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From the opening bell, Democrats unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday night on the Las Vegas Strip.

Six U.S. Democratic presidential candidates squared off in a contentious debate late Wednesday, with billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg the target of sharp attacks from his challengers in their first face-to-face encounter.

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today after hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits have been filed against them.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday qualified for this week’s Democratic presidential debate in Nevada, putting him on the same stage as his rivals for the first time in the race for the party’s nomination.

Since Democrats took over both houses of the Virginia legislature last year, they’ve been on a mission to pass left-wing legislation on a number of fronts. In just the first five weeks of the legislative session, they have reshaped decades of state policy.

Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said he can’t find ‘any compatibility’ by which Christians could support President Trump.

More than 375,000 of the 473,682 immigrants who were caught illegally crossing the southern border with a family member in fiscal 2019 were released by federal law enforcement into the interior of the United States, according to data obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Heavy rain has pounded Mississippi and Tennessee leading to historic levels of flooding and damaged homes.

A top health official said that the coronavirus might become a ‘global pandemic’ soon if it is not contained while confirming that 40 additional Americans have been infected.

Groups supporting President Donald Trump’s reelection are raising enormous amounts of money, bringing in more than $60 million in January with more than $200 million on hand.

The White House says President Trump isn’t ‘bothered’ or deterred after Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News on Thursday that the president’s tweets ‘make it impossible for me to do my job,’ in an unusual swipe at the president — although Barr emphasized that Trump ‘has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case.’

In a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House has approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopening the process to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex.

A federal judge has ordered the state of Kentucky to pay more than $150,000 in legal fees stemming from a lawsuit against the state Transportation Cabinet.

Republican Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, are leading the charge to revitalize and pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

The Trump administration is transferring $3.8 billion in recently passed military funding to finance construction of the president’s long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall, angering not just Democrats but also GOP defense hawks.

An American health expert is warning that the Chinese Coronavirus could soon ‘take a foothold in the US,’ where so far only 13 cases of the virus have been identified.

The Senate voted 51-45 on Wednesday to pass a War Powers resolution aimed at curtailing President Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran, with eight Republicans voting with the Democrat-led measure in a bipartisan —but likely symbolic — check against the White House.

The US budget deficit swelled at the beginning of 2020 even as the economy continued to grow at a steady pace.

Senate Republicans confirmed President Trump’s 51st federal circuit court nominee Tuesday, clearing Andrew Brasher for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Bernie Sanders’s status as the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination front-runner is on better footing following his win in New Hampshire.