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In a long-awaited sign middle-class Americans are finally seeing real economic gains, U.S. households got a raise last year after seven years of stagnant incomes. Rising pay also lifted the poorest households, cutting poverty by the sharpest amount in nearly a half-century.
Hundreds marched to the White House on Tuesday to protest the four-state Dakota Access Pipeline, as part of a wider day of action. Sen. Bernie Sanders called on President Obama to take action against the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline during the protest.
Bernie Sanders Sanders, Warren lend star power to Dem Senate hopefuls Anxious Dems urge Clinton to open up Dakota pipeline becomes new flashpoint MORE Elizabeth Warren Sanders, Warren lend star power to Dem Senate hopefuls Overnight Healthcare: Ryan digs in over Planned Parenthood fight Overnight Finance: Wells Fargo fined 5M for fake accounts are taking their progressive star power to the campaign trail to help Democratic candidates in marquee Senate races around the country.
Hillary Clinton appears with Bernie Sanders at a rally in July in Portsmouth, N.H. Bernie Sanders, the runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Sunday that the threshold should probably be lower for third-party candidates such as Libertarian Gary Johnson to take part in the fall debates. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, was asked about the current 15 percent polling threshold during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
More Americans are getting buried by student debt - causing delays in home ownership, limiting how much people can save and leaving taxpayers at risk as many loans go unpaid. The statistics look daunting.
Sanders will help raise money, attend rallies for Senate candidates, but he won't turn over donor list to DSCC Sen. Bernie Sanders's post-Labor Day blitz will be the first time since his presidential run ended almost two months ago that he has helped Democrats as they try to win a majority in the Senate. The senator from Vermont is preparing a post-Labor Day blitz of campaign activity, according to three sources briefed on his plans, offering what Democratic leaders hope will be a late-in-the-race boost from the liberal icon to the party's slate of Senate candidates.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard stood before the nation on a stage in Philadelphia as a woman of the people, starkly juxtaposed to the corruption that left the Democratic Party reeling. Leaked emails indicated several of the party committee's major players - namely its chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz - had intentionally subverted the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders in favor of the establishment candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Exclusive: 'Black Men for Bernie' Founder to End Democrat 'Political Slavery' of Minority Voters... by Campaigning for Trump - Black Men for Bernie founder Bruce Carter's mission to restore black communities didn't end when Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Meet the man making money off Donald Trump A former poker player has landed on a novel way to cash in on 2016's populist campaigns. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2by89HR Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wears his "Make America Great Again" hat at a rally in Sacramento, Calif.
Visiting a battleground state he can't afford to lose, Donald Trump promised Hispanics "a much better life" on Wednesday in a Florida speech that continued his recent effort to soften his tone and broaden his support 11 weeks before the presidential election. The Republican presidential candidate also repeated his promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep out immigrants, underscoring the tricky balancing act he faces in retaining backing from conservatives while beckoning to moderates for their votes.
The FBI is investigating cyber intrusions targeting reporters of The New York Times and is looking into whether Russian intelligence agencies are responsible for the acts, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The cyberattacks are believed to have targeted individual reporters, but investigators don't believe the newspaper's entire network was compromised, according to the official, who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
I do not know if American democracy will survive this bizarre election year, but if it does not make it, I can predict the cause of death. The smoking gun will be the growing, highly toxic, self-serving, and baseless belief that whenever one's favored candidate, party or issue loses an election, it must be because "the system" was "rigged" by the winning side.
Police were called to a meeting of the Multnomah County, Oregon, Democrats this weekend. According to the Oregonian , a "scuffle" broke out when a handful of Bernie Sanders supporters, led by one Leigh LaFleur disrupted the meeting by shouting.
Student-loan debt in the US has grown to a staggering $1.3 trillion , and many policymakers refer to the seemingly inexorable levels of mounting debt as a crisis. Some, like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, have suggested plans to provide college for free or at least, minimal cost.
Bill Clinton says it was a mistake for Hillary Clinton to maintain a personal email server even though her predecessors and her successor at the State Department did it. But he said she should have known that there would be a different set of rules applied to her if she ran for the presidency.
Supporters as well critics of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont were united this week when a Vermont newspaper confirmed that Sanders had purchased a third home on Lake Champlain. People took to Twitter voicing concerns, many of whom asked how a socialist would spend so extravagantly.
Fresh off the presidential campaign trail, the self-described Democratic socialist bought a seasonal waterfront home on Lake Champlain in North Hero, Vermont, for $575,000. A Sanders spokesman says the senator and his wife Jane also own a row house in Washington, D.C., and a home in Burlington, Vermont.
Hillary Clinton has retained most of the bounce she received after the Democratic National Convention and now enjoys a 6-point lead over Donald Trump in a two-way contest among likely voters. The Democratic presidential nominee's advantage in a new Bloomberg Politics national poll is smaller than in some surveys conducted the week after her convention, including some that sampled registered voters, a broader group.
The Democratic candidate for congress is on the ballot facing off against longtime incumbent Ron Kind on Tuesday in western Wisconsin. Buchholz said the allegiance he has to Bernie Sanders and the Vermont Senator's ideas could really help him at the polls.