Author: Ken Thomas

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren have gained support since the summer in their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination and are beginning to separate themselves from the rest of the party’s sprawling 2020 field, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. Meanwhile, Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet was among…

WASHINGTON • Democratic presidential candidates are adopting a more combative tone on the campaign trail ahead of next week’s debates in Detroit, laying out their disputes from afar as desperation grows for some of those fighting for survival. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has warned that the party could risk losing in 2020 if its…

WASHINGTON • It didn’t last. With the country on edge over a widening pipe-bomb scare, talk of national unity quickly gave way to finger-pointing Thursday. President Donald Trump cast blame on the media for fomenting anger in society while candidates across the country traded partisan broadsides. Three more devices were found Thursday, bringing to at…

WASHINGTON • Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the lone Republican who voted against advancing Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, has carved out a path as a fiercely independent senator known for bucking her party. But she didn’t look especially happy about it Friday. Murkowski suggested she will oppose President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee this weekend after…

FARGO, N.D. — President Donald Trump declared Friday the U.S. Justice Department should work to identify the writer of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece, purportedly submitted by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart his most dangerous impulses. Trump cited “national security” as the reason for such a probe,…