Government and Politics
Published on November 12, 2019 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg he’d like to name a woman to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs for the first...
Published on November 10, 2019 - Page 32
WASHINGTON (AP) —Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pay for “Medicare for All” without raising taxes on the middle class departs from how the U.S. has...
Published on November 6, 2019 - Page 6
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s municipal elections Tuesday featured two statewide appellate judge seats, as well as some potential firsts in local races...
Published on November 6, 2019 - Page 6
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Democrats continued their winning streak under President Trump on Tuesday and took full control of the statehouse for...
Published on November 4, 2019 - Page 5
WASHINGTON — A year out from the 2020 general election, there already is significant interest in the presidential campaign. But a poll from The...
Published on November 4, 2019 - Page 6
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City voters used to picking one candidate per race may soon be marking their ballots for up to five. A ballot measure in...
Published on November 3, 2019 - Page 4
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —Bristling at Elizabeth Warren’s suggestions that he’s a milquetoast moderate with small ideas, presidential candidate Joe...
Published on November 2, 2019 - Page 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden raised $5.3 million in October in a surge of small-dollar online contributions that rolled in after President Donald...
Published on November 2, 2019 - Page 14
WASHINGTON (AP) —Elizabeth Warren on Friday proposed $20 trillion in federal spending over the next decade to provide health care to every American...
Published on October 24, 2019 - Page 10
SCRANTON — Joe Biden cast President Donald Trump on Wednesday as a fraudulent populist whose tax policies, economic stewardship and erratic...
Published on October 22, 2019 - Page 18
NEW YORK (AP) — With just over a year left until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to ensure it is not used as...
Published on October 1, 2019 - Page 18
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Kerry got “Swift Boated” in 2004. For Hillary Clinton in 2016, it was her “damn emails.” Remembering those failed Democratic...
Published on September 27, 2019 - Page 10
Democratic presidential candidates are united in condemning President Donald Trump for seeking a foreign country’s help to trash a domestic political...
Published on September 24, 2019 - Page 5
The Democratic National Committee is increasing the polling and fundraising requirements for presidential candidates to qualify for the primary...
Published on September 21, 2019 - Page 12
Elizabeth Warren has enjoyed a heady summer of massive crowds and endless selfie lines as she steadily climbs in Democratic presidential primary...
Published on September 18, 2019 - Page 10
NEW YORK (AP) — Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump...
Published on September 17, 2019 - Page 10
NEW YORK (AP) — Facing thousands of cheering supporters in the nation’s largest city, Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren on Monday...
Published on September 16, 2019 - Page 10
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Ashley Arentz is a political unicorn. The 28-year-old Marine from Jacksonville, North Carolina, didn’t vote in 2016, and...
Published on September 13, 2019 - Page 24
HOUSTON (AP) — An aggressive Joe Biden defended his health care plan against liberal rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in Thursday night’s...
Published on September 3, 2019 - Page 17
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In the back of a West Des Moines brew pub, a dozen supporters of Pete Buttigieg sipped craft beer and wine, scribbling...
Published on August 31, 2019 - Page 9
GREENVILLE, S.C. —Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday defended his faulty description of a tale of military heroism and his...
Published on August 31, 2019 - Page 9
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrats’ plans for virtual presidential caucuses in Iowa and Nevada are effectively dead as the national party chairman...
Published on August 25, 2019 - Page 18
EDITOR’S NOTE: One in a series exploring the stories the 2020 presidential candidates tell about themselves, their families and the origins of their...
Published on August 25, 2019 - Page 18
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Trump campaign has a message for its female supporters: It’s time to come out of hiding. “There’s a lot of people that...
Published on August 24, 2019 - Page 21
EDITORS’S NOTE: One in a series exploring the stories the 2020 presidential candidates tell about themselves, their families and the origins of...
Published on August 23, 2019 - Page 8
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released a $16.3 trillion climate plan on Thursday before touring a Northern...
Published on August 22, 2019 - Page 21
PHOENIX — If former major league pitcher Curt Schilling runs for Congress in Arizona, he said it might be for Democratic U.S. Rep. Tom O'Halleran's...
Published on August 21, 2019 - Page 5
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —Democrats are still shaken by the 2010 tea party wave that netted Republicans six governors’ offices, flipped 21 statehouse...
Published on August 20, 2019 - Page 17
GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) — Following the news has grown stressful for Angela Tetschner, a 39-year-old nurse raising four children in this sprawling...
Published on August 17, 2019 - Page 14
DES MOINES, Iowa — In Iowa, Joe Biden tore into President Donald Trump’s moral character, declaring in one of the fiercest speeches of his campaign...