Seventeen Democrats, three Republicans vie for U.S. presidential nominations
The handful of Republicans who have mounted long-shot bids to oust President Donald Trump as their party’s presidential nominee next year grew smaller on Tuesday, when former U.S. Representative Mark Sanford ended his campaign.
Trump campaign wanted updates on 2016 WikiLeaks releases on Clinton: ex-aide testifies
U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was keen to keep abreast of the release of emails potentially damaging to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, reaching all the way to Trump himself, the Republican’s former deputy campaign chairman testifie…
Michael Bloomberg, weighing presidential bid, appears in Arkansas to enter ballot
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former New York City mayor, added his name to the Democratic primary ballot in Arkansas on Tuesday as he continued to publicly toy with running for president.
Former Republican Congressman Mark Sanford drops bid to challenge Trump
Former U.S. Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina has abandoned his long-shot bid to challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2020, he said on Tuesday.
Buttigieg rises in Iowa to lead Democratic White House pack: poll
Pete Buttigieg has pulled to the top of the pack of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa for the first time after drawing increased support from nearly every demographic group, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Tuesday.
Ukraine is ‘victim’ in Trump impeachment fight, Ukrainian-Americans say
Regardless of how the House of Representatives’ impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump end, some Ukrainian-Americans believe their ancestral homeland has already become a unwitting victim of tumultuous U.S. politics.
Democrats vow to insulate impeachment probe from ‘sham investigations’
The impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump will not be allowed to become a venue for “sham investigations” into Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son, the head of a congressional committee leading the probe said on Tuesday…
Chicago’s cold blast spells concern for the city’s homeless
Homeless advocates in Chicago were closely monitoring wind chill temperatures on Tuesday as an early season blast of arctic air swept across the eastern two-thirds of the United States.
Conservative Supreme Court justices lean toward Trump on ending immigrant program
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to President Donald Trump’s effort to rescind a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children – du…
Trump was keen to be up to date on 2016 WikiLeaks releases on Clinton: ex-aide testifies
The 2016 Trump election campaign was keen to keep abreast of the release of emails potentially damaging to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, reaching all the way to Trump, the Republican’s former deputy campaign chairman testified in court on Tues…
