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The New York court’s decision prevents Rudy Giuliani from representing clients as a lawyer.

The report found the Capitol Police command system broke down during the riot. One officer said a lieutenant asked via radio, “does anybody have a plan?” U.S. Capitol Police leaders learned that Trump supporters were discussing ways to infiltrate tunnels around the complex and target Democratic members of Congress on …

Several US states say they are considering suing the administration of President Donald Trump over the changes at the United States Postal Service (USPS). The states say they aim to prevent new operational changes that would slow mail service in the run-up to the presidential election, which will rely heavily …

With visits to four states scheduled, U.S. President Donald Trump plans to inject himself as often as possible this week into Democrats’ carefully choreographed plans to nominate Joe Biden as their presidential candidate. At the same time, Trump’s travel this week, to states likely to prove crucial to whether he …

For the second time in four years, the Democratic presidential primary pitted the expanding progressive movement against an eventually victorious establishment. But as the party gathers virtually this week to nominate Joe Biden for the presidency, the possibility of President Donald Trump’s reelection has become Democrats’ unifying and energizing force. …

A new opinion poll shows that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a nine percentage-point lead over President Donald Trump nationally with less than three months before the 2020 election. The NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, released on Sunday, found that 50 percent of registered voters favored Biden while …

During a press conference at his Bedminster, NJ, property Saturday, US President Trump said that he “considers firing everybody” when asked if he considered firing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The comment from the president comes after reports surfaced this week saying that Trump, who has had significant turnover in …

Facebook announced on Thursday a new online resource for voters that’s intended to facilitate voting by mail and limit the spread of election-related disinformation ahead of the November presidential election. The move comes as US President Trump has intensified attacks on mail-in voting and made unfounded claims that it could …

In her first 24 hours as the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Kamala D. Harris was labeled “nasty” by President Trump, “phony” by his reelection campaign and “a far-left radical” by his surrogates. The messages emanating from Trump and his allies about the senator from California varied wildly — casting her …

The major statistical analysis website FiveThirtyEight has US President Donald Trump’s odds of winning the November election at 29 percent – exactly the same chances he was said to have had in 2016 before he went on to win. Nate Silver’s website, named for the total number of electors in …

President Donald Trump has privately discussed with advisers the possibility of replacing Defense Secretary Mark Esper after the November election in the wake of a number of differences between them, a source familiar with the internal debate said on Wednesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the two …

Presumptive Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden has selected the California senator as his running mate for Vice President. Months after her presidential campaign collapsed amid questions over her political identity, Kamala Harris suddenly and forcefully found her voice — and at a fortuitous time. Harris, a 55-year-old US senator …

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday tapped Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman on a major party presidential ticket in U.S. history and providing him with a partner well suited to go on the attack against Republican President Donald Trump. …

During a Fox Sports Radio interview on Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump insinuated that former Vice President Joe Biden’s decision to pick a woman to run alongside him on the Democratic Party’s presidential ticket later this fall may have been unwise, and may have even hurt his chances with men. …

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden currently leads President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, three key battleground states that Trump won during the 2016 election. The poll, which was conducted by the University of Wisconsin/YouGov, surveyed 800 voters in each of the three states from July 27 to August …

Chinese government-linked hackers have been targeting U.S. election infrastructure ahead of the 2020 presidential election, White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said on Sunday, indicating a more active level of alleged Chinese interference. O’Brien’s comments appeared to go beyond a statement released on Friday by the Office of the …

In 2016, the libertarian magazine Reason polled a few dozen staff, contributors, and allies on who would get their votes for president. Almost all planned to cast a ballot for Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson. I was alone in stating a firm intention to vote for Hillary Clinton, for three …

US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Thursday lost its bid for a fourth debate with Democratic candidate Joe Biden in early September. In rejecting the request, the Commission on Presidential Debates said it remains committed to the current schedule of three 90-minute debates beginning in late September. It said …

Joyce Greenberg Brown first learned about political organizing from Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957, when he visited her youth group at a Philadelphia YWCA. She worked for George McGovern in Pennsylvania in 1972 and managed field offices in Florida for Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. She was so …

US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is seeking to add a debate with Democratic candidate Joe Biden in early September, arguing that millions of voters may have already cast ballots in early voting by the time the first of three scheduled debates occurs. In a letter to the Commission on …