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“I’ll bet you’re as bright as you are good-looking,” Biden said to a girl who asked him a question at an American Federation of Teachers town hall in Houston, Texas. He exclaimed when the girl told him that she wanted to be a journalist, and led her over to meet the reporters in the room. As he introduced the child to the press, he leaned over and spoke in her ear, before finishing his speech. “By the way, as these guys will tell you, I’m not always their favorite subject, but the truth of the matter is, the reason why we

Wake County has a population of one million, and includes all of the city of Durham and most of the city of Raleigh. “Wake County Manager David Ellis presented his 2020 budget recommendation to the Wake County Board of Commissioners Monday night that would include a nearly 10 percent property tax increase,” WRAL reported earlier this month. As ABC 11 reported, a contentious Wake Coun

The bodies of unborn children are typically disposed of in the same manner as “infectious waste.” Indiana lawmakers wanted to address that issue in 2016, and then-Gov. Mike Pence signed a law providing for disposing of the remains of the unborn by either cremation or burial. The Indiana statute also prohibited a woman’s aborting an unborn baby solely because of that child’s race, sex, or disability. Planned Parenthood immediately sued, and after a federal trial court weighed in, the case went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday night released a list of dozens of corporations she assisted during her time as a bankruptcy advocate, a move that attempts to address head-on one of the trickier chapters of her past as she seeks the presidency. Warren, who rails against big banks and tech companies as a populist candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, also spent 20 years occasionally advising, representing, and serving as an expert witness for corporations when she was a professor specializing in bankru

(Bloomberg) -- A Chicago banker who loaned millions of dollars to Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was charged by prosecutors with bribery for seeking a post in the Trump administration in return for $16 million in loans. Stephen Calk was appointed to a post as economic adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign in summer 2016, days after his bank approved a $9.5 million loan, federal prosecutors in New York said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is rushing to wrap up a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid package, but only after Democrats insisted on jettisoning President Donald Trump’s $4.5 billion request to handle an unprecedented influx of migrants at the southern border. The disaster package — which has more than doubled in size since the House first addressed it last year — would deliver aid for southern states suffering from last fall’s hurricanes, Midwestern states deluged with springtime floods, and fire-ravaged rural California. The Senate is set to vote Thursday af

WASHINGTON — The United States and China are digging in for a prolonged trade war, with the Trump administration unveiling a new $16 billion bailout for farmers hurt by Beijing’s tariffs on Thursday and more companies saying they are redirecting supply chains away from China. Global markets tumbled as investors began coming to terms with the idea that President Donald Trump’s trade war is here to stay. Benchmark indexes in China, Germany, France and the United States all dropped.

MORE is being squeezed in the fight over his tax returns. House Democrats are expected to initiate a court case in the near future to obtain the documents.

Nevada is lining up to the be the wild card in the Democratic presidential primary. The Silver State, which is third in line to vote in the 2020 nominating process, has largely been ignored by the candidates in the rush to lavish attention on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. So far, only seven of the 24 Democrats running for president have paid staff on the ground in Nevada, making it anyone’s ball game and a potential launching pad for a dark horse candidate trying to break out from the pack. “It’s a wide-open race,” said Molly Forgey, the communications director for the Nevada Democra

MORE took a beating in federal court last week, losing a pair of lawsuits aimed at hindering House Democrats' investigations into him and his administration. The decisions indicated that Trump will ultimately lose the fights: Both judges in the subpoena cases issued their rulings swiftly and decisively, underscoring the weakness of Trump's legal arguments. The lawsuits were likely intended as Trump's attempt to delay Congress from being able to obtain the documents, taking advantage of the slow pace of the court system while keeping an eye on getting the cases up to t