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Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., announced Saturday that he will not run for president this year after announcing at the end of April he would explore a presidential run under the Libertarian Party.

The former Senate staffer accusing Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her 27 years ago is calling on him to “step forward and be held accountable,” in her first on-camera interview since the former vice president “unequivocally” denied her allegation.

As the coronavirus pandemic knocks primary election after primary election off schedule, Democrats argue the outbreak shows the country needs to move toward one of their longtime goals — widespread voting by mail — to protect the November election.

Remember “Super Tuesday”? Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Less than a month ago. But really a lifetime ago. You could say, “My how the world has changed,” and without coronavirus, people would assume that you’re talking about how the race for the Democratic nomination is down to two candidates: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. But we all know how the world…

On a day when coronavirus dominated the news, with airports in chaos and the country’s largest school district about to close, former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders debated one-on-one for the first time in the Democratic primary and the pandemic monopolized their meeting too.

Former Vice President Joe Biden discusses how he would handle the coronavirus pandemic if he was elected president.

In the minute it will take you to read this story, billionaire media mogul Mike Bloomberg’s campaign will have spent about $5,000, if not more, based on the latest filing with the Federal Election Commission covering his campaign’s spending in January.

The turbulence of impeachment, a contentious presidential campaign and a global virus health threat confront President Donald Trump as he prepares to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But one thing about the Trump era has remained remarkably steady: public opinion on the president. Approval of Trump has stayed persistently in negative territory, and the country is more polarized now than it has...

The New York Times endorsed both Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic primary ahead of the presidential election.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was in Boston Tuesday where she held an end-of-year rally at the Old South Meeting House. The rally was held on the one year anniversary of her announcing her bid for the White House.

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren delivered a New Year’s Eve speech in Boston, Tuesday, marking a year since she launched an exploratory committee for her White House run. In front of a raucous hometown crowd at the Old South Meeting House, Warren asked voters to look to the future and tackle what she perceives as corruption in Washington, slamming...

Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her “Medicare for All” plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system. “What about the little guys that work in the insurance business,...

Democratic presidential hopefuls said Friday they may skip next week’s debate at Loyola Marymount University to honor a picket line by unionized food-service workers at the Westchester campus.

With just two months before primary voting begins, top Democrats are confronting their principal political liabilities with a new sense of urgency. It’s unclear how many voters will be paying attention, however, as the 2019 holiday season is here and impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump accelerate. As Democrats fight amongst themselves in key primary states, Trump is focused on...

Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigrants to work in the U.S., free from the threat of deportation. That outcome would “destroy lives,” declared Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one the court’s liberals who repeatedly suggested the administration has not adequately justified its...

An appeals court did not appear to buy arguments by President Donald Trump’s lawyers that his tax returns can’t be given to a state grand jury.

The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Donald Trump’s decision to hold up military aid to Ukraine was linked to his demand that Kyiv investigate the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, a shifting new explanation about events at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. The admission from acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney undercut the president’s...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday launched a defense of how tech companies promote and regulate free speech, arguing that Facebook and its peers make up a new “fifth estate” in society alongside the traditional news media. Zuckerberg, in a speech at Georgetown University, echoed language from the 18th Century, when people first began referring to journalists in the press...

China will lift punitive tariffs imposed on U.S. soybeans and pork in a trade war with Washington, a state news agency said Friday, adding to conciliatory gestures by the two sides ahead of negotiations. China will suspend tariff hikes on soybeans, pork and some other farm goods, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing the Cabinet planning agency and the Commerce...