Marianne Williamson, a mostly unknown, fringe U.S. presidential candidate, shot to the top of the list of most-searched-for people during the second Democratic debate on Thursday night. Her first question didn’t come until more than 30 minutes after the start of the televised debate — and in total, she only had five minutes of air […]
MIAMI — Two nights, 20 candidates, four hours and one unforgettable collision between former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Kamala Harris. Here is what we learned about the state of the 2020 primary race from the debates on Wednesday and Thursday nights, which drew huge numbers of viewers — 15.3 million watched […]
This was the moment Joseph R. Biden Jr. had to know would be coming. He did not seem entirely prepared. About an hour into the debate on Thursday, Senator Kamala Harris, the African-American former prosecutor from California, had edged into the cross-talk with a request: “I would like to speak on the issue of race.” […]
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has staked his personal reputation on the decision to proceed with the appointment of a new Central Bank governor who is embroiled in controversy. An inquiry has found outgoing New Zealand treasury secretary Gabriel Makhlouf failed to take responsibility for the leak of sensitive budget information last month and fell short […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio apologized on Thursday for unwittingly quoting Ernesto “Che” Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary reviled by many Cuban-Americans for helping Fidel Castro come to power in Cuba. The New York City mayor, fresh off a solid showing in Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, used the Spanish phrase “hasta la […]
(Reuters) – The first U.S. Democratic presidential debate, a faceoff without the party’s frontrunners, hauled in a surprisingly large 15.3 million viewers across three television networks, according to Nielsen estimates released by NBC News on Thursday. Wednesday’s debate among Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke and eight other candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president […]
WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is exploring a delay in the 2020 census for an unspecified amount of time after the Supreme Court blocked, for now, his push to add a citizenship question to the decennial headcount. “I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday gave up on an effort to add additional migrant protections to a Senate-passed border aid bill, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying it was urgent to secure the funds the legislation would provide. “At the end of the day, we have to make […]
(Reuters) – Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted of numerous federal crimes last year, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to residential mortgage fraud and other New York state charges, setting the stage for a showdown over whether those charges amount to double jeopardy. Manafort, 70, appeared before Justice Maxwell Wiley of the […]
President Trump, who earlier Wednesday said he wouldn’t watch the first round of the first Democratic presidential debate, because he was “off to save the free world,” initially tweeted just one word about the event in Miami: “BORING!” Trump tweeted from Air Force One, which had stopped off Anchorage, Alaska, en route to Japan, where the president […]