Meet Doug Jones, the law-and-order Democrat who won Alabama’s Senate seat
The odds of any Democrat capturing a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama are steep at best, but Doug Jones was uniquely suited to pull off an upset Tuesday over Republican...
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Former party head Donna Brazile re-opens old Democratic wound with new book, a ‘political suicide note’
Former Democratic Party leader Donna Brazile has revived old feuds between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton loyalists with her tell-all book on backstage maneuverings in the 2016 presidential race....
Trump’s push to revive coal mining puts Utah dinosaur discoveries at risk, scientists say
The creature looked like a three-ton rhino crossed with a tropical lizard. Ten little horns dangled over its giant forehead like frills on a jester’s cap and two more perched...
For Jewish Americans, echoes of the Holocaust and anger over Trump’s response to Charlottesville
Dina Chernick had just arrived for breakfast Thursday at a Jewish deli in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, but she already had a bad case of indigestion. She could thank President Trump...
Sessions’ denial of talks with Russians was untrue. But was it perjury?
Contrary to what he told Congress at his confirmation hearing, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions did indeed "have communications with the Russians" when he was a top Trump campaign advisor on...
The mayoral election is coming up in L.A. and almost no one seems to care
Tabitha Benoy of Woodland Hills, Calif., plans to skip Tuesday's election for mayor of Los Angeles. "It's never even occurred to me to vote for the mayor," said Benoy, a...
Tom Hayden, Chicago Seven defendant who became champion of liberal causes, dies at 76
Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation's best-known champions of liberal causes, has...
Libertarian VP nominee says he’ll spend the rest of the campaign attacking Trump
William Weld, the Libertarian vice presidential nominee, says he will focus solely on attacking Donald Trump for the rest of the campaign in an effort to block the Republican from...
Republicans fear Trump is playing into Clinton’s hands by lashing out on infidelity
The airwaves and newspaper headlines were filled with talk of infidelity and impeachment. When the votes were counted, the result was a shock: For only the second time since the...
Scope of Donald Trump’s falsehoods unprecedented for presidential candidate
Donald Trump says that taxes in the United States are higher than almost anywhere else on earth. They're not. He says he opposed the Iraq war from the start. He...