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WASHINGTON —At his final rally in South Carolina last Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made a plea to the boisterous crowd gathered to see him. “I’m asking you to bring out your friends and your coworkers and your neighbors,” Sanders said, “so we can have the largest voter turnout in …

Not even bizarre pandering in the form of dancing onstage to Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up” could save billionaire Tom Steyer‘s presidential campaign. After placing third in the state’s primary on Saturday, with only 11 percent of the vote, Steyer announced he would suspend his campaign. “There’s no question today …

The Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday issued a warning that the coronavirus is likely to break out in the United States. “It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country any more but a question of when this will happen,” said Dr. Nancy …

WASHINGTON —Back by unpopular demand is the New York Times‘ election-night needle. The paper announced Monday it would be rolling out not one but four different needles to project and predict the results of the Iowa caucus. You probably remember the Times’ needle from the 2016 election. The Times is …

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, announced on Thursday that more than 300 companies have signed on to his Trillion Tree Campaign, which aims to plant, restore, or conserve 1 trillion trees by the end of the decade. Benioff broke the news in Davos, Switzerland, at the World …

As the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee conducting the impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump, Rep. Devin Nunes is supposed to appear in the title pages of committee documents as an honorific — not in the body of a 300-page investigation into presidential abuse of power. But here …

During halftime of Saturday’s Yale-Harvard football game, protesters took the field to make their voices heard on the topic of climate change. According to the New York Times, at its peak, the crowd at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., grew to approximately 500 strong. The protestors called on …

President Donald Trump told an audience at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, on Saturday night that he spoke to his lawyers about suing both House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “We’re going to take a look at it. We’re going after these people. These …

Rejecting an “extraordinary claim” of legal immunity by the president, a federal judge has ruled Donald Trump must provide his tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney investigating his financial role in the Stormy Daniels hush-money scandal. While this decision could ultimately force Trump’s financial interests into the public eye, …

Despite repeated promises to dismantle Obamacare and making no efforts to ensure Americans can afford their own healthcare, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Friday that declared immigrants coming to the United States must prove they can pay for their own healthcare or will be covered by an approved …