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Following a recruiting success in Indiana, Democrats are eyeing Kansas as they try to expand their playing field into red states and take back the Senate. GOP Sen. Jerry Moran is up for re-election in Kansas, Republican-friendly territory that's on few lists of competitive races this year.
The killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer durin... . FILE - In this July 9, 2016 file photo, marchers block part of Interstate 94 in St. Paul, Minn., during a protest sparked by the recent police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
Democratic strategists are alarmed at how well Donald Trump's anti-free trade rhetoric is playing with normally Democratic union members -- even though it is accompanied by explicit attacks on presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as being the candidate of the "people who rigged" the U.S. economy to favor the wealthiest 1 percent. A recent analysis in The Washington Post noted that the anti-trade themes laid out in Trump's scripted June 28 speech played so well in Pennsylvania that he was winning praise from Katie McGinty, the Democrats' nominee for Senate in the swing state.
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton pass during a break at aAfa sA Democratic debate April 14 in New York - See this story on www.npr.org The campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders announced in coordinated statements that they will campaign together Tuesday in Portsmouth, N.H. "On Tuesday, July 12, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will join Hillary Clinton for a campaign event at Portsmouth High School to discuss their commitment to building an America that is stronger together and an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top," said the statement released by both campaigns.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced the U.S. Department of Labor grant on Monday. It's part of $81 million in funds being distributed nationwide as part of the department's farmworker jobs program.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will formally declare an end to their political rivalry Tuesday, a moment that couldn't come quickly enough for the former secretary of state trying to unite Democrats against Donald Trump. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, hopes to rev up voters on the left with help from Sanders.
Former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh is expected to make another run for Senate in Indiana, Democratic officials said Monday, a development that would dramatically improve the party's chances to win back the vacant seat, and Senate control along with it. Democrats have been courting Bayh for over a year to run for the seat now held by Republican Sen. Dan Coats, who is retiring.
A number of major U.S. companies that have supported GOP convention s in the past have pulled their sponsorships from the 2016 edition, set to take place next weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. Some didn't specify their reasons for backing out, but Emily Lauer, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland host committee, told Bloomberg on June 16 that the lull in corporate commitments seemed to rise around the same time that Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich dropped out, leaving front-runner Donald Trump alone in the GOP field.
President Barack Obama is laying out a blueprint for addressing unsolved problems with his signature health law, including a renewed call for a "public option" to let Americans buy insurance from the government. Obama's assessment of the Affordable Care Act comes in an eight-page article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a peer-reviewed publication.
The first signs of how much turbulence Donald Trump will face on his convention flight to the Republican presidential nomination will be on display in committee meeting rooms this week in Cleveland. Inside the Huntington Convention Center, a few blocks from the arena where Trump is expected to accept the nomination on July 21, the Republican National Convention's Platform and Rules committees will debate what the party stands for and how the following week's convention will operate.
NYU spokesman John Beckman said Brademas' wife, Mary Ellen Brademas , told the university her husband died Monday in New York. The Democrat served 11 terms in Congress.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer stands with officials from NuHealth and Nassau County in East Meadow as he calls on Congress to pass a bill to help combat the Zika virus on Monday, July 11, 2016. Photo Credit: Howard Schnapp U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer stands with officials from NuHealth and Nassau County in East Meadow as he calls on Congress to pass a bill to help combat the Zika virus on Monday, July 11, 2016.
In this Thursday, June 30, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall-style campaign event at the former Osram Sylvania light bulb factory in Manchester, N.H. Trump will deliver a speech on veterans' health care reform Monday, July 11, his latest in a series of prepared remarks aimed at articulating his policy agenda and convincing still-reticent Republicans that he has the discipline and control to mount a credible general election bid against likely rival Hillary Clinton. The proposal is part of Trump's 10-point plan he's outlining Monday ahead of his general election bid against likely rival Hillary Clinton .
Former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh is expected to make another run for Senate in Indiana, Democratic officials said Monday, a development that would dramatically improve the party's chances to win back the vacant seat, and Senate control along with it. Democrats have been courting Bayh for over a year to run for the seat now held by Republican Sen. Dan Coats, who is retiring.
Conservative leadership contender Andrea Leadsom, issues a statement outside her home in Northamptonshire, England, after a newspaper suggested she was using her status as a mother to gain an advantage over leadership rival... Former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh is expected to make another run for Senate in Indiana, Democratic officials said Monday, a development that would dramatically improve the party's chances to win back the vacant seat,... The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officers he had shot, the police chief said.
Umalbaneen Ali Wehbe, sister's of Habib Ali Wehbe who went missing in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war, cries as her sister Zeinab speaks during an interview with The Associated Press after members of The International Red Cr... Former Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh is expected to make another run for Senate in Indiana, Democratic officials said Monday, a development that would dramatically improve the party's chances to win back the vacant seat,... The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officers he had shot, the police chief said.
SANDERS: In this June 24 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks in Albany, N.Y. Sanders failed in his quest to include opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in a draft of the Democratic Party's policy positions at a meeting Saturday, July 9, where several amendments against the deal were voted down by Hillary Clinton supporters.
Ahead of next week's Republican National Convention, some in the GOP are still struggling with a simple question: Who is @realDonaldTrump? His ideological flexibility over the past several decades, his frequent diversions from party dogma, and the weekly -- if not daily -- zigzags of his campaign, continue to haunt many members of the party as they head to the convention in Cleveland. Trump's unknowability has come into sharp focus in these rocky last two months as he has attempted to right his campaign after a shakeup and quell a potential delegate revolt in Cleveland.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., July 5, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RTX2JVKW CLEVELAND, Ohio-Republican National Committee delegates determined to stop Donald Trump at the GOP Convention next week are in the final planning stages of their mission.