Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the world's richest men, has formally launched a Democratic bid for president. Ending weeks of speculation, the 77-year-old former Republican announced his candidacy Sunday in a written statement posted on a campaign website describing ...
Led by Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidates vow to press Israel on Palestinian state
Democratic presidential contenders vowed Monday to switch gears sharply from Donald Trump's hawkish embrace of Israel, pledging they would press for a peace settlement that leads to a Palestinian state. Half a year after Democratic candidates all shunned the annual conference of AIPAC, the historic ...
Bernie Sanders wins AOC endorsement for White House bid as he returns to campaign trail
Firebrand Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday with a massive rally that marked the septuagenarian's return to the campaign trail following a heart attack earlier this month. "I call him 'tio Bernie,' " Ocasio-Cortez, 30, said at the rally ...
Facebook and Microsoft launch contest to detect 'deepfake' videos ahead of U.S. election
Facebook Inc. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp., the Partnership on AI coalition and academics from several universities to launch a contest to better detect deepfakes, the company said in a blog post ai.facebook.com/blog/deepfake-detection-challenge on Thursday. The social media giant is putting $10 million into ...
Democrat candidates put climate crisis at heart of 2020 race
Democrats seeking to oust climate skeptic Donald Trump from the White House are placing the "existential threat" of a warming planet front and center for the 2020 presidential contests. With a rampaging Hurricane Dorian not far from the minds of many Americans, 10 Democratic presidential ...
'Modern Monetary Theory' may be Democrats' economic cure, but only Trump seems to have got the memo
From her home overlooking Setauket Harbor on Long Island's North Shore, a motorboat bobbing at the dock, Stephanie Kelton hopes to revolutionize how the U.S. government manages the economy. It isn't always a pleasant task. A key figure in the "Modern Monetary Theory" economic camp, her ...
Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Monday outlined proposals that would govern her policy on international trade, including requiring trade negotiators to disclose drafts of new trade agreements to the public. Warren, who has offered the most voluminous policy proposals in the crowded field of ...
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused American pharmaceutical companies Sunday of letting diabetic patients die out of "greed," after he accompanied a group of Americans to Canada to buy insulin. Sanders joined the group, which took a bus from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, to restock on ...
Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his 2020 Democratic rivals in South Carolina, where a majority of black voters back him, a Monmouth University Poll shows. Biden is supported by 39 percent of likely voters in the February primary, a crucial early presidential contest. ...
Joe Biden leads in new CBS Democratic poll but faces enthusiasm gap
Joe Biden remains the top choice among Democratic voters in states that will hold early presidential primary and caucus contests in 2020, as four main contenders emerged as the top tier of the large field, a new CBS News poll showed on Sunday. Biden had ...
Trump trails Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in NBC-WSJ poll match-ups
President Donald Trump trails at least three Democratic hopefuls — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — in theoretical head-to-head matchups for the 2020 general election, a new poll showed. Biden, the former vice president, held the biggest lead among registered voters in the ...
Joe Biden's lead shrinks as Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris rise in post-debate poll
Former Vice President Joe Biden's lead in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination has shrunk by 10 percentage points in a CNN poll conducted since last week's debates that showed Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren getting significant bumps in support. The poll of ...
