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Senator Warren's liberal plans fuel rise in Democratic presidential field

27 Sep 2019

IOWA CITY, Iowa/NEW YORK When U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren jogged onstage at the University of Iowa last week for her largest rally yet in the state that hosts the first presidential nominating contest, college students cheered, wearing "Warren has a plan for that" t-shirts and waving "Persist!" signs. | Video

Biden urges investigation into Trump Ukraine call

22 Sep 2019

DES MOINES, Iowa/WASHINGTON Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, on Saturday called for an investigation into reports that President Donald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Biden and his son.

U.S. Democratic presidential hopefuls vie to wow voters at Iowa steak fry

22 Sep 2019

DES MOINES, Iowa Democrats vying for the nomination to take on Republican U.S. President Donald Trump tried to make a splash on Saturday as they entered a party steak fry in Des Moines, Iowa, the state that will host the first nominating contest in early February.

Biden's LGBTQ record draws scrutiny at Iowa presidential forum

21 Sep 2019

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa/NEW YORK Former Vice President Joe Biden's decades-long record on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues was scrutinized on Friday in Iowa at the first major forum focused on the topic during the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating contest.

Biden's LGBTQ record draws scrutiny at Iowa presidential forum

21 Sep 2019

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa/NEW YORK, Sept 21 Former Vice President Joe Biden's decades-long record on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues was scrutinized on Friday in Iowa at the first major forum focused on the topic during the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating contest.

U.S. Democrats urge new probe of Kavanaugh, impeachment inquiry

18 Sep 2019

WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Kamala Harris on Tuesday urged a House of Representatives panel to investigate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, while a Democratic lawmaker filed an impeachment resolution in the wake of new allegations of sexual misconduct by the conservative judge when he was in college in the 1980s.

White House hopeful Warren would expand Social Security retirement benefits

12 Sep 2019

WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Thursday that if elected to the White House, she would expand Social Security, the retirement program administered by the federal government, by increasing benefits by $200 a month for every current and future beneficiary.

Hurricane Dorian floods island as it swipes North Carolina then heads north

07 Sep 2019

KITTY HAWK, N.C. Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. | Video

Hurricane Dorian skirts U.S. coast, soaking the Carolinas

06 Sep 2019

CHARLESTON, S.C. The howling west flank of Hurricane Dorian soaked the Carolinas on Thursday, flooding coastal towns, whipping up tornadoes and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people a couple of days after it reduced parts of the Bahamas to rubble. | Video

Hurricane Dorian skirts U.S. coast, soaking the Carolinas

06 Sep 2019

CHARLESTON, S.C. The howling west flank of Hurricane Dorian soaked the Carolinas on Thursday, flooding coastal towns, whipping up tornadoes and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people a couple of days after it reduced parts of the Bahamas to rubble. | Video

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