House Dems Expect to Pass Their Top Bill on Friday. It Would Require Trump to Disclose His Tax Returns.
Mary Altaffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats are opening another front in their effort to win the release of President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Their plan: Vote on legislation that would require the president and vice president, along with all future candidates for those offices, to disclose 10 years…
Bernie Sanders Officially Kicks Off His 2020 Campaign With a Return to Brooklyn
Sen. Bernie Sanders arrives on stage before launching his 2020 presidential campaign in Brooklyn.Craig Ruttle/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont kicked off his second presidential campaign at a rally on Saturday just a few miles from the Brooklyn apartment where he grew up. He told…
The 2020 Race Has Its First Climate Candidate
AP Photo/Mary Schwalm Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington Governor Jay Inslee joined the Democratic primary frenzy on Friday, launching a campaign with climate change as its central focus, an issue that conventional political wisdom, pointing to the polling, dismisses as a lower priority for voters than healthcare and stagnating…
Trump Campaign Manager: New Mexico Is Flippable in 2020 Because Latinos Love Trump
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale speaks in Topeka, Kansas, in October. Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. He wasn’t on the official schedule, but President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, made a three-minute cameo at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, DC, on Thursday to tout…
House Democrats Are Holding the First Vote on Gun Control in More Than a Decade
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at a press conference to announce the introduction of legislation to expand background checks for all gun sales on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Washington.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House of Representatives will vote on two gun control bills this week that…
Right-Wing Troll Jacob Wohl Banned From Twitter
John Middlebrook/CSM/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Right-wing Twitter provocateur Jacob Wohl was suspended from the social-media platform on Tuesday after he boasted about plans to manipulate online political discussion in a high-profile newspaper interview. Twitter said he had violated several of the company’s rules, including creating and operating…