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Pew Research Center projections predict that Hispanic American voters will now be the largest voting minority in the 2020 presidential election, passing black American voters for the first time in United States history. Hispanics have been the largest minority group in the U.S.

The president said in her opening address : Her statement follows a year in which Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has escalated violent rhetoric against Taiwan.

NEW YORK — The Democratic challengers to President Trump raised tens of millions of dollars in the first months of the 2020 presidential campaign, with Senator Bernie Sanders setting the pace for the field, with $18.2 million raised. As always, it is important to remember that winning the money race is not the goal itself but a means to an end: building a sustainable and effective campaign for the party nomination and, eventually, the White House. But the disclosures were the first peek at what kind of campaigns the leading Democrats are constructing, with fresh investments in digital advertis

Weld, who served as Massachusetts governor from 1991 to 1997, announced Monday that he would become the first — and possibly only — primary challenger to President Trump.  They’re doing all right. More than all right, in fact.   Continuing waves of younger retirees could add another potential strain to a $1.5 billion pension system where more pensioners are collecting benefits than there are workers paying in.

Editorial This should be the year a pair of campus-safety bills finally reach the governor’s desk and become law.  Michael A. Cohen Will they support a candidate who minces no words and pushes a sweeping platform of political change?  Weld, who served as Massachusetts governor from 1991 to 1997, announced Monday that he would become the first — and possibly only — primary challenger to President Trump.  They’re doing all right. More than all right, in fact.