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Joe Biden continued his run of victories on March 10 taking a big step toward the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination after he won in Michigan and two other states while dealing a stinging blow to rival Bernie Sanders’ fading White House bid. Biden, the former vice president under Barack Obama, …

US Senator Bernie Sanders won in the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire, a week after the Iowa caucuses were thrown into confusion by a failure of the vote-counting systems. With 95% of precincts reporting in the second race, Sanders led with 26%. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete …

The vast majority of Americans express significant dissatisfaction with the direction of the country and with the state of US politics, while President Donald Trump’s approval rating remains negative, a series of new surveys show. In the poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, just about 2 …

House impeachment managers begin making their case for removing President Donald Trump from office on Wednesday following a marathon opening session in the Senate’s impeachment trial to approve the rules of the trial. On Tuesday and into the early morning hours Wednesday, Republicans repeatedly rejected motions to subpoena witnesses and …

Republican Dalia al-Aqidi, who intends to run against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in November said Wednesday that as a fellow refugee to the United States, she objects to the way Omar describes the country. The former Iraqi refugee asserted that the Somali-born Omar is “harming” not only her constituents but …

Hillary Clinton, nearly four years after a bitter race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, blasted her former primary opponent Bernie Sanders, claiming in a new interview that “nobody likes” him and that Sanders has achieved nothing during his time as a senator from Vermont. “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to …

Top Senate Republicans have rejected US President Donald Trump’s call for immediate dismissal of his impeachment charges as the democratic-controlled House prepares to send the charges to the Senate trial. “I don’t think there’s any interest on our side of dismissing. I think our members, generally are not interested in …

Top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she believes the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump produced “enough testimony to remove him from office” when the case moves to the Senate. Speaker Pelosi will meet with the House Democratic caucus early Tuesday to prepare for the formal vote required to …

House Judiciary Committee lawyers on Monday told a federal appeals court that the panel might consider recommending “new articles of impeachment” against President Trump if former White House counsel Don McGahn testifies and provides fresh evidence, The Washington Post reports. Democrats who lead the committee have been fighting in court …

US President Donald Trump has demanded an immediate impeachment trial in the Senate, amid an impasse among Democrats and Republicans over when it may start. On Wednesday, the House impeached Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. But Democrats have refused to start the proceedings, arguing …

Democrats in the US House of Representatives say they are actively preparing for the next step in their eight-week-old impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, saying they are undeterred by the White House preventing first-hand witnesses from testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. Democratic Party lawmakers in the lower chamber …

Americans are split along party lines on whether to impeach and remove President Donald Trump, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Friday. Coming on the heels of the House’s approval vote on Thursday formalizing the procedures of the impeachment inquiry into Trump and after weeks of testimony from …

US President Donald Trump responded to the Democrats-led impeachment inquiry by posting an ominous quote from a church leader who warned that removing him from office would inflict “Civil War-like” wounds on the nation. Known for regularly watching shows on Fox News, Trump apparently liked how the Southern Baptist minister …

A whistleblower report released by a congressional panel on Thursday said President Donald Trump used his office to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 election to advance his personal political interests, risking U.S. national security. The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of the report …

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, has dropped out of the race to become the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate – and leaves the campaign with a scornful message from the current president ringing in his ears. Mr. de Blasio made his announcement in a television interview, saying: “I …

US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped among Republican voters, according to a new poll. The latest Hill-HarrisX poll released Friday found that 83 percent of GOP voters said they approve of Trump’s job performance, a 2-point drop from an identical poll conducted last month. Meanwhile, a CNN poll …

American billionaire industrialist David Koch, a major financier of political candidates who supported gay rights, same-sex marriage, and stem-cell research, has died at age 79, his brother has announced. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” Charles Koch said in a statement …

Donald Trump has promoted a claim that Jewish people in Israel love him like he is the “king” of the country and “the second coming of God”. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the …

The US House of Representatives has voted to condemn President Donald Trump after a series of attacks aimed at four congresswomen. The symbolic resolution denounced Trump’s “racist comments that have legitimized fear and hatred of New Americans and people of color”. Trump had been accused of racism and xenophobia for …

After Donald Trump told four progressive Democrats to “go back” to where they came from in a tweet on Sunday, Twitter exploded with users rebuking the president as “racist,” making the hashtags #RacistInChief and #TrumpIsARacist trend across America. Trump, on Sunday morning, referenced an ongoing feud between freshman progressive Democrats …