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 ...
Democratic ex-Gov. Deval Patrick launches 'Hail Mary' bid for president
Deval Patrick launched what he acknowledged to be a "Hail Mary" bid on Thursday for the Democratic presidential nomination, testing whether voters sifting through an already crowded field are open to hearing from new candidates less than three months before the primary voting officially ...
U.S. presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg makes case as calm visionary for 2020
Democrat Pete Buttigieg is criss-crossing New Hampshire on a mission: introduce himself and his centrist policies to shrewd, often independent-minded voters while convincing them he is the relatable, articulate visionary in the 2020 presidential race. During a four-day bus tour through The Granite State that ...
Elizabeth Warren, the candidate who keeps Wall Street up at night
With plans to raise taxes on the rich, break up tech giants and tighten regulation on banks and other corporations, Elizabeth Warren is making Wall Street increasingly nervous. A recent poll showed the Massachusetts senator leading the race to become the Democratic candidate for the ...
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 ...
U.S. progressives are all too willing to cut constitutional corners
Democratic presidential candidates and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver demonstrate the tendency of too many progressives to despise and bully adversaries.
Four decades after being banned, pregnancy discrimination persists in U.S.
For 41 years, U.S. federal law has banned pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. But stories tumbling out this past week show it is far from eradicated. Prompted by presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's claim that she was forced out of a teaching job in 1971 because ...
Rising star Elizabeth Warren weathers attacks at Democratic White House debate
Surging White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren faced a barrage of attacks from fellow Democrats at the party's fourth 2020 debate Tuesday, cementing her status as a front-runner in the race to challenge Donald Trump. However, for the second consecutive debate, she refused to say whether ...
Trump impeachment is a deep Democratic coup against Warren
The old DNC cabal is more interested in getting rid of the progressives in their own party than in defeating Trump.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says Elizabeth Warren as U.S. president would be bad for big tech
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg told employees in July that the company would "go to the mat" to defeat Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren's expected effort to break up the world's largest social media company if she were elected president, according to audio ...
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren overtakes Joe Biden to lead latest Iowa poll
Elizabeth Warren took the lead in Iowa in a new state poll released Saturday, barely dislodging former Vice President Joe Biden from the No. 1 spot in the state, putting the two of them in a statistical tie. Warren has the support of 22 percent ...
Democrats' liberal-moderate divide on full display during debate in Texas
Joe Biden parried attack after attack from liberal rivals Thursday night on everything from health care to immigration in a debate that showcased profound ideological divides between the Democratic Party's moderate and progressive wings. The prime-time debate also elevated several struggling candidates, giving them a ...
