Article snippet: Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced. Michael A. Cohen President Trump made a deal to end the shutdown, but plutocrats have made it clear forever what they think of the American worker. Almost a month into her presidential campaign, Elizabeth Warren’s passion for detail has become her way of standing out in an increasingly crowded field. An avalanche of e-mails, backlogged permits, lapsed contracts, and stalled payments to low-income Americans will face the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who return to work Monday. Howard Schultz, a self-described “lifelong Democrat,” has angered other Democrats with thoughts of running as a third-party candidate. It also would create safe havens of services for women from nearby states that are trying to impose restrictions. Kamala Harris’s personal story of breaking political barriers as a woman of color may be to her advantage in a state where 40 percent of Democratic primary voters in 2016 were black women. The California Democrat who’s running for president cast herself as the kind of leader who can unify the country. Donald Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers made the contacts, according to a review. The shutdown instilled worry in Trump’s advisers about a possible Republican challenger. Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld could be considering... Link to the full article to read more