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Tulsa arena hosts thousands for Trump rally amid virus fears

Trump lifts US restrictions on anti-personnel landmines

7:48 pm February 1, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday lifted US restrictions on landmines, saying new technology made them safer, outraging campaigners for the abolition of the explosives that maim thousands of civilians each year. In the latest reversal of a policy of his predecessor Barack Obama, Trump gave the green light to a new generation […]

Democrats swarm industrial Iowa to prove they can beat Donald Trump

Democrats swarm industrial Iowa to prove they can beat Trump

9:03 pm January 22, 2020

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa: Since their surprise loss to Donald Trump in 2016, Democrats have struggled with how to regain territory that long supported the party before suddenly flipping to Republicans. Their answer could lie with voters like Martie Boyd. The 71-year-old retired insurance worker is a lifelong Republican who supported Trump for president in 2016 […]

Warren vows to cancel college debt without awaiting Congress

9:14 pm January 14, 2020

WASHINGTON: Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says she’d order her secretary of education to cancel up to $50,000 in college debt for about 95% of student borrowers on her first day in office, effectively erasing outstanding loans for about 42 million Americans. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts vowed in a proposal released Tuesday to act immediately […]

Pelosi: Confederate symbols 'have to go' from Capitol, bases

What’s next as House committees launch impeachment probes

11:19 pm September 28, 2019

WASHINGTON: House Democrats are planning a rapid start to their push for impeachment of President Donald Trump, with hearings and depositions starting this coming week. Democratic leaders have instructed committees to move quickly — and not to lose momentum — after revelations that Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate his potential 2020 Democratic […]

Biden shores up fragile 'blue wall' in industrial north

Joe Biden is still the Democrat to beat, but rivals see weakness

3:12 am August 11, 2019

Iowa: In a barn down a gravel road in Iowa, Joe Biden tore into President Donald Trump’s moral character, declaring in one of the fiercest speeches of his campaign that the words of the American president matter. The next day, Biden’s own words tripped him up. He told an audience in Des Moines that poor […]