador Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch — a highly respected career diplomat who unwittingly became one of the central figures…
Continue Reading Susan Collins’ defense of her Trump vote just keeps looking worse and worse
Eight days removed from Donald Trump’s acquittal on both articles of impeachment, the President is leaning heavily into a revenge tour against…
Continue Reading Virginia House passes bill to give electoral votes to popular vote winner
Virginia’s House of Delegates passed a bill on Tuesday that would award the state’s electoral votes to the national winner of the…
Continue Reading Ivanka Trump unveils legislation she says will economically ’empower’ women
Ivanka Trump on Wednesday commemorated the first anniversary of her signature policy, the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative,…
Continue Reading Culinary Union says it has been ‘viciously attacked’ over flier criticizing ‘Medicare for All’
The influential Culinary Union said on Wednesday it has been “viciously attacked” after it distributed a flier criticizing Vermont Sen.…
Continue Reading How Tom Steyer’s spending spree could reshape the South Carolina primary
A few months ago, South Carolina political activist Johnnie Cordero took the stage at a historically black college in Rock Hill for a presidential…
Continue Reading Stone juror says she ‘stands with’ the prosecutors
A juror on the Roger Stone trial said she wants to “stand up” for the four prosecutors who withdrew from the case in response to their…
Continue Reading Prosecutors seek denial of Michael Flynn’s request to change his guilty plea
The Justice Department has doubled down on its prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, amid the debacle over the Trump…
Continue Reading Chairman of Iowa Democratic Party resigns after caucus catastrophe
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price resigned on Wednesday, according to a statement from the party. “The fact is that Democrats deserved…
Continue Reading Trump administration puts pressure on completing deportation cases of migrant children
The Trump administration is reinforcing a tight deadline for immigration cases of unaccompanied migrant children in government custody in an effort…
Continue Reading Why a brokered Democratic convention could actually happen in 2020
Every four years, political nerds — like me! — raise the possibility that one of the two major parties will head into the national…
Continue Reading Trump’s historical place defined by his amorality
Scandals, large or small, mark most American presidencies. What makes Donald Trump historically unique is something different. Brazenly, Trump…
Continue Reading CNN announces Democratic presidential town halls in Nevada
CNN will host five town halls next week in Nevada, where the Democratic candidates vying to take on President Donald Trump will answer questions from…
Continue Reading READ: Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price’s letter of resignation
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price resigned on Wednesday, according to a statement from the party. Read his letter of resignation below: Dear…
Continue Reading Graham says Trump shouldn’t be tweeting about ongoing criminal case
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday said President Donald Trump should not tweet about ongoing criminal cases, adding that the Department of…
Continue Reading Wall Street Journal: Education Department investigating Yale and Harvard over foreign funding
The Education Department has opened investigations into Yale and Harvard universities in an ongoing review that has found American universities…
Continue Reading Census Bureau faces ‘significant risks’ ahead of 2020 census, watchdog says
The Census Bureau faces “significant risks” that could “adversely impact cost, quality and schedule” of the 2020 Census…
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