“We Are Here to Say, ‘Enough Is Enough’”: Elizabeth Warren Formally Launches Bid for President
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks in Lawrence, Massachusetts, SaturdayScreenshot of Facebook Live video Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) formally announced her run for president on Saturday at a rally in the former mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts—the setting for one of the country’s most famous labor strikes…
Watch Stacey Abrams Star in a Super Bowl Ad
Abrams in 2018.John Amis/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic legislative leader who ran a spirited campaign to be Georgia’s governor in 2018, features in a television ad set to run in the state on Super Bowl Sunday. The ad boosts Fair Fight, Abrams’s initiative to…
Are Trump’s Attacks on Mueller Working?
Mueller testifying on Capitol Hill in 2010.Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As House Democrats ramp up their investigations into ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll has found that a clear majority of Americans supports their efforts. About six in ten adults want Democrats…
Nancy Pelosi Is Voted Speaker of the House, Which Means Democrats Are Officially in Control
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California is applauded at the Capitol ahead of the vote that made her speaker of the House for the second time.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday afternoon, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was elected speaker of the House for the 116th Congress. In the biggest…
North Carolina’s Unsettled Congressional Race Is an Absolute Mess
Republican candidate Mark Harris answers questions at a news conference ON Nov. 7, 2018.David T. Foster Iii/Charlotte Observer/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 3, 40 freshman Democrats will be sworn in, officially flipping the House from red to blue. But the seat the 9th Congressional District in North…
In 2018, Americans Took a Page From the Russian Disinformation Playbook
Getty Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the week leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, two massive stories dominated the news: the migrant caravan approaching the southern US border and pipe bombs mailed to major liberal figures. As the stories spread online, so did a constellation of hoaxes and…