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CHARLESTON, S.C.— Senator Elizabeth Warren will stick with her ban on courting wealthy donors for her presidential campaign if she becomes the Democratic Party’s nominee, shifting her stance on a policy that she had suggested would apply only to the primary. “When Elizabeth is the Democratic nominee for president, she’s not going to change a thing in how she runs her campaign,” Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for Warren, said Wednesday. “That means no PAC money. No federal lobbyist money.

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LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had a heart attack, his campaign confirmed Friday as the Vermont senator was released from a Nevada hospital. The 78-year-old was at a campaign event Tuesday when he experienced chest discomfort and was taken to a hospital where he was diagnosed with a heart attack. The senator was transferred to Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center where doctors inserted two stents to open up a blocked artery in his heart, according to a statement from the Las Vegas doctors. The doctors, Arturo Marchand Jr.

Former Rep. MORE's legal team as the president mounts a defense against an impeachment inquiry from House Democrats. "We are in discussion with Trey about joining our team," Trump attorney MORE said, adding that no final decisions have been made. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Reports first surfaced late Tuesday afternoon that Gowdy was in talks to join the president's impeachment defense team.

New public opinion surveys show signs of trouble for MORE in the fast-evolving impeachment inquiry unfolding just 13 months out from Election Day. Polls out this week show independents and a growing share of Republicans warming to the inquiry or expressing concern about Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President MORE. While early shifts in support of impeachment appeared to be driven by Democrats, a Washington Post–Schar School poll

Speaker MORE on Tuesday evening and accused him of trying to “cover up” his dealings with Ukraine after the White House sent a letter saying it would not cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry. “For a while, the President has tried to normalize lawlessness. Now, he is trying to make lawlessness a virtue,” she said in a statement.

The White House on Tuesday wrote to Speaker MORE, framing the investigation as an effort to “overturn the results of the 2016 election.”  White House counsel Pat Cipollone accused House Democrats in an eight-page letter of making “legally unsupported demands” of the executive branch and accused them of violating the Constitution and past precedent in opening the impeachment inquiry into Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.  “Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections,

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“For a while, the President has tried to normalize lawlessness.