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Mar 01 2019
News
2020 Democrats Wrestle With A Big Question: What Are Reparations?
Several Democratic candidates have been quick to embrace reparations recently. Bernie Sanders is more cautious.
At a CNN town hall on Monday, a woman asked Sanders about his view on reparations, and at first he talked about trying to "put resources into distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt from the legacy of slavery."
Moderator Wolf Blitzer
NPR (Online News)Jun 05 2012
News
How Romney Pushed State Health Bill
When Mitt Romney left office as Massachusetts governor, his aides removed all emails from a server computer in the governor's office, and purchased and carted off hard drives from 17 state-owned personal computers, according to a current state official.
But a small cache of emails survived, including some that have never publicly surfaced surrounding Mr. Romney's efforts to pass his now
Wall Street Journal (News)May 31 2012
News
Romney ties Obama in three key states
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is neck-and-neck with President Obama among registered voters in three key swing states, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds. In Iowa, including leaners, Obama and Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, are tied at 44 percent. In Colorado, Obama takes 46 percent and Romney 45 percent. In Nevada, Obama is at 48 percent to Romneys 46 percent. Obama won
Washington PostOct 02 2019
Opinion
How Trump’s Effort to Damage Biden Could Backfire Badly
The president may have just given his Democratic rival a political lifeline at a critical moment in the 2020 campaign.
Is President Trump going to get Joe Biden elected?
Opinions vary widely on how to characterize Trump’s now-infamous conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The president believes it was “perfect” and “beautiful.” In the middle are those who
Jonah GoldbergFeb 21 2020
News
Health, heat and deportations: the issues driving Nevada caucus voters
Saturday’s ‘first-in-the-west’ vote brings a diverse electorate more in line with the demographics of America and the party.
As Nevada prepares for the caucuses that could reshape the US presidential race, Democratic voters here remained divided on who is the best candidate to end the tumultuous presidency of Donald Trump.
But across the state, Democratic primary voters agreed
The GuardianJan 10 2013
News
Hagel Has Few Close Allies in Senate, Despite 12 Years There
For a man who spent 12 years in the Senate, Chuck Hagel will find himself with few close allies when the Armed Services Committee takes up his nomination to be secretary of defense this month.
His three closest friends from his years as a Republican senator from Nebraska, 1997 to 2009, are either no longer members or in no position to help. One is the vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr
New York Times (News)Feb 12 2020
Analysis
Joe Biden insists he still has a path to the nomination. Others have trouble seeing it.
Joe Biden insists he still has a path to the presidential nomination. Others are having trouble seeing it.
The former vice president was viewed as the field's frontrunner until voters started casting ballots. Now a disappointing fourth-place finish in the opening Iowa caucuses last week was followed by a disastrous fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday. The collapse
USA TODAYFeb 11 2020
News
New Hampshire primary voting kicks off, with Sanders and Buttigieg locked in fierce battle
New Hampshire’s presidential primary kicked off at midnight – as voters in three tiny townships in the state’s North Country and White Mountains cast the first ballots in the first primary in the White House race.
Dixville Notch – which has held the midnight voting tradition for 60 years – as well as nearby Millsfield and Hart’s Location, grab the national spotlight every four years as
Fox News (Online News)Sep 11 2019
News
Democratic debate: Biden and Warren to face off as 2020 race intensifies
Ten candidates. Three hours. One stage. A Texas showdown. This Thursday, Democratic White House 2020 hopefuls meet for round three of the party’s presidential debates as the contest for the party’s nomination enters a new, more urgent stage.
The Houston hothouse will be the first time the party’s top contenders appear together on a single night.
As Houston readies to host the
The GuardianDec 02 2019
News
Supreme Court hears gun control case that inspired court-packing threat from Dems
The Supreme Court took up its first major gun control case in nearly a decade on Monday, hearing arguments in a dispute between a gun advocacy group and New York over a statute that restricted the transportation of firearms outside city limits -- even when licensed, locked and unloaded.
The city's statute was later amended but the court heard arguments over the original measure anyway,
Fox News (Online News)