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Sen. MORE (D-N.J.) kicked off his “Justice for All Tour” Saturday in Newark, a two-week trip that will take the presidential hopeful to Iowa, Georgia and Nevada.  Booker’s first speech in his presidential campaigns’ first nationwide tour highlighted a laundry list of liberal priorities ranging from criminal justice reform to climate change to economic inequality as the New Jersey Democrat seeks to underline his progressive bona fides.  “We’re here today to seek justice. We’re here today because we are impatient for that justice.

Attorney General MORE’s report sometime next week, leaving Washington on edge with questions about its contents. Barr already laid out what he described as Mueller’s bottom-line conclusions in a four-page letter, saying the special counsel did not find evidence to establish that members of the Trump campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election. Barr also said Mueller did not come to a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice.

Former Vice President MORE is seeing growing enthusiasm among donors despite the controversy surrounding women who have accused him of inappropriate touching.  Some Biden supporters who spoke to The Hill said the allegations haven’t hurt Biden, who they said is likely to see a swell of support when he enters the race.  “If you know Joe, you can’t take that seriously,” one Democratic bundler said. “I think people see where he is in the polls, and they think he can get the job done.” The bundler downplayed the recent allegations, saying many potential donors “thought it

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman MORE's tax returns, after the agency missed his original deadline to provide the documents. In the new letter, Neal said that concerns about his request "lack merit" and that he expects a response from the IRS by 5 p.m.

Influential free market and conservative groups are pushing back against Republican lawmakers' calls to rein in big tech companies over allegations of bias. GOP lawmakers have accused tech platforms of bias against conservatives and are looking to take on the industry through antitrust action or by eliminating their legal protections. Tech companies, which have long denied those allegations, are now finding a surprising ally in conservative groups that worry the government will hamper a growing industry and tamper with free speech protections. Conservative groups, including many backed by bill

This wager is based on a simple enough axiom: It’s best to fight on your strong issues, not your weak ones.  As the 2018 midterm elections showed, the most advantageous ground for the Democrats has been healthcare, and so naturally, they were planning on more such campaigning in the 2020 election. But not every plan happens.Helmut von Moltke, put i

“I did not run for Congress to be silent. I did not run for Congress to sit on the sidelines. I ran because I believed it was time to restore moral clarity and courage to Congress. To fight and to defend our democracy,” Omar wrote in a series of tweets. “No one person – no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious – can threaten my unwavering love for America.

“They put us in photos when they want to show our party is diverse. However, when we ask to be at the table, or speak up about issues that impact who we are, what we fight for & why we ran in the first place, we are ignored.

Sanders said in his remarks at a  community meeting in Gary, Indiana: Sanders’ remarks come after revealing in an interview this week that his New York Times best-selling book Where We Go From Here made him a hefty sum of money. “I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” he told the paper.

WASHINGTON — Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on U.S.