Month: October 2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday unveiled a series of steps to defend abortion rights and reproductive health care, citing strict new curbs on abortion recently imposed in states including Alabama. The plan relies heavily on Congress to pass laws that protect access to reproductive health services, including policies blocking states from interfering a health…

Democratic presidential candidates tried to interrupt each other more than 23 times, and they name-dropped President Donald Trump 68 times. Then there was the 30330 thing. The second group of 10 Democratic 2020 hopefuls took the stage in Detroit Wednesday. Here’s a look at the night by the numbers: 20:58 minutes How long former Vice…

Barranquilla, Colombia — Becoming the first-ever U-17 Women’s Pan American Championship gold medalists, the USA Softball U-17 Women’s National Team (WNT) finished the tournament with a perfect 8-0 record after defeating Mexico, 2-0, in the finale Saturday night at Edgardo Schemel Stadium. Caitlynn Neal went the distance in the circle for the Red, White and Blue,…

No one has ever won a major statewide race, let alone a presidential nomination, with a single-issue, climate-focused candidacy. But Jay Inslee is about to try. The Washington state governor launched a White House bid Friday that stands to have a significant effect on the electoral politics surrounding climate change. For years, despite scientists’ warnings…

Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday that her party’s leadership was not blameless for the partial government shutdown that is now approaching a month, accusing both sides of posturing and refusing to compromise. “The problem here is that this issue, like so many others in Washington, are being relegated to…

In his first policy proposal not directly related to climate change, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee laid out plans to enact wholesale reversals of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. What would the plan do? Inslee’s plan would call for an immediate end to a number of signature Trump policies, including the construction of a wall on…

Cheri Bustos isn’t afraid of the insurgent left. The chairwoman of House Democrats’ campaign arm has found herself in a very messy — and public — spat with progressives over the past week and a half. But the Midwestern moderate is refusing to budge, despite drawing ire from prominent progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.),…

In Joe Biden’s first visit to South Carolina as a presidential candidate, the former vice president kept it light: He spoke at a public rally and a private fundraiser on a Saturday, attended a church service on a Sunday, and then was gone. There was no Elizabeth Warren-style town hall with questions from the audience,…

Bernie Sanders — who swore off big-money fundraisers and criticized Hillary Clinton’s fundraising as “obscene” during the 2016 campaign — is changing his approach as the scramble for Democratic campaign cash heats up. The Vermont senator has decided to hold in-person fundraising events where donors of all means will be invited and the media will…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed assertions that more than 20,000 people turned out for Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s rally in New York on Monday evening, lobbing accusations of crowd-size inflation that have long been leveled at himself. "Certainly, if I went to Manhattan, if I went there — No. 1, she didn’t have…