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Bernie Sanders struggles with new path to black voters as he mulls another presidential bid
As Bernie Sanders contemplates making another president bid in 2020, the Vermont senator still is searching for the right way to attract more black voters who backed Hillary Clinton and...

Pennsylvania voters deciding whether to keep U.S. House seat in GOP hands in special election with big ramifications
Democrat Conor Lamb, fighting for an upset victory in a congressional district that Donald Trump easily won in 2016, insisted Tuesday as voters headed to the polls that the race...

In Alabama, a Trump miscalculation in Senate primary
A firebrand Alabama jurist wrested a U.S. Senate nomination from an appointed incumbent backed by millions of dollars from national Republicans, adding a new chapter Tuesday to an era of...

Sanders: Diplomacy, human rights must drive U.S. world affairs
Bernie Sanders is criticizing President Donald Trump's foreign policy but also offering a sweeping indictment of how the United States has engaged in world affairs for generations.

Republican governors get into the “news” business
Republican governors are getting into the "news" business.

After Irma, Florida’s evacuees contemplate return trip
Thanks to reconnaissance by a neighbor who stayed behind, Pam Szymanksi knows Hurricane Irma blew out the living room window of her southwest Florida home, but she isn't sure when...

West Virginia governor, a Democrat, announces switch to Republican Party at Trump rally
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he's switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump visited the increasingly conservative state.

GOP governors to party’s senators: Do no harm to health care
The pressure is on Republican senators ’ from congressional leaders, conservative groups and impatient GOP voters ’ to fulfill a seven-year-old promise to scrap much of Democrat Barack Obama's health...

Mayors: Look to us, not Washington, for results
Think Washington, D.C., and your statehouse are irredeemable and unproductive? Look to city hall for answers. That's the message from the nation's mayors six months in to Donald Trump's presidency.

Trump supporters are paying little heed to revelations, scandals rocking White House
President Donald Trump's loyal backers say they don't know, don't believe or don't care about the explosive revelations that forced the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate...