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Attorney General Kamala Harris thanks California Gov. Jerry Brown, right, after he announced his endorsement of her for the U.S. Senate during a news conference at the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif. Harris is running against fellow Democrat, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, among others, to replace Barbara Boxer who is retiring.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and his push to make the party more inclusive could get "messy" but asserts in an interview with The Associated Press: "Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle." The Vermont senator, campaigning Monday ahead of California's primary against Hillary Clinton, said his supporters hope the party will adopt a platform at the summer convention that reflects the needs of working families, the poor and young people, not Wall Street and corporate America.
Thousands of Beyonce fans were evacuated from a concert in Minnesota on Monday night due to a severe weather warning. Around 35,000 fans were waiting for Beyonce to begin her Formation World Tour show at the open-air TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis when they were instructed to evacuate to the stadium concourse or nearby shelters due to a forecast of thunder and lightning.
Shavonne Simmons, center, and Solo Littlejohn, right, join protesters calling for a union and pay of $15 an hour outside a McDonald's restaurant in Chicago, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. t the Service Employees International Union's annual convention in Detroit, leaders of the National Organizing Committee for the Fight for 15 announced that their members will soon vote on whether they want to formally join the union.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says comedian Larry David shouldn't worry about his role on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." The Vermont senator joked in an interview with The Associated Press that he wants David to continue his job impersonating him on the late night show, which had its season finale last weekend.
While nobody named Trump or Clinton appears on the ballot this time around, Georgia voters still have some big decisions to make in primary elections. Voters are returning to the polls Tuesday nearly three months after the state held its presidential primaries.
Trump holds his first preside... . FILE- In this Friday, May 6, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Eugene, Ore.
In the race to become the next president, Hillary Clinton is using a weapon to persuade voters some may not consider important in the political process - children. The Clinton campaign has rolled out an ad that takes Republican nominee Donald Trump's own words and uses them against him, showing wide-eyed children watching TV while Trump talks about theoretically shooting someone in the middle of New York City's Fifth Avenue, carrying people out on stretchers, mocking a disabled reporter, self-censoring a profanity that is easily deduced and making a comment many saw as a reference to a woman's menstrual cycle.
The Pentagon is relying on information it won't make public to dispute an Associated Press investigation that found the military misled Congress about sexual assault cases to blunt support for Senate legislation. In a report sent Thursday to a bipartisan group of senators, the Pentagon refers to undisclosed files about several of the cases to challenge AP's findings.
About 100 to 200 Sen. Bernie Sanders delegates stormed out of the Wells Fargo Arena Tuesday evening after Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic nomination for president. Many were angry at the result of the nomination process as well as the Democratic National Committee.
Hillary Clinton has served as the first lady of a state and the nation as well as been a senator and secretary of state, but her qualification to be president is dogged by one word - accomplishments. If you type "what has hill" into a Google search, the first option to autofill that search is "what has Hillary Clinton accomplished."
Bernie Sanders said Monday that the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia could get "messy" in July as he tries to advance a more progressive vision of the party's platform. The Vermont senator declared that "democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle" during an interview with The Associated Press, as diehard supporters planned to shake up the convention and shape the party's future.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is considering a list that includes a retired general and some of Washington's most powerful lawmakers. One of the most talked-about candidates on the billionaire's short list is Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, who met Monday with The Donald at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Governor Sam Brownback today took action to balance the budget for Fiscal Years 2017 and 2018, subsequently signing Senate Bill 249 - the budget bill. The Governor announced allotments of $97 million creating a projected ending balance in FY 2017 of $87.5 million.
Facebook on Monday said it was making changes aimed at keeping political bias out of its "trending" stories list even though an internal investigation revealed no evidence it was happening. "Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories included in the Trending Topics feature," Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch said in a letter responding to a query from Republican US Senator John Thune, who chairs the commerce committee.
Facebook says it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a "trending topic" on the giant social network following a backlash over a report saying it suppressed conservative views. Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch outlined this and other reforms in a 12-page letter sent Monday to Republican Sen. John Thune, chairman of the commerce committee, which oversees the Internet and consumer protections.
On rare occasions, Americans coalesce around a common cause, usually after some calamity - a terrorist attack, a natural disaster or, say, during a presidential election. Take today.
Donald Trump's campaign is privately giving Senate Republicans in tough reelection races its blessing to avoid the presumptive nominee if he campaigns in their states, the latest effort by the unconventional candidate to build goodwill with a nervous GOP establishment. Last week at an off-the-record lunch meeting in Washington, Trump adviser Paul Manafort told Senate Republican chiefs of staff that the Trump campaign wants to be helpful to GOP senators in tough races, according to three sources in the room.
Bernie Sanders supporters will occupy a third of all seats on the Democratic Party's 2016 platform committee, the Democratic National Committee announced Monday, an agreement that will allow the Vermont senator to wield sizable influence on the party's platform this year. Sanders and his supporters have complained for months that the Democratic Party was tilted against his insurgent bid and are worried that should he lose to Hillary Clinton - as he is expected to do - the issues that have animated his bid will not find a place at July's Democratic National Convention.