Joe Biden

Biden visit Monday caps push into Ohio, once a longshot

11:04 pm October 11, 2020

Columbus, Ohio: Joe Biden is set to make his first general election campaign visit Monday to Ohio, signaling the former vice president’s hopes of winning the state Democrats lost by a significant margin in the 2016 election. The Biden campaign said the former vice president plans an afternoon campaign speech in Toledo, then will head […]

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Trump insists he’s free of virus, ready for campaign trail

10:59 pm October 11, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was healthy enough to return to the campaign trail, a day after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. Trump, who was poised Monday to host his […]

Ex-NJ governor Chris Christie says he’s out of the hospital

10:25 pm October 10, 2020

Trenton: Former New Jersey Gov Chris Christie said Saturday he has been discharged from a New Jersey hospital where he spent a week, following his announcement that he had contracted the coronavirus. “I am happy to let you know that this morning I was released from Morristown Medical Center,” Christie said in a Saturday morning post on […]

No ‘dogma’: Democrats walk tightrope on Barrett’s faith

9:38 pm October 10, 2020

Washington: “The dogma lives loudly within you.” It’s that utterance from California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, that’s on the minds of Democrats and Republicans preparing for this coming week’s hearings with Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Feinstein’s 2017 remarks as she questioned Barrett — then a nominee for an appeals court — about the influence of […]

Wisconsin presidential recount in 4th day, with few changes

Whitmer plot a new twist in fight for battleground Michigan

9:32 pm October 10, 2020

Lansing: Gretchen Whitmer knew she’d have the spotlight Thursday. And she decided not to waste it. Hours after the FBI revealed a group of anti-government vigilantes had plotted to kidnap her, the Democratic governor of Michigan addressed her state — and the nation — with a message that didn’t mince words about whom she blamed for the threat: President […]