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ATLANTA — Senator Elizabeth Warren took the stage in a gymnasium of a historically black university on Thursday and delivered a sweeping broadside against institutional racism that singled out the experiences of black women, a key constituency as she seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. “When I am president of the United States, the lessons of black history will not be lost,” Warren said at Clark Atlanta University.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In riveting testimony, a former national security official testified Thursday that a U.S. ambassador clearly carried out a ‘‘domestic political errand’’ for Donald Trump on Ukraine, undercutting a main line of the president’s defense in the impeachment inquiry. Fiona Hill told House investigators she came to realize Ambassador Gordon Sondland wasn’t simply operating outside official diplomatic channels, as some assumed, but carrying out instructions from Trump, “He was being involved in a domestic political errand.

Former Vice President MORE do not want him to be the Democratic presidential nominee.  "I've learned something from these impeachment trials — I've learned that Donald Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee," Biden told the audience at the fifth Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta.  "Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be president," he added.  The former vice president continued to push his electability argument, saying that he is the candidate with the best chance of beating Trump one-on-one.  A number of polls have shown Biden

ATLANTA — Ten Democrats took the stage here Wednesday night with less than three months to go before the Iowa caucuses — and after a day of high political drama at the impeachment hearings back in Washington.  Here were the key takeaways: Buttigieg benefits from a lack of game-changing moments The debate had some fireworks, but nothing that seemed consequential or viral enough to change the trajectory of the race. That is good news for South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE, who has been on the rise.

Two and a half months before Iowa Democrats meet to caucus, the presidential candidates vying for their support danced around each other in a status quo debate during which few seemed to want to risk their candidacies on explosive confrontations. The 10 candidates onstage largely rehashed their standard stump speeches in front of a boisterous audience at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, at times taking pains to avoid the fights moderators tried to stoke. But as new polls show South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE remains a top target even as the millennial mayor rises.  Though

MORE’s hand-picked ambassador to the European Union appeared Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where the latest witness in the Democrats’ impeachment investigation delivered hours of explosive testimony tying Trump directly to a politically motivated pressure campaign in Ukraine. MORE, a Republican mega-donor turned EU ambassador, had previously denied that Trump leveraged White House meetings and U.S.

The 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls are locked in a furious fight for the nomination with the Iowa caucuses only 74 days away, but you might not know it by the tempered tone of Wednesday night’s debate in Atlanta. South Bend, Ind., Mayor MORE entered the night with a target on his back after rising to the top of the pack in recent polls of Iowa and New Hampshire. Former Vice President MORE's corruption and that the Democrats must focus on finding a message that ensures he does not get a second term in office. “I think the way we achieve

“The real point here is that we need to stop this man-made crisis at the border,” Warren said. “Trump is the one who has created this crisis. … When I found out that our government was actually taking away children from their families, I went down to the border.” “There’s like a giant Amazon warehouse filled with cages of women, cages of men, and cages of little girls and little boys,” Warren said.

“I come out of the black community in terms of my support,” Biden said, noting that three former chairmen of the Congressional Black Caucus had endorsed his campaign as well as “the only African-American woman who’d ever been elected to the United States Senate.” (That claim was incorrect, an obvious gaffe that was fact-checked in real-time by Sen. Cory Booker and Sen.

“I welcome the challenge of connecting with black voters in America who don’t know me,” the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said Wednesday during the Democrat candidates’ debate hosted by MSNBC. Buttigieg continued: Buttigieg’s city of South Bend has a population of 100,000, a quarter of whom are African Americans.