First Run News

Senate Democrats were fully unleashed in their grilling of Attorney General MORE. During the four-hour hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats seized on the explosive revelation that special counsel MORE had criticized Barr’s summary of his report in writing. Some suggested he was no longer fit to serve as attorney general. “I think history will judge you harshly, and maybe a bit unfairly,” Sen.

Attorney General MORE as a friend.

On Wednesday, the Judiciary panel voted along party lines to approve a measure allowing committee staffers to question Barr for an additional hour, despite fierce objections from Republicans. "I hope and expect that the attorney general will think overnight and will be there," Nadler told reporters on Wednesday evening. The developments deepen a standoff between Barr and the Democrat-led committee.

Attorney General MORE. What were the main takeaways from Barr’s day of testimony? Democrats find new impetus Democrats have new wind in their sails following the revelation that Mueller had written in protest to Barr in March, soon after the attorney general released a four-page document outlining the special counsel’s principal conclusions. Mueller objected to Barr’s memo, asserting that it “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of his work.

Warren was speaking at the She the People Democratic Presidential Forum in Texas, an event hosted by an organization that states that it “elevates the political voice and leadership of women of color as part of a new progressive political and cultural era.” A young woman who identified herself as someone who works in the maternal health field and a “proud member of the black lives movement” asked Warren about the discrepancy. “The United States is one of only 13 countries in the world that with a rate of maternal mortality is now worse than it was 25 years ago.

From the start, Biden has attempted to position himself in the crowded 2020 Democrat presidential primary field as a fighter for American union workers.

He said:  Biden’s remarks echo similar speeches he has delivered in his career about the strength of the American ideal and the economic and educational power of the United States that ultimately would beat foreign countries in Asia. “We have the wealthiest and most prosperous economy in the world in the history of the world including China, we have the most powerful military in the history of the world,” he told Delaware Democrats in March before la

Democrats want committee members to have one round of questioning of Barr, and then to turn it over to the staffs’ counsels to continue questioning him.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is urging Americans to get vaccinations to prevent the spread of measles. Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, said that people ‘‘have to get their shots.’’ He added that vaccinations ‘‘are so important.’’ Measles in the U.S.

In his first sit-down interview of his presidential campaign, Joe Biden on Friday repeatedly declined to directly apologize to Anita Hill for his handling of the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings, instead delivering a broad statement of remorse for how she was treated during the combative questioning she faced from an all-male Senate committee that he led. Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” which is heavily watched by women, Biden was asked by one of its hosts, Joy Behar, about his reluctance in recent months to offer a straightforward apology to Hill for his own judgment and leader