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Activists delivered a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to the Gates Foundations Seattle headquarters on Monday asking the high-profile organization not to give an award to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event next week.  The petition fro…

Former Vice President and 2020 candidate Joe Biden visited a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday and told the congregation that white people "can never fully understand" institutional racism in the United States. He had been visiting the 16th St…

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump rejected Democrats’ calls for impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday after a new report that alleged sexual misconduct, encouraging Kavanaugh to sue for libel and suggesting the Justice Department cou…

Birmingham, Alabama (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, warning that racism and white supremacy still pers…

Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro lost one of his congressional endorsements Sunday, with Texas Rep. Vicente Gonzalez switching his support for former Vice President Joe Biden. Gonzalez was one of three Texas representatives who endorsed the fo…

A British-Australian academic being held by Iranian authorities has been identified by Australian authorities as Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert. In a statement released on Saturday, her family said they were in close contact with the Australian government. "Our…

The former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics used a lengthy Twitter thread to explain what he believes should be the real concern about U.S. military personnel staying at President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. Walter Shaub wro…

People in Baltimore weren’t scurrying to celebrate President Donald Trump’s visit after he smeared their city earlier this summer.  The president infamously called Baltimore a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” in July during a Twitter rampage direct…

WASHINGTON (AP) Joe Biden is the Democratic front-runner. And there were moments in Thursday night's debate where he looked the part. Standing between a pair of liberal senators offering radical change, he unabashedly embraced his more moderate position on h…

The line came during an exchange with Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio. The Sanders campaign quickly offered I wrote the damn bill stickers in exchange for campaign donations. Ms. Warren found a convenient foil in John Delaney, the former Maryland congressman…