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Judge Reggie Walton asked if Barr’s actions were a “calculated attempt” to help President Donald Trump and opined the attorney general had a “lack of candor” with the public and Congress. “The Court cannot reconcile certain public representations made by Attorney General Barr with the findings in the Mueller Report,” Walton wrote on Thursday. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is misrepresenting his stance on how many delegates a Democratic candidate must amass before clinching the party’s presidential nomination. Heading into key Super Tuesday contests and leading the AP delegate count, the Vermont senator argues that the candidate with a plurality of delegates at the end of the primary and […]
President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that the coronavirus, known as COVID-19 virus, is under control because China is “working very hard” to contain its spread. The president’s comments are at odds with reality. The same day, the CDC announced that it expected the virus to spread enough within the US to cause a “disruption […]
STEVE APPS, STATE JOURNALDemocratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a major $250 million Republican-led tax-cut package on Wednesday that would use surplus revenues to reduce the average taxpayer’s income tax bill by $106. Evers, who vetoed the legislation at a Wauwatosa elementary school, said the legislation does not go far enough to boost the state’s investment […]
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced last week that the House on Wednesday will take up HR 35, anti-lynching legislation introduced in the House by Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois called the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. Fourteen-year-old Till was brutally murdered in a racist attack in Mississippi in 1955, becoming a civil rights rallying […]
Source: Democrats try to stop Sanders’ momentum in fiery debate
“He’s paying our money to himself,” the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold told “Trump, Inc.” “There must be so much more we haven’t seen.” .article-header Image: President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. The Secret Service has paid up to $650 per night to stay at the hotel. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Stay up to […]
Feb. 26, 2020, at 11:28 AM .post-info .has-bugs ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT .single-featured-image South Carolina has yet to vote, but there’s an even bigger prize lurking right around the corner. On March 3 — Super Tuesday — roughly one-third of Democrats nationwide will weigh in on the 2020 presidential race as 15 states and territories […]
Ms. Warren’s campaign and her allies, convinced her message is being ignored, see a path forward — and they say writing her off would be a mistake. Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking at an event in Henderson, Nev., on Monday. Her staff members, surrogates and supporters believe she is being ignored during a pivotal moment in […]
In his first public appearance since the impeachment trial, the president’s former national security adviser said he was fighting efforts to suppress his unpublished book. John R. Bolton repeatedly ducked questions related to Ukraine or impeachment during an appearance at Duke University on Monday.Credit…Logan Cyrus/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images DURHAM, N.C. — John R. Bolton, […]