A Minnesota congressman announced Wednesday that he has been receiving treatment for cancer for the past year and intends to run for reelection in 2020. Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn was diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer in February 2019, he said in a press release. “Today, one year later, I am happy to say I…… MORE
Representatives for the presidential campaigns of Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders have requested that the Iowa Democratic Party begin a recount of select caucus sites that they had previously asked the party recanvassed, a party aide tells CNN. Campaigns that participated in the recanvass — those of Buttigieg, Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — had until…… MORE
Before we get to President Donald Trump and Julian Assange and the ongoing saga of the President’s pardons … it’s fight night in Las Vegas. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who calls himself a democratic socialist and who demonizes billionaires, is the front-runner in polling. But Michael Bloomberg, a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat who is spending his…… MORE
A federal judge in Arizona ruled Wednesday that conditions in US Customs and Border Protection migrant holding cells in the agency’s Tucson sector violated the Constitution. US District Judge David C. Bury’s order bars the agency from holding migrants for more than 48 hours in the Tucson sector after they’ve been processed “unless and until…… MORE
Two off-duty police officers who stopped a robbery at a chicken restaurant in Kentucky said it would be a mistake to call their actions heroic. “When you’re in the moment, you know, it’s more of training kicks in,” Nicole McKeown told Randi Kaye on Anderson Cooper Full Circle. “I don’t think really either one of…… MORE
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont on Wednesday sent a letter to the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney seeking information on whether it was consulted before President Donald Trump granted clemency to 11 individuals Tuesday. “I write to urgently request information about what role, if any, your office played in President Trump’s decision to…… MORE
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in one of her strongest debate performances thus far, aggressively and relentlessly called on former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to apologize for his alleged history of misogynistic comments about women and to release women who signed nondisclosure agreements with his company so they could freely speak about their experiences in…… MORE
The number of people who participated in the four-day early voting period here in Nevada approached the total turnout of the 2016 caucuses, a Nevada Democratic Party aide tells CNN. The high early turnout is reason to celebrate for Nevada Democrats, who see it as proof that voters are interested in the Democratic nomination fight.…… MORE
A Mexican municipal worker visiting his mother in New York endured a “horrific, life-altering trip” after being shot point-blank in the face by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Erick Diaz Cruz, 26, was traveling with his girlfriend on tourist visas when he became embroiled in a…… MORE
Taking some common antibiotics during the first trimester of pregnancy was linked with higher risk of birth defects, according to a new study. The study, published Wednesday in the medical journal BMJ, found an increased risk of birth defects in the children of women who were prescribed macrolides during the first three months of pregnancy…… MORE