WASHINGTON — In 2008, Iowa launched Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign and put him on the path to becoming the first black president in history. In 2012, Iowa demonstrated that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was more than a cable-TV creation and helped Trump on his way to becoming the first reality-TV …
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Republican Senator Lamar Alexander chuckled after saying President Trump’s ignorance may have played a part in the Ukraine scheme. The Senator from Tennessee, who is set to retire and whose no vote played a crucial role in denying the country witnesses during the impeachment trial this week, was a guest …
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro announced Monday that he is endorsing Elizabeth Warren in the race he pulled out of just days ago. Though 15 Democrats have already dropped out of the 2020 primary, Castro, the most recent to do so, is one of only two to have formally …
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Rep. John Lewis has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, the Democratic congressman and civil-rights icon who has represented Georgia’s 5th District since 1987 announced on Sunday. “I have been in some kind of fight — for freedom, equality, basic human rights — for nearly my entire life. I have never faced …
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James Comey admitted to “real sloppiness” regarding the FBI’s handling of some portions of the Russia investigation, which prompted President Donald Trump to suggest jail time for the bureau’s former director. Comey told host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that Inspector General Michael Horowitz was correct to conclude that …
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Martin Scorsese’s new film, The Irishman, conjures up a lost world. It depicts an era when the Mafia was so powerful that it set off alarms in the Kennedy White House, and Scorsese even hints that organized crime was behind JFK’s assassination. But by the end of the three-hour-plus movie, …
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump abused the power of the presidency for his personal benefit when he and his cronies shook down the government of Ukraine by withholding a White House meeting and $391 million in foreign aid unless Ukraine said they’d investigate Trump’s rivals. After this quid pro quo scheme …
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Republican candidate, Danielle Stella, who is vying to unseat Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)has been permanently suspended from Twitter after threatening Omar’s life on the platform over a debunked conspiracy theory. On Tuesday, Stella spread a false story about the freshman congresswoman’s involvement in passing along classified information regarding Iran. …
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Bipartisanship in Washington is in short supply these days, but there is one roiling issue around which Democrats and Republicans are united: Hong Kong. Since demonstrations against China’s authoritarian control of the territory began this summer, top lawmakers from both parties have rallied in support of the protesters. Last week, …
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WASHINGTON —Gordon Sondland is a wealthy hotelier and lifelong Republican who, despite having no diplomatic experience, scored a plum gig as President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the European Union. (Sondland’s $1 million donation to Trump’s inauguration surely didn’t hurt.) As ambassador, Sondland’s portfolio included Ukraine. From the spring to the …
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