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CINCINNATI (AP) — President Donald Trump’s latest rally will be a test for both candidate and crowd. The Cincinnati gathering Thursday night will be Trump’s first since his audience chanted ‘‘Send her back!’’ about a Somali-born congresswoman during a July rally in North Carolina , raising the prospect of a 2020 presidential campaign increasingly fought along racial lines. The chant about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota by a roaring Greenville crowd rattled Republicans and left Trump wavering over how to respond.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A hard-won budget and debt deal easily cleared the Senate on Thursday, powered by President Donald Trump’s endorsement and a bipartisan drive to cement recent spending increases for the Pentagon and domestic agencies. The legislation passed by a 67-28 vote as Trump and his GOP allies relied on lots of Democratic votes to propel it over the finish line. Passage marked a drama-free solution to a worrisome set of looming Washington deadlines as both allies and adversaries of the president set aside ideology in exchange for relative fiscal peace an

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News personality Tomi Lahren is apologizing for an offensive tweet directed at Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Lahren hosts a show on the digital Fox Nation site and is a contributor to the TV network. She wrote on Wednesday about the California senator: ‘‘Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown.’’ Brown has acknowledged a relationship with Harris in the 1990s when he was speaker of the California Assembly.

DETROIT — The attacks flew fast and furious, echoing off the soaring gilded ceiling of the Fox Theater here and rattling Democrats with fears that a protracted and messy intra-party fight will distract from the real battle royale against President Trump. Over the course of two nights this week, a soccer team’s worth of low-polling candidates hit one front-runner after another as they tried to make a mark. Little-known moderates at the edges of the stage sought to deflate populist liberals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders at its center.

Former Vice President MORE (D-Calif.) clashed on health care at the start of the debate Wednesday.  Biden attacked Harris for her "Medicare for All" plan, warning of tax increases and the elimination of employer-based private insurance, continuing a tussle between two front-runners that began in the first debate.  The two candidates at center stage looked each other in the eyes as they faced off.  Biden said Harris’s plan “will cost $3 trillion [and] you will lose your employer based insurance.” “You can’t beat

Democratic presidential candidates came prepared for battle on the second night of the Democratic presidential primary debates in Detroit on Wednesday.  Many of the candidates took on the front-runner of the 2020 Democratic race, former Vice President MORE (D-Calif.) also came under attack after swiftly climbing up in the polls over the past month. The forum also witnessed some witty one-liners, with references to two popular U.S. brands.  Here are the top moments from Wednesday's Democratic primary debate.  Booker takes on Biden Sen.

DETROIT — A bitter brawl erupted during the second night of Democratic presidential debates on Wednesday as nearly half of the party’s candidates unleashed attacks on one another’s political records and policy proposals.

Going into the debate, much of the focus was on another potential clash between former Vice President MORE (D-Calif.), two of the field’s top-tier candidates who butted heads in the first round of debates last month. 

Democrats came to Detroit for their second round of presidential primary debates on Tuesday and Wednesday. Who emerged as the winners and losers as the dust settled in the Motor City? WINNERS Sens. MORE (D-Mass.) The two leading left-wing candidates had a good night on Tuesday — and were helped along when the second night’s debate degenerated into a messy fight with more clear losers than winners. On Tuesday, Sanders was the strongest candidate across the two hours, his performance including a memorable rebuttal when Rep.

Former Vice President MORE (D-Calif.) were center stage in Detroit on the second night of the Democratic presidential primary debates — and it got ugly in a hurry.  Here are five takeaways from a brutal night of intraparty fighting among Democrats in the Motor City on Wednesday: No clear winner emerges after an ugly night This was not the debate that Democrats were hoping for. "The person that's enjoying this debate most right now is MORE (D-N.J.) said amid an extended and nasty fight between the candidates over their health

“I don’t believe that is the responsibility of Cory and Kamala to be the only voice that takes on these issues of institutional racism,” Gillibrand said. “I think, as a white woman of privilege, who is a U.S.