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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris play defense: 5 takeaways from Night 2 of the Democratic debate
At first, it looked like the rematch was on. Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden, standing at center stage at the Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, were clearly ready to reprise their prior debate face-off, training their focus on each other as the debate began. But the...
Kentucky Democrats: ‘Just say Nyet to Moscow Mitch’Video
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Democrats in Mitch McConnell’s home state are hawking T-shirts with a barbed message — “Just say Nyet to Moscow Mitch” — as they try to capitalize on a bitter dispute involving the Republican senator over election security legislation. The Kentucky Democratic Party said Wednesday it’s launching a...
Sanders, Warren clash with moderates over ‘Medicare for All’
DETROIT — Liberal firebrands Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren slapped back against moderate rivals who ridiculed “Medicare for All” during a fierce Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night in which lesser-known pragmatists warned that “wish-list economics” would jeopardize the presidency. The tug-of-war over the future of the party early in the...
Trump’s tax returns required under new California election lawVideo
SACRAMENTO — President Trump will be ineligible for California’s primary ballot next year unless he discloses his tax returns under a state law that immediately took effect Tuesday, an unprecedented mandate that is almost certain to spark a high-profile court fight and might encourage other states to adopt their own...
2nd Dem debate will be some candidates’ last chance to shine
DETROIT — Democrats gathering in Detroit for a pivotal presidential debate will have to decide, once again, how to respond to President Donald Trump while presenting their own vision for the country. Candidates are sure to use the high-profile setting on Tuesday and Wednesday to blast Trump’s recent string of...
Sen. Rand Paul: I’d help fund ticket to send Omar to Somalia
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he’d help pay for a minority congresswoman to return to the country she fled as a child, saying she might better appreciate the United States upon her return. The Courier Journal reports the Kentucky senator made the comment last week to Breitbart...
Trump signs Sept. 11 victims’ compensation fund extensionVideo
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday signed a bill ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund related to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks never runs out of money, ending years of legislative gridlock as the number of first responders dying of Ground Zero-related illnesses mounted. Appearing in the Rose Garden with...
Trump says Coats is out as national intelligence director
WASHINGTON — Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month, President Trump announced, after a turbulent two years in which Coats and the president were often at odds over Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump announced Coats’ departure as Aug. 15 in a tweet on...
Trump deserves impeachment but no decision made yet, Jerry Nadler saysVideo
President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached, but the House Judiciary Committee is still investigating to determine whether to report resolutions to the full House, the panel’s chairman said. “He richly deserves impeachment. He has done many impeachable offenses. He’s violated the law six ways from Sunday,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler...
Aide says Trump’s critics should focus on problems back home
WASHINGTON — A top White House aide said Sunday that President Donald Trump, frustrated by the Democrats’ unrelenting investigations and talk of impeachment, swung hard at an influential black Democratic congressman and his Baltimore district because he believes such Capitol Hill critics are neglecting serious problems back home in their...
Bernie Sanders hasn’t changed. Is that his strength or a weakness?
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — After breakfast on a recent Saturday, Robert Fraass crossed the river from Omaha to this southwest corner of Iowa to catch Bernie Sanders at the opening of his newest campaign office. He sat in the fourth row, cheering and clapping with about 200 others as Vermont’s...
Supreme Court: Trump can use Pentagon funds for border wall
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the greenlight to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using...
Georgia election officials accused of destroying evidence
ATLANTA — In a federal court filing, lawyers for election integrity advocates accuse Georgia election officials of intentionally destroying evidence that could show unauthorized access to the state election system and potential manipulation of election results. Election integrity advocates and individual Georgia voters sued election officials in 2017 alleging that...
Pelosi downplays differences with Ocasio-Cortez after talk
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is downplaying any differences with high-profile progressive lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying she had a “nice meeting” Friday with the social media dynamo who’s made some tart observations about the Democratic leadership team. Pelosi told reporters that “I don’t think we have that many differences”...
New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marriage history
MINNEAPOLIS — New investigative documents released by a Minnesota state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws. Omar has denied the allegations in the...
Bernie Sanders calls for shutdown of Michigan oil pipeline
DETROIT — Bernie Sanders has become the second Democratic presidential hopeful to call for shutting down an oil pipeline that crosses a channel linking two of the Great Lakes. The Vermont senator said in a tweet Thursday that Enbridge’s Line 5 should be decommissioned and new fossil fuel infrastructure banned....
2020 tests whether Democrats can win enough black voters without Obama
DETROIT — When Barack Obama was on the ballot in 2008 and 2012, there was no question that Terrance Holmes would vote for the first black president. But as he helped fix cars this week at a repair shop on Detroit’s west side, he recalled his ambivalence about the 2016...
Mueller hearing watched by 13 million TV viewers
The nearly seven hours of testimony by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was watched by 13 million viewers on Wednesday, falling short of the audience levels for recent high-profile Washington hearings. The total was below the 20.4 million viewers who watched the Sept. 27 Senate Judiciary Committee hearings...
What’s next after Mueller? Lawsuits, investigations and more
WASHINGTON — After months of anticipation, Congress finally heard testimony from former special counsel Robert Mueller. So what now? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Mueller’s appearance was “a crossing of a threshold,” raising public awareness of what Mueller found. And Democrats after the hearing said they had clearly laid out...
Trump celebrates at W.Va. fundraiser after Mueller hearings
WHEELING, West Virginia — A triumphant President Donald Trump celebrated Wednesday evening after Robert Mueller’s testimony, telling attendees at a closed-door fundraiser in West Virginia that the former special counsel’s appearance was a dud. Trump, who arrived at the fundraiser energized and excited, told a crowd at the WesBanco Arena...
Puerto Rico governor says he is resigning Aug. 2
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said late Wednesday that he will resign Aug. 2 after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and insulting chat messages between him and his top advisers. A crowd of...
Trump vetoes congressional effort to block Saudi arms sales
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed a trio of congressional resolutions aimed at blocking his administration from bypassing Congress and selling billions of dollars in weapons and maintenance support to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month cited threats from Iran...
Mueller: No Russia exoneration for Trump, despite his claims
WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller, the taciturn lawman at the center of a polarizing American drama, bluntly dismissed President Donald Trump’s claims of “total exoneration” Wednesday in the federal probe of Russia’s 2016 election interference. In a long day of congressional testimony, Mueller warned that Moscow’s actions represented — and still...
Reschenthaler questions Mueller, calls report process ‘un-American’Video
U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Peters, stuck closely to information that has been released regarding the investigation when questioning Robert Mueller during his testimony Wednesday in Washington. He cited opposition by Janet Reno, attorney general under President Clinton, to publication of reports regarding charges that were not prosecuted. Mueller said Reno’s...
Trump, allies frame Mueller testimony as win for White House
WASHINGTON — Believing a two-year shadow over the White House at last has been lifted, President Donald Trump and his allies seized on Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday as a clear-cut victory, mocking the former special counsel’s findings and performance. After claiming in advance that he might not...
