NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has been steadily climbing in popularity this year and is now tied with former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination among registered voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national…
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U.S. House votes to send Trump impeachment charges to Senate for trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to send two formal charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate, clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a U.S. president to begin in earnest…
U.S. presidential candidate Bloomberg regrets telling ‘bawdy’ jokes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday said he regretted telling off-color jokes and defended his company’s record on the treatment of female employees, saying he tried to make the company a good place to work. FILE…
U.S. Democrat Buttigieg campaign’s top cybersecurity official quits over differences
FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg listens at the seventh Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top cybersecurity…
U.S. lawmaker and civil rights hero John Lewis has pancreatic cancer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Representative John Lewis, a hero of the U.S. civil rights movement, said on Sunday he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Lewis, 79, who endured beatings by white police and mobs during the 1960s…
U.S. promises action on any North Korea missile test: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States would be very disappointed if North Korea tested a long-range or nuclear missile and would take appropriate action as a leading military and economic power, White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on…
Twitter system ‘outage’ briefly blocked Trump whistleblower tweet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of…
Exclusive: After Cabinet opposed Mexican cartel policy, Trump forged ahead
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration last month that he would forge ahead with designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, Cabinet members and top aides from across the government recommended against it,…
Republican senator ‘disturbed’ by McConnell’s work with White House on impeachment trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski said she was “disturbed” by the Senate leader’s approach to working with White House counsel on the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying there should be distance between the two. FILE…
Giuliani associate Parnas unable to pay both lawyers, agrees to let one withdraw
(Reuters) – A lawyer for Lev Parnas, an associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani who has been charged with campaign finance violations, has requested to be withdrawn as counsel because of Parnas’ inability to pay both…