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Once dismissed by many as a fringe candidate with wacky socialist ideas, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigned to the brink of the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and has now set his sights on the White House once again. Vermont's Sanders, 77, announced on Tuesday ...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has recorded a video announcing a 2020 run for president, Politico reported Saturday, an indication that he plans to enter the already crowded field of candidates. But it still remains unclear when or if the video will be released, according to ...
Double duty: Senators juggle presidential bids and day jobs
Fresh off jumping into the 2020 presidential race, Sen. Elizabeth Warren had plans to meet voters in Las Vegas. The only problem: a government shutdown roiling Washington. The Massachusetts Democrat had to decide whether to keep her plans last month in a critical early voting ...
Soak the rich: U.S. Democratic contenders vie to be the toughest on taxing the wealthy
The last Democrat to win a U.S. presidential election, Barack Obama, ran in 2012 on a platform of raising taxes for top earners to nearly 40 percent. Now a new crop of Democratic presidential hopefuls is signaling that they want to go even further. Massachusetts ...
In rebuke to Trump, 68-23 Senate vote opposes pulling U.S. forces from Syria and Afghanistan
In a bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump, the Senate voted 68-23 Thursday to advance an amendment that would oppose withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan. The amendment by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell comes after Trump called for a drawdown of troops ...
U.S. Democrats hit Andrew Wheeler's environmental rollbacks at EPA during hearing
Acting Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler described himself as a champion of deregulation and the environment at his confirmation hearing Wednesday, even as a leading Democrat called him "just as extreme" as predecessor Scott Pruitt. The Republican-controlled Senate Environment and Public Works Committee was ...
Defying Trump, U.S. Senate votes to end military support for Saudi-led Yemen war
The U.S. Senate sent a fresh warning to President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia Thursday by approving a resolution to end U.S. military support for Riyadh's war in Yemen. The largely symbolic resolution cannot be debated in the House of Representatives before January, and would ...
Outlook for Democrats in 2020 looks bleak
First: No. It's not too early to discuss the 2020 election. The Iowa caucuses are only a year and a half away. Any presidential hopeful who hasn't begun chatting up donors by now will find it nearly impossible to mount a viable campaign. At this ...
28-year-old leftist's upset win jolts U.S. Democrats, suggests progressive wing on the rise
A 28-year-old leftist and political novice has become the face of a new breed of American Democrat after slaying a congressional giant in a New York primary, as the party seeks its 2018 battle plan against Donald Trump's Republicans. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez achieved the near-impossible on ...
Trump says public 'deserves' Clinton probe after Brazile book claims democratic primary was rigged
President Donald Trump said Friday the American public "deserves" a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee over a joint fundraising agreement they signed in August 2015. In a multipart Twitter attack criticizing his former 2016 rival, he wrote: "Crooked Hillary bought ...
Bernie Sanders puts Democrats on the spot with proposed government-run health care for all
Sen. Bernie Sanders rode his impassioned liberal army of supporters through a tumultuous 2016, fighting to snatch the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. Now he is disrupting the party anew, forcing Democrats to take sides over his plan to provide government-run health care ...
